The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-11
THE TIEsDIsPAcH: RICHMOND VA SUNDAY JANUARY 1911
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Featured IN Lee Humiston's dash Of
100 miles I'm 1:os:ol 4-5 at the Playa
del Rey board track near Los Angeles.
1913 will go down as notable year
in motorcycling history.
Not only OH the tracks, but III road
events, endurance contests through the
desert, Northumberland, in fact.s in
every conceivable sort OF test-thc
motorcycle proved it's mettle. And In
no department of the sport were the
tests of the year more severe than In
long distance touring, which. I'm 1919
made great advances. due to the pres
ent reliability of tho two-wheeler.
ltum!stohs big squirt at Los Angeles
lowered the professional records from
one To twelve and from twenty-six to
100 miles. lie also set Il new hour
record. going eighty-eight miles and
800 yards In sixty minutes
Transcontnental touring. seemingly,
motorcyclists during 1913. One Of the
hrst transcontinentalt tours of the year
was made by Harry r. Patterson. who
rode his single-trackcr from Pitts
burEh Ia Whittier. Cal. covering 5000
miles in thirtyive riding days. lie
made an average OF l25 miles day, his
highest days run being go miles.
Starting early in May, Leon W.
Whiiehurst. Of Plant City. Fla, made
n five months motorcycle trip to San
FRANCISCO. 10y way Of Portland Me
MI; Whitehurst covered In all about
$4,000 miles. He carried a camping
OUTFIT with him. prepared his meals by
the roadside and sleeping under a tent
at night.
II. A. Jacobs ana H. G. sprout this
summer rode their motorcycles from
E@storla, -, to Los angeles. They
Chicago for, the Elgin road race. July
4. They then proceeded to Denver
where, they attended the L. \. NJ
h hsndsd GG irn.,, From there they
Ing through Colorado Springs. Salt
Lake City and San Francisco.
From West to East.
But not all of these ocean to ocean
tours have been from East to West.
4. l. Allen, OF San FRANCISCO. made
| lowstonc National Park. Minneapolis.
Detroit and Chicago. Returning. he
took the Southern route, covering in
Iornian 10 take 4 long motorcycle trim
is otto Blend, of san Diego. Mr.
Bhend started this summer on a tour
coo miles and extend over a period OF
two years.
And II is not only men who have
awheei. Many women have accom-
panied their husbands. either riding
tandem or on motorcycles OF their own,
l
the open. Numerous boys. whose feet
! would scarcely reach the pedals OF
the machine have travelled thousands
OF miles on motorcycles. And even
some girls. unaccompanied by male es-
corts. have made long Journeys OH the
| two wheeler.
| bih9d in the cross continental motor
! cycle trip made by Mr.. and Mrs T. L.
Taylor, OF Portland, Me. Air. Taylor
; cctved word of his assignment TO duty
~ = recruiting station at Bremerton
WASH, He was allowed thirty days
AFTER his appointment before reporting
for duty, and this time Taylor had
| free 10 spend on his honeymoon He
: and Mrs. Taylor decided to make their
honeymoon trip motorcycle trip to
started on the 5,ooo-mile jaunt.
\ Side-Cnr Record.
seven thousand four hundred miles
Is the motorcycle record made by Mr..
ana Mrs. Leroy Snodgrass who rode
q motorcycle from Los Angeles, Cal.
TO New York city Mrs Snodgrass rode
IN e Sidecar attached To her husbands
motorcycle. They carried their own
camping outfit. living independent OF
hotels and restaurants and arrived in
tion.
The famous Abcrnathy Kids age
iine and twelve made Z 1000 mile
| 10 New York city. They covered the
distance in nineteen days The boys
{ enjoyed the riue so thoroughly that
{ they arc planning To take their motor
cycles with them on a tour of Europe.
TWO youthful tourists crossed the con-
tincnt from San Francisco TO New York:
i Master Willie Wright, age ten years
/ and Frank Ward age seventeen
I Though these boys started from the
same point. bound for the same desti-
/ nation, one Travelled by the northern
! route, the other by the southern, and
/ only happened to meet ut Springfield
| Mass, after their journey was practi-
| cally completed.
Woman Rides 5000 Miles.
I Travelling alone. Miss 10y" Woodman
this summer made a 5.O00-mile motor
/ cycle trip from New York to New Mex
! leo. She was not trying to make any
7 trips wherever she desired along the
route.
Two Brazil Ind. young women, Miss
Myra Hin, daughter OF former State
Treasurer Major K. S. Hin. and Miss
California. They We're perhaps the
I first women 10 undertake such an cx-
tensive riding tandem.
Next in popularity TO the cross
country motorcycle jaunt has been the
cnccd in motorcycling. who were con
tcmplating a visit TO Europe. decided
on the two wheeler as the best means
OF really sightseeing, and have return
ed To this country confirmed motor
cyclist. Others have elected to use
because they have become so accus-
toned TO riding the two wheeler that
they would he lost without it
one OF tie most extensive trips made
that OF Carl $. chimney. Of New York.
who spent nine months sightseeing OH
the continent
lie visited England. Ireland, Scot