Arizona republican., 1912-06-10
AUTO MARATHON
 LATEST RACE
Big Speed Event Will Start and Finish at Republican Office Friday Morning at Breakfast Time-Some of the Entries.

The varicose veins of Phoenix have finally busted" and the sporting 1 blood is now messing up Second 1 street and Adams. all around the corner opposite The Republican of flee. A pedestrian cant get by auto ! mobile row, where George Hageman, | the Franklin agent, and J. Ahlquist | who operates the Standard, have their | shingles switching in the sultry | breeze without feeling that something l is on, and the hunch is good. Next | Friday morning at 6 o'clock will wit 1 ness in front of The Republican office 1 the start of the Hageman -Ahlquist 1 international automobile marathon l race of about tWenty-three miles A | few minutes later the finish of the l race will be noted at the same place | by those who stick around
 It is going to be some event and all the speed lunatics of the village will doubtless sit up and take notice i Entries are limited to George Haze mans Franklin and J Ahlquist's 40 horse power machine The race will be for a tin cup filled with ice wa ter. and a side bet of $250 each. making | purse of $500 so the win ner will be earning side money at somewhere in the neighborhood of ten dollars a minute. for regardless of the old story of the tortoise and the hare this race will go to the swift
 The two cars will start as near simultaneously as they can get their wheels in action at the pistol shot. n,,o tp ic side of the river, up Mill avenue in that city, where a checker in front of the Casa Loma hotel will record it's passing unless it goes so fast he cannot see it. The machine will make no stop in Tempe unless it loses it's wheels, but pursue its course west on the south side of the river, re- turning to the starting point via the Central avenue bridge The other car will start in the opposite direction. going via the bridge and returning via the Tempe road by the asylum.
 The race has been the outgroWth of some good natured joking between the two men, coupled with a sincere belief on the part of each that he has 1 the best thing on wheels They have | been iibing each other for months until finally Ahlquist said his opinion i had $50 behind it. Hagem3n said he did not need the money, but he l hated to dirty up q nice Franklin | car for that little slug and added that | if Ahlquist would make it $250, some thing worth while to ar automobile l that could really travel, he was on. | And Ahlquist did. Then came the arrangements which are now per l fected.
 Hageman says he is not in the rac l ing gdme-that is he has not been heretofore, and has no notion of seiz- ing the hOnorS of Barney Oldfield or Teddy Tetzlaff but when it comes to haunting along public highway he thinks good Franklin ought to be lable any time to throw dust in the hood of anything else hereabouts. His car will De driven by Harold Wells,
 a lad who has never vet participated
 in a race Hageman believes him to
 be competent to operate the wheel
 with decent judgment and well sup piled with nerve. For the rest of it
 Hageman is banking on his car,
 mainly Ahlquist, on the other hand, ] is regarded as one of the best me
 chanics in Arizona and has the rep
 utation of being able to ride just as |. fast as d car can go. It is believed that if his car has anything in it worth while. Ahlquist is the particlar man to discover it and drag it out
 on exhibition So it will be anybody s
 race until the finish and those who
 care to make guess know the full
 merits of the issue.
 The contestants will arrange with the police to have the speed limit raised for them through Phoenix, as
 has been done already in Tempe
 Other motorists, however, should not ', try to take advantage of any sucf arrangement for it will only be fol " few minutes and somebody might
 get caught Hageman says they vii
 onIv need long enough to think twice
 in going through the village and Ahl-
 ouist says he will cut that rate doWr - fifty per cent Anyhow it will b' over about the time it begins.