El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-09

, bers that a rock flew up and struck thu
front Of the car, but he paid put little
attention to 1t. When he reached the
Tucson control, he jumped out, poured
a bucket Of water into the radiator
and went on Out towards Florence,
the car gave two coughs and stopped.
He got out and found it frozen" up;
the engine would not bulge He ex-
amined the radiator and there was not
a drop OF water. The engine had got
so hot that the pistOns had expanded
and refused To work
The Cause OF the Stop.
Further examination showed the
drain cock broken off It was found
in the dust pan under the car. The
rock that struck the front Of the car
had done il and the water had all
leaked out The water he put in at
Tucson had run out soon after being
put in, Of course. hence the car was
without cooling system except the air
that struck the engine as the machine
raced along the road Mr. Duraek
was out on the desert with no water
and hot car, but racing drivers
must be geniuses, so he found
mesquite bush, made a plug from
limb, drove 1t into the bottom of the
radiator where the drain cock mad
been, poured in what lubricating oil
he had on hand and, as soon as the
car had cooled sufficiently to be
started, resumed the race, using lubri-
eating oil instead Of water to cool the
engine for the rest of the distance,
some rs miles. He had lost over an
hour however, and was not in on any
Of the money.
Sympathy for Losers.
Much sympathy has been expressed
among the Fl Paso fans for Tony
Workman, in his accident Tony. n
his Chalmers go" was making good
time. when he turned over at ROdeo
the first day out, and he had a splen-
did chance TO come into the money,
as his car was in fine shape He had
spent much time putting it into con-
dition and IS a careful driver.
Abe Aguilar, who turned over in his
Hup, and ChaS- SWitZer. who broke
a spring on his Buick 40" near Gage,
also had the sympathy of the FL PasO-
ans and many others because they had
small cars and started plucSily- Agul-
lar had been expected to ride a motor
cycle in some Of the Phoenix track
events and the FL PasOans expected
him to make good showing for Il
PasO-
The fact that Ford finished in
both the races-LOs Angeles and Fl
PasO-caused much favorable comment
for these little cars Both went
through, passing some much larger
cars that were disabled and finishing
in condition good enough TO enable
them to enter the track events q
Phoenix on Thursday
Demonstrated Little.
The race demonstrated very little
pected light cars to finish first
others had said the heavy cars would
finish first They finished about even
in the matter OF weights. although
both firsts were won by heavy cars,
the FL PasO race BY Simplex and
the Los Angeles race by a LOcOmO-
bile.
The race demonstrated that expert
enced drivers can make better time
than nOvices, however. While many OF
the FL PasO drivers were not in the
real novice class, none of them had
the experience of most of the men in
the Los Angeles race. The result was
that the Los Angeles cars finished
over rOugner road in better time
than the FL PasOans. More Los An
geles cars were broken down. however,
which may mean one OF two things,
either that the drivers forced them
more in their craze for speed or they
were torn to pieces because the road
was rOusher. Perhaps both factors
entered into the race. Speed man -acs
were driving in the Los Angeles race,
while the Ell Paso drivers were more
or, mayhap, more timid.
FL PasO Finishes More Cars.
Eleven FL Paso cars out of 19 en-
tries finished at Phoenix. while but
seven Los Angeles cars finished out
OF % starters. Barney Oldfield. the
daredevil" failed to finish first in the
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