The Washington times., 1908-09-27
Man Who Brought Four
Cylinder Lozier in Second
at Brighton Tells of Car.
DESCRIBES STRAIN
DURING LONG RACE
Sensations Greatest in World, He
Thinks-TreeS Look Like Picket
Fence When Going Fast.

There may be persons who would
rather be President of the United States
or OF the Standard oil Company, but
give me that little fOur-cylinder Lozier
racer, and put me in a tweuty-four-hOur
grind, and I'd have no kick coming TO
me-
This is the way Harry Kitchener, who
finished second in the recent Brighton
Beach Neutrality-suspicious. race, feels
about ii. He declares there is nothing
like it.; that it is The greatest sensation
IL the world, and Tough the strain may
be great, the sport is greater.
The car that came in first at
Brighton Beach was Lozier six-cylin-
der, and that little four of mine came
noslng ia right afterward, so the glory
went to the Lozier. and we were all sat
isfied. You simply don't know any
thing except that you've got TO win. OF
course. everybody can't do that. but
there's no law against trying. You for
get all about the people, and remember
only the wheel in your hands.
stop 20 ear Oh, yes; we stop 10
eat, but it's mighty little. The drivers
are relieved at intervals. 1 drove seven
teen hours IN that race, and I shall re-
member it to my last day.
Strain Is Not Pleasant.
The strain At Brighton was pretty
tough" Nichener said, as he pressed
down one of the pedals with his left
foot when the mg chine approached a
sharp curve The track is mile long,
and when you get to going around that
maintaining an average speed of forty
six miles an hour, the graudstand be-
gins TO look like a streak on the land
sCaDe. II Is not SO much real excite
ment as what one might call a nervous
strain. Eleven cars were il the race,
and our greatest concern was a near
sighted driver. He finally ran into an
other car, and was not only landed IN
the hospital himself, but put the other
machine out Of business. That was the
only accident. and, ] can tel you the
race was something worth WLiIe- once
we st0uped put on new tires. and got
IN a new supply of gaSOlene, all ln a
little more than two minutes, anu
MiChene- concluded. with a tug AT ms
gray green hat, I guess that was gong
some
OF course. Nicherer wouldn't like any
thing said about it. but he inadvertently
mentioned the fact that the only draw
back 10 his work was the Worry 1t
caused his mother. Il sent her twelve
kilograms in twenty-four hours at that
last Brighton race, he SAID. with a
bOyiSh smile and an added jerk TO the
wheel. and when she got the last one
she knew it was all right
Kitchener told OF a race ne was IN
recently, when there was long stretch
OF straight road with big trees planted
at a considerable distance apart.
Trees Look Like Fence.
We went around that course seven
teen times" smiled the young driver
enthusiastically, and I can tell you
those trees looked like a picket fence.
I nave never felt fear" he said, as he
Guided the big car ofI- Of the way Of d
group of little children playing in the
street. but during that race there were
times when we were going seventy-fIve
miles an hour. In the midst Of II once
I thought 10 myself, How silly man
is 10 do this sort of thing but the old
excitement came back and M mind
flew to the finish of the race. Yes, we
tran. TO a certain extent, and Try 10
get lot of sleep. bvt just before the
Brighton race ] forgot all about it
was having such a Sood time off fish
iuE-and the nrst thing I knew the
time came along I guess that's the
reason I had tC faint" he concluded in
e lalf Disguised way.