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cold-blooded. methodical mind he had
made every calculation that man coulo
make. He made them mathematlcally.
He tried out his own car He gave her
bursts of speed where she would take
it, and he shut the throttle where she
could not make the time. He noted
every stone and rut and hole. He knew
every bit of sand and wash-run over
the course. He carried man with nm
to test his memory of the course for the
hundred miles. He sneaked off during
the night when others were asleep ana
made 1t in the cover of darkness as
safely as with the sun pouring down
its rays upon the track. And he did
more than that--he knew every sched-
ule of the other cars. From point TO
point he tested the Pope against those
schedules and beat them. The Ryus
time of 3 hours and 80 minutes was
made to look like stage coach time
table. He made the trip in hours and
SO minutes and adopted that as his
running time. And when the starters
sent wild Bill' and his crazy. mt.
chanician away thirty minutes behind
the White his first notch showed him
leading into the time of the Apperson
until he had the game won at Newhall.
Never did he see even the wrecked
White as he passed her. His eyes were
on the rushing car he was whirling into
space at a rate that would make the
bravest heart quail. There was no
recklessness in BilPs running. His
tracks show that his steering was abso-
lutely perfect. But once did his car
leave the track he had laid for her,
and then but for foot or two at one
corner. He forced his machine where
she would stand the force. He eased
up and saved her where she required
care. When the entire width of the
road cut a gully in it he knew where
1t was and sent the car over 1t with q
leap, but when he got the sign that
he had eaten up the last years record
and had taken the sure bite into the
Apperson's time he changed his sched-
ule from the terrific gait of hours a1l1
80 minutes which he was making 70
second and came back to his three
hour schedule and maintained It to the
consistent end within four seconds.
The fact that Ryus' time was cut a
full half hour and more stands as a
marvel of capacity and endurance. The
automobile enthusiasts now know that
wild Bill has a hours and SO min
utes schedule in his inside pocket, and
to that figure they will have to cut If
they want the silver cup that today
adorns the rooms of the Pope-Hartford.
The run of Ruess was perfect run,
without a flaw in it, cool calculation
faithfully carried out, measuring the
dDlllIy OF MS competitors won the race
with, of course, the magnificent abil-
ity of the car itself, for as an able and
cold blooded philosopher remarked yes
terday, "If the Pope Hartford required
no other Endorsement that 1t is an ex-
ceptional car, the fact that Bill Ruess
drove 1t and won is enough"
This may be true, but nothing can
mar the record made by Ruess in that
run, nor the inestimable care and
painstaking work of his mechanician,
Nick Machris, and the loyalty of the
| employees of "Wild Bill"
The car, too, is a stock car taken
from the floor of the agency and has
been sold, so that it was not an i'm
ported machine built with all the lit
tie tricks for speed and fast running
especially. but the very car that goes
to every purchaser of a Pope-Hartford.