The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-10-31
MAKES THE DISTANCE IN LESS
THAN FOURTEEN MINUTES,
NOTWITHSTANDING HE WAS
COMPELLED TO DRIVE PART OF
WAY WITH ONE HAND.

Steering his machine with one hand
while with the other he held together
the broken ends of gasoline tube
that snapped in the seventh lap, Jack
Suggs, local boy, yesterday after
noon won the fastest 10 mile race
ever made by any motor vehicle on the
kupfian park track.
He made the twenty laps in Is
minutes, So seconds, clipping seconds
from the time made in Tuesdays 10
mile event by Overton, of Mobile.
Suggs rode yesterdays race against
.Parquette, of Mobile. and Chenoweth,
of Mobile. the former going in the
place OF Overton, who WAS tired out
after the steady grind of the two days
meet.
While leading the other two riders
on the first lap of the fourth mile,
Suggs was seen to suddenly slip be-
hind the other two and lose quarter
Of a lap in the stretch across the field
from the grand stand. 1t was evident
that something had gone wrong as he
could be seen frantically pushing
with his left hand against something
about the central mechanism of his
machine.
Chenoweth and Parquette, riding
close together, We're at the three-quar-
ter mark and rounding. into the
home stretch by this time. Suggs
was then seen to shoot ahead and go
after them. BY the time they passed
before the judges stand he had made
up all but $50 yards. Throughout the
next lap he gained continually and
Just in front of the grand stand he
caught them and passed ChenowetL.
the leader. as they opened into the
ninth lap.
WAS cHEERED WILDLY.
He was riding close to the inside
fence, in his familiar place again, and
the crowd in the grand stand cheered
him wildly.
Lap after lap, as the trio rode out
fhe close and exciting race. Suggs was
seen to jam down hard with his left
hand at whatever 1t was he was hold
ing.
And nearly every time he would be
seen doing 1t, it was noticed that his
machine increased its lead by a few
feet or made up some slight distance
between himself and the other riders.
He seems TO be doing something
TO that machine all the time" re-
marked j. C. Watson, one of the
JUDGES.
Yes" replied George T. Morgan,
another of the judges. and 1t seems
to be doing good. whatever it u.s."
But it was Ave minutes later, when
suggs came In to raise his hat before
the applauding crowd. that It was
learned that his gasoline feed pipe
had broken and that his jamming
downward with the left hand had been
his successful efforts to keep the end
together and the gasoline flowing.
TRACK WAS SLOW.
The track was slow yesterday and
II was freely stated that Suggs would
probably have clipped even more from
Overtons time on the 10-mile had it
been faster.
What the other races lacked in time.
however, was made up by the close-
ness of the races, ali except one OF
which developed such uncertainty
that there was doubt as to the winner
until the end of the final lap.
The other events were a five mile
for single cylinder, four horse power
machines. the same as ridden in the
10-mile; two mile race for similar
machines carrying side car with pas
senger; two-miie for five horse power
machines and a three mile handicap,
standing start
There was only one accident. Mil