The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-29


IO4EBrush CF. A. Frinkie). Withdrawn
at Fort Dodge, Ia; continuing as non
contestant.
-Caalmers-Detroit q. Machesky),
1O6-Hupnobile ct. steinman), with
drawn at Mankato. MINI; continuing
as nonconteStant.
1o7-Maxwen &C. F. Goldthwaite). 119
points.
1O9-Pierce &C. Scoheld), 0.
11O-McIntyre CT Goodwin, with
drawn at Chicago.
111-Jewel q. shinnp). 500 points.
112-Mason (R. snyder. 4.3 points
114-Lexington q. c. Moore), 0.
DETROIT TROPHY.
American Simplex CIV. A. Woods,
- points.
points.
E3-Prenier &C. waHman). points
Were Many BIishaps.
Wednesday's run was a hard trip
for the GIiddenites. From Hugo, Col,
for more than IS miles, or until the
cars got near the Kansas line, the
road was a succession of bad bitches
Thomas car No. II struck ditch
while travelling at a rate of about fifty
miles an hour, and the shock threw
out the occupants and broke the en-
hurt The car was towed to Oakley
by a Maxwell press car. 1t was with
drawn here, there being no possibil-
ity of making repairs in time to con-
tinue with the others. The Glide car
No. 10 broke a front axle twelve miles
from Oakley and withdrew here. This
car also ran into a concealed drain
ditch The car shot at a tangent in
a cornfield and came to stop with
out injuring the occupants. A Stude-
1rfa T,1z Il
Mcintosh. broke a wheel while tow
ing a disabled Rambler, in which a
party containing several women were
travelling. The Rambler had a broken
axle.
The Studebaker crew offered aid.
and loading the passengers of The
disabled car into the Studebaker, TN
dertook to carry the extra passengers
and the dead car. The wheels spread
and the gallant Stude baker party are
stranded at a tank station in Colo
rado.
A clean score Maxwell No. tum-
bled from its lofty position. It broke
a spring and was penalfzed AS points
for material and points for labor,
total of S.5 points. No. 107, q Max
we'll, competing for the Hover tro-
ply, lost IT points for requirements
and labor on the car. The Mason. No.
112, in the Hover trophy class, didn't
show up here tonight and no report
was heard from it.
There were number of unusual in
,idents in the trip to Oakley. A party |
IF women lined up across the road at
Forest View, Colo, and refused to
permit the motorists to proceed until
hey first partook of a picnic lunch, |
spread under a grove of trees near at
land. At another small town about |
wenty cowboys were sitting on their
ponies by the roadside and as each |
ar passed the cowboys emptied their |
pistols in the air A |
n Oakley with fu{ grown jackrabbit |
led to the radiator. George w. Smith |
on, in charge of the car, told a re- |
narkabl tale of chasing the Jack
loWn straight stretch of road and |
lnally running it down. He had the |
a bbit to prove the story.
Webb Jay, driving a Premier, was |
n innocent contributor to an annoy |
ng accident to a Chalners-Detroitl |
ar. He always carries a five gallon |
an of water on the footboard of his |
ar. At Cheyenne Wells, Colo. the |
-asoline station, he set the can on the |
round adjacent to a number of 9TH
RS containing gasoline. While he /
vas not looking a Chalmers came up |
nd the man in charge of the station
implied the five gallon can of water
ntO the Chalmers gasoline tank. An
ther five gallons of real gasoline was
ut in with the water and the car
roceeded to a point near Oakley be-
ore the water began to get in its
York. Then the engine quit, refusing
0 take water as fuel Chairman How
r did not penalize the car when the
ircumstances were explained and he
ave the Chalmers crew permission to
mpty and drain the tank