The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
ELEVEN CARS FINISH
WITHPfRF[CTSCORE
Splendid Performance of Every
Entry Proves Improved
1910 Construction
Supervisor Casey's Strip in Sar
MateO Is Only Bad Road
Encountered
By R. R. L'HoMMEDIEU
PERFECT SCORES

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The second annual mud plug of the
Automobile Dealers Association of
California, which was held yesterday
would have been 2 dust run had it
not been for Supervisor Casey of San
Mateo and the officials of South City.
That section Of the road in san MateO
county from the South City line to
Mfllbrae over which Casey has super
vision and that part Of the road from
the end OF the boulevard to the city
limits where il connects with Casey's
bad road was the only part of the 200
miles that was real mud plugging.
II would be hard to find a worse
piece Of road in the state. and from
the experience OF the contestants yes
Ierday il reminded one of Ohio gumbo.
The heavy. high powered cars had to
go into their intermediate or low to
force themselves through. while the
light little fellows ran over the top of
il. The rest of the course reminded
one Of the good roads Of late spring
and early summer
The roads on the Oakland side of
the bay are ideal at the present time.
and the only stretch on this side OF
the bay that is superior is that out
Of Redwood City 10 the north. This is
The section that is being patrolled to
stop high speeding and after covering
the distance to Menlo Park it can
easily be appreciated why those who
have built the road do not want to
have ii destroyed by automobiles go
ing at excessive speed.
SHOWS CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
Although the course was easy out
side Of Casey's mud pool it showed
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vantage, for il was the first time since
the 1910 models have been in the city
that they have been able to show the
improvements over the cars OF last
year. The ease with which the cars
covered the course showed that they
have much more power than last year. a
full hour could have been cut of OF
the course each way and-the same per
feet scores would have resulted. An
other thing that was quite evident at
the end of the run was that all those
who came through with perfect scores
were mechanically in perfect condition.
The engines were running as sweetly
at the finish as they were at the start.
one Of the features of the day was
the showing made by the little Hupmo-
bile, driven by ". ". Mcdonald The
low fairly flew over the
Mcdonald is an old eastern
estant, and he put his car
uI shape 1t was running as
the finish as a car could. He
hat he covered the course TO
in hours and 40 minutes
the return five minutes
which he claims was the best
the day.
Frank Murray made the distance be-
tween Oakland and san Jose in / hour
and I6 minutes, while the Studebaker
covered the same distance in a minute
faster time
The Autocar covered itself with
glory. Walter c. Morris, who was
driving the car, made wager with
q friend that he would go around the
bay on the high gear and after the
contest was over was awarded the
wager for successfully accomplishing
The trip.
The new Crawford car met with
slight accident on the way down when.
near Mountain View The car used was
one that had just been received from
the factory and in the rush to get the
wheels on and in shape for the run
one Of the nuts on forward wheel had
not been sent home far enough and
the wheel came off. The car went
into the fence. A few boards were
ripped off and a fender bent, but it
was the work Of a few minutes to re-
place the wheel.
The Haynes car was penalized q
points for crossing the line at Oakland
21 minutes ahead of the finishing time
The driver misunderstood the rules
and thought all he had to do was to
cross before the five hours were UP.
on the return the car was brought
across the line to the second. The
little Brush car covered the course in
fine shape, but was penalized for not
making the time
The event was handled in splendid
shape. President II. NJ. Owens Of the
san Francisco motor club started the
cars at s a. m, then went across the
bay and timed them in at Oakland
after which he returned TO this side
Of the bay and timed them in at the
finish.
W. II. Durphy, who entered the
Chase delivery wagon, was more than
pleased with the way his car went
over the course. Before the contest he
stated that the top speed of the wagon
was II miles per hour and it took a
little over six hours TO make the Oak
land mole, which is at the rate of II
miles per hour. AS the contest called
for 20 mile average he did not ex-
pect 10 make a perfect score.
Taking the time that the cars made
from san Francisco to San Jose and
the time from Oakland to san Jose a
comparative time for half of the course
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