The Washington herald., 1911-05-18
ONE GAR RETAINS
PERFECT RECORD
IN SOCIAL RUN
Trip to Hagerstown Proves
Hardest Day.
BAD ROADS TRAVERSED
Motorists Find No Joy Ride
Over Virginia Highways.

All but one of the contestants in
the sociability run were eliminated
from the perfect score class in yes
terday's trip to Hagerstown via
Leesburg, Va. E. H. Clarke and his
Regal came through with a clean
sheet, and last night was the only
car that did not have three or more
points chalked up against it.
CHARGED AGAINST VELIE.
Charles Miller and his Velie. who
started out yesterday morning with no
marks against it, fell at Hagerstown
when he failed to check out on time. He
was eleven minutes late and was penal
lied one point per minute. He was also
charged with two points for oiling brakes.
Marks were registered against a num-
ber of the contestants for starting out
of the noon control late. The roads of
the morning were typical Virginia high
ways and the thirty-four miles between
Washington and Leesburg is so rough that
car must keep moving all the time to
maintain a twenty-mile- -an-hour schedule.
AS a result all of the party arrived at
the noon control with not more than a
minute or two to spare in advance of
their schedule. The contestants were I'M
der the impression, so II seems, that they
could check out when they wished and
their running time based on this. How
ever, at the meeting when the rules were
-ko
fact that all should reach controls on
| time and get out on schedule or suffer
penaliZations.
The worst stretch of the entire day
| was between this city and Leesburg.
Those who claimed that the route was
nothing more than a Joy ride changed
their minds They admitted that 1t was
| contest that proves the merits Of any
OF the cars which participated.
Substitute Referee Named.
Last night there was more or less dis
cussion of the question of calling off to-
days run owing to the death of Mrs.
Matthew Trimble, jr. Referee West, who
was hurt Tuesday, when a tollgate fell
| on him. was unable TO go out with the
party yesterday. He is still the referee,
having nominated a representative. who
said last night the run would not be
called off.
No one regrets more than I do the
deplorable accident, and I know how the
crowd feels about it, said Mr.. West.
In justice to those dealers who have
| cars entered and are competing for prizes
/ will not call the event off. Mr.. Trimble,
while a member of the club, was a nom
contestant on the run. and to me that
| does not seem good reason why 1 should
call the contest Off"
McBurney and his Matheson pilot car
will check out this morning. laying the
| trail for the run to Leonardtown, Nd,
and back. Fifteen minutes before the
| first car starts Ted Johnston, in a
Buick with the pacemaker and referee
aboard, will start from in front of the
Grafton.
| Another accident was aYerted only a
| hairbreadth yesterday noon. when Hen
ry Cunningham in his Marion. who
was hustling into Hagerstown, and Nc
Burney in the Matheson pilot car col
| lded. For eleven miles out of Hagers-
town the route doubled back over the
same one followed into the noon stop
Along this road the dust rises in clouds.
| Stanley Mortimer in his Buick was
hustling in. followed by Cunningham.
McBurney had to go through this dust.
Both Drivers Alert.
Hardly had he passed Mortimer when
the Marion doomed up right in front.
Presence of mind on the part of both
drivers was all that saved a smashup.
| Cunningham pulled one way to avoid
McBurney, who was forced to cut di-
| rectly across the road. They were too
close together to clear, and the right
front wheel of the Marion collided with
| the right rear wheel of the Mathe-
son. springing the front axle and break
| ing it's wheel.
Clarence Barnard made a lightning