The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-01-02

broke our gasoline line, The engine
has not been touched since we left
Davenport, except once when we pull
ed a piece of twine from the carbure-
Ito y fSA Ga
There was only one accident and
that was when woman drove horse
land buggy out into the road near
Monroe, despite our signals to her to
stay on the cross road, and then tried
to get out of the way. She got ex.
cited and the horse overturned the
buggy and ran away. Neither of the
two occupants OF the buggy were
hurt. We stopped and Macklin ran
lback. Just then farmer came out
and urged us to keep on and not lose
any time, promising TO take care Of
the two women.
Il nearly lost the race twice after
had it won. When we went through
Atlantic a man handed my mechan.
ician a message tied TO barrel hoop.
Macklin read it to me and ] under.
stood him to say that we were an
hour ahead of Peterson. | resolved
not to take any chances of smashing
up my car and began to take things
easy, thinking that | had the race
won. When | got to Oakland ] stop
ped to get drink of water A man
came rushing out and told us to keep
going, that we were only fifteen min
utes ahead out of Atlantic. Then |
discovered that ! had misunderstood
MaCklin and that the message had
read you are now ahead ! forgot
about the drink and beat 1t for Coun.
ell Bluffs. .... -..
I'VE nit bump before we reached
Council Bluffs and tore my gasoline
tank loose. We did not know it, but
the tank was leaking, although it was
feeding the carburetor all right at the
same time When we drove up to
the Grand hotel the engine stopped.
There was not teaspoonful of gaso-
line left. There might have been a
different story to tell IL the gasoline
supply had given out in the country
somewhere. ~. .H.....
1--WE had no tire trouble at all. The
air that we put in our tires at Daven-
port is still in them, although We
changed one tire for the sake of safe
ty when We struck stone and bent
a rim"
Mr.. Peterson declares he drove the
best race he knew and announced
that he will try next summer to make
the same run in eight hours. o.
Il did my best and that Is all any
one could do" said Mr.. Peterson. at
was close race and ! am ready to
try 1t again any time. expect to
make the same run in eight hours
next summer"
Made Fast Time.
McClure's time east of Des Moines
was six hours and eighteen minutes
and his actual running time was five
hours and twenty minutes for the dis
lance of 1876 miles. This was an ac-
tual running time average of 1865
miles per hour Peterson's actual
running time for the 1875 miles east
of Des Moines was five hours and ten
minutes, an average of 1862 miles per
hon.:
West of Des Moines, McClure's ac-
tllal running time was three hours
and forty minutes for the distance OF
142 miles, an. average of 1873 miles
per hour Peterson's actual running
time for the 1853 miles west of Des
Moines was four hours and forty-one
minutes, an average of "a miles an
hOu' | v -H~.
On the entire trip Mcclure made an
average of 37.4 miles an hour, actual
time. Peterson made an aV.
erage Of 1916 miles an hour. actual
time. The fignres show Nc
Clure maintained a much sitter pace
They also show that
Mcclure was delayed longer by mis-
haps. stopping one hour and forty-two
on the road. Peterson was
delayed one hour and twenty-seVen
by mishaps.
Expect to Beat Peterson.
Iowa City, Dec. .30.--In an effort to
beat the time of Pete Peterson from
here TO Council Bluffs over the River
Lo-River road, A. A. Welt and DIR.
Clarenct Van Epps left here at 9:2O
this morning. Welt believes he can
beat Peterson and expects TO reach
Council Bluffs early today.