Arizona republican., 1913-08-27
MOTORCYCLES.
 CLUB FORMED
Expect to Boost Game for San Diego Race As Well As for Good of Organi- zatiOn in Arizona. Will Wage War on Abuses.

At last Phoenix has a motorcycle
 club that has it's full quota ot real
 live workers and members all imbued with the idea to make a social sue
 cess of their institution. As an ear nest of their endeaVors the members of the club met last night in the In dian Room of the Donfrio Cafe. for mulated some rules and elected a committee to get up a race meet that will meet the approval of all rid CTS of The Poor Mans Automobile" The idea of the club has often been preached in Phoenix and several at tempts have been made to get one started, but inattention to small mat ters that are vital to the success of any organization, caused the associa- lions to die q slow lingering death. A few days ago several enthusiasts met together and asked each other why Phoenix had no such q thing as a motorcycle club. Right then these
 enthusiasts got busy and each saw
 thusiasim was worked up to make a start in the right direction.
 A meeting was held and some of | the most important offices were fill | ed and every attendant at the first l meeting was filled with the mission
 ary spirit so that when the second i meeting. which was held last night, i convened the members of the club | worked up enough energy to plan
 race meeting that will long be re-
 membered for its novelty.
 The committeeman. Joe OConnel, | T. W. Tompllins and Craig b. Pottfnger
 who was elected chairman hustled right out after the meeting and went l I ff,T lat tod q 1 tative program that will include the | following races. 1st there will be a potatoe race wherein the contestants will be required to carry large specimen of the Irish apple" in d very small spoon while guiding a | bucking motorbike; End, there will be the tortoise race in which the prlZe will be awarded to the man who nm ishes in the slowest time; 3rd, the 1 needle and thread race. Each rider
 will choose a girl who will sit on chair at the end of the track with
 piece of thread in her hand while the
 rider will jump on his mount and
 make his way swiftly to the lady Of l his choice while carrying very
 small needle Then the rider will re
 mount and carry the threaded needle
 to the judges for inspection; 4th the crowd will then be treated to race between several automobiles for the
 championship of Arizona.
 Other novelty races will be run off and several speed contests will be | staged. All this occurs, Secretary C. E. Wood and the Fair Commission willing, on Sunday September ', at ? D. m and will continue until the ! last race is run
 All this planning entails hard work on the part of the committee and 1 each member. last night, swore mighty oath to accomplish what had been planned Incidentally the San Diego Motorcycle Club wrote to their ] Phoenix brethern and asked the new
 club to try and raise some money toward the prizes for a motorcycle
 race from San Diego to Phoenix. The l seasiders stated that they have al- ! ready 25 entries and asked for few | from Phoenix. Last night eight members of the new club slgnlfled ttheir intention of starting in the race and will endeaVOr to show their op-
 ponents the way into Phoenix The
 club here is trying to get the san Diego club to postpone the race uhtii l fair week as it will give the local boys more time to arrange matters | satisfactorily.
 1 The Phoenix club intends to stage | several good sociability runs and will l do all in it's power to bring the plea
 sures of motorcycling to the .atten-- | ton of the public. They also made | a resolution last night to try and cd ucate few of the Phoenix riders so
 that they will not try to do any speeding on the public streets nor run with their muffler cutouts open l Ii is said the National Commission | already is on the job planning for