Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-23
KAWVILLE AUTOISTS IN CITY
Kansas City Reliability Contestants
Have Hard Run Here.
COVERED WITH DUST AND MUD
Woman, Driving s~tudebaker Car,
Makes Perfect Score in EIrst
Three Days of Run-Many
Meet Mishaps.

"ANAA AAAbN Hlu 'hhoAt Nv NNA
t~estants in ths second annual reliability
run for the Kansas City star trophies.
arrived In Omaha yesterday afternoon,
and every one agreed that the run from
Lincoln to Omaha had proven the hardest
or the trip. The light rain of the night
before made the roads heavy forsabout
thirty miles out Of Lincoln, and between
Lincoln and Ashland none of the cars
were able to make the time. Some of
them arrived at Ashland as much as an
hour behind the schedule and subse-
quently were forced to beat It" the rest
Of the day in order to make up the time.
The big Marmon touring car No. S
went into the ditch near Ashland and It
was over an hour before the car was
pulled back into the road with block and
tackle. At this same point other cars we're
held up, among them being the jackson.
Maxwell, Auburn, REQ, Mason and CadiI-
lac entries. Following the delay some
FURIOUS driving was engaged in by al
most every car in the contest.
Two accidents happened after the cars
were well within the city limits of Omaha.
The big Studebaker-Garford pilot, which
Is the same car which laid out the route
a month ago. lost a wheel Just after It
was inside the city limits, and the Jack
son No. q struck a street car down town
and sustained a damaged radiato and
bent a front axle.
As the tourists passed the brewery at
they were served with refresh
ments and all along the route were
greeted with ~open-handed hospitality.
Not n Speed Contest.
The contest is not a race, but an effort
to show the reliability of the automobile.
The winning car will be the one which
stands the 75O-mile trip the best, rather
than the car which makes the fastest
time. over fifty machines and 200 people
are participating in the event. From
Omaha the contestants go to st. Joseph.
MO, and Friday run from St. Joseph to
Kansas City.
Several famous drivers are at the
wheels of contesting cars. c. S. Carris.
VINO mas won more perfect scores than
any other driver in America. is driving
the Model Franklin, and his car was per
feet coming into Omaha. At the wheel Of
the Jackson No. 20 is Leigh Lynch. who
drove a jackson to victory in the 300
mile speed contest, which was the big
event Of the opening Of the motor speed
way at indianapolis last month.
one car, the S~tudebaker-E. M. f.. is
driven by a woman. Mrs. ]. II. Whitman
or Kansas City has driven this car and
mas made a remarkable showing. having
a perfect road score in the first three
lays or the run. The smallest car in the
run Is a little Brush runabout, one cyIin-
der and seven horse power, and so far
tue Brush has been right there when the
time was up.
one or the Doris entrants, owned by
NICK Hall of st. Joseph, had travelled
over 10000 miles prior to this trim 70
was In this car that the Hall brothers
made a run across Missouri last winter
on a wager that a car could cross Mis-
souri, when the roads were in such con-
dItion!
One Man Breaks Leg.
While minor accidents have kept the
iouFlsts talking one really serious wreck
pas occurred. Dillon, driving a Buick car.
erashedIhto a telegraph pole near Law
FeRce, Kan, and suffered a compound
fracture OF the left leg. His observer was
oaught beneath the car and pinned down
bp was taken out from under the wreck
with only slight bruises about the head
The Buick car was trying to pass the
Brush runabout at the time of the acct
dent. The Pennsylvania car passing
through Lawrence skidded on the wet
pavement and hit the ~curbing, breaking
d rear "heeL, out fortunately none of the
car occupants were thrown out.
The pilot car is scheduled to Leave
Omaha at $3.50 this morning and the con-
testants Will start at Z O'clock, for the
first car, with the otheNs following one
minute apart. The route from Omaha will
be through South Omaha to PapiIIion and
across the Platte river at Louisville. The
stop for the night will be made at ST
Joseph, a distance of l7S miles from
oinaha over the route taken by the
tourists.
The Omaha Automobile club acted as
host for the tourists in Omaha. A. soon
as they arrived, all covered with mud
they were given cards for a plunge at
either the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton plunge or at the Racquet club. In the
evening a smoker was rendered by the
Onlaha Automobile club at the vineyard
at the Hotel Rome.