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driving by getting out an injunction.
James Coffroth, the sporting promoter,
hired a lawyer for Barney who was
waiting at the track on the day
scheduled for the races to hear how
the argument on the injunction came
out 1t was decided in favor of Old
field ana Cofroth wired him: Justice
has triumphed." Oldheld wired back:
Get another lawyer and appeal the
case"
Pickens has an idea for a twenty
four sheet poster on which he Will dis
play the heads of Jesse and Frank
James. the Biddle brothers, Cole
Younger and perhaps a dozen other
outlaws as a decorative border, In
the center he viii have THE Twen-
tieth Century Outlaws. The Great
est Of Them An meaning, of course,
oldheld and Tetzlan
Old Mercedes To Race.
A remarkable car Is TO be entered in
the 1913 Grand Prix race In France,
which Will be run over q 10 2-miie
triangular circuit at Amiens, half way
between Paris and Calais. This Is the
sixty horse power Mercedes with
which Janata4y won the 1903 Gordon
Bennett race. The present owner,
Gordon Watney, an Engiishman, dis
covered IL two years ago in Il dilapl-
dated condition in a garage in London.
After buying the machine and find
ing the parts in good enough repair
he altered the brake of the steering
post and changed the carbureter, as
well as making the necessary changes
in timing Of the valves, The car has
been racing the past two seasons at
Brooklands and has shown AS good
speed as 50 Ia miles an hour--from
standing start The motor size rs
lao by $50 millimeters, or 5.46 inches
by 5.s5 inches bore and stroke.
The performance of Il racing car ten
years old is bound to be of interest IL
Is not often that one is going SO many
years afterward and showing such
speed. If this car should win IL would
be great triumph for the Mercedes
makers. who have not had Grand
PIX winner since Iautenschlager in
1908 The Germans have not done
much competing in such races Of Tote.
Woman IL Auto Expert.
A few days ago, when the speed
ordinance recently passed by the New
York city board of aldermen was
awaiting Mayor Gaynor's signature,
Mrs. Joan Newton Cuneo, Of Scars
dale, N. Y, who Is unquestionably the
most expert woman motorist who has
ever been In the public eye, made
series of brake tests under the super
vision of the Automobile Dealers as
ISOLATION, Inc These tests were for
the purpose of demonstrating that the
proposed ordinance of limiting speed
of automobiles in the city TO eight
miles an hour was absurd Mrs Cuneo
demonstrated that a car running at
fifteen miles an hour could stop with
in practically it's own length, provided
the brakes were adjusted properly,
and she used a heavy fifty horsepower
touring car for the demonstration in
order to make the test an extreme one.
/ Following the trials. Mrs Cuneo
wrote letter TO Mayor Gaynor CALL
ing his attention to the fact that the
proposed ordinance would be unfair
to motorists. and Offering also to
demonstrate to him personally for his
own satisfaction if he so desired The
mayor replied to her communication
with "A courteous letter. in which he
stated that what she said was very
/ interesting.
/ However, his time was so taken up
with other matters, as is well known.