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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

| MOTHER valuable piece of auto
! IA mobile fire apparatus was added
IA to the District fire department
II "A last week, when the new Ahrens
Fox Continental automobile pis-
| ton pumping engine was put into
service at No. "a engine company at
Petworth. d. c., after a thorough test
during the entire week. The new appa-
ratus takes the place of regular steam
er drawn by three horses and cost
about $1,000. On its arrival here 1t
was given a speed test over the roads
and hills about the District, especially in
the suburban sections 1t has a speed of
from thirty-five to forty miles an hour
and wonderful hill-clmbing capacity.
1t is the first engine of its type and has
capacity of 700 gallons of water per
minute. Under pressure it can throw
over 900 gallons. In Detroit recently 1t
reached oil gallons during an extended
test 1t Is of the six-cylinder type. with
51ax6ia motor of the Continental make.
1t has two sets of spark plugs with dou-
BILE Bosch system of ignition. The wheel
base is | IT inches and weight about l2Vo
pounds. 1t is equipped with electric lights
throughout and the Delco electric self
starting system The wheels forty
inches in diameter with solid tires. The
big machine Is chain driven with two sets
of brakes internal and external. Inc
foot brakes are located on the jack-shaft
and the emergency brakes on the wheels
In the rear construction provision is made
for towing another piece of apparatus II
found necessary. In addition to this
pumping engine motor-drtven hose car
riage forms part of the equipment.
The front dash is equipped with speed
ometer clock, fire bell, electric lights,
switch box and lever for starting the mo-
tor after it has been turned over by the
self-starting system. 1t has three speeds
forward and reverse, which is standard
on many of the present day motor cars
The engine is three point suspension and
very quiet when in operation. Two lines
of hose can be attached to the front of
the machine. The machine reaches a fire
under its own power. The gears are
thrown into neutral and another lever on
the front of the car is then shifted
which Immediately engages the pump and
starts to pump the water In the test
last week 1000 feet of hose was at
tached through which the machine aver
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the new states most prominent residents
and officials. While the affair was chiefly
of a social nature. some lively competition
resulted for possession and ownership OF
the governors cup. donated as an award
TO the owner of the car most successtui
In maintaining it's exact schedule.
Some of the conditions surmounted by
these tourists may be imagined from the
fact that. at times, the cavalcade was
forty miles from water and sixty miles
from any spot where gasoline could be
obtained. Phoenix and Prescott-the first
night control-were the only places where
repairs could have been made to the cars,
had there been any necessity for them.
prominent figure in the tour was
1903 EMF "30'-a veteran of OUOo
miles-which carried six persons with
amazing dash and endurance. Another
car that created unusual attention was
Flanders 30" driven by Mrs. Harry Kay
of Phoenix, who handled her wheel like
| an expert, and seemed to think it merely
part of days work to pilot her car
through the bottomless sands of a dry
wash up and down grades and around
| curves on the rough mountain roads,
where the least deviation from the mar
row trails would have meant drop OF
hundreds of feet and the certain death OF
| every occupant Of her car.
The Studebaker party remained for
day, admiring the scenery at Grand Can
yon. Many of them also made the de-
scent Of the famous Bright Angel trail
to the bottom of the majestic chasm.
The awarding of the prizes. of which
there were more than a dozen and OF
value amounting to over $1,000. is mat
ter now in charge of committee of the
tourists, of which Referee George Purdy
Billiard. official A. A. A. representative
| for Arizona and attorney general OF the
state. Is chairman.
Recent purchasers of Oldsmobiles include
pr. w. Sinclair Bowen, Defender tour
about: Miss Nellie E. Sweet, Autocrat
| touring car: Representative j. w. Goode
| of Iowa. seven-passenger Autocrat tour
| ing car; j. H. Hunter. seven-passenger
| Autocrat touring car: Harrington Nils,
seven-passenger Autocrat touring car:
| Beverly J. Smith, Autocrat tourabout:
Thomas w. Lockwood, seyen-passenger
Autocrat touring car.
| Under a decision handed down in the
| municipal court Of Brooklyn an inn
keeper or hotel man who issues storage
checks for automobiles to his patrons
and then allows some unauthorized per-
| son to get away with an automobile with
| out producing the appropriate check must
pay damages to the owner OF the alb
stracted car.
George T. Sharp of Richmond. Va. who
| has been active in the automobile bust.
ness In the southern capital. has joined
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the sales staff of NJ. T. Pollock and will
handle the Oakland line in this city.
* X 4
The agitation for good roads comes
from all the people and not from any spe-
cial class.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest W. Porter and
family and Judge Stephen Taylor will
leave Washington Tuesday morning in a
Ford touring car for Kingston. Nova
Scotia The route will be via Philadel-
phia, New York, Boston, Portland Au-
susta and thence to St. Johns They eX-
pect to remain in the north about three
months, returning in the same manner.
X X X
G. c. Kneessi is the first purchaser of
Paige semi-racy type roadster. Brook
lands model. The car is finished in
cream color, and was delivered last week.
1t has attracted considerable attention in
the National Capital.
An order has been placed by Frank C.
Henry for a Detroit electric brougham,
model q. to be finished in blue, with blue
leather upholstering.
Il
Thomas W. Lockwood. who last week
purcha sed a seven-passenger Oldsmobile
Autocrat touring car, left over the road
for New York. and is now en- route to
Europe with MS FAMILY on the steamer
The summer months will be spent tour
ing Europe, returning home in the fall.
\
Oakland Sociable roadsters have been
delivered to Harry Harrison and George
Hewitt of this city. A five-passenger
Oakland touring car was also delivered
last week to Charles r. Lowenbach of
Leesburg, Va.
+
Fred e. Wilson, sales manager of the
Henderson Motor Car Company, spent a
couple of days in Washington last week,
closing an agency for the new Henderson
automobile in this city. The Matheson
Motor Sales Company has been appointed
local agent, and the first of the new 1913
models are expected here about August 1.
During MIR. Wilson's visit here he was
the guest of Edmond X. Fox and Elliott
P. Hough of the Matheson Motor Com
pany.
r X X
What will undoubtedly be the greatest
pathfinding effort ever made by the
American Automobile Association will be
that by A. l.. Westgard, the official path
finder for the national organization of
Automobiles. Mr.. Westgard left New
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York Thursday on the first leg of the
triple transcontinental pathfinding tour.
He already has three transcontinental
trips to his credit, one of them made
with a motor truck-poSsibly the most
severe journey ever made by automobile.
The pathfinder, who appropriately VIII
use car named Pathfinder. will go via
Albany. Buffalo. Cleveland and Chicago
to Minneapolis on the first route to be
laid out. From the twin cities the path
will lie through North Dakota, Mon
tana. Idaho and Washington to Seattle.
The middle route is from San Fran
cisco, through Salt Lake City. Denver
and Omaha to Chicago; thence to Buffalo
Watkins, Elmira. Binghanton and the
Hudson river to New York.
The third route will be from New York
via Philadelphia, with connections to
Baltimore and Washington. and along
the old national highway, through Iowa.
Kansas to Colorado Springs; then across
the Rocky mountains via Salt Lake City
and through Nevada to Los Angeles. A
large party of motorists escorted the
Automobile Association national head
quarters to Fort Lee ferry.
X *k
for the Anderson Electric Car Company
left Thursday, after spending several days
in the National Capital as the guest OF
Emerson & Orme, local representatives
for the Detroit electric.
*
To round out it's line of heavy duty
vehicles, the Packard Motor Car Com
pany is announcing five-ton truck. This
model is being placed on the market
after 10000 miles Of testing which fol-
lows eight years of experience with trucks
of similar design. The new truck has
been tried out under conditions more Sc
we're than those encountered in actual
service
The five-ton model is like the three-ton
truck, except that 1t has more power
full motor and more massive construction.
To insure the longevity of the vehicle
there is an automatic governor limiting
the speed to eight and one-haf miles an
hour The motor Is forty horsepower,
A. L. A. M. rating. with bore of five
inches and a stroke of five and one-half
inches.
With the advent of good macadamized
roads in lower Maryland Is the Inaugural
ton OF an automobile bus line between
Washington and Brandywine, Md, which
in the early days was the objective point
for bicyclists and is now an important
point since the automobile has been II
existence Tomorrow a schedule goes into
effect which enables the Senmes Motor
line to connect with all trains at Brandy.
wine station. The route OF the new lint
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by the following route: Philadelphia to
Downington. Coatesville, Lancaster, CO.
lumbia, over the Susquehanna river
bridge 10 Wrightsville. York, Gettysburg,
Chambersburs, Bedford, Ligonier, Green's
burg to Pittsburgh.
The idea in adopting this as the state
highway to have the shortest route.
1t is also we'll selected, as it passes
through points of historic interest and
through stretches of lovely scenery.
1t is practically all mountain travel
between Chambersburg and Greensburg.
S2.3 miles from Pittsburgh The roads
in this section are in particularly poor
shape. There is a range of four noun
tains, twelve miles west of Chambers
burg, which extends to Bedford, where.
sixteen miles west, begin the Alleghenies.
The run to Chambersburg from Phiia-
delphia is a most delightful one For
scenery it is hard to surpass the travel
in the mountains en- route west, but the
roads will not be at their best until the
new highway is completed. Then it will
be possible to do this mountain touring
in one-thrd the time required at pres
ent.
The distance between Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia by this route Is 3Ol2 miles.
The new road is under process of con-
struction between Pittsburgh and Get
tysburg, and about thirty-two miles are
completed. The mountain districts are re-
ceiving first aid and in some places the
The new turnpike will be constructed OF
asphaltic concrete. macadam and telford.
all three forms of road work being used
In the various parts. In some stretches
excessive toll Is charged for bad roads.
and it is likely that the state will take
possession by condemnation proceedings.
When all the work is completed the mo-
tor car owner can take the entire tour
In three days running time.
x **
After spending several days sightseeing
in the National Capital, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. F. Russell of Bangor, Mich, and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. c. Fry Of Lansing, Mich,
leave this week in their Jackson 40
touring car for their respective homes.
The route will be via central Pennsyl-
vania and northern New York. On the
trip east they came via Columbus, Ohio.
Wheeling, Cumberland, Hagerstown and
Frederick, covering ia miles on the trip.
During their stay here they were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Russell,
1924 Massachusetts, avenue northeast
That Motz cushion tires are becoming
more and more popular each day is
shown by the fact that when the city
of New York placed its order recently
for new police patrols this make of tire
was Specified on each car. In specifying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

That Motz cushion tires are becoming
more and more popular each day is
shown by the fact that when the city
of New York placed its order recently
for new police patrols this make of tire
was specified on each car. In specifying
this type of tire the officials had in
mind the idea Of doing away with tire
trouble and at the same time operating
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To date ten entries have been made for
the Tacoma (Wash) road race, to be held
July ) and 6, under the auspices of the
Tacoma Automobile Club and Tacoma
Carnival Association. Last week Hughie
Hughes was entered with the 5cO-mile
race Mercer, and yesterday a second car
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

What will undoubtedly be the greatest
pathfinding effort ever made by the
American Automobile Association will be
that by A. l.. Westgard, the official path
finder for the national organization of
Automobiles. Mr. WeStgard left New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

Joseph NJ Stoddard Of the Cook & Stod.
dard Company left last night for Cleve
land, Detroit and Buffalo, to visit the
Baker electric. Cadillac and Pierce-Ar.
row factories. He Will return Thursday
of this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
BY HOWARD S. FISK.

a MOTHER valuable piece of auto
~ mobile fire apparatus was added
"A to the District fire department
last week. when the new Ahrens-
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Oakland Sociable roadsters have bee
delivered to Harry Harrison and Georg
Hewitt of this city. A ive-passenge
Oakland touring car was also delivere
last week to Charles r. Lowenbach Q
Leesburg, Va.
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George T. Sharp of Richmond. Va. who
has been active in the automobile busi-
ness In the southern capital. has Joined
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
Aphareha HuIer Ball Fast Its Accuracy Better
NAP RUCKER BEATEN BY JOHNSON IN SPEED TEST

game last year, and if you hadn't
had your foot in the water bucket,
trying to duck. when the ball hit
your bat you'd admit as much
Iris Speaker, of the Red SoX, who
happened to be passing through on
the way to the diner just in time
to get an earful Of the Big Chiefs
caustic remarks, was pressed for an
opinion.
Well" said he. Joe Wood has
about as much speed as anyone |
know. OF course, | don't bat against
him very much. and am not compe-
tent to Judge between him and
Johnson. But this much | do know,
There was never so much speed
shown in any game as the one in
Boston that day Joe and Walter
hooked up Who had the most
steam? Well ! wouldn't like to say.
But as | happened to hit against
Johnson. wish to go on record
that nobody, anywhere at any time.
ever had any more speed. They
may match that fellow. but they
can never beat him"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22

cREENVILLE TO HAVE CLIMB NOV. g.
GREENNILLE, S. c., oct. 80 -Novem-
Der is the date set for the local auto
mobile hill climbing contest. The races
win be held under the sanction Of the
American Automobile association.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22

the mechanism is so finely arranged
that calculations may be made into
fractional feet per second. Where
fore there need be no more argu-
ments as to speed of pitchers. Let
them show in a tussle with this lat
est machine.
The gun factories should now
form an alliance with the baseball
magnates. If the word of any
scouts should be doubted as to the
promise of new material the mogul
could journey with the prospect and
the scout to the testing machine. 1t
would be a handy place to shoot the
scout if the rocky fell down.
Speed, of course, is not every
thing to the game. That fact de
Veloped in the test Walter John
son had a great deal more difficulty
in hitting the bulls EYE" than did
RuCker. 1t took four pegs by john
son to find the mark. Rucker was
more fortunate on his first attempt,
but after that had more or less diff
ffculty. Ruclier was satisfied after
his trials that Johnson had the
more smoke. but he was not salts
fed that he had developed the
speed of which he is capable. Here's
a tip to summer resort amuse-
ment promoters frequented by the
baseball profession. A speed test
ing device would be PLAYED off the
boards
There is absolutely no way to
Judge speed by the eye alone. Ball
players all disagree on this point
The American league believes that
Johnson is the fastest thrower in
the country. They should know,
for they see enough of him during
campaign. But, on the other
hand. the Giants, who have just
played casually against all three,
are divided in opinion among john
son Wood and Bender
This interesting phase of the sit
uation came up for a great deal
of discussion on the special car
of the Giants on the way to Boston
after the first game of the worlds
series.
NO sucker in the world ever had
the speed of this guy Wood" said
Josh Devore. Say, he threw two
balls at me that shot by my lung
the size of buckshot All saw be-
fore they sung past me was a lit
tie blur Of white
Can that kind of chatter" cut
in big Chief Meyers. You swell
out your chest simply because you
tied up that first game on Bender
last year in the ninth inning. Let
me tell you that Wood never had
the smoke o. that old Indian. Wood
has lots of speed, but Bender's the
real baby I've hitagainst Johnson,
too. Nobody ever did have the speed
Bender showed us in that first
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
RIVERSIDE TOO STRONG
FOR LIGHT GORDON Il

GAINESVILLE GA. oct. 22.--Gor-
don was defeated by Riverside here
yesterday afternoon, 81 to I.
Hickman, Riverside's right half
starred, and so did Sudbury and Nc
Nein The stars of the Gordon team
were Morris, at left half back, Film
GIN, at fun. and McWhorter at end.
Riverside made three touchdowns in
the first quarter and one in the third.
The Gordon team braCed wonderfully in
the second half. and prevented further
scoring by Riverside Gordon scored
one touchdown in the last quarter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
MASS MEETING STIRS UP
GR0GGY GEORGIA SPIRIT

ATHENS, GA, Oct ga mass meet
ing and rally after an overwhelming de-
feat is somewhat of an innovation in
Southern football circles. but this is what
took place a the University of Georgia
last night More than 900 cheering stu
dents packed into the chapel and the
greatest display of Georgia spirit ever
recorded was manifested on this coca
sion.
The Georgia team came back from the
Vanderbilt game somewhat demoralized
and the purpose OF the rally was to
awaken new interest Chancellor David
c. Barrow was the first to mount the
rostrum and he led the Georgia students
in the famous old campaign song. We're
the Jolly Georgia Boys and Fear No
Harm. He then made one of the most
spirited addresses ever heard in the his
toriC old chapel.
Hugh Gordon. head of the local alumni
association: Judge George c. Thomas,
Professor John Morris and Captain Pea
cock then spoke.
Georgia lost, but is not defeated" was
the slogan of the meeting Before the
meeting last night gloom on the campus
was so thick it could have been sliced
and both the football team and the stu
dents have not yet fully realized how the
score of 46 to 0 was made against them
The team has begun its practice for
the game with Ala hama next Saturday
None of the team was injured in the Van
dy struggle, and this week the Georgia
team will go through the hardest practice
of the season
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
By w. !. McBeth.

CClENCE has struck at last to
= the very best of the base
ball profession. Scientifically
speaking. this scientific game has
been placed upon plane with the
most intricate science. No longer
will old Bill Irwin. with his water
glass and eelluloid ball demonstra-
tions of the spitball for the edifca
ton of college professors be in or
der Science has made this day
and generation one of scepticism,
We have to be shown
And it is now possible to get an
absolutely accurate line on a base
bah players ability in all matters
pertaining to his physical horse
power. The first test was made re-
Gently at Bridgeport Conn, in the
factory OF a well-known gtn firm
Walter Johnson, the crack pitcher
of the Washington team, and Nap
Rucker, the fork-hand speed boy of
the Dodgers, were the pioneers of
scientific exploitation That proved
very conclusively that it is possible
to calculate players propelling
power
Johnson also established conclu-'
sively that he is the speedier hurler
for ne propelled a ball many feet
faster per second than did the IL
lustrioUs Alpharetta southpaW. At a
distance of p feet Johnson's pitch
travels at a rate of at least 1875 feet
per second, and in many instances,
doubtless, more. Rucker who is re-
noNned as a smoke" singer, does
not approach in velocity by ten feet
per second. Clark Grffith's stand
by, Johnson. without half trying,
showed that he was Fuckers mas
ter in speed and he stands ready
to accept any challenge for the
championship he won, Joe Wood, of
the Boston Red SoX. preferred
The tests of speed of these illus
trious pitchers was made with an
appliance used to measure the We
locity of the projectiles from fire.
arms 1t is a simple enough ar
rangement in which electricity fig
ures very prominently.
Across a sc-shaped opening are
stretched number of lightly
charged electric wires so fine that
the breaking of them expands but
an ininjt simally small portion of
the velocity of a thrown baseball.
Five feet behind these wires is a
steel plate, also charged. The ball
is hurled into the opening. The
exact time from the breaking of q
wire until the background is hit is
registered. BY calculating the dis
lance of five feet with the fraC-
tional second consumed in travers-
ing it. the happy result is arrived
at. Expert gun men declare that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-22
BIG ED WALSH is
GREATEST OF ALL
Iron" PITCHERS

That peculiar niche in baseball affairs
which is filled by what are known as
Iron men is one that has had few ocCu-
pants The Iron men of note, real
iron men," have been few and far be-
tween. The terms is applied only to pitch
ers. and means those pitchers whose con-
stitutiuns are sufficiently strong to permit
them to do more work in the box than
most twirlers could stand. Unusual ca
pacity for work and exceptional pitching
ability are attributes of the Iron men on
the mound.
The first pitcher to whom the term was
applied was Joe McGinnity, and be came
into il not so much because of the fire.
quency with which he pitched as his ca
pacity for double headers. To this day
he goes into the box often and few pltch-
ers nave worn so well.
There are two other leading opponents
of the iron man" business. One is Ed
Walsh. of the White Sox, the most noted
Of the three and the other is Jack
COMBS Coombs isn't pitching as fire.
Guently as he did last year, but his capac-
ify for work. coupled with his skill as a
boxman, tided Connie Mack and the Ath-
letics over many a rough spot and pulled
out many a game in which some other
pitcher had wabbled.
Coonibs. like Walsh, could stand being
hurled into the breach many time be-
yond the ordinary. and then his expert
ness on the peak did the rest.
Walsh probably has pitched in more
games a year for the length of time he
has been in the game than any other base
ball pitcher known. 1t was predicted half
a dozen years ago that the inordinate
wear and tear would get him, but he
is stil at ii, and effective, If not as
strong. as ever He is a spitball pitcher,
too. another thing supposed to be very
trying, but he contends that with him
that form of delivery is no more eXacting
on the arm than any other way of pitch
ing.