The Washington herald., 1914-05-31

and turned up his 1so-horsepower Jay
Eye-See at this point His machine was
built for him when he was tearing up
the speedways as worlds champion. ana
II was not made for circular mile tracks
To that was due the fact that he nnfshed
his special mile In Los - The car Va
travelling at tremendous speed IN the
stretches, but would not take the turns
at record speed.
Captured Pursuit Race.
Ramey's Comet" easily captured the
Australian pursuit race. one ofsthe freak
events Of the afternoon. In this race. the
the track and raced until the winning
car overlook the other. Horey's Bullet"
was the other contender.
Hearne continued his winning streak In
the three-mile novelty race. in which.
after two miles there was wheel
change and a final lap. Driving this
time Case, Hearne finished far In front
of Lou Heinemann. driving his 12o-horse-
power Special
The change Of wheel was made In
IS 3-5 seconds Hearne was never troubled
by Heinemann. whose mechanicans put
him even farther behind when they took
four seconds more to change q wheel
than did the attendants of the former
champion's car.
Hearne drove Q wonderful race In the
five mile free-for-all, the feature event
Of the day. His Case refused to take
the spark until the last starter was
around the first turn.
Hearne broke away with q roar, and
overhauled Rainy in his Comet" before
they reached the stretch on the first
lap. In front Of the stand, he went past
Heinemann's Scat" like the Scat was
anchored, and Dorward's big 12o-horse-
power car was also passed during the
fourth mile.
Like Yellow Blur.
Horey's Bullet" was leading by half
a lap when It tore by the stand on the
last lap, but Hearne. just entering
the stretch at the other end of the
field, was a yellow blur against the
horizon. In the fifth lap he took the
q meteor. sprinkling the crowd with
dust and was OF like streak after
Horey. who was nearing the three
quarter pole.
In the back-stretch, Hearne. driving
with mastery Skill gave his great
racer its head and through the clouds
OF dust at the three quarter turn he
passed Horey and broke into the
stretch leading. Horey also turned on
streaking Hearne. but the latter
crossed the tape fifty yards ahead.
Horey thundered across q moment
later with second honors, few sec
onds behind Hearne's timeA Of min |
utes 80 seconds for the i've miles. |
Scat" closed UP on Dow |
ards car and was given the third po- |
sition.
The three-mile free-for- all handicap was |
the last and big race of the day. There |
were FIVE starters. all Of whom had start |
ed in other events OF the afternoon.
Hearne. from scratch, rode along COM |
for a lap and started an elimina-
ton contest. which. from his standpoint. |
was successful in every particular. Frank |
Horey, in his Bullet" was in the lead |
with another Of the field trailing Hearne |
waited for the back stretch of the third |
lap, and then let out He passed the |
straggier as though the rest were stand |
ing still. Then. on the home turn. he
passed Horey and took the inside. where
he finished in 3:2e. Horey was second.
Frank Stewards repeated protests
against his elimination in the Washing
ton Cup preliminaries caused the Judges l
% allow an added race between the elimi-
lated contestants in this event Earl
French. who never got home at all in the
droee his little Chevrolet 4
With care and speed. finishing way ahead
II Stewart, who managed to annex the
-unner-up position. while ]. E. Crowder.
n an EMF" refused to use any
,peed in his driving at all. /
The Summaries.
Event No. Motorcycles. three-mile
novice, stock machines 20 20 en- in g |