The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-06-23
Joe Matson, Daring Driver, Makes the
Course at Average Speed Of Sig
Miles an Hour-Robertson in Loco
mobile ls Second.
INDIANA TROPHY RACE.

Second ............ LocomobiIe
Third .................. Marion
Crown Point, Ind, June 19.-Jo
Matson, 1.-THE, sinewy and enduring
speeded a light Chalmers-Detroit au
tomobile into fame by winning il
brilliant fashion the Indiana trophy
In all the long, killing journey O.
232.74 blurred miles he stopped his
car but once for gasoline and lubri
cant. He made the distance over
roads which in spots were rough and
the cars bumped in nasty fashion.
He and his machinist finished in
good form admist the cheers of thou
sands all along the route. His aver.
age speed was 51.2 miles, for the route
it was 4:31:21.
Robertson Is Second.
Robertson, winner of last years
Vanderbilt, finished second in a Loco.
mobile, his time being 4:39:03. Mon
sen in a Marion ran a close third in
4:42:03.
Matson started last in the field of
sixteen and in the third lap in point
of elapsed time had assumed first pc.
sition. In the next lap he lost it to
| his team mate Knipper, but in the
| fifth again regained it and held it to
the last. He averaged seven minutes
in the lead after the fifth round.
Robertson and Monsen ran a close,
exciting race, and were seldom more
than a minute or two apart. They
were unable to overtake the fleet
blue Bird" as the Chalmers-Detroit
car is called.
The other cars on the track when
the race finished were: Locomobile
(F]orida), Chalmers-Detroit (Poole),
Corbin (Maisonville), and Moon
(Wells).
Entrants in First Race.
The cars that started, with their
drivers, were:
1. Corbin-A. J. jacksonville.
2. Buick-Robert Burman.
3. Marion-Charles Stutz.
5. s-Detroit-William Knip-
per.
6. Marion-A. Monsen.
Z. Locomobile-J. w. Florida.
8. Buick
9. Fal-Car-W. H. Fearce.
10. Locomobile-George Robertson.
II. Moon-Phil Wells.
IA. Buick-Lewis Strang.
Is. Fal-Car-John Ruehl
Is. standardization
II. Chalmers-Detroit-A Poole.
IS. -Dayton-Wright.
10. Chalmers-Detroit-J Matson,
The machines were started by Fred
w. Wagner, who OBLIGATED in a SIM
liar capacity in all the vanderbilt runs
on Long Island. Asa Paine of Mime
apolis acted as referee.
Description of Course.
Leaving the grand stand, the ma
chimes flashed away over a straight
away north of Ia miles, where a
sharp turn brought them into one of
the principal resident streets of Crown
Point for squirt of z mile. At the
end of the stretch they turned to the
northwest for an irregular four-mile
run to Cedar Lake. On this leg there
are three sharp corners and three
easy ones, including the picturesque
"S." At Cedar Lake there begins
straightaway of 81 miles. The road
is rolling, but the grade is gradually
descending all the way to Lowell.
At Lowell, after passing under via
duct, the road takes sharp turn to
the east. Half mile out it turns
sharply around cemetery and then
is straightaway for three miles.
Turning north again there is a
straightaway for IL miles, which
brings the cars past the grand stand
Work on the roadbed was main
tanned until the last moment when it
was stated that even the rough, loose
bed on 2.5 miles of the east leg had
been rendered fast and firm.
Burman Seizes the Lead.
AS Starter Wagner gave the word
sending the drivers on their way, he
slapped each driver on the back. The
rear wheels slid in the oil dressing of
the road for an instant, there was a
sudden rush, and the machines, thun.
dering their exhausts, disappeared
over the rise north of the stand.
Burman, in his Buick, overhauled !
Wants America to Hold of.