The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-11-27

Thanksgiving game. This goes to
show that the people living within
the vicinity of the College back up
their team. Such support as this natu.
rally stimulates the boys to greater
efforts and enables the College to
have one of the best teams in the
country.
The people of Roswell should re-
member that if they want the 1nsti-
tute to lead in athletics, they must
do their part. They must get out and
patronize the games and in other
ways manifest an interest in the great
school which is being built up on the
North HILL
Three weeks ago, when the cadets
brought the University team here to
play a game of football, at an expense
of almost $4OO, there were not thirty
Roswell people at the game, the gate
receipts amounting to about SIS. 1t
is true that the day was little cloudy
and damp, but it was excellent foot
ball weather.
Were our people to take the same
interest in the cadets as is manifest
ed by the people of Las Cruces in the
Agricultural boys, we would soon
build up team capable of defeating
everything in the entire southwest.
No one disputes at the present time
that the Military Institute is the best
school and has the finest body of
men of any of the territorial institu-
tions. Therefore, it should be support
ed in order to enable it to take it's
proper place on the athletic field.
Grand Prize Automobile Race.
Savannah, Nov. 26.-The Grand
Prize automobile race started at 9:45
was postponed from O'Clock, the
hour originally set, but as the fog did
not snow any signs of lifting it was
decided after As minutes to make the
start. Twenty cars were sent away at
one-minute intervals.
The race is held under the auspices
of the Automobile Club of America.
The first prize is a gold cup and $4,000
five French, six Italian and three Ger
man. The distance is 4O2 miles over
a course of 25 miles and a fraction.
The fastest time in the first lap was
made by DeHalma, Italian He held
the lead through the second lap which
he made in 21 min. Sc Sec, at the rate
of 20 miles an hour.
De Halma had trouble on the third
lap and lost the lead to Haney
A Chadwick car led the American
entries for the first four laps. 1t was
driven by Willie Haupt, a mere boy
in years and experience compared
with the foreign drivers, and Ameri-
can hopes in the race centered in
Haupt.
Wagner in a Fiat car took the lead
in the race at the end of the fourth
lap. The American cars fell behind
their foreign rivals early in the race.
Two of them broke down on the third
lap, and after the fifth none had a
chance to win. The Chadwick car
driven by Haupt was one of those
which broke down. When the race was
half over the leading cars were: A
Fiat, driven by Wagner, first; Benz,
driven by Henrie, second; Fiat, driv-
en- by Navarro, third; Benz, driven
by Earle, fourth; Benz, driven by
Henriot, fifth; Italia, driven by Cagne,
sixth. The race developed soon after
the start into a fight between the
Italian Flats and the German Benz
cars. For the first 125 miles the four
leading cars were separated by only
50 seconds.
Wagner in a Fiat car, won the race.
iHenrie, in a Benz car, finished second.
Italian Wins Marathon Race.
New York, Nov. 26-Dorantio Pie
tri, of Italy, defeated John ]. Hayes
of New York in a renewal of the Mar
athon race, 26 miles and 385 yeards,
by fifty yards. Time: hr., 40 min.
20 2-5 sec. Dorantio ran strong all the
distance. Hayes took the lead nalf a