The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-02
AUTO SPORTS FOR|
TUESDAY
Wenatchee Avenue Will Be
Scene of Automobile
Gymkanna.

Automobile Gymkanna promises
many excitements for Tuesday. Au-
| tomObile stunts Of the east will be
inaugurated in Tuesdays program.
One of the annual features of the
Chicago Automobile Association is
the Fourth of July Auto Gymkanna,
a series Of games for the auto and
the auto driver Automobile racing
has proven SO dangerous that it is
against the better principles of the
owners of cars to risk their high
| priced machines in the perilous I'M
dertaking of auto racing and in con-
sequence the Gymkanna has been
organized in the east to take the
place of the more perilous racing.
The Fourth of July committee has
decided to add to their Tuesday
program a series of games for the
auto owners and drivers.
On Wenatchee avenue Tuesday
at 10 a. m, the various auto owners
!
themselves with their cars to go
through the various auto capers of
this Gymkanna game. The first
stunt will be to balance the auto on
teeter-totter made of very heavy
planking capable of sustaining the
weight of the most powerful and
weighty machine. The teeter will
be mounted on a pivot from IL to
IA inches above the ground and the
winner will be declared from the car
balancing itself for the longest time
on this same teeter-totter.
The next stunt will be the ring
and lance number. Hanging out
over each of the telegraph poles for
block on the avenue will be small
rings about inches in diameter
made of wire and hanging out over
the street at distance of to 5 feet
and a distance of about 10 feet
above the pavement. The cars will
start opposite the First National
Bank and at a speed of 10 miles an
hour and will pass under these
rings, it being the duty of the driver
to drive his car on high speed with
out slipping his clutch and the speed
not to exceed 10 miles an hour. To
| spear these rings, as the rider Of
the merry-go-' round, and catch the
rings from the arms, the winner of
this event being declared from the
man or woman succeeding in posses
sing himself of the maximum num-
| Der of rings.
The next event will be very SIM
| liar in character. These same arms
| hanging over the street will carry
rings about feet in diameter, it be-
ing the duty of the driver to send
his car under the same conditions
as above under the rings, top his hat
hat through the rings, catch it and
continue on. The driver succeeding
in making the best time and success
fully catching his hat the most num-
Der of times will be declared the
winner of this event.
The next number will be the test
of control of cars. Each driver will
have a filled glass of water. He will
drive his car over a number of OBJ
structions, consisting of a sandpile
or two where one wheel will be up
and the other down and perhaps
four or five planks piled upon top
of one another where the jolts would |
be very severe if the driver were to
hit it very hard, and in consequence
the driver will be very glad to have |
the use of the hand engaged in hold
ing the glass filled with water. The |
ing the distractions and maintaining
the filled glass of water will be de-
clared the winner of this event
Pedestals will be mounted along |
the street. On the top of each will |
be a box of candy. The driver or
auto operator is to drive his car
alongside of these pedestals, take |
from each box a single piece of can
dy. The speed at which he will |
pass the pedestals will be optional |
with him except for the fact that it |
will be impossible for him, owing to
the rules, to split his high speed |
clutch, making this event purely a |
throttle control event, showing in
a clear manner the flexibility of the
various makes of cars.
The next number will be one of |
interest and great excitement to the
spectator Each car must carry a full
load of passengers, each passenger
wearing a linen duster or coat of
some description. The cars will line
up in front Of the starting point, the
Columbia Valley Bank building. All
passengers take their seats. At a
given signal each passenger must
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