El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09

"OR several days this week, Grip
pied racing cars viii be limping
a into FL Paso, returning from the
Ell Paso-Phoenix race.
Those that went through and those
that did not will be arriving every
day. The first car should come in sun
day. when c. P. Henry and Roy Hager-
man VIII arrive in their Cadillac
with a couple Of badly SCARED faces
as a result of an accident near Dem
ing, when the car Skidded and they
went into barbed wire fence.
Johnny Johnson will also arrive
Sunday evening N the Bearcat Stutz
If he has no misfortune The car
reached Phoenix with a broken frame,
but this was repaired and A. E Ryan,
the owner, paid a S61 garage and re-
Pair bill and sent it on its way Satur-
day morning.
Eddie Steffes, the driver of Nick De-
peder's Mercer, should come limping in
some time early in the week. He
never got further than Huachuca sid
ing, when he broke the frame in two
and had to go back to Tombstone and
have the car repaired
Bringing n New Car.
Jed Newkirk and Ray Harfeu viii
arrive early in the week with the
Simplex that won the first money in
the Ell Paso race They viii also bring
IN a new $4,000 Simplex which Mr. New
kirk bought in Phoenix for his en-
ployer, D. P. Gillies. Of Chihuahua.
temporary resident of FL Paso.
w j. Rand will get in some time
during the week with his Simplex
50, which he bought from J. c. Ad
ans last week while in Phoenix The
car makes so miles an hour and has
Travelled to Chicago and Seattle and its
metal has been tried Mr.. Rand viii
be accompanied by his son, Clarence,
TO LOrdsburg. where Clarence VIII pick
up the Chalmers 40" which Mr.. Rand
entered in the race and which was
wrecked by Billy AdOlph. Dir. Rand
ordered It repaired by wire the same
day 1t was wrecked.
Rand a Real Sport.
"A genuine sport is the name the
FL Pasoans have all given Rand for
his conduct after his car was wrecked.
He Immediately took a man out from
FL PasO to bring Adolph to this city
and sent a wire back from Lordsburg
TO Dr. Herbert Stevenson to meet
AdOlph and see that he got the best
Of care. Then, after this had been
attended to, he ordered the car re-
paired and, as he settled down in the
observation car, he said: The only
thing I regret is that Billy lost the
race He wanted to win so badly. and
now he is laid up in the hospital
There was never thought apparently
of Rand or the wrecked car; it was all
of the disappointed, injured driver.
New Wheels for Buick.
Johnny Hutchings will get in Tues
day or Wednesday with the Stockard
& Church Buick He has to stay in
Phoenix until he can get two new
wheels. These will be taken out to
the car near Florence, where he had
to abandon the car, and repairs Will
be made. After breaking his rear axle
between Empire ranch and Tucson,
Mr. Hutchings made repairs and drove
to within 60 miles Of the goal, when
the car skidded into a Sandbank and
tore the two front wheels off. Then
he had to give it up. The rear axle
was broken in a peculiar manner. Mr.
applied the brake and II
stuck so tight that it locked the
wheels. The powerful engine kept
turning and the result was that the
axle was torn out New ones were
carried for just such an emergency and
a replacement was made at once, and
there was still a chance for the car
TO have won had it not been for the !
skid in the sandbank.
The Cadillac Accident.
This was only one Of the peculiar /
things that happened in the race that /
show that fate is the strangest thing /
n the world. E. r. P5rtle's Cadillac !
was leading all of them when a lit |
tie accident put it out of the money.
See this? It cost me over $1,000 !
Mr. Pirtle is telling his friends as he ,
exhibits little brass draincOck from 4
The bottom OF his radiator. In running i
somewhere between Empire and Tue 4
son, the driver, P. s Durack. remem-