Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-02-09
U ARRIS, in the Kuppeln automo-
bile, had taken the lead and
was racing round the course

toward the grand stand, on the
last lap, hotly followed by Morton in
abe Carrier. The immense concourse
went wild with enthusiasm. They
stood I'D and waved hats and hand
kerchiefs and yelled as Harris slowly
drew away from his pursuer. He had
crept up from ninth to first, and now
shot like projectile along the track,
the wheels, of course, invisible, the
long, dark body of the car conveying
the sense of a continuous streak. The
1wo figures in the Kuppeln looked like
tiny automatons perched inside the
body of the monster.
''You haven't anything like this in
Greece!" l yelled exultantly to DR..
Phileas Emmanuel who, at my side,
was watching the race with restrained
but obvious interest.
Not yet" he answered. "But why
should We? After all, Greece invented
this and practiced it so long that our
people have grown weary of it. When
they are ready, they will revive the
sport once more"
Greece invented automobile rae
Sng?" / exclaimed. The little doctors
rash statement almost withdrew my
attention from the speeding cars.
"Byzantium," he corrected. "Of
course we modern Greeks were not
there then, though you probably We're,
and many in this concourse, and GER
tainly Messrs. Harris and Morton"
Automobile racing!" l exclaimed,
looking at Doctor Emmanuel to discov-
er whether the excitement had tenn
porarily unhinged his brain.
Chariot racing. my dear fellow" he
answered. In the sixth century of
the Christian era
"Ah-h-h-h-h!" groaned the crowd.
Harris had diverged from the
course, and his automobile, crashing
into the fence, passed through in a
cloud of splinters, tottered upon the
edge of an embankment, leaped it,
hung for an instant upon the outer
edge, righted itself. and careered mad
ly across a strip of marshy ground, I'M
ill an immense boulder tumbled it on
its side, where it lay like some un-
earthed paleolithic monster. Harris
shot from the car and landed upon his
shoulder a dozen PAGES away. A mo-
ment later Morton passed the grand
stand and, having won the race, began
TO slow down.
For a moment the vast assemblag9
remained motionless; the next instant
1t was dissolved in a stream of shout
ing, hurrying units, pouring toward
the scene of the accident, By chance
Emmanuel and l were among those
nearest, and a minute after Harris
had fallen the doctor was at his side,
while volunteers kept back the curious
multitude.
Now, my good fellow, give me a
pocket knife" said the doctor to a
bystander, and presently he had cut
the bloody shirt from the shoulder of
the unconscious man. His deft fingers
went searching in the bruised flesh.
"a dislocated humerus, a fractured
claytcle, two ribs smashed" he said
Its lucky he landed like that. Now
somebody telephone for an ambulance,
please. Keep back, gentlemen. No,
madam, this shirt must not be cut up
AoA oOuNCulISs IL you Will 6lFt min
air he will recover consciousness
shortly"
Harris was already manifesting
signs of returning consciousness. He
stretched his limbs and his eyelids
quivered. Then he began muttering.
could not catch what he said.
The doctor seemed to hear, though,
Fnr ho with 10 11ftOocf alton.
ton; and when Harris had ceased
speaking and lay still again he jotted
down some memoranda in the little
book he always carried The timely
arrival of the ambulance and the APP
pication of restoratives aroused the
injured man once more. This time he
seemed fully conscious of his sur
r0undings
will 1 be able to drive at Savannah
next month";" he asked.
Not unless your bones have glue
in them" answered the doctor.
But I've got to drive!" cried Har-
ris, Historically. Here I've thrown
away the Nestlewood cup, and who's
1t gone to? Morton, in that rotten old
Carrier, that couldn't catch a snail on
five per cent. grade. tell you"
lie stopped short, overcome with
weakness and glared at the doctor as
though he had suffered mortal injury
at his hands. But he surrendered him
self to the ministrations of the ambu
lance men, and then, somehow, by
dint of hard pushing and lodging o
newspaper men who wanted to cross
question us, we found ourselves on tn,
road that led to the station.
We had an engagement to dine wit
Paul Tarrant, the millionaire, at hi
magnificent city home, that nigh
Later, when Mrs. Tarrant had gon
10 bed. we sat smoking our hosts in
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