The Washington times., 1912-07-08
.RA|MEYS INJURIES
IN Fl. WAYNE RACE
ARE NOT SERIOUS
Rib Was Fractured When
His Car Hurtled Through
Track Fence.
By HARRY wAkD.

Washington friends OF Johnny
! Raimey, the automobile racing driv-
ers, today were advised the injuries
he sustained yesterday while driving
In three-mile race at Fort Wayne,
| Ind, were not serious. Raimey was
closely following Kile and Bob Bur-
man, the dust from whose cars blind
! ed him to such an extent he was
forced through the fence at the east
end of the track. He sustained q
J fractured rib and several cuts and
bruises.
| Raimey was one of the stars at the
recent two-day race meet at Laurel
and his clever handling Of the Ohio
"9s" racing machine won him many
admirers.
Burman kept Up his good work yes
terday by, successfully defending the
Remy brassard which he won at Lau-
rel and which carries with It a salary
of SIS a week as long as he holds 1t.
Eurman also lowered the Fort Wayne
mile record Of Sc seconds made by
Barney Oldfield in 1910. to SO la Sec
onds.
President John N. Willys. Of the Will
lys-overland Company, Toledo, Ohio,
made It possible for Toledo to be the
bowling congress.
President WHY'S has consented to be-
come the head of a stock company
which will be formed to finance the af.
fair. After two visits by Secretary
Langtry. Of the bowling congress &c
Toledo to look over the site for the
a. III
that was needed to hold the event wat
sufficient capital and a suitable mar
at the helm. 1t was then decided thai
the head of the Overland interests was
the best man IN Toledo to act as presi.
dent, and pressure was brought to beaI
to get Mr.. WHY'S consent, which wal
secured this week.
Mr.. WHY'S has always been interested
In bowling. and is no mean roller him
self. Among his many gifts to his en-
ployes are three bowling alleys. which
were built last winter in the new 400 BY
800 foot factory addition. The Overland
bowling team won the Toledo city cham
pionship this year, and, because OF theil
remarkable showing Mr.. WHY'S sent hi:
team to the national championships A
Chicago last March
With Mr.. Willys at the helm the mex
bowling tournament at Toledo Is an as
sured success, say those prominent II
bowling affairs.
Automobiles follow good roads al
truly as trade follows the flag" de-
clares v. A. Longaker. chairman ant
general manager of the American
Motors Company. Furthermore, II tn,
per capita ratio of automobiles is any
touchstone whereby the prosperity O.
a State is gauged. California is oozint
gold from the pores. The opening
statement Is brought out by the fac
that southern California. which has IA
better roads than northern, also Il
leading in the number of licenses beinl
taken out from the secretary of state'
office.
For each inhabitant of California
there is three-hundredths of an auto
mobile. That is better translated int,
this: There Is one automobile licens
number to every thirty Inhabitants
without carrying It into the decimals.
'On June Is the automobile licens
department of the secretary of state
} office issued license No. 1865 Tn
POPULATION Of the State in 1910 wa
New York State, with a populatio,
of 9,113.279 in 1910, recently reporte,
reaching the 5000 mark for automo
biles. So you see the Empire State ha
nothing on The Golden State.
Placing the average cost of an auto
mobile at 200 those 1855 California
, licenses would mean an expenditure o
$90,S10,O00. These statistics do not In
I clude motorcycles, ever increasing mum
bers of which are being sold to thos
, who cannot afford four-wheeler."