Arizona republican., 1912-06-26
RACE VS. TIME
 MONEY |S UP
Hageman and Tremaine Come to Terms; Contest to Be Within Eight Days;
 Wild Bill Has Second Chance Under Conditions

The money is up and it will be a great race It will be held on a date yet to be decided except that it must be not less than eight days from yes terday The winner will be Wild Bill Tremaine-providing he can do what he says he can; otherwise George Hageman will have all kinds of easy money in his pocket with the cham piOn belt still dangling from the waist of his Franklin car. The stakes are $500 a side with only one car in the running while old Father Time holds the stop watch
 Hageman is not a speed maniac nor a racing sport. He don't like to take the long chances on his neck or the necks of his employees, even for big money. He can make money enough some other way, or thinks he can, selling Franklin cars for in stance, and that amounts to the same thing. But he was so pestered by another man a short time ago that his red cOrpuscles got the better of the white ones and in he dashed for that spectacular stunt of the elliptical course between Phoenix and Tempe, with a town at each end of it and tWenty-three miles between them. He was up against AhlQuist the veteran driver who knew his car and had a good one and whose money mean while was talking vociferously. Haze man won and the Ahlquist money lost it's voice.
 But that wasn't the end of it. Bill Tremaine who is always scouting round for excitement in road stunts was piping off the situation. He ad mitted Hageman's car was no ice wagon even though it wasn't built for a racer still he thought that almost any good driver of a Pope Hartford could make it look like a farm wagon with a hay frame. Presently his mon- ey got to talking. It's funny how money will converse sometimes and once it starts it seems almost i'm
 possible to Cuiet it. Hageman an- nounced there was nothing doing. It was against his business policy if not his religion. to engage in such dan gerOus pastimes. Tremaine didn't care so much for the money either but it seemed to be the only way he could get the glory, so just kept 'pesticatin' Hageman until the lat ter told him to haul out his steam roller if he wanted to and see what it could do.
 Hageman said he would run no more races but he had five hundred bucks that has just as good a voice as any money that Bill Tremaine ever got hold of Personally he was cut of it but his money would go up as a forfeit that the Franklin prop ositiOn could not be beaten. for to beat t means an average speed of tcrty-six miles per hour for the whole trip and the course is no Indianapolis speedway with high heeled corners and polished brick road. To get around these Salt River valley sec tion lines one has to take the same corners a farm wagon does.
 Tremaine, of course, had bumped up against a hard proposition. It will be no discredit to his car if he loses and if he wins-well, Hageman says he will recognize him as the Barney Oldfield of the southwest, and then some. He will kiss that five hundred goodbye and pass it over gracefully. They spared few days about conditions, chiefly because flag eman didn't want to get mixed up in any more events of the kind. Ire maine said that if the roads were flooded or he got a puncture 1t would be all off; he'd lose by fluke, and that of course is true but Hage- man said that on the other hand he wasn't seeking the contest and that if Tremaine wanted to make record 1t was up to him to do it. Hageman | felt that he was doing his part to hang up the money internationally, the other fellow to take his chances. Then he got to thinking it oyer. He pictured just how he would feel un- der similar circumstances with $500 up in the balance. along with his life land his car, all perhaps to be lost through some careless farmer flood 1 ing the road at the wrong time. so
 he relented just a little bit and de- cided to be a good fellow. He ac- | cepted Tremaine's conditions that if | the road was flooded he would be
 given a second try at it. or if he got a puncture. he would be given just l one more chance.
 l Then came the question of date l Tremaine's car was out of town but he said he would get it back in just | a few days and was given eight days l from yesterday in which to make ready and get the car on the job. So that is the condition to date and there is no doubt but the race against time will come off, proper announce
 ment of the date being made as soon as possible Both men are good sports | and neither is trying to fool anybody i and like the former race it will be clean sport whatever the result, with | no hard feeling.
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