Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28

DelleVe the SIedTIlS lS' TOO IdSL Z
i for the Locomobile. I intend to !
+ drive a fair race, and shall agree :
i to not cut in in front short of !
i fifty feet ahead of the Locomo- !
4. bile, in case want to pass 1t. 1t !
4. will not make any difference :
+ whether this is a track agreement !
+ or not. Anyone who thinks the !
i Stearns cannot go the distance I
j. under pressure is going to be mis- !
!. taken. l believe the Stearns can !
4 gain miles on the Locomobile in !
4. the distance We will have to go. !
/. If the track is in good condition 4
!. believe 1t will take better than !
!. sixty-five-mile clip to win. We I
+ intend to be at the tape, rain or I
1. shine, mud or dry, and run the $50 I
i miles. 1t has been said of us that :!
+ we can't go $50 miles, and we in !
!. tend to do 1t no matter whether !
+ we are hub deep. When the race :!
I. is over we intend to start for a 4
!. 500-mile race. The Locomobile has !
!. said that it wants a 500-mile race, !
! so we can get together without
I. any difficulty" ]
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Races begin at 1:SO o'clock sharp.
Enclosure gates for automobiles close
at lis p. m.
Stearns-L ocomobile race begins al
2:30 o'clock.
officers at the course:
Executive committee-Ed r. Maiel
and Harry Harrington.
Starter-John G. Mott.
Clerk of course and assistant starter
Barney Oldfield.
Referee-Charles Hopper.
Elks' patrol-White Squadron drill
corps of forty-five men. Captain Rob-
ert Atkinson commanding.
Announcer-William Ruess.
Judges-W. E. Bush, r. r. Brassy
and Dick Ferris.
Timers-H. o. Harrison, H. B. Wood
i'll, =. Leslie Henry, George Moselle
George M. Adair and DR.. w. f. Ken
nedy.
Scorers-H. M. Maberry. j. F. Henry.
Charles Covell, @. Sailing, Tracy O.
Hall and George M. Wallace.
Boost. 1t is Elks' day.
Rain or shine, with a patch of blue
in the sky sufficient to make pair of
Dutchman's britches, or without enough
to make a good patch in the seat. with
a fast track or with a sea of mud, the
great Locomobile-Stea race will un-
doubtedly be called to the tape at 2:30
o'clock this afternoon for a gruelling
journey or loo miles.
1t is an Elk event primarily, the doll
lars from which will go into the cof-
fers of the entertainment fund of the
best people on earth with which to en-
terrain the hosts of visiting Elks during
this summers session of the grand
lodge But 1t is more than an Elk
event. 1t is the elimination of an in
tensely exciting controversy that has
waged between the Locomobile and
Stearns camps for several weeks, which
was first given inception during the
show two months ago and
which finally crystallized into an agree
ment ten days ago through the instru-
mentality of The Herald and very
committee from the Elks'
lodge, composed of Eddie Maier and
doc" Harry Harrington.
Race for Blood
1t is a race for blood of the reddest
hue. Not that manly good nature
does not exist between the principals,
but because of a pardonable pride In
two splendid types of the modern pro-
duct of automobile genius. The Loco
mobile adherents, with fullest justifica-
ton, basing their conclusions on a
splendid record of track and road
events covering many years and all
parts of the country, believe with all
the intensity of which they are capable
that they have the best automobile in
the world. The Stearns adherents, with
equal justification, looking backward
also upon an enviable record of con-
quests, believe with equal intensity that
they have the best car in the world
also.
So far as Yankee ingenuity. mechan-
ical science and human computations