Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-09
RYUS ARRIVES
AT INDIO FIRST
WHITE PASSES T0BASCO | AT
INDlO
HANSHUE REGAINS LEAD WHEN
LEAVING MECCA
HamlIn Makes Best Time to Dos
PaImos, and Smith Shows That
His Car Has Been Suit
ably Named

Four putting, painting, sputtering
automobiles went scurrying eastward
Sunday morning in the three hours
that succeeded midnight, each sent
forward by crew of drivers bent on
having its car reach Phoenix, Arizona,
quickest
Thousands blocked the streets when
the Kissell1ar roadster. Tobasco l.,
was sent flying down the street at the
signal from the timers, the long lane
of humanity opening up to let 1t pass
and then closing tight in an effort to
get into the breach made by the car
to watch its progress down the street.
When Captain Ryus came up to the
starting point the crowd gave big
cheer for the driver and his nechan-
ician, who are still fresh in the minds
of the public as winners of the Baldy
race. A crowd nearly as large as the
original one watched the Elmore Bull
Dog as Andy Smith let in the clutch
and scooted up Main street to begin
the long race.
BY 8 o'clock there was a percept-
enthusiasm was stronger than ever
among those who waited up to see
Ralph Hamlin make the start in the
long, slim Franklin Greyhound.
Out into the night the cars rushed
one after the other, with Tobasco l.
leading the way, its twin headnghts
piercing the shadows in the road that
seemed ever to be rushing out of the
darkness to feed the speed mad appe-
tite of the sputtering motor.
From the first Ryus set a hot pace
and was two minutes ahead of the
time of the Kissel at the river. The
Flmore took more leisurely pace, as
Smith knows it is a long course and 1t
is not always the hare that wins. Ham
lin wasted no time, but let the speedy
six cylinder roadster consume the road
as fast as it was safe to do so.
Both Hamlin and Smith missed the
road near san Bernardino and lost
nearly three-q quarters of an hour
White Gains on Kisselkar
When the cars passed Beaumont,
which was the first place that any
checking was done, the Kissel car had
made the run of 1874 miles in hours
and 81 minutes. The White was close
behind and made the run in hours
and 5S minutes, having gained more
than a half hour on Tobasco l. The
Franklin made the run in hours ana
Is minutes and the Elmore in hours
and 81 minutes.
At Banning, five and a half miles
further on, the cars went through win
the White going like streak ana
gaining on the Kisselkar. Ryus sent
She steamer from Beaumont to Ban
ming at the rate of so miles an hour,
using a little less than seven minutes
for the distance. Tobasco was sent
IN IA minutes, while the Gilmore and
Franklin took "a and 21 minutes re-
spectively.
The Franklin is reported as having
lost the road a second time near Ban
ming, which accounts for the SLOW tlme
for the six miles.
After leaving Banning Hamlin evl-
IDENTIFY let the car out, as he made the
run to Mecca, q distance OF sixty
miles. with a great deal of bad road, "a
minutes faster than the Kisselkar ana
IA minutes faster than the White.
Hamlin had never been over the road
before and was trusting to Phoenix
guide who had been over 1t once re-
Gently, The time of the cars to Mecca,
152 miles from Los Angeles, was 7;A4
for the Kisselkar, 6:44 for the White,
9:l5 for the Elmore and 1920 for the
Franklin.
At Mecca the White lost 20 minutes
taking on water and gasoline ana
ChanR1nR crews, WIiliV tiiC AN'SSSA>eN-
lost 12 in taking on supplies.
The White had passed the klssel-
kar at Indio, but the Kissel got out
of Mecca first by minutes.
Smith went straight through Mecca
without loss of time and Hamlin
stopped 12 minutes.
From Mecca across the basin to DOS
Palmos is perhaps the worst seventeen
miles on the trip and the cars craWled
across it at a snairs pace, except the
Franklin, which maintained thirteen
mile average reaching Dos Palmos IN
& hours and 81 minutes After leaving
RAINING; the Franklin could not get
off the road and though there Is
great deal of sand and some bad going
near Whitewater creek Hamlin set
faster pace than any of the other
drivers.
BULLDOG Makes Best Time lr Sand
When Andy Smith struck the "Hell
Hole" between Mecca and Dos Palmos
he kept plugging along just as though
the road was not such terror, taking
q, minute less than two hours for the
run and making the. best time. To-
hesco 1 used hour and AZ minutes for
the II miles and Black Bess took 2
hours and minutes.- Fenner took the
wheel at Mecca and Ryus came nome
from there on the train.
The official time Of the passage OF
the cars through Dos Palmos as taken
by the checkers sent there by Jonathan
81 Mitchell Of the Hollenbeck hotel for
the Maricopa Automobile club was as
follows: Tobasco, the Kisselkar,
hours and AZ minutes; Black Bess, the
White steamer, 9 hours and IL min
utes; Bull Dog, the Gilmore, IL hours
and IA minutes; Greyhound, the
Franklin, hours and 81 minutes. the
Franklin was the third car to pass
and the KissellSar was still in the lead.
If the Franklin is able to maintain
the rate of speed that Hamlin has got
ten out Of 1t on the bad roads already
encountered he will stand first class
chance to win. From Ehrensberg 70
Phoenix the road will be to the ad-
vantage of the Franklin, though the
Kisseilxar will be a close contender, as
was shown on the recent run TO san
Diego, when both cars started the same
morning a half hour apart and the
Kisselkar beat the Franlklin's time by
several minutes.
1t was expected that the cars would
reach Ehrensberg yesterday afternoon,
but as there is no means of communi-
cation between Los Angeles and
Ehrensberg the news will have to come
by way of Phoenix, which has a COM
bination wire service with the river
crossing.
The cars reached Indio in the fol-
lowing time: White, hours minutes;
Franklin, 6 hours As minutes; Kissel-
kar, Z hours minutes.