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v THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1915
TO BE ACTIVE TODAY;
SITUATION IS BETTER
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OTTO WALKER ON
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.World's Thrrt'-Hmulred-Mile
Mark Set at Savan
nah Thanksgiving Day
Shivered to Fragments
by Speedsters
OLDFI ELD'S MARK
FOR COURSE, ALSO
Don Johns Spills, Slides
Citv Block and Breaks
Spectator's Leg, Only
Serious Accident of the
Thrilling Race
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
VENICE, April 4. In winning the
30-mile Venice Grand Prix motorcycle
race today. Otto Walker of Oakland,
Cal., established a new world's record
liy averaging 68 97-100 miles per hour.
His time was 4:24:17 1-5.
Leslie (Red) Parkhurst of Milwaukee
vas second, his time, 4:24:32 4-5.
Carl Goudy of Chicago was third. In
4:37.
Fred Ludlow of Los Angeles was
fillh.
At J. Craves, Los Angeles, was sixth.
The race was the most fiercely
fought contest on wheels ever seen in
the state. Walker and Parkhurst fin
ishing but 15 seconds apart brought the
grandstand to its feet and about 20.00A
people cheered the two contestants as
they flew down the stretch to the tape
in full view for half a mile.
Some of the laps were made at the
rate of 75 miles an hour. The day was
perfect and the track very fast. The
motorcycles negotiated the 300 miles at
nn average speed slightly better than
the automobiles in the recent Grand
Trix held here when the time made was
8 50-100 miles per hour.
There were but two accidents and Jio
rider seriously hurt. Don Johns slid
300 feet on the macadam boulcevard es
caping with skinned arm, but broke the
leg of a spectator in coming to a halt.
Harry W. Brayant of Portland fell
on the hack stretch, his chain came off,
rutn?d his machine and threw another
rider. Harry Sexton, while thr crowd
W
HE 3QQ-M1LER
The Tire That Was
Never Skimped
You know the reason for Good
year success. It's tne basic reason
for every lasting success. We
simply gave the best.
We gave it when we held a
minor place. We built a super
tire, excelling every rival in five
important ways.
We gave it in days of small
" output when these costly extra
features compelled a price one-
fifth above our rivals.
Men Found Out
Users proved that these tires
saved trouble, gave greatermileage,
I cut down cost of upkeep. They
told others, and Goodyear sales
grew last, ooon
Goodyears
reached top
place in Tire
d o m , and
' they've held it
ever since.
Fortified Tires
No-Rim Cat TirM-"On-Air" Canri
With All-W.tW Tmrft or Smooth
Goodyear Service Stations Tires in Stock ;
Electrical Auto Co. of Ariz.
Beyerle't Mcho. Shop & Gge.,Mesa
Reliance Garage, Mesa
HftRLEY
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I.THE WINNER AND
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Machine. Rider.
Harley, AValker 4
Harley, Parkhurst .4
Ex, Goudy
Kx, Perry
Indian, Ludlow
Indian, Graves
Time.
:25:17 1-5
:'J4:32 4-5
third
.. . .fourth
.....fifth
sixth
301 miles
68.97
distance,
day, was
Distance
Miles per hour, winner...
Former record, same
Savannah, Thanksgiving
61 miles per hour.
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shuddered. But Sexton also was un
injured. The previous motorcycle record was
six hours and six minutes by profes
sionals and five forty-eight by ama
teurs so the Venice race will aston
ish the sporting world. Lorenzo
Boio, the Phoenix boy rode well.
jmake some very fast laps but had
engine troubles.
Barney Oldfield in a fast automo
hile paced the field once around the
course while starter George Adair
t stood up in tfie rear of the machine
land signalled the riders to ensure a
fair start.
j Speed duels were frequent and the
excitement ran high throughout the
race.
The purse was $3,000 divided among
the first four.
The competing machines:.
No. Machine. Rider.
1. Indian . ..E. G. Baker
2. Indian J. A. Fletcher
3. Excelsior Carl Goudy
4. Excelsior Bob Perry
5. Excelsior Glen R. Stokes
6. Excelsior Frank Montgomery
7. Indian .. Keruicth H. Verrill
8. Indian Ernest D. Trouthman
9. Harley Davidson Roy Artley
10. Thor Earry W. Brant
11. Indian Dough. B. Rogers
12. Harley Davidson .....Toe Wolters
13. H Guerin Special. .Clodian Molas
14. Harley Davidson L. Parkhurst
15. Indian George Myers
IS. Harley Davidson A. Walker
17. Indian Gan Basso
18. Indian Ray Creviston
4 19. Indian Al Ward
20. Indian .. .Lorenzo Boido
Last year we sold about one tire
for every car in use. We sold 14
times as many as we sold in 1909.
Prices Down
With multiplied output cost
came down.' Again and again we
cut prices. Our last big reduc-
tion made February 1st was -the
third in two years, totaling ?
45 per cent
Yet Goodyear Fortified Tires
are built better than ever. Wo
spend $100,000 yearly learning
ways to improve them. And they
still retain those five great features,
found in no other tire that's built
Don't you think
it time now that
you found out
what such tires
mean to you?
Any dealer will
supply you.
YEAR
t anno, onto"
E. B. O'Neill Auto & Sup., Phoenix
O. 8. Stapley 4 Co., Mesa
LEMAT WINS
RACE TO EXPO.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 R. P.
Lemat won the transcontinental
automobile race from New York
to the exposition defeating Stanley
James by a few hours. Both ar
rived this afternoon. Lemat's run
ning time was 668 hours. They
left on January 9, accompanied by
Miss Margaret Gale who rode with
each alternately. Lemat wins the
Lincoln Memorial Highway trophy.
21. Indian M. J. Graves
22. Indian G. Bozzani
23. Pope J. Heffelinger
24. Pope Charles Tobcy
25. Indian F. W. Ludlow
26. Indian George F. Jakohe
27. Excelsior August Wolters
28. Thor Roy Breiter
29. Thor Harold Frank
30. Thor J. Howard Shafer.
31. Dayton F. A. Nemec
32. Floy ins Merkel H. E. Sexton
33. Dayton L. K. Greer
34. Cyclone ....Don Johns
35. Cyclone Dave Kinney
36. Henderson Ernest S. Koch j
37. Excelsior Roy Shaw
BOIDO MADE
A Fli IE
The Local Boy, Handicapped
by' Unexpected Engine
Trouble, Stays With the
Leaders Until 48th Lap
Graphic Story of Race
Special to The Republican.)
VENICE, April 4. Lorenzo Boido of
Phoenix rode a fine race in spite of
jail sorts of trouble, and was well up
among the leaders of the motorcycle
squad that swept around the park
way course when he was forced out
in the forty-eighth lap. Early in the
race, he developed engine trouble,
which kept hi mback considerably,
and finally put him out of the run
ning. Boido made some of the most re
markable rides seen on the Venice
track. Together with 'Baker, leader
of the Indian team, he frequently
starred in the practices, often at
taining speeds of eighty miles an
hour and better. The team work of
L. Boido of Phoenix
the Indian riders excelled, for they
were drilled and mounted on fast
machines.
Huge Crowd Attends
The biggest crowd that ever wit
nessed a motorcycle race turned out
and lined the three-mile speedway.
seated in autos and in the spacious
grandstands. Easter was in the air,
and many women and girls wore their
daintiest frocks to the speedway, in
spite of the clouds of dust.
The race was started about on
time. Nearly forty machines lined
up in rows across the track at the
start-finish line, and then, led by an
auto driven by Barney Oldfield, and
carrying starter Adair, swept once
about the three mile course. They
got away to a magnificent start. All
the riders' eyes were glued to the
red flag in Adair's hands, and as the
front wheels of the first row of ma
chines touched the tape, the banner
was whisked downward. Instantly
eight husky cylinders began sending
loud noises and great clouds of blue
gray smoke into the air. The ma
chines seemed actually to . leap for
ward as though a set of gigantic
springs had been released. Before
they had hit the first turn, they had
begun to string out in groups and
singly, and when the first ones had
made one fast circuit, it was a pro
cession. The race is declared by motorcycle
engineers to have been the hardest
drilling ever received by man- and
machine. Savannah presented a dif
ficult course, but had long straight
aways and turns that compelled slow
ing almost to city speed. In the
Venice, however, the speed was sus
tained. Turns had been banked with
timbers, so that the ride alternated
between what was practically limit -elss
speed straightaways and" fast
board track.
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Business Men and Younger
Fans Will Each .Contrib
ute to Support of Phoe
nix League Club Town
to Be Divided
HESTER WILL HAVE
HIS MEN HERE SOON
Exhibition Game Proposed
With Mesa on 15th Sil
ver City Gets Team En
tire McArdle Short for
Locals
BY 8COOP
Looks better, thank you. They held
a meeting yesterday, and elected W.
B. Twitchell, a 33d degree fan as
chairman of the committee of busi
nessmen who are to handle the fi
nances of the Phoenix club in the
Rio Grande association, and also they
confirmed A. Guy Alsap as the offi
cial money bags.
Today, Phoenix will be divided into
two parts, and from each part it is
hoped to lift the small sum of two
thousand dollars. The above named
committee of solid citizens will handle
the matter in connection with the
businessmen, and the other commit
tees, consisting of young men, will
solicit dollar subscriptions on the
ticket basis.
Jim Brown phoned from Tucson last
night that the situation there was in
fine shape. Kitty Brashear, his man-
Coast League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Clubs. W. L. Pet.
Los Angeles 4 3 .571
Oakland 3 3 .500
San Francisco 3 3 .500
Salt Lake 2 2 .500
Venice 2 2 .500
Portland 3 4 .429
No games today.
WHERE THEY PLAY TUESDAY
Portland at Salt Lake.
.Venice at San Francisco.
Oakland at Los Angeles.
SOME CIRCLE SWATS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. Oakland
and San Francisco broke even in two
games. The Seals won in the morn
ing from Oakland, 5 to 4. The Oaks
secured revenge in the afternoon here,
defeating San Francisco, 4 to 3. A
wild pitch by Pruitt in the morning
gave the game to the Seals. In the
afternoon three home runs featured
the game. Scheller, Jones and Ness
circled the diamond.
Morning R. H. E.
San Francisco 5 7 2
Oakland 4 9 2
Batteries Barham, Smith and
Schmidt; Pruitt, Boyd and Elliott.
Afternoon R. II. E.
Oakland 4 9 3
San Francisco 3 6 1
LOS ANGELES LEADS
LOS ANGELES. April 4. Splitting
today's doubleheader with Portland,
Los Angeles took the first series of
the season just ended. "Bill" Burns,
the veteran came back in the morn
ing game, and pitched the Angels to
a 4 to 1 victory. He let the Port
landers have but two hits in the last
seven innings. In the afternoon game
it was a slugfest the Portlanders
wielding the best hats, and winning
by a score of 7 to 5.
Morning R. H. E.
Portland 1 2 4
Los Angeles 4 4 1
Batteries Evans, Lush, Callahan
and Fisher; Uprstman, Burns and
Boles.
Afternoon R. H. E.
Portland 1" 14 2
Los Angeles 5 11 3
Batteries Krause, Rieger, Callahan
and Fisher; Hughes, Chech, Ryan and
Brooks.
FUTILE SPURT
SALT LAKE CITY, April 4. After
Venice scored five runs In the sev
enth and tied the score. Salt Lake
forged to the front with three runs,
winning, 8 to 5. Eight thousand saw
the game. R. H. E.
Venice 5 8 2
Salt Lake 8 12 2
Batteries Hitt, " Piercey, Henley,
Spencer and Mitze; C. Williams,
Gregory and Hannah, Rohrer.
thirty-seven that started were able to
finish under their own power.
Walker, the winner had trouble in
the early stretches, and made frequent
stops at his pits. It was not until
the eighty-sixth lap that he overtook
Parkhurst, who had been leading, and
assumed the lead. From that moment,
it was nip and tuck between the two
Harley riders. Parkhurst, who was
not a favorite on account of his well
known preference for short races, had
ridden a magnificent race, with stops
only for necessary fuels. He and
Walker drew gradually away from
their field, and made it a lone race
for nearly twenty miles. When they
crossed the tape, it was within fifteen
seconds of each other, with the Oak
land entrant leading by only a few
lengths.
o
Garland Cooper, who killed himself at
Atlanta, sent invitations to his funeral.
They read: "Guess you will be sur
prised. Watch the papers. You're in
vited. Garland." He sent his nnnnunce
jnjjiis on posti,ardw
BASEBALL COMMITTEE
TO WORK HARD TODAY
Phoenix has been divided up
among the baseball boosters for
today's big final appeal for funds,
as follows: ,
FIRST WARD Ed Rudolph and
Archie Gatter.
SECOND WARD W. B.
Twitchell and H. P. l)e Mund.
THIRD WARD Frank 1'. Trott
and Jim Mulrein.
FOURTH WARD C. A. Stauf
fer and Arthur Luhrs.
ager-player, will be on the scene
shortly, and will be getting his men
together.
And mat reminds us: Hester an
nounced last night that the Phoenix
team would be in its new home town
by April 10. He hopes to arrange
an exhibition with Mesa for Thurs
day, April 15.
San Francisco in the Coast League
will contribute several players to the
new Phoenix club, notable anions
whom are Bill McArdlo the' famous
shortstop, Bill Dowling, who will
amble around the keystone .sack, Tom
Toner, a pitcher and two other pitch
er and two other pitchers whose re
leases have not yet been signed.
Wre also learn that Joe Mathis is
bringing his entire pennant winning
team from the Western Canada league
are coming to Silver City to dispute
with Mr. Hester the right to wear
happy smiles at the end of the sea
son. As to the business management of
the Phoenix club, the arrangements
are simple. Checks are to be signed
by Hester and countersigned by Chair
man Twitchell of the committee.
Money is all to be handled by Guy
Alsap of the National Bank of Ari
zona. The season is to last five months,
which means -that Phoenix will play
exactly 65 league games on .the home
grounds.
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