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() JUDGMENTS
I HANK CHANCE would probably
give taor than a month pay If
-4 ha could llva over a few second
of hi life on the Brooklyn ball
field. Ills frtenda wilt willingly
, forgive him for the one dark mark on
hl splendid career as a ball player, but
t they will not be able to forget that their
Idel's fort are made of clay, after all.
No on knows better than Chance that his
conduct was Inexcusable even In the stress
l.f the game, and under all circumstances,
ihe professional athlete must have as per
fect control of his temper as he has of his
muscles. This Chance did not have. Ills
provocation was extreme, but he might
have borne In patience a few moments
longer the abuse that was being- hurled at
him from the bleachers, as well as the pop
bottles that were harmlessly falling; around
him. Two men were down In the ninth
Inning, and within at least two minutes
the third would have been out and the
gam wts already In Chicago's certain
grasp. Tor Just that Instant Chance forgot
himself and stained Ms record. Ball play
er all over the country have lost control
of their tempers at different times, and
tha gam ha been marred by many dis
graceful wrangles and episodes, but none
of thee were ever of championship stult;
and this relate to McOraw, who has won
for himself th position of premier among
rowdloa. He was not a real champion. On
Frank Chance rested the hopes of all who
favor clean ball, and hi act was a eriou
disappointment to hi friends.
Tha Incident force attention to a phase
of th game that ha been slowly develop
ing for several season, until It has reached
a point where some serious attention must
be paid to It- For several years the au
thorities of Die game have devoted all their
attention to the rowdy player, until he
ha been nearly eliminated from the game,
and hsse ball has reached a high place as
a contest of skilled and ready wltted ath
lete. It I now the unruly spectator, who
must be dealt with. All due consideration
will be made for partisanship, and for the
keen desire to see the home team win, but
no stretching of this allowance will cover
me of the assault that have been made
on visiting clubs by spectators during the
last few days. When Cleveland was playing
' In St. Iula recently In one game both
Hlnchmsn and Ilradley were made the
targets for a continual Are of bottles from
the bleachers. Once Hlnchman had to
abandon n attempt to catch a foul In or
der to protect himself from serious Injury
from th volley of bottles hurled at him.
flradley suffered similarly, and no effort
was made by the 8t. Iouls management to
stop the onslaught. The practice of throw
ing bottles has become such a menace that
It needs Immediate and vigorous treatment.
If the rule requiring the home team to po
lice the grounds were Interpreted so as to
Include forfeiture of a game In event vis
iting players are subjected to such violent
assaults as are Indicated by the bottle
throwing, tfie home manngement would find
some way of subduing Its unruly patron.
The foul language can hardly be squelched,
but the bottle throwing can. and It ought
to be. The game of base ball Is one that
, appeals more than any other of our sports
V 'o fairness ami such episodes as brought
tTVank Chance Into trouble ought to be
made Impossible.
If anybody doubts that the Western
league rnoe Is a fierce one lot him look up
the record of the last three weeks. There"
nothing to equal the way In which De
Moines, Omaha, Lincoln and Denver have
fought for games during this time. Any
body who can pick the sure winner now Is
wise enough to win a lot of money. Omaha
has a slight advantage just at present In
a long string of home games, bat Dcs
Moines 1s Just as well fixed, and the Home
grounds mean more In Des Moines than
anywhere else on the circuit.
Having had time to look about since the
vent. Tommy Burns finds that the punoh
he handed Bosher Bill didn't put him a
lot higher up than he was. He got tha
"cush," but here comes a welterweight
from Boston with an offer to fight him.
And Jeff Is opening a combination boose
parlor and lodging house at Ik Angeles
that will make even the "Poodle Dog" look
cheap. Burns' title has a hollow sound.
Kit he has the consolation that the money
was real.
Ex-Omaha pitchers cut some Ice at Phil
adelphia during the week. "Tank" Brown
Went In and beat the Cubs very prettily;
then. Just to show there are others. "Miner"
Brown went In nd whitewashed the
Quakers. What would have happened If
It had been Brown against Brawn even
Charley Dryden couldn't describe.
Tennis men will soon have the spotlight.
The United States opsn begins at Engle
wood, N. J., Monday, and from that time
on all over the country the courts will be
busy. Next week the Omaha City starts,
and this, as a precursor for the middle
west, promises to be of uncommon Inter
est "this season. ,
The Naps are not giving the White Sox
a chance to breathe. Maybe Jones A Co.
would appreciate It If Lajole and hi band
would let up for a minute. Just long enough
to allow the champions to catch their
breath. It looks, though, as If the Naps
were going to run the Sox to a finish.
If almost time to trot out the list of
Injuries, etc., from which the foot ball
tcnm Is suffertng. An Indication of the
progress of the season Is found In Prof.
Stairs' announcement of his summer school
for foot ball players at Chicago.
"Buck"' French' great head ts shown In
the fact that he Is the leading run getter
and base runner of the league. The cap
tain not only theorise for hi men, but he
set them the example. He 1 th "Peer
less Leader" In the Western, all right.
Borne enthusiast baa proposed that Ne
braska hav a crew at Poughkeepsie next
season. Might be arranged. If the other
would agree to a return date on the classlo
Salt creek.
A new firm: "Sanger tk McNeeley,
Wlittewaahers. All Job look alike; satis
faction guaranteed; for terms, apply to
uck" Francs;."
Well, Omaha Is doing quit a much as
could reasonably be asked under the cir
cumstances. The double-header this afternoon ought
to see ths grandstand and bleachers packed.
It will be worth the money.
t'psets at Euclid atmpjy confirm th be
lief that one can't always tell In advance.
Otv Tip O'Neill credit for something; he'
keeping his mouth shut, wherever be Is.
One thing Is soret Washington cant get
ny lower because of Bill Bchlpka.
By the way: Dvcky Holoea baan t
teMchod the pUU yet.
QUI BBLERS ON GOLF RULES
Fine Playeis Not Among Kickers for
Revision.
LAWS GOVERN WORLD-WIDE GAME
l ulled States Association to Ask for
Recognition at St. Andrews
When the Code Is Next
Amended.
At no very distant time the United State
Oolf association committee Is to ask for a
conference with the rules of golf commit
tee of the Royal and Ancient Golf club at
St. Andrews, Scotland, or at least for rec
ognition when next the rules are to be
revised.
What will the answer be when the re
quest of the American golfers reaches th
autocratic Sawneys of St. Andrews? The
gray city by the Rclen Is not nearly so
grim and cool as the temper of the dom
ineering golf committee. To the usual
phlegmatic and conservative deliberation
with which the committeemen treat the
communications sent to them, must this
time be added grain of precaution. All
they know of American golf Is that one
Travis won a championship at Sandwich
and that many "hrltera a' " are feathering
their nests as professionals In this coun
try. The golf of the colonies Is dearer to the
Scotch court. The predicament to be faced
and dreaded ts whether to recognlxe the
Americans will not also compel recognition
of Australia. Canada, New Zealand, Bouth
America, Japan, India, France, Germany,
South Africa; Egypt, and many more places
where golf has to be fitted according to the
rules as they stand. To temper the rules
for the Americans, horrible thought to a
canny Scot burgher, may force a recogni
tion of many more odd characters who play
the game. The shortest way out of the di
lemma will be to courteously decline the
request of the United States Oolf assocla
tlon. To yield to It would lead to annual
congresses of golfers from all over the
world to patch up the rules.
The rules are a complete and satisfactory
code except to the quibblers. Just as the
"rocking chair fleet'1 of the club carries
the greatest kickers on yachting laws and
eltquotte, there Is In golf a set of veranda
sharps who can pick many discrepancies
In the rules. If they played the game more
they would clear the cobwebs from their
minds. There Is one sort of golfer, who
may be classed as the tournament sharp,
who can quote the rules offhand, and
through the knowledge often steals a hole
from a generous or careles opponent. As
a protection, therefore, It Is wise to study
the rules before going to hunt for cups,
and In a general way, an elemental knowl
edge of tho rules will add to the enjoyment
of golf.
The rules were made for Scottish golf,
and in that country the players Imbibe the
fundomontal principles of them with their
mother's milk, and they seldom have to
consult the book. Scots carry this suavity
regarding the rules wherever they travel.
and It Is the best way for a golfer to treat
the edicts. This attitude has recently been
expressed very happily by David R. For
n a Soot of that Ilk very prominent In
Chlcngo golf. In reply to a query from the
Golfers' Mngaxlne he wrote:
I am glad to learn that the United States
Qolf association executive committee pro
pones to have a conference with the rules
of golf committee of the Royal and Ancient
Qolf club of St. Andrews before undertak
ing to make any serious changes In the
,,T,.. r,f ffnif for this country.
So many Americans go abroad every year
and ilay goil ai tH. Anarews nun mu
wherfi that It would be a great pity to have
one set of rules for the old country and
another set for this country. It may be
possible to express the old rules In clearer
language and to arrange them In more con
venient form, but I think It would be a
misiake to radically change them.
For my part I can scarcely understand
the uemann tor a cnangu. uetuo i hoti
have a dispute with anyone and oonae
n....nilv novor have to refer to the rules.
For medal play competitions It Is, of
course, desirable mar mere bikjuiu w
. hinltv of lanauaae or doubt of the
meaning and everyone will wolcomo any
Improvements in mese respects un ni rr'-,-,,!..
hut I do not wish to Play with
anyone who finds It necessary to refer to
tho rules more man once in u
Every five years! There is the true spirit
of golf back of this stipulation. Tet It Is
often wise tb seek an exact knowledge of
a penalty or privilege when at medal play,
for then eacU player must guard the honor
of th rire field. The putting greens of
Scotland are "brown" of sand or clay In
many countries; Its whims are cactus
plants or high grass, and there are no rab
bit scrapes elsewhere, but Instead land
crabs, snake holes and elephant hoof
prints. As a consequence there are situa
tions forever arising that are not covered
by the rules. Questions on such point
come In hundred to the rule of golf com
mittee from all part of the earth, and
they are answered in batches.
Other questions that crop up regularly
are due to an Ignorance, eras and pro
found, of the elementary principle. At
medal play a round may not be discon
tinued for any reason. In justice to the
other competitors, yet the question must
often be asked whether It Is fair to dla
qualify a player who waits In shelter or
under a tree for a rainstorm to pass.
It 1 extraordinary, too. that so many
do not know the rule for a lost ball at
medal play. Hundreds habitually break
the rule in ignorance and merit disquali
fication. The almost Invariable delusion
is that If you lose a ball at stroke play
you drop another under penalty of a
stroke, as near as possible where you
judge the first ball was lost Some drop
on the fair green, others tee, and It Is
quite exceptional to find a player who
know the rule accurately.
If there is a revision of the code th
words "loss of distance" should be Sil
mtnated, as they are a cause of confusion.
When a ball 1 lost at stroke play the
proper thing Is to return as near as poa
slble to the spot from which the lost ball
was struck, tee a ball and lose a penalty
stroke.
One of the Instance of clumsy sxpres
slon In th rules appear In No. t. If
th parsnthetlcal clause be eliminated, it
makes the rule a farcical one. It reads:
'The ball must be fairly struck at. not
scooped, scrapsd, nor spooned, under pen
alty of the loss of the hole."
What was meant Is: "The ball must
be fairly struck at; the penalty for a scoop,
scrape or spooned ball Is loss of the hole."
Within the last few month a western
player has brought out an Amsrloan code
of golf rules, but It gains little In oonclse-
ness and no one plays under It; yet Mr.
Jermain's code Is of value aa a suggestion,
I and there Is nothing ambiguous in any of
! his rule. Walter Fairbanks ha prepared a
set of rules of golf In brief which is useful.
and Alex Brltton of the United States Oolf
association committee ha suggested a
digest of the rules to aid la understanding
them. Fairbanks is a veteran amateur
golfer and hi view nick well with those
expressed by Forgan. He wrltee:
A very hlgn authority long ago told the
world that "th letter kllleth, but the spirit
maketh alive." The rules are amaslogly
ffeotlve among real golfer. Who ever
heard of a dispute between two first class
professional or amateurs Th rules em
body the principles of th gam aa we all
wish to see It played with sufficient clear
ness for all good players who hav taken
the trouble to study them. Rare and in
genious problems arising from them are
of small consequence and can be easily de
cided bv Faulty. The mil trouble Is that
so few players will mnks thi'insclvss ac
quainted with the rules.
Tbe agitstlon for a recasting of the rule
Is not restricted to this country, for there
has been a gvneral dcelre for a new and
briefer set in England. The decision of
ttie rulMB enmmlttaA nf Rt Andrew ere
often sharply criticised, but there Is no
appeal from them Recently In deciding a
point that arose In a foursome In the Edtn
burgh Despatch trophy tournament, the
committee had to deal with these facts:
At the fifteenth green A and D i ball lies
about a foot from the hole and C and D's
ball two or three Inches from the hole. A
and B are there In three strokes and C and
n In four strokes. A has taken up his stand
to putt, with his club two or three Inches
In front of the ball, when the ball moves,
caused by a sudden gust of wind, but It
lines not touch either himself or his club.
A stops and again addresses his ball, and
holes out In four strokes. C and D claimed
the ball moved and should be penalised one
stroke, making the hole a half In 6, C and
D not being asked to hole out. The question
whether there Is a penalty attached or not
the nlavera agree to leave to the committee
of the tournament to decide. C and D say
nothing about claiming the hole, and all
are under the Impression that the hole at
least Is a half In 6. A and B still hold th
honor and drive to the sixteenth hole with
out any challenge. After the matoh C and
D now claim the fifteenth hole, saying that
A played two consecutive strokes, and the
committee uphold their claim, and award
C and D the hole according to rule 34. Is
this rtehtT
The answer of the committee was: "A
appears to have grounded his club and the
movement of the ball constituted a stroke
and not a penalty stroke. B shoutd then
have played. Not having done so, A ana
B lose the hole. The matter was left to
the committee to docldc, and their de
cision 1s correct under rule 4, paragraph 2,
and rule X."
Yet the committee erred In this Instance,
and hundreds rushed Into type to say so.
The opinion was that the ruling would
have been in excellent one had it Deen
asked for nd given at the moment the
Incident occurred.
The rules committee was not asked what
the law Is when a player In a foursome.
having moved his ball In addressing It,
plays the next stroke Instead of hi part
ner, but whether aside, having definitely
claimed a certain penalty, Is entitled to
amend its claim after the hole has been
quitted, or, as a mattor of fact In this
instance, after the match Is over. C and
D made no claim at the time for the hole,
In respect of A having played out of turn.
All they claimed was a stroke for trie al
iened movlm of the ball. This claim was
disputed by A and B, and the match pro
ceeded on the understanding that A and
B either halved or won the hole, according
as the tournament committee decided
whether there was or was not a penalty
of one stroke for the alleged moving of
the ball.
When the match was over C and D
amended their claim whether they did so
of their own Initiative, or were privily od
vlsod by some one else, matters little but
they discovered that the penalty tney
should have claimed was the hole, because,
thv alWed. A Dlaved two consecutive
shots, and they accordingly substituted
this claim Instead of the claim tor a stroKe
mutually screed on at the time as the one
to be submitted to the tournment com
mittee. The committee violated the well
recognised prlnciplo In golf that after a
player has declared for a certain course,
he Is not entitled to go back on his word.
As far back as 1897 the United States Oolf
naanctnttou anDOlnted Laurence Curtis and
C. B. Macdonald a committee to expound
and Interpret the St. Andrews rules ror our
golfers. The St. Andrews committee re
vised the rules again In JBfll and an Amer
ican committee C. B. Macdonald, O. H.
Windoller and Walter J. Travis made
the Interpretations that appear In foot
notes In the official set of rules. It Is well
to note that in no way do the Interpreta
tions violate the spirit or the letter of the
St. Andrews rules. At the present time
golf the world over Is governed by the one
set of rules.
"In the Initial meeting of the United
States Oolf association there was much
discussion as to what form the constitution
and rules should take," to quote some re
marks by C. B. Macdonald, "and the late
Mr. Havemeyer, our first president, ap
pointed me chairman of the committee to
draw up the constitution, with instructions
to communicate with the leading authori
ties on golf In Scotland and In England.
Many of these gentlemen were personal
friend of mine, some of whom I knew at
college in Scotland when I first played the
game at St. Andrews In 1872 to 'Tb notably
Balfour Melville and Mulr Ferguson. I not
only wrote these two gentlemen, but also
to Horace Hutchinson, Rider Richardson,
W. T. Llnsklll, Aleo McFee, H. H. Hilton.
H. S. EVerhard and others who have been
associated with all the leading commutes
on golf legislation In Scotland.
"There was a general consensus of opin
ion In all replies on two points. One was
praying us to play the game of golf In this
country as It was played abroad, not hav
ing an American game of golf and a
Scotch game of golf, so that when one
should come to the tee one need not ask,
'Are you playing American golf or Scotch
golfr
"Should the same feeling still actuate
the iti. Andrews golfers. In a year or two
they may extend some recognition to the
American committee, and seek their aid
when the rules are to be revised. But as
they rule the game absolutely the St. An
drews committeemen will most likely say,
'Here are our rules. Define them as you
please.' "
AUTO RACES AT BRIGHTON TRACK
Program of Much Interest for tho
August Meeting.
CONBY ISLAND, N. Y.. July 13c-Judglng
from th list of event which have been ar
ranged for the Brighton beach automobile
race of August I and 10, this affair should
be the greatest of Its kind In the history
of the sport. The feature event Is a
twenty-four-hour International endurance
derby, with a gold and silver trophy for
the owner of the winning car, and $1,000 In
gold coin, to be divided between the two
drtvera Preceding this contest two five
mile, two ten-mile, a fifty-mile, and a
100-mll race will be run off. The entry
blank for the Brighton meet have been
ent out, and the early receipt of a goodly
number of entries Is expected, particularly
for tha long distance races. In which tha
number of starter will be limited.
The fifty, 100, and twenty-four hour con
test are open to stock cars, which may be
tripped, of sixty-horse power or under.
In the last named event each entrant may
nominate two car, and the second car may
Le substituted In case of accident to the
first, under a sliding penalization of lap.
Automobile track racing ha come to the
front again this year, largely through the
excellent test and thrilling sport provided
by long distance races.
Covering for Torn Tiro Cnatna;.
A very good "mancheon" for covering a
torn or cut tire casing may be Improvised
out of aa old-fashioned leather boot leg.
A strip three or four Inches longer than
th rupture In the tire casing should be
cut from the softest part of tha bootleg
and should be worked rapidly between the
hands to render it pliable. It should theu
be bound firmly In place, anything from a
stout cord to a leather thong serving for
I th purpose, care being taken to "anchor"
the lashing to one of the spoke o that it
I cannot creep,
HOME MADE OR FOREIGN CAR
Difference, in American and European
Construction.
OPINION OF EXPERT ON TOPIC
Yankee Dnllders Are Adopting French
Details and Designs Fast Enough
to r rod ere Morn Better
Results.
Mr. Berne Nadall, the Canadian engineer
and automobile expert, writes to the Motor
Way an Interesting and valuable article
on "Differences In American and European
Construction," In which he says:
The American makers are fast discarding
their frenk Ideas for the orthodox French
engineering Job. I can almost see In the
last few months by perusal of the various
motor papers the rapid change the Amer
ican manufacturers are making in the
proper direction, vis:
Two- four and six-cylinder automobiles
with vertical engine In front, sliding gear
transmlsRlons. magneto Ignition, Cardan
and double chain drives.
There are still a good many points with
regard to detail that need attention on this
side of the water. One particular point
I notice In the American cars of the four
cylinder type, and that Is the great height
these engines are above the ground. Amer
ican roads are pretty rough, and, while
It Is necessary to have good road clear
ances. It Is Just as necessary to have en
gines set low, and it is Just as easy to
have good road clearances (from nine to
ten and a half Inches 1s the limit) with
a low engine as It Is with a high engine.
If the Frenchmen- and the Italians were to
transport their plants to America they
would still keep their engines low snd In
crease tho road clearance to the limit.
Another difference I notice between the
American and continental practice Is the
almost general adoption of the dry cells In
America afralnst the sccumulator or mag
neto Ignitions used abroad. The magneto
is now as much a part of the continental
car aa the pump or radiator, and while
at present the dual system Is In vogue
(mngneto and accumulators), this Is fast
changing to a low tension magneto syRtem,
which I forecast will eventually be a stand-
lard Ignition system on all large enrs.
Further, in France. Italy, ungium ana
Oermany almost all lorge cars are sold ftl
chassis form by the makers and the body
proposition being entirely separate and In
many Instances purchased from the car
rossler. Separate cast cylinders with end plntes
are finding great favor, and Americans
should hasten the adoption of this class, ns
It makes a more compact, better cooled
engine, with many advantages over the
cylinders cast In pairs. To enumerate these
advantages, we have simpler castings, and
in cases of breaks ge of one. It does not
mean the price of two.
Also, with the piste Idea, besides the
compactness In the casting, It hos the same
advantages of proper cooling with the
extra advantage of ease In cleaning If
neceBRary. Many makers also have the
one piece casting which Includes the top
of the crank case, that Is, that the top
of the crank case and cylinder rroper
should be one piece, and all bushings,
bearings, etc., are hung to these top pieces.
Forced lubrication by pump which is In
tegral with the engine Is accepted as the
best In Europe. This system Is made to
give besides the ordinary splash a constant
level In the crank case reservoir, a posi
tive oiling to all parts from above. The
oil gauge only Is shown on the dash and
the oil Is seen through the glass gauge as
always running upwards.
Multiple disc clutches have come to stay,
and the Americans are rapidly copying
them, the Prof. Ileleshaw clutches being
perhaps the best.
Six-cylinder engines are rapidly displac
ing four-cylinder engines of the higher
cowers.
Generslly speaking, the tendency abroad
Is to put better material into the cars nan
Is usually used by American firms. As
far as I can Judge, you can count on your
Angers the number of makers In the
United States who are putting up their
cars of vanadium or nickel ateel. And
many of them use these higher grade ma
terials Injudiciously.
Another point that Impressed me Is the
fact that Americans do not study fuel
economy In the same manner that It Is
studied abroad. Also, they seem to pay
mare particular Interest to what they call
fool-proof Ideas In preference to what we
may term an ordinary device. - Fool-proof
Ideas are sometimes proved to be quite
the reverse, and such a thing as an auto
mobile carburetor with three or four ad
justments Is anything but fool-proof.
At the present time the European Is busy
studying details On standard lines, such
as noiseless valves, nontromblor colls, de
tachable rims for the tires, and the like,
and there are already many successful
ones on the market.
For the present I do not know that there
Is anything else that strikes me unless I
might say In favor of the Americans, that
they are coming along very rapidly and 1
predict the early demise of the Imported
cars. In fact, my above remarks are from
general obsnrvatinns, and should I par
ticularly mention the names of a fow hlKrt
class American cars, I would have to ad
mit that they are as good as any seen
abroad.
With regard to general design, the Ameri
cans are a bit behind In bodies. There
seems to be too much of what might be
called a "kinetic" feeling of the general
designs of the bodies, which I consider Is
wrong and which makes It easy for one
to pick out a foreign car from among the
American makes. The art of the French
man seem to predominate In all European
cars when It cornea to body making, and
the feeling of the French car body la more
on lines that we might describe as "statlo,"
which Is a sort of contrast to the American
design. This static design on a low-set
car with a low-wheel base certainly de
notes power and speed, and. after all, 60
per cent of the purchasers desire such an
effect, while half of them do not realise
the causa.
HIS AUTOMOBILE NAMED DOBBIN
Illinois Man Finally Buy n Machine
and Tell Why Ho Did It.
W. A. Merrlam of Lagrange, HI., has
finally bought an automobile, much to
the relief of the dealer of Automobile
Row, In Chicago, all of whom have tried
In vain to sell him a machine for two
year past. Demonstrations, endurance
testa, economy runs svery known metho.1
of selling a "prospect" have been show
ered on Mr. Merrlam by the agent of the
best known machine for two year past,
but Mr. Merrlam was proof against them
all. Why he finally bought a machine Is
an Interesting story and should prove In
structive to automobile dealer generally.
"You see," said Mr. Merrlam, "I wanted
an automobile to take the place of nw
horse. Now, my horse never tried to gj
sixty miles an hour; If he did I would
have taken him out and shot him. Nor
did he go up steep hills at full speed or
through mud like a flying machine; if he
did I would have to get rid of him, for
what I wanted was comfort and safety
for myself and my family. When the
dealers used to take me out in their fly
ing devils or whatever they call their
crack cars I just held on and said noth
ing, but I thought to myself, 'I'm glad
the fumlly ain't with me,' and I made
up my mind to wait; that the right ma-
chine wasn't made yet for a family man
like me. But last week the Oldsmoblle
man came around, right after breakfast,
and said: 'I've Just hitched up, so to
peak, at my barn took me three min
utes to do It; that's quicker than harness
ing a horse. Isn't It? Let me take you to
town.' So we got In, and. while we didn't
speed up any at all. we made the trip in
less than half the horse's time. 'Now,'
said he, 'we'll suppose It's good weather
and you have your horse In front of your
office, so we'll leave the machine here
until noon. No one can steal It; I lock
the wheels,' which h did. Then at noon
w took my family horse home to lunch.
After lunch he showed how, in a day or
two, my wife could run the machine and
be safer In It thaa In a horse vehicle
Then he got my grandfather Interested,
who feels too old to safely manage a
horse, and blamed If the old man wasn't
running the machine In a few minute.
Then tbe nurse and baby were taken out,
nd when ws found how It was Impossible
for the machine to run away and how
much safer It was than any horse vehicle
could possibly be I began to look at auto
mobile In a dlffereut light. AU told
we must have traveled over fifty miles
that day. We did everything a family
horse could do, and did It better and
safer, and when we left the ruacftlne In
the barn Anally we knew it was not eat
ing Its head off, and, distance considered,
was cheaper than a horse.
"I think the Oldsmoblle, people are right
In advocating their new touring car aa
a practical family proposition something
that can be relied for the pleasure of any
member of the family, from the baby to
the grandfather. Racing stunts and all
that sort of thing are attractive to some,
but there's a mighty lot of people like
myself that want none of It. I am will
ing to let my .son race my car; I know
It can go fifty miles an hour, but you
can bet it will never go that fnst while
I'm in it. Neither will It climb preci
pices, or swim rivers, or ford swamps,
or do anything a family horse wouldn't
do. What I am glad to know Is that
there are four ways of stopping It In
stantly; that It can't explode; that It la
always ready for use, and that every
member of the family Is safer In It than
behind any horse. I've called my ma
chine 'Dobbin' because It Is going to be
the family favorite and the pet of us all.
I think If the auto dealers knew how
much of the Dobbin feeling there ts in
almost every family they would sell more
car."
TOURING PARTIES THE ORDER
Omaha Auto Owner Are Busy on
the Road.
Touring parties are the order of the day
In automobile circles In Omaha. Several
of the Omaha owners are at present tour
ing through the eastern states, some started
yesterday and some have Just returned
from extensive trips. This ts the ideal
season of the year for touring, for al
though occasional rains may be mot, the
warm weather soon dries the roads and the
tourists are able to resume shortly after
a shower, or even a heavy rain.
A. T. Austin and son returned Friday
from a trip of 2.S00 miles taken through tho
middle west states In a Stoddard-Dayton.
The remarkable feature of the trip was the
fact that, although traveling at the rate of
2n0 miles a day, the occupants of the car
did not have to touch the engine once on the
trip. Starting at Chicago, a run was made
to Rochester. N. T., without mishap. From
Rochester they returned to Cleveland,
thence to Columbus and Indianapolis and
back to Chicago. A start was then made
for Omaha and when Clinton, la., was
reached a four days' rain set In, which
caused the party to give up the trip and
ship for Omaha. The entire distance
traveled was t,800 miles.
Several Omaha owners loft yesterday for
Rock Island to attend the Transmisslsslppl
Golf association tournament, which will be
held, beginning tomorrow, on the govern
ment links at the arsenal. Fred Hamilton
took his chauffeur. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. 8tewart and Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Burns. T. V. Mschllnd drove his high-powered
Olds runabout, taking a goodly supply
of Inner and other tubes. They will travel
together. Friday Mr. Hamilton telephoned
around Iowa and found several bridge out
between Des Moines and Iowa City, so they
have decided to follow the more northern
route of the Northwestern.
Word has been received from G. W.
Wattles that he has been to the factory.
secured his new machine and is now tour
ing New England.
In the Automobile World.
Wheeled carriages were first .Used In
France In li69.
Ti. . Iai.....! wnv a rn 1 1 ml often is surer
than a main road beset with police trap.
W. C. Warwick, representing the trank
lln factory, was at tue Power garage last
w AeJt'or,mana are nlreafiv under way for
Pllisburg s next show, which will be bald
as soon after Christmas aa possible.
Encouraged by the success of thoir
Orphans' Day parade, Pittsburg motorUU
are now planning ivr noiot "
tbe autumn.
The post office department ha authorized
Postmaster Aahhurst of Pluladelpiila to
experiment with automobiles In the col
lection of malls.
Prince Borghese entered the Pekln to
Paris race from sheer love of sport, being
one of the most ardent inoiorluU! on tue
European continent.
Officials of the Albany Automobile club
are fast completing arrangements for the
limile road race st for beptember It and
upon to amateurs only.
The first person to be arrested and fined
for violating the speed law at Kitianlng.
Pa., was Rev. F. C. Hartehorne, reoior
ol an Episcopalian cnurcu.
The Automobile Club of America, a New
York city organization, now claim to be
the largest club of lis kind in the country.
It has nearly l.Guo members.
"Corn poppers'" Is the term Invented by
Philttdelpma motorists for 'the motorcycle
policemen who blossom forth each spring
and flourish but for a season.
R. 8. Buckman of Colorado Spring, en
route from the Rocky mountains east, has
been at the Powell garage during the last
week, overhauling his machine.
Nearly 4,&u0 has been raised for the
erection of a memorial In Paris to the late
M. Serpollet who did so much for motoring
both In France and In England.
At the Atlantic City Auto Carnival, be
ginning August 6. about ,0u0 worth of
cups will be distributed to the winner of
the sixteen event on the program.
A new record from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg recently was made by Miss Elsie
Jania, the young actress, who drove her
car across Pennsylvania in forty-one hours.
To accomodate the great demand for
Instruction the West Bide Young Men a
Christian asaoclatlon. New York, has been
compelled to open a night automobile
school.
A record of fifty and a half hour
recently was made from Los Angeles to
Khyolite, Nev.. by Fred H. Vahrenkamp.
Most of the 400 mile lay trough Death
Valley.
January and February are the bet
month for racing on Ormond Beach, Fla..
because the northeast storms of December
leave the strand In excellent condition for
speeding.
Among members recently elected to the
Royal Automobile club of England la the
wealthy, powerful Duke of Portland, who
owns a fine "stud of motors." aa th
Britons style It. ,
So many tourists are taking their Ameri
can cars with them to Europe this year
that one eastern builder has found It prof
itable to open an agency at Paris to sup
ply spare parts.
1 1 , I, a . Anrt.A th CVflVlCt SVB-
teui of road buldlng so successfully em
ployed ny oiner siuies. i"v
In 'gangs of twenty each with an armed
guard to each gang.
At the recent semi-annual meeting of the
Association of Licensed Automobile Manu
facturers ji.OuO was appropriated to be used
at the discretion of a good roads committee,
to be appointed later.
In the endeavor to provide a dust proof
road the municipal authorities of Garden
City. L. I., Willi have a top layer of vltrlfled
brick placed on a macadamized street much
patronised by motorists.
Breaking away from a Pittsburg abattoir
a wild bull wandered about the cliy for
three days defying capture, until It was
chased Into a park and co mured by a squad
of police In a touring car.
John D. Rockefeller, according to the
tax assessor of Cleveland, ride In eight
machines In that city all valued at only
ll.SuO. In sharp contrast, Mayor "Tom"
Johnson uses three machines worth M.700.
A New York capitalist, who recently ad
vertised In Pittsburg, offering llO.uuO for a
man with a practical Idea for a puncture
less tire, received M replies. One of the
Ideas he believes will prove feasible.
British autolsts are having their troubles
with the oil trust. In response to repeated
public demands, the embargo on petrol has
been removed from ships passing through
the Sue canal. Yet the price of oil keep
up.
In spit of all pleadings. Governor Hughe
has virtually put an end to all hope for
the Vanderbilt cup race on Long Island
use of the state troop to protect tbe crowd
iroin uangrr.
Active steps are being taken by the Royal
Automobile cluh of Great Britain to Biecure
ths co-operatlon of Its own members, a
well as of the members of affiliated clubs,
on the suppression of sirens and exhaust
cut -out a
When James B. Duke, head of tbe To-
hncco trust sslls for Europe, wlK-re he will
ninrry Mrs. William Itiiusn of Atlantic, he
w til take with him on Amcrlcan-bullt car,
which cost :,m. In which be end his
1-rUle will tour the continent.
The origins! "gas bij;gv" built by tleorgr
W, Seldrn In 1vj7, still Is serviceable, hav
ing been run on the Out tenberg. N. J.,
trsck recently to satisfy counsel In s suit
over the 8li1en pstrnt tlist It could bo
operated under Its own power.
Probably the largest single order for elec
tric vehicles was pieced recently by a
Brooklyn, N. Y., department store. It wus
for fifty one-ton delivery wagons, live two
ton delivery trucks snd five one-ton wag
ons for special delivery purposes.
A recent count of vehicles pnslng throuvh
Fleet street. London. In twelve hours, re
sulted In a total of 10.372, of which 1.121
Were motor driven. In ISSI a count showed
only S,3i vehicles passing through the great
thoroughfare In twenty-four hours.
Governors Stokes of New Jersey, Stuart
of Pennsylvania and Hiurhcs of New York
and Colgate Hoyt, president of the Auto-'
moniio ciud or America, are among those
aked to serve aa Judges at the Atlantic
City automobile carnival, August 6.
8. F. Edge, who recently smashed world's
records by the wholesale on the new ce
ment motor trsck at Urooklatid, England,
and who covered 1.W0 miles In 14 hours. St
minutes and 16 seconds, announces he will
attempt soon to lower that record.
Th banked corners, or rather bends, of
the great llrooklanda track In England, are
of 1.(11 fet radius, with huge slopes of
saucer-like curvature, so steep In the steep
est parts than one cannot walk upon them,
the maximum gradient being one In two.
Philadelphia autolsts who pass through
fashlonnble Hryn Mawr, the pretty Penn
sylvania college town, have been eom-
fielled within a few weeks to hand over a
srge sum In fines levied because they
failed to toot their bonis at a certain cross
ing. one of the few cars to finish with a per
fect score In the recent strenuous relia
bility contest of the Copenhagen Auto club
was on American two-cylinder machine.
The dlstaneo wos 3O0 kilometres over the
hllllest roads In the vicinity of the Danish
capital.
Experiments made bv Iondnn hospitals
show conclusively that dally spins In motor
cars largely Increase the red corpuscles In
the blood, as well as tlielr haemoglobin
Content. The experiments further show
that automoblllng s an excellent cure for
Insomnia.
The members of the American Emigra
tion commission, who recently toured Italy
In an automobile, were objects of srreot
wonder to th reiiiilents of manv remot"
sections of Sicily and Calabria, who for
the first time saw a vehicle moving with
out horss.
The new army automobile Invented bv
Dr. 8. N. McLean of Cleveland will be
given a test this month by the United
States ofl'.eers at Sandy Hook proving
grounds The car will follow floating tar
gets Its rapid fire gun peppering away at
lii" rounds a mtpute.
When the contestants in the Peking and to
Paris race reached the monastry occupied
by the I,nm of Urga. who Is second only
In Importance to the Grand Lama of Thibet,
the princely potentate had his attendants
drag forth a motor car of his own, which
proved to be cheap and worthless. Just
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five days. Still taking orders for
1908 Stoddard-DaytonsN Wise people will place their order
in time. Only one other American car has been as popular
as the Stoddard-Dayton this year and none of them are for
6ale. O ar allotment of fifty for next year will'soon be gone.
Still have the old Pope; being overhauled. Price has
gone down to $1,600.00.
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who "stuck" the lama, the Europeans were
Unable to discover.
Falling a victim to "mntorlt Is" Alfred F
l,iiK!ieiil, a 1'biladelphla voutu of 24. soM
his hlrthrlnht to an relate of i''".'" for a
loan of .l.io, Kitn uliirh to buy sn auto
mobile. Tiring of the luai bine be sold It
for a mere song and has now begun suit
to recover his right to the ustate.
Illustrative of the fad for brightly painted
cars, the irim.ii;. r of an eastern anionic-,
bile manufacturing concern recently re
ceived a bright purple had pencil, atxxit
three Inches long, from n customer. lt!t
the s'. -mention that the csr ordered
shoull be linlsjir.l In that particular tint.
Ill vetoing a hill providing that no per
sons should le permitted to operate an
ei-Klne. IrreSfX'i 1 1 e of motor power, ex
cedlng ten-horse power, unless the opera
tor be a licensed steam engineer. Mayor
Mcl'h-llon of New Voik pointed out that It
would apply to auto nohlles and hence was
absurd.
In addition to Its I.ake Mnhopno and
Long lleach tiub houses, the City an.l
Country club Is making arrangements for
another country home nearer New York
City, to provide n romletvous for ths cluh
members who wish to make short evening
trip after business hours.
While F. C. Whitney, the American
horseman wos In London recently, he hsd
sn urgent business call to Florence. Ho
made the trip both ways In an automobile,
Covering 3.Hm miles through France and
Ilalv In less than seven Jays Wherever
possible he drove at the rate of fifty mile
an hour.
Darlington P. Rhodes of Denver, one of
the leading road engineers of the country,
has lieen Interviewing motorists of Penn
sylvania upon tho proposed fia.WO.'WI stato
highway between Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, and declares that the proposition,
though defeated In the last legislature, I
not dead by any means.
Worse troubles than those experienced In
the Gobi desert awaited the contestants In
the Peking-Paris race between I'rga nd
Klr.hkta. Several cars became mired In
deep morasses, the passengers being at th
mercy of the setnl-snvuge Mongolian, who,
however, were willing to help the motorist
out when money wos shown them.
A competition for devices whloh will pre
vent cars fmm being stolen Is being or
ganlxed by the French Association Gen
erale Automobile. It is Intended to develop
spparntus cnl ulnted at once to prevont
tampering with cars, left unattended on
the street and also the clandestine use of
cars luft In garages by their trusting
owners.
While the Kngllsh Judges appear to be
strongly prejudiced against motorists, Kng
lish Juries, seemingly, desire to play fair.
An nutolst was sued recently at Hath be
cause his machine frightened a cob horse.
The Jury held that the fright was caused
bv smoke emitted by the auto, which was
Just starting, but that It was not due t(t
any negligence on the part of the motorist.
Touring motorists should beware tho risk
Involved In buying luhrlcatlng oil for th
motor of agents and dealers In out of th
way places as the average gasoline engine
Is very sensitive to poor grades of oil. In
case an emergency demands the use of
some unknown ond heavy compound It I
well to mix a little kerosene with It before
taking chance on dirty valves or gummed
cylinder.
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Hank this week. This vault is really
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bank vault west of Chicago.
All sold out of the little Four
Cylitder Fords. Carload on the
way which will reach us 'in about
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