El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-06
MANY WRECKS MARK FAST RACE
BETWEEN THE COAST. AND PHOENIX
DIN Davis Driver of the LocomObile, Is Modest Win
ner-WOman Aids the Victor by Helping Push
His Car Out Of the Sand = Contestants
Stop to Assist Wrecked Drivers
CBx Ernest pougIas.n

~ HOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 6.-Never die
Phoenix see 4 more diIapidatet
4 collection Of automobile drivers
and mechanieians than she viewed fol-
lowing the finish of the sixth annual
road race from Los Angeles to Arizona
capital And never was there a more
modest winner than Olin Davis, the thin
aesthetic looking young man who COW
cred the course OF 574 miles in the re-
markable time OF IS hours and so min
utes
Il had good luck and I was careful, /"
Davis explained Il knew that my car
was a good one and I knew that if I
was careful to take no unnecessary
chances I would finish in good time.
Few of the others had as good luck as
1 had and many Of them took unneces-
sary chances"
How the Cars Finished.
Here are the cars that finished:
time, 1850.
Marmon, No. II, sos; time. Pip.
Buick, No. p, 4;1S; 22:O1
Simplex, No. %. Sac; 22:4S
Mercer, No. 25, 5:11; 23:28.
Mitchell, No. %, 5:36: 2A:03
Buick, No. 10, 5:33; 24:14.
The LOcOmObile, AIaFmOn. Buick, Sim
pick, Mercer and Mitchell win the
money in the order named. The Buick
that took third money was driven by
from Los Angeles. His brother, Fred,
was with him as mechanician.
Woman Helps Push Car.
Tire trouble is absolutely the only
thing that delayed the LOcomObile after
it left the Yuma control Two tires
were changed Tuesday and one Monday.
In the Mammoth wash, west of Yuma,
the LocomObile was delayed for some
time by a big car, the driver of which
refused to get out Of the road. Davis
sWerVed the Loco into the sand to pre-
vent q collision and had trouble in get
ting it back on the road. He was as
sisted by man and a woman in a
small car, who gave him their coats to
put under his front tires in order to
give them something to bite on. The
coats We're chewed to pieces. Even the
woman helped push the LOcomobile
back to the road.
About six miles out of Yuma, the
Locomobile threw a tire. There Charley
Soules passed the winners in his Cadil-
lac, No /. The Loco passed Soules near
Dome, just a Few miles farther OH.
Soules was then having trouble and
soon after his Cadillac broke squareIy
in two.
The Loco threw another tire near
Liberty, about 80 miles out of Phoenix.
Clarence Watts, DaTis's mechanician,
Is also tall, thin young man, Just as
modest as the driver and just as averse
to talking. He relieved Davis at the
Phoenix Driver in Race.
Guy Ball who drove the Marmon and
took second place, is a Phoenix boy.
His mechanician is another youth
named Charles Muth. Their trouble
was all with tires. It is possible that
the MarmOn would not have finished
within the money had it not been for
Charley Soules, who gave them a tire
at Palomas. They had just used their
last tire and were facing the prospect
OF travelling on the rim.
High centeFs bothered the Nikrent
boys in the Buick. No less than eight
times they had to get out and dig
away the center from beneath their
front axle. Their Buick is a little go"
and has very low clearance Both the
LOcomObile and BTarmOn, which beat
the Buick, are powerful cars about
twice as heavy.
Simplex Turns SOmersauIt
Jack Rice, driving the Simplex, No.
%, had the most serious accident that
occurred on the Arizona side of the
Colorado. Just west of Dome he turned
a sharp curve and his car HURLED over
a tree lighting with its four wheels In
the air. Rice was thrown one way and
his mechanician, Barney Jarr:s, anoth-
er. Jarris's right hip was broken and
Rice has one leg badly Wrenched.
Ford Crew Aids Rice.
The Ford, No. 26, manned by Earl