Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-23

strictly drawn on all the other events.
Dingley is said to be a permanent
resident of Modesto, an agent for both
the Chalmers-Detroit and the Buick
at that place. When he appeared at
the tape in the seventh event, for $2501
to $3OO1 stock cars, a general protest
was made, and Starter ReuSS declined
to let the car start, for the reason he
was an outside man. The matter was
then laid before Manager Cowan, who
took the same position that Reuss had
taken, although both of these officials
referred the matter to Referee Haz-
zard over the telephone, who was at
the finish stand, and that official ruled
that Dingley might start.
Buick Manager Says 'HNo"
Dingley had meanwhile, however,
proceeded to the finish stand in his
car and labored with Hazard, claim
ing that Ihe had been in the employ of
the Chalmers-Detroit people in this
city for three months. Even while he
was making this statement Manager
Johnson of the local Buick agency
vouchsafed the information that Ding
ley was representing the Buick car at
Modesto, as an agent from the San
Francisco branch. Dingley was al
lowed to run, therefore, under the rul-
In the interest of every competing
dealer however, the matter should not
be allowed to remain at this point, but
a protest should be lodged against not
only Dingley, but against the dealer
under whose auspices he drove the
cars, providing Manager Johnson and
others are correct in their statements
and Dingley is found to have made
statements not in conformity with the
fo oafc ch Ok
to prove easily whether he has been
attached to the local garage of the
ChalmerS-Detroit for the past three
months, or it should be very easy to
prove whether he has been acting as
an agent at Modesto. If he has not
been with the local garage, then the
managers of that concern who entered
the car which Dingley drove would
certainly know it and their allowing
him to drive for them under a misap-
prehension Of facts would or should
put them in the same class with Ding
ley and subject them to the same dis
cipline.
Bad for Good Sport
It is the misunderstanding Of this
character in connection with all sport
events which, if allowed to go by un-
noticed, create bad feelings later and
tending toward clean and healthy
sport. 1t is matter for the dealers
association itself to take up, however,
and not for any one individual dealer,
the hill climb being an event under
their auspices and they standing as
sponsor to all members for the good
faith of any other of their members in
matters of this kind. If DingIey is not
local man, the least that can be
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troit car in the race, give the Kissel-
kar, which finished second, the first
place, and the Standardization sec
ond, and then take such other puni-
tive steps as fits the infraction of the
rules to which all dealers, as members
of the association, subscribe in good
faith before entering.
Ford and Thomas Clean
The Ford and Thomas cars each fin
ished with clean scores, each winning
one first, although neither of them
started in more than one race. The
Buick captured one first and two Sec
onds, but was badly outclassed in the
tenth event, when it put it's 20 horse
power roadster against cars Of AZ horse
power up to 60 horse power.
No race meet could possibly have
been run more smoothly, with more
precision and more like cIockwork than
every one of the eleven events, and un-
stinted praise is due Manager Cowan
and Starter Reuss for both their con-
ception and execution Of details
The cars began arriving as early as
10 o'clock and by IL o'clock every con-
testing car was in its place and
ready for the rigid inspection imposed
CoWen Does Honors
The 'press car" a handsome new
seven-passenger Rambler, driven by
Sales Manager L. George Thompson,
containing the newspaper men, who
were the guests of Mr.. Cowan during
the day, and the Official car" also a
Rambler, both Haunting their bunting
across their noses, arrived by 1920,
and it was but short time before all
the minor details had been perfected,
the numbers of the racers handed out
and the inspection of cars begun.
Scales were provided for the passengers
required in each car under the rules
and each person scheduled to ride in
the race was weighed in"
Lee Guyer, in whose hands the bridg-
ing of the tracks had been placed, re-
peated his splendid work of year ago
and by the time that the hour for rae
ing had arrived everything was in
apple pie shape at this most dangerous
part of the running.
Starter Reuss on the Job
At promptly 1 o'clock, the hour set
for the start, Starter Reuss called for
the contestants in event No. 1 and at
l:O5 fiat the Buick, No. g. was given
the gun and started away up the steep
lane of open space that separated the
thousands Of spectators who had scat
tered themselves along the entire
course to witness the afternoons sport.
From that time on the cars were
sent off exactly one minute apart, ex-
cept that five minutes were allowed to
intervene between each event.
A telephone line had been installed
from the starting to the finishing stand
and as the cars were given the pistol
to 'go" their number and their time
were telephoned to the scorers at the
latter point. In like fashion when the
cars finished their number and time
were taken and repeated back to the
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