Arizona republican., 1914-05-18
II WAS A BIG M0T0RCYCL|NG
 DAY, FOR CLUB
Wins Pull Here, and Ex Cleans Up at Hole-in-the-Rock; Riders Spill All Way to and from Fort Mcdowell
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beSlillllHS Wltif tue I1dfley- -EScel- | sior pun at Polk grounds in the early 1 but not very dewy morn. and ending l with the last spill accomplished on 1 the road back from Fort Mcdowell, | yesterday was fine large motor i cycle day.
 The yo-heaver contest lasted an | hour and all over the Polk street | grounds The Harley won. Now, !! just in order that the Excelsior bet | tors may not feel bad about it, I'll | say that it was all my fault. l per sonally, was responsible. Because rode the Ex tandem behind Weyand 1 in an attempt to weight the wheels l down to the soil
 In the high speed pull, the Lane machine yanked so strong that it burst. a chain for Weyand. Check Then Weyand let CT in too quick and killed his engine. Check two.
 In : the first low speed pull. Wey- and, with my able assistance, hauled Harry over the line. Then with their clutches smoking and sputtering burned grease they went at it again, and both the times, the Harley pull ed the Ex across the line. A diff ference of gear with the advantage on the Harley side was discovered ! by the Inspectors, Messrs. Worcester and Crandall. But like a good sport. Weyand went ahead and tried his new boat out
 In the Hole-In- The Rock hill climb the Excelsior ridden this time by Joe O'Connell, beat the Harley. Joe rode the hill three times out of three tries. Lane made it once out of five trials. Then, who should amble along but Ellie Wilson, on old Blue. Ellie failed the first trip, but went up with colors flying on the second The colors that flew were red and blue.
 But the run. Ahi yes. the run i The run was mostly horizontal but partly up and down, chiefly down. In the roll of spills. B'Jee Bellas easily corners all the honors. With Ale
 man on the tandem, Belas tried out the sand patches. It was coming back from the Fort, before they had got to the canal. Herb Worcester, who was roasting in the middle of the wash saw the performance, and he certifies to the utter classiness of that spill Sand, smoke Bellas, ma chine. Alleman and ghosts of Hom
 eric laughter mingled on the frosty air Gee, no It wasn't really frosty
 but that's a good phrase, anyway Ben Rudderow had spill He was
 racing O'Connell in the blind turns
 of the upper road, when he, too, ap-
 preached a sand wash. His damages
 were: Item, one square foot of skin;
 item, one lamp: item, one hand
 brake item, one temper.
 Breuninger on the Arrow, also per
 formed fancy assorted fall. Harry
 Crandall is hereby nicknamed the
 Hard Luck Kid, by reason of the
 consistent performance he made with
 Old Man Trouble as his side pal.
 Why, d'you know Crandall was slid ing along the soil almost as much as
 he was riding over it. He has an
 eye for symmetry. After he fell one
 way and smashed the left pedal, he
 fell the other direction and got rid of the right one. Then he lost his carburetor. Now. q carburetor is a
 very necessary thing to the motor cycle
 There were some other stunts of ncte ruled off at the Arizona falls Doheeny, Fogle and Rudderow ro6e
 the steepest and longest part of the , canal embankment on their Merkle
 Harley and Indian, respectively. The prize loop the Pegoud was that , cf Worcester. After the power plant , it was a race home. Although on a
 small snub nozed Indian singla He.t , got the lead and was trying forty five au Tour to keep it. He 5trIcS , lie catapulted into the air until thefc 3 was a large gap between himself n and iiis machine and another one be- , tween his machine and the earth. Ht n fell twenty five feet away, right sidt Q up and still going. Nary a wobblt D disturbed the evenness of his course a Not a bolt did he loosen. But h, 0 confessed to me that he would glad = ly pay a thousand dollars-which i 3 more money than you'n me both go
 ito have movie of that dive. 6 As failure, the motorcycle da. ! was not a huge success.
 Those who made the round tril = were:
 B. S. Bellas and Alleman, Merkle ', R. S Orput, Merkle F. H. Sellnei
 Merkle; Bill Doheeny, Merkle; H. ( <: Crandall, Merkle: Joe O'Connell, Ex - celsior; Earnest Fogel, Harley; .
 Breuninger, Arrow; Ben Rudderov l1; Ind