New-York tribune., 1908-03-30


MANY striking examples have been given In
the last year of the endurance and reliaoihty
qualities of automobiles, but none stands out
with such prominence the one furnished oy
f1ae Thomas car in its run across the continent
in the New York-to-Paris race 1t not only dis
tanced its foreign rivals by reaching San Fran
cisco some twelve hundred miles ahead or the
Zust Qtalian) machine, but it covered the o.S52
miles in Al days 8 hours and 10 minutes, and
over roads that deep4in mud or banked
with snow a large part Of the way. or this time
one day was spent in Buffalo two In Chicago.
one I'm Omaha, one in Cheyenne, one In Ogden
and one between Ely and Goldf1eId when tho only
nnishap the of any consequence occurred
Deducting these seven days, the running time
was thirty -four days, that the machine made
an average of 112 miles day The best days
run was :sSS miles in crossing the California line
and the poorest nine miles, when the crew was
fighting the snowdrifts in Indiana. From fig
ures compiled by 1.-The New York Times" this
compares favorably with the best record from
ocean to ocean
In August 1904, l. L. Whitman and c. S.
Carris started from San Francisco in Frank
lin car and arrived in New York in 80 days
% hours and 20 minutes. This time was made
over the direct route across the Sierra Nevadas.
under the best weather conditions in the
ever made by a motor car. Twice in 1906. un-
der different conditions, the time was bettered
but in each case shifts of drivers were used,
with one set OF men travelling by day and
other by night, the relief proceeding by train
In this way the were kept going practically
twenty-four hours day, and made the
distance in 10 days hours and 10 minutes In 1904
Megargle made the only previous run across the
continent in winter in 200 days. Once more. 1t
be said the day OF the automobile has come.
The cars may never reach Paris. There is still
some is 900 miles to cover through Alaska, ST.
IBERIA and the frozen north. but for one am
convinced that barring serious accident,
machine at least will roll into Paris some time
within the next year. and that 1t will be a ma.
chine manufactured in this country.
AS predicted in this column some time ago. the
national registration committee of the Amateur
Athletic Union has administered just rebuke
TO the registration committee of the Metropoli-
tan Association of the A. A. L. for its handling
of the Ray c. Ewry The rule on the sub
ject is plain; ii needs no Interpretation. Ewry,
the champion broad jumper. suspended himself
under the rules and stands suspended until he
applies for reinstatement and same is granted.
Ewry's offence was not Of a, kind to debar him
for all time from amateur sport, and in all
proba b1lity he VIII be relnStated In due time.
The success which attended the first week OF
the Washington Jockey Clubs spring meeting
at Benning augurs well for the season. 1t
should improve, too, il goes efforts
are being spared to make it the best in the
history of the club.
The tendency among many college faculties
to restrict intercollegiate athletic contests is
reforms if reforms they be called. More
careful supervision and less cutting down or
cutting off would accomplish the end in view.
with better results. in my opinion. Athletic
training and general participation make for
good but even in play need a stmuant
and nothing serves the purpose so well as inter-
collegiate competition. The Harvard faculty
has declared forcbly in favor of restricting
athletic activity at Cambridge and faculties of
other institutions in sympathy with the
action. But what Of the undergraduates? The
feeling OF the students at Harvard well
expressed by A. W. Hinkle speaking for the
Crimson" at the annual dinner Of THE Yale
Daily News" He said in part:
Intercollegiate athletics the only thing out
side of our studies in which the u%ndergraduate % Is
% oI and a to Whsh bai he M gHes r fl s
ciques and have no one thing to bring the whole
We saTe and infercollegate athletes
existing side by side a healthy condition. It Is
absurd that Intercollegiate athletics are
laboring under a forced pressure II is his own
fault If does not take part in them In
regard to intercollegiate athletics, do not know
what the ultimate policy of the athletic
mittee will be- but if the time when
Harvard gives up intercollegiate athletics / want
every Yale TO know il is because the
appreciate the honor meeting Yale on the field
but it is because have played last card and
lost.
1t is hoped the last card has not been played
Yale Princeton and Cornell are working along
the right lines, far be judged, in an
effort to build up and improve without too
much tearing down.
There fifty-seven at Yale at the
present time entitled TO wear the coveted "Y."
Willie Hoppe and Calvin Demarest are the
idols Of the hour in the billiard world. Hoppe
beat Sutton and won the 1872 balkline champion
ship for the first time Friday, although he
has held the ISL title. Demarest is in class
by himself among the amateurs in spite of the
fact that he only won the championship after
playing off 300 tie. His new high run record
of 202 at 142 is likely to stand for some time
To come, unless he beats 1t himself, he
have the ha bit Of doing. HERBERT.
CREW IN BETTER FORM.