Arizona republican., 1915-05-31
SE|zES CUP BY DOING
 MILE. IN 49-2
Little Chicogoan on Ported Excelsior Clips Fastest Mile on Local Track - All Entrants Qualify for the Race Today

some speed! Good night Guess who's going to win the 200 mile race tomorrow"
 So shouted two or three hrrdred lusty mote fans who perched in the fair grounds grand stand yesterday afternoon and watched Bobg Perry, aatride a ported Excelsior, Whiz around the mile track in exactly 49 2-5 seconds and win the silver cup offered br the local lodge of Moose for the best time made in the elim- ination trials.
 Perry's EX. is the fastest thing that is entered in the bIg race that is to be started promptly at o'clock this afternoon. It is possible that Marty Graves may be able to tease his eight-vaIve Indian till it takes the bit in its teeth and runs just as fast as that barking, coughing, oil-splt- ting EX. Possible, but not probable.
 The mere tact that Perry turned the mile Ut a speed of something like 75 miles an hour does not mean that he is going to win the race. But any man of Perry's nerve sand ability on top of a boat that can do a mile under 50 seconds can be counted on as likely contender It may not even he rash to predict that I'errys showing in the elimination trials will cause him 10 be a favor te at the start but there are tires and busted" valves and broken chains and other things that have been known to put the speediest two wheelrs out of the running in long grind.
 Perry did that mile m 1 3-5 sec ends less time than anyone else. His team mate, Frank Montgomery or another factory EX., went around in 51. That was exactly the time made by Graves Indian. Joe WOlters' liar ley was only a fifth of a second slower. and Harry Crandalrs Harley was another fifth slower than the Wnlters bike.
 Little Joe OCo1neli, the star of the local track riders. was q muchly disappointed man yesterday His h. dian simply would not hit right for h.nii He was the only entrart who required two chances to qualify The first time that he raised his hand as q signal for the tin3elleepers to get his time. he lost ;I pushroG on the back stretch. V hen he got his sec Oad trial. he circled the track in 52 flat
 Bob Perry had previously taken Joe to one side and begged him fer Vently no qualify the stock E,X. that Perry had brought with him, but for which no rider had been found Joe was agreeable Though he had never touched that F.X. before, Joe made the mile in just four-fifths of a second less time than he had used up with his red mount.
 Graves had trouble with his In dian. too. The first time he started around he had one cylinder as far as the first turn ana then he had none. Frank Behr gave him a pull. and Graves qualified, though he was lar from satisfied with the way the redskin was snOrting.
 The Hareys had no trouble, and t is suspected that neither Wolters nor Crardall did their best. Bill Gerig did his darndest, though. and inc managed to make the trip, on the old city Indian, in B 2-5. BoidO and his Indian used 52 3-5 seconds, but there might have been just q little reserve speed in that engine.
 Nobody expected the Morkels to win the cup. hut thev were quite fast enough to qualify. Ellie Will sons time was 54 2-5. and Frank Sellner's 55 2-5. Sellner did not deny that he could have clipped second or two from that mark.
 Every single one of those eleven machines tha' were qualified yes terday has a good chance to be n the money. There isn't a slow tub in the bunch, and just a little luck may put the least speedy one in first place at the end of the 200-miler this afternoon.