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PART 111
AMATEUR PILOT
DEFEATS BARNEY
Caleb Bragg Takes Measure of
Speed King in Two-
Mile Event
WILL RACE AGAIN TODAY
Closing Card of Meet at Motor
drome Provides Plenty
of Class
Hartley Oldfield showed himself a
big. clean-out sportsman yesterday,
when, rather than disappoint the pub
lic in seeing him a contender in a
match race with another famous
driver, took on ac his competitor that
great amateur driver, C. F. Bragg, and
his speedy Flat "88." The race was
for two miles, from a standing start.
Both cars Rot away well, and It was
■ contest worthy of the two drivers.
Nothing must detract from Bragg*S
victory in the Fiat over the "Light
ning Bens." The young man received
the first hearty public ovation of the
meet. But it was apparent that the
Hi-nz had some reserve power which
could not be utilized. At such a ter
rific pace, tire trouble Is the easiest
thing Imaginable with Oldfleld'a car.
The Fiat people made every effort to
sr( t the big "190" In shape for the race,
but It was of no use, and as George
Robertson, who was to have contended
with the Simplex, Is In the hospital, it
was up to Barney to do something. He
overlooked some of his personal inter
ests in order to give the Los Angeles
public, which has always been friendly
to him, the entertainment expected,
The deciding heats between Bragg and
Oldfield will be run off today.
A new five mile world's record was
established by the Bulck in t*u 301-450
class. "Sphinx" Nlkrent, one of the
In :<t driven on any track, won his race
from the two Murmons in a way. that
made ■ racing picture. Time for the
diitance, :(.,":>.68.
Oldfleld in the Knox annexed anoth
er world's record In the ten mile event
for hi* class of cars, covering five
miles In 5.40.81, nnd the ten miles, and
race, in 7.20.66. The Fiat 60 went bad
in the third mile, and it wns easy
riding to the second place for the
Stodilard-Dayton.
JIIARMON si s VICTORY
The sensation of the day was the
two hour race with the following start
ers: Palmer-Slngpr, Fiat 60, two Mar
mons, Dorris, Stoddard-Dayton, Corbin
and Knox. Hut four cars finished the
race, the Dorris and Corbln dropping
out early in the contest, the Palnier-
SliiK<r at the end of a half hour, and
the Knox before an hour, all of which
inn! mechanical or tire troubles so
common to the racing game. At the
end of the first half hour the standing
of cars was: Marmon (llarroun), 37
miles; Sto<!dard-Dayton (Livingston),
:di miles; Marmon (Wade), 34 miles;
the Knox and Flat with 34 miles each.
The standing at the end of an hour
was: Marmon (llarroun), 74 miles:
Flat, 70 miles; Marmon (Wade), 68
miles, and Stoddard-Dayton, 67 miles.
At the hour and a half standing was:
Marmon (Harroun), 111 miles; Fiat,
15 miles; Marmon (Wade), 103 miles;
and Btoddard-Dayton, 101 mllos. At
Hi. hour and three-quarter ears stood:
Marmon (Harroun), 130 miles; Flat,
IJI3 miles; Marmon (Wade), 121 miles;
Stodclard-Dnyton, 119 miles. The fin
ish for the two hours was: Marmon
(Harroun), 149 miles; Flat, 140 miles:
Stoilclard-Dayton, 137 miles; and Mar
mon (Wade), 134 miles. It was a phe
nomenal race and broke all records for
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AUTOMOBILES
the time on any track. Harroun never
mads a miss throughout the race, and
his time averaged seventy-four and a
half miles per hour. His first 100 miles
was made in 50.13.24.
Tho main features of this the last
day of the Motordrome meet will be
the second heat of Bragg-Oldfleld
match will be rolling start, third beat,
if necessary, to be decided by winner
of toaeup. if HrnKK wins he receive*
no money, only a trophy, doling his
most sensational participation in the
first "ino-mlles-an-hour" meet, retain-
In*" his amateur standing.
The Buick and the Cole will fif?ht a
battle for honors In the llßht car race,
the first event on program, ;ind It will
probably be the most closely contested
race yet teen on the pie pan.
A novelty race Is that scheduled for
the fourth'event, in which four Kinds
nee against one another, pitting she
drivers' ability against each other.
The bitf $1000 ' championship race
promises to be ■ most ipectacular
event. Harris Hanshue will appear
ana in for the first time since his ac
cident of last Sunday. All the drivers
are OUt to Win thi.s race and each must
show the most capable handling to
get a place. De Palma and Oldfleld,
who are both entered, will each drive
tor blood In tho last race of the meet.
The match race between Bragg and
Oldfleld, the $1000 championship, the
rivalry In the IlKht-car rare and the
novelty of a contest among four cars
of same make and power make un
doubtedly the snappiest of the entire
program of a meet at which more,
world's records have been broken than I
at all other speedway Inaugurals com
blned- program tor IOMT
The program In detail is ns follows:
First event—Ten mile stock chassis,
Class C, division 2. 161-230 cubic inches
displacement Entries: fcuick, Nick
Nlkrent. Ford, L. J. Hampton; Cole,
Hill Endlcott; Warren-Detroit, Arthur
Miller; Firestone-Columbus, O. C. Lln
thwalte. , .
Second event—Ten mile stock chassis,
Claßl C, division 4, 301.450 cubic Inches
displacement Entries:, Marmon, Ray
llarroun; Chalmers, Frank Free;
Bulck, Nick Nikrent; Marmon, Scott
Third event—Second and final heats
of match race between Barney Old
field, driving Benz, and Caleb 8.
Bragg, driving Flat. Second heat will
1,,. from rolling start; third heat if
run, to be decided by toss-up. Dis
tance, two mllea.
Fourth event-Three miles, stock
ears class A. division 2, listed at $801
--$l"00 Entries: Four Ford cars enter
ed" by the Standard Motor Car com
pany, Ix>s Angeles; drivers to bo an
nOFlfth event-One hundred miles, class
E- restricted to cars under stock
Chassis class C classifications under
600 cubic ineh.es displacement. Cham
pionship. Prizes: First, trophy and
$1000; second, $300; third. $100- fours,
$W. Entries Buick. Nick Nikrent;
Apperson, Harris Hanshue; Fiat, Ralph
li!. l'alma; Isotta, John B- Marquis;
Knox. Barney Oldfield; Stoddard-Day
ton Al Livingston; Marmon, Ray Har
roun Marmon, Scott Wade; Great
Western, I'eter Desseran; Dorris.
Frank Wetert; Chalmers, Frank Free.
OLDFIELD WILL RACE IN
NORTH AT SHRINERS' MEET
A big automobile race meet with Bar
ney Oldfleld and other famous drivers
will be a nature of the semi-annual
conclave of the California Shriners
which is to be held In Ban Francisco
April 23 and 24. San Francisco lodge of
the Slirincrs has arranged for Ingle
si, le race track in which to hold the
meet and are now making arrange
ment's to secure the entry of every one
of the highest grade motor cars sold in
the city, together with the *yell known
/racing drivers now here. As a speed
contest It promises to equal anything
ever held on the coast.
There wnl be fourteen valuable
trophies, given by such well known
business houses as John Hammersmith,
Radke, Shreves, Studebaker Automo
bile company. Central Trust, Morgan &
Allen and others.
Los Angeles Sunday Herald
Barney Oldfield and the 'Knox' Car, Winner
of the Five and Ten Mile World's Records
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AERIAL CRAFT TO
BE IN LIMELIGHT
Indianapolis Follows Los Angeles
in Arranging a Week of
Airship Events
Indianapolis in the "limelight" has
become more than, a name as the re
cent arrangement with the Wright
company for the aviation meet, June
13 to 18, when an entire week will be
given to aerial flights and the numer
ous automobile events which are the
plum dates for 1910, make Indianapolis
the place on which the spotlight will
be focused this season. w
The National Championship 'Balloon
meet which the Speedway has secured
for September 17 stands rather lonely
among the attractions of greater im
portance, but still it is of sufficient
Importance to be worthy of notice.
The Wrights have given their con
sent to have this an open meet, so that
It only remains to arrange to permit
the large number of aviators an op
portunity in order to secure their en
tries.
The Wrights have shown their de
termined intention of being among the
prize-winners from-the fact that they
an entering from five to eight ma
chines of their own make with a team
of the most skillful aviators the world
has ever known. These aviators are
DOW being trained at Montgomery,
Ala , h- Orvllle Wright, where five of
the Wright machines are being oper
ated and aviators are being Instructed.
Fully twenty puptls are being taught
as the Wrights have come to realize
that the world has now accepted avia
tion and it remains for them to give
them a taste of the new method of
locomotion.
The following events will form but
ii jinrt of tlu> program for the races
aviation week:
Event No. I—For the machine start
ing with the shortest running distance.
Event No. 2—For the start from the
stortest distance regardless of method
for rising In the air.
Event No. 3—For the machine making
a complete circuit of the speedway
track nearest to the ground.
Event No. 4—For the machine mak
ing the fastest lap of the speedway re
gardless of height.
Event No. 5. —For the machine mak
ing the fastest ton miles.
Event No. 6—For the machine land-
Ing nearest to a given spot. Machine
must land within a given area to re
ceive a prize.
Event No. 7 —For the machine mak
ing the slowest lap of the course in the
air.
Event No. B.—For the machine re
maining in flight for the longest time
(duration prize I
Events Nos. 9 to 16—Special match
races between the various contestants.
Events Nos. 20 to 25— Handicap
events between the various aeroplanes.
Events Nos. 25 to 30—Carrying vari
ous numbers of passengers at fast and
slow speeds, near the ground and at
high altitudes.
Saturday, June 18, last day of Avia
tion meet— Special trials for record high
flights. Also cross-country nights over
the state of Indiana.
In all these events there will be spe
cial <ash prizes,*trophies and medal?,
with additional bonuses for lowering
existing world records.
The entrance fee shall be $100 for
each machine entered In these contests.
One entrance lee pays for entry in all
events.
There will, without doubt, be addir
tlonal events for dirigible craft, but
these become of slight minor import
ance compared to the great aviation
meet which will be the opening meet
for the season of 1910.
Special efforts are being made to
have both Orville and Wilbur Wright
fly at this meet In exhibition flights.
Aviation blanks are being prepared for
entrants and will be issued embodying
the events specitied above.
'E-M-F 30' DOES 48 MILES
IN 1 HOUR 35 MINUTES
Forty-eight miles in 1 hour and 35
minutes over the gumbo roads of lowa
in March is a record even for K-M-P 30
—and this car is renowned for its con
quering lowa gumbo last year when it
laid out the route for the Glidden tour.
This latter record was made by J. J.
Russel, Cedar Valley, last week, when
he took a reporter and photographer for
the Waterloo Times-Tribune out to
view the terrible railroad wrack that
occurred between Cedar Rapids and
Waterloo, in which forty-eight persons
were instantly killed and thirty-six
wounded.
While representatives of other pa
pers were waiting for a special train
which was being made up in the yards,
the Times-Tribune reporter called up
the E-M-F agency, with the result that
they were at the scene of the wreck
before the railway train had got
well under way, notwithstanding the
gumbo was hub deep and the roads in
a very bad condition all the way.
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL IT, 1910.
RUESS SENDS HOT DEFI
TO RYUS AND CUMMINGS
Confident His Pope-Hartford Can
Beat White N Up Mt. Baldy
W. R. Rucss has come out with a
letter concerning the race up the Old
Baldy course which is self-explanatory
arid follows:
"Lob Angeles, Cal., April 14.—Auto
Editor Herald, City:
"Dear Sir: I noticed a short article
in which Capt. Ryus and George Cum
mings seem to express an opinion that
a White steamer can beat a gasoline
car up the Old Baldy course.
"As winner of this race with a Pope-
Hartford, in the fastest time ever mada
up the coursQ, by over twenty-three
minutes, and over thirty-four minutes
faster than the best time ever made b>
H. D. Ryus, I take exceptions to their
remarks.
"In the first place, there never was
a White built that could beat a really
good gasoline up this course, and, fur
thermore, while Mr. Kyus and Mr.
Cummlngs seem to think that Gua
Seigfred drove the car to defeat last
year, I want to say this: Gus was not
facing a bunch of dubs such as Ryus
was always fortunate enough to go up
against, but he was up against two
cars that have made world records
enough to prove their class, and conse
quently he had to drive his car fatter
than Ryus ever drove a White by many
minutes over the same part of the
course. And there is small wonder that
the car turned over.
"Just stop and think, Mr. Ryus, that
the best time you have ever made to
Nowhall Is 68 minutes, while the (!mo
of my car to the same place in the race
last year was 39 minutes 34 seconds
(some difference, eh?). Think well of
this, Mr. Ryus, before you let newspa
pers quote you as to what a White
will do.
"I do not intend to let anyone, not
even those who competed, take any of
the glory of the Baldy race from me,
much less some one who was not in the
race. I certainly shall talk back when
ever the subject is brought up.
"If you will rake up your memory
and go back into ancient history a lit
tle you will remember that you once
refused to let a Hartford in this race,
although we begged you to let us in
and offered to put up the $1000 entrance
fee. You were afraid of the Pope-
Hartford then. Now I am not afraid
of the White you are building especially
for this race, or any other White; and
any time you want to talk Baldy race,
kindly put up the $1000 necesiary to
enter properly—otherwise don't make
any rash statements.
"Any time you want to I am read)
to put my money up for the next race,
and when you put up yours you can
talk all you want to until the day of
the race, when, if you lose, you will
have to keep still for another year.
"WM. H. KUEfcSS."
HAYNES COMPANY IS KEPT
ON JUMP, SAYS WALLRICH
C. H. Wallrich, assistant miWa man
ager of the Haynes Automobile com
pany, recently visited this cily, and
while here expressed himself as highly
pleased with Haynes progress in gen
eral and especially in the west.
"The Interest that the Haynes is ox
oiting everywhere this side £f the Miss
issippi river elates us greatly," said
Mr. Wallrich. "The esteem in which
you see the Haynes held in this locality
is genera] throughout this western ter
ritory. Our Nevada agency at Heno is
flourishing, and our car is in great de
mand throughout the northwest. Oui
Los Angeles branch is fulfilling our
every expectation. In fact, a IV w
months more of growth and a great
bulk of our shipments will cross the
Koekies. This is the big future iield
tor the auto business."
In shaking of the factory output
Mr.-Wallrich said that although run
ning a night shift, the company is un
able to keep abreast of the incoming
orderi. Considering- the extraordinary
winter season just closing, this must be
considered unusual.
"The Haynes company," continued
Mr. Wallrich, "is possibly the only one
unable to accumulate cars during the
winter months. As a consequence, the
indications are that the dealers will sell
their entire allotment of cars before the
season really opens. In fact, a number
of agents from all over the country are
already booking orders for 1911 ma
chines."
BACK FROM RUBBER COUNTRY
F A. Seiberllng, president of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber company,
Akron, 0., returned on Friday from
an extensive trip In Brazil, where he
visited the Amazon rubber district. In
commenting on the rubber situation,
he indicated that the demand for rub
ber always will exceed tho supply, but
that a reaction from the present high
prices may be looked for. He declared,
however, that low prices, as formerly
understood, are a thing of the past.
WHITTLER AND DE ROSIER
TO RAGE AGAIN APRIL 24
Rival Motorcycle Riders Arrange
for Speed Contest That '
' Will Be Decisive v •
<
Jake De Rosier and F. E. Whlttler, the
two speed kings of the motorcycle world, will
be given a chance to try conclusions again at
the Coliseum motorcycle track. Sixty-third and
Main streets, Sunday. April 24.
The match race in which they competed
against each other a few weeks ago was
won by Whittler. but was very unsatisfactory
to the public, for when Whittler was forcing
De Roster to his limit the Frenchman wob
bled and fell and the referee gave the race
to Whittler.
The riders are under contract, in case of
an accident to a machine, to remount an
other seven-horsepower racing machine. They
must complete at least three-fourths of the
race or forfeit all claim to prize money,
thus preventing- a rider when he sees that he
cannot win from dropping out of the contest
of any one heat. Should an accident occur
In one heat there are still the other two
heats In which the rider can redeem him
self.
Whittler la glad to have another opportu
nity to race De Rosier, as many of the fana
accuse him of winning on a. fluke and he
Bays he will show them that he will win on
his merits.
SHERIFFS USE AUTOS
TO CAPTURE QUARRY
"All over tho country the automo
bile Is substituting for the horse drayn
vehicle in almost every line of busi
ness with success, but in no other
department of public life has the mo
tor driven vehicle proven so success
ful as it has in police work, especially
in the smaller towns and cities
The sheriff who used to make long
and tedious journeys at all hours of
the day and night by horse or buck
board now more thoroughly covers his
territory to the great relief of the tax
payers, with promptness and celerity
In his swift moving- motor ear.
WARNER
Auto Meters
* Always Predominate
Eighty per cent of all the cars entered to date in the Motordrome
Races are equipped with speed indicators and they are all Warner
Auto Meters with two exceptions.
This shows what the champions must have to show their correct
speed.
The Automatic
Race Timer
being used at the Motordrome IS, of course, a
, % WARNER
and is the most accurate timing device ever invented. It has been
adopted by the A. A. A., of which Mr. C. H. Warner is the official
timer.
What more nroof *<* you want that the Warner is the indicator for
you?
Warner Instrument Co.
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748 South Olive Street
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KNOX IS SENSATION
OF HARD VENTURA HILL
Classy Stock Car Shows What;
It Can Do Under All
Conditions
Herbert Brown of Los Angele.s went
to Oxnard recently in his seven-paa
■Hii'it, forty honepower Knox auto
mobile and did some sensational work
with the machine on the way, At Ven
tura lif took the big car up the stoop
Anacapa hill, going north on Palm
street over the steep grade to I'oli,
the fly-wheel pulling up a heavy piece
of planking as the car pulled Itself
over the last heavy rise, and stopped
on the level of Poll street. This Is one
of the hardest tests for any machine
< 1 1 1 ai Count of there beini; an elght-
Inch plank curb in the middle of the
steep grade used for a water drain.
Those in the machine at the time were
Mi. Brown, A. A. Cordon, Ernest S.
Thompson, E. It. Hill and Goo. Nickel.
In the afternoon Brown made tin
trip to Santa Barbara with eight pas
■engers averaging 150 pounds each. On
return to Oxnarrl it was found that the
trip of fifty miles over the Casitas
pass had been made in one hour and
[orty-four minutes—a remarkable time
for careful driving with a big traffic
on the road. One hour and thirty-five
minutes is the racing record between
these points for the present holder of
the Santa Barbara-Los Angeles rec
ord.
On the same day Brown returned to
Los Angeles witli Mrs. Brown, Miss
Ruth Brown, Miss Mac Carothers and
A. F. Gordon aa passengers. The trip
from Oxnard to Los Angeles, pixty
elght mile.?, was made in just two
hours. Thus the total running time of
the big Knox machine between Los
Angeles and Santa Barbara was three
hours and forty-four minutes, or nine
minutes less than the present record.
The trip was not made to break rec
ords, but solely for a pleasure ride.
The Knox car on the boulevard be
tween Oxnard and Ventura attained a
speed of fifty-eight miles an hour with
eight persons riding and the ghis.s
front up. The Knox is undoubtedly
the fastest stock car in the world, and
Its ability to carry a heavy load and
make such speed shows that it has a
wonderfully efficient power plant.
This is the same class of Knox car
thnt Is to be given away in the Her
ald's great contest, and Is a prize
worth working for.
WANTS SUBSTANTIAL CAR
FOR POLAR EXPLORATION
"Build me a substantial car not
weighing over 1100 pounds, long wheel
base, small wheels, solid notched rub
ber tires, necessary hooks and pockets
f'.r attaching and hauling equipment,
and I will guarantee that Capt. Scott
will improve my record of twelve miles
an hour on smooth ice and eight miles
on hard snow," sadl Sir Ernest Shack
leton, the south pole hero. "I believe a
car built on the lines of the Maxwell
runabout, with upecial body and some
slight changes, would do the trick. The
car must be a hill-climber to surmount
a mountain range 10,000 feet above sea
level before we enter upon the great
atit:irctic plateau that lead! to the
south pole. While severe grade* are
few. yet a steady grade must be nego
tiated, and can only be done by a light
car with sufficient power, rigidly and
substantially built."
PAGES 1 TO 12
DECLARES HUGE PROFITS
ON AUTOS ARE NOT MADE
Margin Earned by Manufacturer
Said to Be Same as in
Other Business
Never in the annals of the indus
trial history In this country has there
been so much egotism and conceit
manifested as there Is shown by many
manufacturers In the automobMo in
dustry. To conservative men connect
ed with this Industry these conditions
are disgusting and nauseating. The
undignified advertisements and public
ity "dope" emanating from certain,
sources relative to huge profits con
firms one of two conditions—either the
statements are false or the cars ara
cheaply constructed.
Taking for granted, for argument's
sake, declares a prominent manufact
urer, that the stories and figures are
true, then these rnanufutcurers ara
turning out cars that are not worth
the price—nut worth half the price
that they are demanding from the
public. Good cars—cars that are hon
estly and carefully made—cannot bo
sold at any such profits as are adver
tised by many concerns. If these con
cerns are making several hundred
dollars profit on each car as they
claim, then I am candid to admit that
they are making much more money
than either the Maxwell or Columbia
companies and are flim-flamming the
public. Some makers may be tem
porarily "getting away" with these
profits, but sooner or later there will
come a crash—a crash that will be
heard from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and from the great lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico, and the foundations
of sand upon which these concerns
are built will tumble with a rever
berating roar.
There Is no more profit in the auto
mobile industry than in the stationary
gas engine business and surely the
latter does not net any such fabulous
returns as those advertised by some
makers of motor cars.
The Issuance of such statements is
misleading and erroneous, as they ara
creating a desire in others to form
new concerns which prove to be
"mushroom" and "fly-by-nlght" organ
izations that last but a short time and
their failure reffects on the Industry
as a whole.
FARMER PLUM MAKES
AUTO CHURN THE MILK
Sales Manager F. E. Dayton, of the
Columbia Motor Car company at
Hartford, Conn., had an Interesting in
terview a few days ago with one Jan,l
Plum, of North Colebrook, Conn., a '
little hamlet eight miles from the
nearest railroad center. Mr. Plum call
ed at the Columbia plant with the In
formation that he was still using a.
single cylinder car of the 1596 vintage,
and said he had used it almost con
tinuously, summer and winter, for
pleasure, ploughing, churning milk,
narrowing and various other farm dv- j
ties. When farmer Plum is not using
his car as a stationary engine to run
his farm Implements, it Is put into
service In carrying milk and farm
produce from his home in North Cole
brook to Winsted, Conn., the nearest,
shipping point.
