El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-26
PACKARD WINS FIFTY-NILE
Event IN THE JUBREZ RACES
Over 5000 People Witness the Races at the Jockey Club
Track Sunday-No Serious Accidents Mar the Day
Fifty mile Race the Biggest Event and Closest
Contested, but Packard Is an Easy Winner.
UToITIs-tbe buzz wagon

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~ struck Ell Paso in a vital place
sunday There were more than
5000 people in attendance at the this
springs second automobile race, and
the crowd was a representative one
a perfect day. a flaWless series Of con-
tests and fair handling by the manage
muur made the Sunday races a COM
plele success Gwen pa mexico the
races were promoted by El PasO men,
local business men acted as judges
and other officials Of the course and
the crowd was typical III Paso one
with q sprinkling Of Juarez social and
military life in the boxes at the Juarez
race track Not an accident marred the
event
A Packard 80" won the big event Of
the day which was the so mile race
for $500 III was driven by Johnnie
Hutchins. who covered the A laps
around the mile and an eighth track
Ike veteran racing driver ana got all
the speed stuff out Of the big Packard
that was IN IL. This race was between
Billy AdOlph, driving his famous Stude-
baker, Betsy and Johnny Hutchins in
the Packard car AdOiph was the ia
Vorite as a driver, but HUtchins had the
speedlesr car, as was demonstrated on
The LralgnIaWays when he would walk
away from AdOlph and Betsy. only to be
crowded close at the turns, when
AdOlph, minus mechanician and driv-
ing ike a demon, would shave the pole
and cut in close to the .Packard's tail
light. II was an interesting race and
kept the crowd on its metal for each
Of the "A laps although ii was seen
after the first 20 laps that the Packard.
barring accident, mad the race in its
Packard Cinches II.
HUtchins finished better than a lap
ahead Of AdOlph- whom he Tapped in
the 2lth time around ACOlph made
a mad effort to Overtake him in the
final four laps and was nlpping the
Packards heels as the last but one
lap vas reeled off around the race
track Red Mcdonald, IN his red
Knox car, was expected to do wonders
in this race. but the old boat had TO
stop twice for attention The Knox
was not stripped and this added q hand
leap TO the red haired driver, who made
game tight TO get inside the money,
but finally gave up the chase and quit
Some Hard Luck.
Nick DepeQer-s HupmObile was third
in the race, finishing behind Betsy. with
driver Horace Stevens hitting the grit
as consistently at the finish as at the
1lrsL once he was forced TO drop out
because of the dirt in his eyes, but he
was right back in and finished within
the money, beating out the Ford, which
was The fourth car to stay in TO the
! -nlsn, allnouSn II u stopped a rev tunes
Tor attention The Buick "l6, which
was driven by Ray HarreI, was given
q good consistent drive and would
have given the other Two cars a race
gone wrong ard laid the car out Of the
finish. The Ford stopped once TO
Cleuee tires ana lost a couple Of laps
and went back iu Tor q hopeless race to
show what il could do
4 Good Loser.
All Billy AdOlph had to say at the
lnlSh of the race was that he couldn't
get around the Packard or he might
have gIVen 1t q better run for the
first money He was a good loser and
waved the German cOlors which he
wore in the race as he finished be-
hind the Packard By a bit more than a
lap.
Hutchins was given a grand little
ovation after he had been tagged Z
down by the flagman and he and his
nechanician, Carl Marker. came down
the stretch. Marker was on the firing
Inc all the way was as black as a
south Sea islander from the engine oil
and was covered from head to heels
with grease The tires on the two lead /
ing cars were cut through the thread
and were smoking hot and smelling Of (
burning rubber when they finished.
Motorcycle Event Leads.
The races started with mOtOrcy-
,le event, with only three showing up.
a guilar. popular driver Of the two
wheeled machines. did not enter the
race and MS machine was scratched at Z
the last minute Clark. on an Indian
went out on the back stretch near the I
finish with a broken chain, while he (