Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-12
KING APPLAUDS
HUDSON DRIVER
sSpanish Rulers Sporting
Blood Quickened by
i. aCarreras' Daring
RACED IN TOP OF WORLD
Super.Six S,%ck Car Is First
Up Tortuol% Mountain
Cour,No
RACED Nm TOP OF WORLD
tBy Special Gable to the, evening

(By Special Gable to the, evening
Public Ledger) =. u-o,
Barceions, Spain. March t2V~ III We, wa
In the gray OF the dawn. Beside n.y.
wayside shrine, a remnant of the ~ 'uu.
ages, stood an aged priest in full 81 81
nsentss q crucifx uplifted In his ham 70
~ the dusty road before him, tH
8fime- covered men sat with bowed head
IN low-hung, powerful. racing car.
The priests lips moved In silent
Messing as he stepped close TO the car
to allow each of the occupants to kiss
the orucinx. Then he moved back and,
lth q sullen roar, the great engine
|Awoke. There was a clash Of gears. and
|3he car vanished in a whirl of dust, its
Exhaust echoing from the mountainsde
Like the thunder of a battery of heavy
3Etillery.
= Hardly had the din subsided when
69other car rolled up out Of tho mist,
|1paused, and the ceremony was repeated
ITFelve times this happened. And as the
|1aet car disappeared UP the tortuous road
I1vhy, II left the priest surrounded by u
Little group of peasants, their brilliant
t.h1ed headdresses offer ng q strange
ontrast to the sombreness of tho scene
flirting with Death
Z Tor Il was tho very heart Of medieval
|7DDain, the sunny land OF the Crusades
{8std the grandees, and these representa-
7ives Of a bygone age were paying a tri-
.1ppte at the feet of supreme speed and
Endurance as exemplified In the finest
.orsations of the foremost automobile
Engineers Of two continents.
= The great Partridge Mountain race,
.Yhb premier event of the year In all
1Dpanish motordom, was being run. With
{Yhb sun not yet In sight twelve great
|0peed creations were hurling themselves
|Ilong the treacherous, winding road,
01rough a dangerous mist, toward
Upains' "top-of-the world"-the cloud
3apped peak of Partridge Mountain.
= Breathlessly the Little group OF men
IND women at the foot of the shrine
waited, peering intently upward TO
Ahere the rising sun wae painting the
1Dp of the mountain a dusky. blood-red.
- man at a roadside telephone turned !:
Hose Is out" he said. Car went over
Nh a turn. Mechanic an killed" There
las a sob in his voice, for Jose, who
Urove a high h-powered Italian car. was
Popular favorite with the villagers.
King Wires Congratulations
- Silently the seconds passed. and, be-
Gpre the contest was half finished, only
I'VE cars were left, the others being
= rewn in spl ntered heaps OF wreck
Hye along the treacherous road. IT was
sadde ned little group at tho shrine
which waited the final result which
0lme from the watcher at tho tele-
Vllone after the time OF the contestants
Had been computed:
= Luis Carreras, in Hudson Super-Six
Tins" he shouted, and ripple oi
Aeers greeted the sun, visible for the
LIST time through the mists.
= In w nning with a stock car, the only
mango In it having been tho use OF
s.cial body, Carreras had broken all
records for the course by thirteen kilo'
letters. Carreras reached the top OF the
Slountain in thity-five and three-httn
6inutes at an average speed of III kilo-
&leters an hour
I'm recognition OF the feat King Al
Snso had his chief secretary send Ger
earas a letter, VIII CHI said:
S"I have had the honor to convey to his
majesty the news OF your victory and he
n specially charged me to convey te
S6u his congratulations on having won
b race with a Hudson Super-Slx.'