Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-26
MOTORS AND TIRES ACT WELL
Crowd Of Thirty Thousand Persons
Witnesses the Contests.
FINISH IS CLOSE IN EACH RUN
Two Nationals Finish Nine Seconds
Apart in Cup Race.
MERGERS BEAT FIELD OF ELEVEN
as--~A ~AbbOtt-Detroit Cars and Ford Have
Aurora Cup Fight 10 Themselves,
RunniDg Close Race
throughout.

ELGIN. Ill. Aug. 25f-Thirty thousand
spectators were witnesses today when the
automobile road records OF the Egln
course established last year were shat
tered.
Eighteen cars started in the three events,
any one Of them a severe test Of car,
and all but five finished. OF these three
were running grandly when, the winners
having crossed the line, they were called
off the course.
The races were remarkable for the alb
sence of tire trouble. Not a pneumatic
was changed at the repair pits and the
number shifted at other parts of the
course was a negligible quantity The
mottrs were exceedingly well behaved and
the mechanics, ordinarily busy spent an
idle day.
A prediction of rain failed of fullfilment
and the weather was ideal. The crowds
were perfectly handled by militia men and
no unbidden vehicles strayes off the coun-
try roads onto the speed route as was the
case a year ago.
Thrilling Finishes the Rule.
tThe finishes were replete with thrills.
INYo Nationals fought it out for first and
second positions to the last inch in the
Illinois cup event at zoe miles and finished
nine second apart. Two Velie cars were
the only other entrants in this event
Two Mercer cars in a field of eleven
finished two minutes apart in the Kane
county cup run. These contests kept the
spectators on their feet. There were many
Aushes for position among other cars
Which maintained a steady level Of excite
kent throughout the racing
Two Abbott-Detroit cars and one Ford
Nad the Aurora cup fight to themselves
4 and ran a close race from start to finish
Not one of the three winning machines
stopped for any reason whatsoever
throughout the day.
Governor Deneen and his staff witnessed
the struggles from a box. Mrs. j. b.
Adams of Phoenix, Arizona, with a party
of women in her car arrived overland from
the newly-made state just in time to secure
packing space.
The fastest lap. eight miles, 2,494 feet
made in O:07:52 last year by Al Livingstone
In National. was lowered today by
Donald Herr, also a National driver ,tc
O:07I5, which is at the rate of about
seventy miles an hour. Hugh Hughes In
q Mercer turned the trick in O;o7:4o
Herr Leads from start,
Hern-startsd in first place in the Illinois
cup and held 1t without a duiver through
out. Merz and Jeffkins struggled for second
place for 100 miles when Merz secured y
And began crawling upon Herr. At thu
rate he was going another lap would have
given him the victory. SticRney ran 9
plucly and speedy race, but lost three lap'
at the pit with engine trouble.
Hughes, winner OF the Kane county cup
started fourth among eleven ears but i
took him only thirty-three miles to gain
the lead, which he held to the end. Barnes
was IN first place for seventeen miles bu
thereafter he had TO be content with th'
place position. Pearce gradually won thirC
position from jacksonville and held 1t during
the second half of the contest.
~ ane county cup, 16946 miles, trophl
falued at 1900; $500 in cash and $500 II
= Equipment to winner:
NAugh Hughes (MsrSer). won time 2'SI "a "a
w. F. Barnes. jr' (Mercer), second tim
w H. Pearce (colby) second, tim
Winners average per hour SS.4 miles.
Illinois cup. a05 35 miles, trophy valued a
1900: $4OO in cash and $3.50 worth Of equip
ment:
First, Donald Herr in National. Time
Second. Charles >Merz in National Time
| Third, Rupert Jeffkins in velie Flagge'
Fourth, ]. H. stickney in velie FIagge'
at 16l miles. ... ....
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