Arizona republican., 1913-11-07

and speed. He had the race sewed up all the way The chance of tire trouble is small for this light little car and it's clever driver, and that chance was the only one that could possibly have interfered with Teddy's walking away with the $500 and added prizes After a close start, Teddy pulled out of the press and took the pole. He had no trouble in eating the other four cars to the turn. Magone, with the Stutz, clung to the Flats tail board for the first ten miles and all Ted would do was to keep a short lead. In the fortieth lap, Tetzlaff Tapped the Mercer driven by Nikrent, and then with the Stutz two hundred yards in the rear, the race continued be- tween Tetzlaff and former winner of The Republican cup race from Los Angeles
 Tn order to retain his lead, Tetz- laff crew away time and again on the back stretch, leaving the Mercer thou gh it had been chained down. dozen times the stands were thrill e6 by close combats between the fol- lGwers. Though the leader was cer- tain, no one could say who would finish second until the last lap, for the Stutz was seesawing between a hundred yards and a quarter of a mile behind the Fiat and Mercer. Had the left front tire of Magone's car shared the fate of Barney's right one, there would have been another name decorating the check for $500 that rewarded the second man. Realizing the possibility of the Stutz' tire going down, Nikrent hung like grim death to Tetzlaffs rear and only lost the race for second money because he had been slow to get started.
 Verbecks machine early showed it's poor condition. Parts that would have made it much faster contend CT failed to arrive and Frank enter ed the contest with the avowed in tention of dropping out in case the car showed a tendency to pound. In the twenty-sixth lap Verbeck turned into the half mile track and prepar- ed himself to be lowed to town.
 Oldfield began his grind with a provokingly slow pace but increased it gradually. Many thought he was staliing, but this is not true. He developed four serious troubles, as 1t was, and had he tried to move up earlier in the race his luck would have been much worse. One blow out right on the stretch startled the crowd with a noise like a cannon shot. The green and brass RenauIt skidded dangerously but recovered it. self on the first turn and succeeded in making the lap safely.
 Barhey's Stunt
 If Oldfield failed to show much with his ancient Renault-relic of a French nobility long wasted away he demolished the record of his own making when he drove the freak front drive Christie the mile in the amazing time of forty-e eight seconds After having broken his own record of fifty seconds, set last year with the same machine, Oldfield went after the worlds mark of 46 2-5 seconds his own making on the Bakersfield track. He failed to make the dis tance, though there was an offer of one hundred dollars for the stunt. Those who saw the Christie burn the wind around the same track last year were amazed by the new miracles of speed the freak showed yesterday With every cylinder going full blast the low red beast ate up the stretches and skidded around the corners in showers of dust and dense white oil smoke. Twice did it thunder around | the track and then went back to the half mile track to be surrounded 1 by admiring throngs while the other less sensational races were piled off Not All HeadIiners
 Not all the credit for yesterdays most successful track meet must go l to the professionals. Bill Carlson and l Ben Buxton, amateur drivers in the | Los Angeles to Phoenix race, and each an added starter in the two fif-