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THE OMAHA SUNDAY HKE:' APRIL 12. 00 Tim - Omaha . Sunday Bee. DMA HA. 8CSDAT. ArBIL K. UUPGMENTSl A WESTERN league season nevrr opened more Buopti Imisly than th season of IV wilt open Wednes day. W haven't got the eight teems, that'a true, but we have alx, and they are alx good team. They have been a renal hened durlns; the winter, until vary on promises great Improvement over ta record of last year. If there la anything In dope, certainly thla ought to be a fast race for the pennant. Even Omaha, strong aa It waa Isst year, la materially stronger thla year. With the aame line-up In most caeea. It has changed only where change will give atrength. Kvery team soims to have done the aame. And then thrrc are certain extraneous circumstances, to which It la not meet to refer In detail, that promise encouragement. Omaha opena the season at Dca Molnea with four gamin, then goes to Bloux City for four games and cornea home to meet Lincoln In four games, beginning April 23. Not only has Pa Rourke Improved his Champion team, but he has improved the grounds by putting down a grass diamond. This will prove ita popu larity on a windy day, and also on any day when the tun la shining and the weary eyes can get relief from that glaied surface. All In all, it looks as If President Rourke and Manager Buck Franck had that flag safely tucked in their coats for at least en mors season. From all over the country come reports of the Interest felt In the opening of the base ball season. Nothing could more po tently Indicate the hold this great game has rm the public. Its advantages as an ath letic sport are so many that to undertake to enumerate them would be tedious, but none Is of more moment than the fnct that it takes thousands of city dwellers and of fice workers Into the open air. under such conditlona as to stimulate the circulation of their blood and to excite them to healthy respiration while they are out. No matter if a man does not play base ball. If he is an enthualast on the game and understands the fine points of play, his heart Is set to besting faster during the time he is looking on st the game, and as a result he breathes deeper and gets purer air Into his lungs than he would have uptown. Such exercise naturally Is of benefit to his general health, and he goea home from each game he sees benefited by having the tonic effect of sunlight and fresh air and Increased cir culation of the blood. No matter what rise the game may hold In the way of pleasure, in this feature It la worth the while, for It does something for the sedentary American that he could not be Induced to take in any other form. But over It all Is the joyous ring of the solid base hit, the proud elation of the brilliant catch or wonderful slop, and supreme delight ,cf the corking throw that cuts off an opposing runner at the plate. This is why bsse ball hus such a hold on the affections of the Amer ican people and why It Is growing each season. t A big league scout makes the statement that the minor leaguea contain fewer prom lying youngsters today than ever; that it Is gradually becoming more difficult to find big league material in the minors. Tills man must have fallen down on his winter's work and must be putting up this talk to square himself with his boas. It has been 'it rather generally accepted view that the minor leaguea are rapidly rising Is major leasiio form, and that each season finds Us distance between the standards of the two. If by major league form this man referred to the work of one or two leaders f the big leagues his argument might be considered for a while, but when he says that the" minor leagues, such aa the West ern league, or the Eastern league, or the Southern league have fewer promising . players than ever, he is assuming a posi tion that would be extremely hard to main tain by a careful analysis. The fact is the uniformity of efficiency In the minor leagues Is impressing Itself more and more on the minds of base ball fans, as well aa the fact that the difference between majors and minors is growing lea each year. It Is Just quite possible that If the big leagues didn't Invade the minors every winter the minors would soon rise to the same stan dard of the big leagues, because they would get the advantage that comes from un broken association, which after all, is the secret of team work and success In any lcaiiue. The fact that each year the stars of the big league diamonds are those but recently recruited from the minora Is suf ficient answer to this scout. Keep In mind that this season a hats mui who knocks a fly far enough to ad vance a runner Is credited with a sacrifice hit when caught out. This Is a return to the practice of a few seasons ago and 'will, help the batting averagea of a lot of hitters. Think of how many sacrifice-, hits Johnny (landing would have had in past seasons If he had been given one for every long fly he lias boosted to help along a runner. It Is as effective as the Infield bunt and ought to be given as much weight In tho score table. The new rule will, make fielding a little closer, too, and ought to improve the game In both de partments. ,T Via flsr.rcs the U'ants for alxth dope In former seasons, this means that Migey Is going to win. tiie pennant and the, world's championship as well, Joe is about the swcllCKt dopester in the lot. All yt,u have to do to win is to coppur his tip. Cj.l.-f Jack Haskell has a. rouna-up with h.s fellow umps In Omaha tomorrow. They will go over the, season's work and agree on certain details calculated to promote harmony, efficiency and Interest. That's the rystvin. ... Hack's streak of yellow never looked fj bright as after ho got back to New York, where he was among friends. But it is doubtful If he will ever get even a Oothauiite to fall for his converaation again. President Tip is starting the season with fine lot of umps, and if nothing happens to the bunch to break In on Its organisa tion the Western league games ought to go through In first-class style this aum nier. Ducky Holmes has been seeing things during the. week. His bogey man takes the form pt the California Outlaw league. Poor Ducky. Pat Ragan la coming back to Pa's lot, and he ll be Jolly well liked here, too. Another season will aee him go up to stay. Joe Gana says ha will meet Rudy ITn hols If ha gets $a0,O0O, win or lose. J oi ls crafty, or he's avaricious. The pinochle pennant will soon b awarded, and then the real war of the sea son will he over. Jak rfelnter has signed. Now, War artara. It's ui to you. f I TROUBLES OF GOLF REFEREES Playeri Wanted Rule Changed on Ac count of a Tree. HIS TROUSERS WERE TOO THIN Whet Hrare I mpire May Dare the So cial Leader at a Resort Coarse Aspect of HemovJaaj Loose Impedimenta. PHILADELPHIA. April ll.-Golflng ref erees in the south suffer trials unknown to northern tournaments. Now. when a ball lights In a true hereabouts, the player cheerfully concedes that he must climb up to play the shot or else give up the hole. It will not do to dislodge thu ball by fling ing a club at it, counting one for the literal stroke, for the rule Insists on the play from where It lies. Yet at a southern tournament a golfer who got his hall into a tree made a most wrathful protest be cause thla rule was enforced. He wanted the referee to mako a special decision to save his chances for the hole. The line of argument the player put up is not covered by tho rules, for It hinged on the fact that the hall was In a thorn tree and he had on thin trousers. Another story the returning travelers have brought from tho south concerns the goings-on of some women who followed the recent match between the professionals. Martin OLauKhlln and Oil Nicholls. The latter has a Boston green and has toured tho resort courses for many winters, but O'l-aughlin, who Is the chubby-faced and curly-haired boy professional of the Plain field Country club, had not been south be fore this season. Dosplto his youth and small slature O'Laughlln Is one of the fore most home-bred golfers. During the match the women mentioned often violated ,the etiquette thai governs onlookers In ex pressing sympathy for O'Laughlln. At a critical point, when Nicholls essayed a short put, they Jumped up and down with fingers crossed and shrieked "Hope he misses! Hope ho misses!'1 After Nicholls played the shot he looked toward the women and remarked: "This Is not a dancing floor." When O'Daughlln won the feminine enthusiasts made a great time over him, and tho congralulatlona of a young matron are said to have been ex tended to the blushing boy In osculatory form. What could the referee do with the swirl of skirts against him? What he should have done is plain enough, but those who expound the ref eree's shortcomings do not happen to have been stopping at the resort. There Is no balm In such a Gllead to tho man who af fronts the social rulers of tho place. Pos sibly the United States Oolf association might make an addition to the code of etiquette staling exactly, what woman' on lookers must not do, no matter how their sympathies go. In the early days of resort golfing the prophecy had currency that the hospitality of the men amateurs would spoil tho professionals. It was a prophecy unfulfilled. Probably the resort profes sionals will escape as freely from tho warmth of feminine partisanship, but meantime the tactful referees must see nothing or wear blinkers. But when In the company of his golfing peers the referee does not always enjoy tnlin sailing. Horace Hutchinson, who ha acted In this capacity for hundreds of matches, gives this account of such an Inci dent: ' ' "Bx Way of Instance, not without an In terest of Us own and vcry typical of the un foreseen problems which the marker or the referee may be called upon to solve, I may' mention a caso which occurred In a match of some Importance, as the Importance of hiicIi things goes, In which I was more or less fulfilling, apparently In a manner which left something to be desired In the way of real, the duties of referee. A cer tain very well known amateur played a half running upproach shot up to a hole from a distance of sixty yards or so, as near as I can Judge. It so happened that my own attention for the moment was en gaged by the other players In this, a four some match and some of tho specators there was no rope, though there ought to have been were between me and the player first mentioned, snythat I could not see what occurred. This Inability Is frequent and inevitable where there Is only one marker, or referee; however, that Is an other story. The story I have now to tell opened, so far as my knowledge of it went, by one of the partnera on the side opposed to the plsyer of the running approaching shot saying to me: 'I say; did you see that?" The obvious answer waa: 'See what?' "Then It was explained that as the player walked up toward tho hole before playing his stroke In order to examine the ground he thoughtlessly turned back into Its place with nls club the loose-lying scalp of a wound In the turf. This was explained to me. Therefore I inquired, of the player what It was that ho had done, and he In terpreted his act as one of no thought or Intention, and said that the replacement was of a piece of turf lying quite off thr line of the approach. So then I asked the plaintiff, who had begun with "I say, did you see that?" whether he wished to claim the hole, and he, being a sportsman and a gentleman and not wishing to make a fuss and a regrettable Incident, said. 'Oil, no; 1 do not wish to claim It.' But still the situa tion waa not pleasant, the air was not quite clear; and as we all walked on to the hole I heard a spectator say to tho player whom I have called the plaintiff: "Of course he ought to have lost the hole for that. This sounded liko Information good enough to act upon, and by the time the hole had been played out I had been given a little thinking space, and said: "Now, I want to get at the facts of that incident, if I can before you hit off to the next hole, and I called upon that well known golfer who had apoken ao freely to the plaintiff. In hia sympathy, to help reconstitute the crime, but at once he, too, like thu plaintiff, with an amiable shrinking from notoriety, declared his utter agnosticism, and lnti mated aa much as that he was sorry he Bpoke. There is a moral in that, too, for the spectators that they should. If they are wise hesitate to give tongue on a ques tionable scent such as this, unless they are very ready to stick to the line afterward." A technical breach .had been committed of rule 8: "If any loose Impediment not being on the putting green which Is more than a club's length from the ball be re moved the penalty shall be the loss of tho hole." The retiree is to be praised for Interpreting the rule In a broad and Intelli gent way. To act on technicalities where rule 9 Is concerned 'may easily lead the referee ln(o an absurdity. For Instance, suppose a man about to piny sees a loose divot lying three or four yards from his ball and on the side of It further from the hole. Obeying the Injunction to "replace divots," and generously taking It to be ap plicable to all divots, suppose that the player replaces the bit of turf In the gaping wound beside which It lies. Well, he has committed the technical offense, "removed a loose Impediment not being on the putting green more than a club's length from tho ball." Tet no rlghtminded referee would take the hole away from this player on his own Initiative or on the protest of a Shy locklan opponent, ruthless In claiming his pound of flesh. On the autumn day when Travis and Byer6 played in the final of the 1S03 ama teur championship at Nassau, tho leaves lay as thick aa in Vallambrona. Travis, a stickler for rules and for a clean putting green, waa very energetic In brushing these loose Impediments away. Often as ho had In mind that tho rule defines "all ground within twenty yards of the putting green except hazards" as the putting green, Travis cleared away leaves beyond the then closely shaven circles of the Nassau greens. He placed the rules and his knowl edge of distances against the greenkeeper's habit of driving the grass cutters, gome members of the Oxford and Cambridge society's team did not grasp this situation. Besides, they favored Byers, and their re peated whispers that Travis was doing wrong finally stirred up Messrs. t'hauncey and Morgan of the I'nlted States Golf as sociation committee and for the nonce dual referees. On the tenth green, where Travis repeated his action, they stepped forward, book in hand, to make a ruling. Travis explained; Byers said ho had mado no protests, and, as tho committeemen with drew, the match wont merrily on. One of the contestants In the eastern professional golfers tournament at Brook line last fall was wrongfully disqualified by the referee because he brushed away leaves from the putting green with his hat. The best players, according to certain hap penings at the last amateur championship, seldom know the rules, and It is quite certain the ordinary referee, unless he car ries an Indexed code In his pocket, Is at ill more apt to construe them wrongly In emergencies. ATLANTIC CITY OOLF PROGRAM Aannal prlna Tournament of the Connlri- (lab Announced. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. April It. -The annual spring golf tournament of the Coun try cluh of Atlantic City will be held April .in and May 1 and 2, entries to close April 2! for the main event and May 2 at 10 a. m. for the handicap. Qualification play will take placo on April 30 and will consist of thirty-six holes, medal play. The time of starting and pairing of players will he announced Wednesday evening. Six six teens will qualify. The first sixteen will qualify for the governor's cup. the second fr the president's cup, the third for the Atlantic City cup, the fourth stxteen for the Northfleld cup, the fifth and alxth six teens for special cups to be given to those classes. In cases of tlea In qualifying round tho ' committee will draw lots to decide which sixteen the contestant will play In. The first and second rounds of match play will take place on Friday. May I, and the third and final on Saturday. May 2. All matchea will consist of eighteen holes. On Saturday all day. May 2. an eighteen hole medal play handicap will bt played, for which entry must be made not later than 10 a. ni. of that date. And the score turned In must be the first eighteen holes played by the contestant on that liny. A special consolation event will he arranged on Friday. May 1, for the defeated eights of each sixteen, so that the contestants at tending the tournament will be given an opportunity for competition during the en tiro three days, twelve cups, therefore, be ing In competition. Contestants scheduled for match play rounds Friday and Sttur day. May 1 and 2, will forfeit their mulches if they fall to report for play for morning matches by 11 a. m. and afternoon matches by 3 p. m. All cups become the absolute property of the winner. Prises will also be awarded tho runner-up for the main prlzo In each sixteen. Tho Individual player making the best qualification score, thirty six holes, medal play, on Thursday, will receive the qualification prize. Prises are offered for the winner of the handicap and for the player making theSbest gross score In the handicap. A special prize will he offered to the winners of the defeated eights event. Bxceptlng the best gross scijre prize for thirty-six holes a con testant may win but one prize during the tournament. Model 31, Price $1,400. FARMER BOYS BEST PLAYERS Iliiah Jennlnas t.lvea His Ideas on (be) Topic DETROIT, Mich.. April 11. Hughey Jennings of the Detroit Americans lias come out strong as the champion of fsrm bred boys for star ball players, rather than youngsters who have been brought up In the city, for he says that the hard work, early hours and wholesome food that the. former class arts brought ud on cause them to develop much faster and get their full strength much earlier than the would-be players who have too many attractions to keep them up late. "A boy In the country starts to play ball at the ago of IB," said Jennings. "Ho has plenty of place to play. He has no other attractions. He has Ideal air to breathe and good, plain food. He plays far more ball than his city counsln be cause he has more places and he is work ing under better conditions. In five years he Is a finished ball player and ready to try the big leagues. The city hoy. on the other hand, has many side lines to amuse himself with, and as a rule they are noi conducive to strength. He finds that fields where he can play are scarce and when he does play he doesn't get tho same fresh air. Aceordlngly he develops more slowly. He Is ready to try the league gnme at the age of 25. He la then almost too old to start In." JOE CANS IS NOT A CHEAP MAN Only Wants AUO.OOO, win or Lose, to Meet 1'nhols. PHILADELPHIA, April ll.-Joe- Oans, tho lightweight champion, Is no cheap figher. Jack McOulgan, mnnager of the National Athletic club showed Gana a telegram he had received from Jim Jef fries offering Cans 60 per cent of the gross receipts to fight Rudolph Unholz at his new club Just outside of Los Angeles, Cal., on April 23. but Gans told McGuigan lie would not think of fighting I'nholz unless he got a big piece of money for his trouble, naming 120,000 for his end. Timely Tips for Automobile Owners and Drivers Portland, Ore, dealers are preparing for a feliow. Motorists of Portland, Me., are organ izing a club. Although Globe, Ariz., has 10.000 residents, there is not an automobile in tho city. One of the best methods of saving repair expenses is to pick the best road for the car. A new auto livery company is being formed in Cleveland, with a capital of The new ear designed for Fler Chief Wal lace, of Cleveland, will be equipped for tarrying a life net. The Automobile club of Switzerland has organized a war automobile corps, which will consist of 130 cars. The Pittsburg Motor Cycle club will hold a race meet Juno 6. with six events in cluding a one-hour handicap. A slnglo New York City motor cycle policeman recently arrested thirty-five chauffeurs for speeding in one day. A consular reiiort says there wero about i.Yeoo pleasure automobiles and 1,112 com mercial cars in Prussia on January 1. A car recently" purchased by the town of Tyiieiuotith, Kuglaml. can be used as an ambulance, file apparatus or prison van. The Spanisch )nstal officials are figuring on Introducing motor vehicles for deliver ing letters and packages in rural districts. The municipal authorities of Jersey City, N. J., will amend their fire regulations so as to prohibit the storage of eutomoblles in stables. "Black smoke" Indicates too much gaso line, to tho amount of air In the carbur etter; blue smoke Indicates too much cyl inder oil. A French metallurgist baa at last achieved the loitg-souslit-for process of copper-plating steel, protecting It from corrosion. Thirty-one different makes of cara are repr scnted among those owned by New York City for the use of officials and de partments. Judge K. H. Gary, head of the Steel Trust, will be elected president of the An tomohle cluh of America at New York Tuesday night. The Motor club of Hsrrlsburg Is the lat est, acqulaitlon of the Pennsylvania Motor federation, which Is a nontrade, nonaport Ing organization. One unique result of the New York-to-Paris race haa been to spur school children in both American and Europe to a closer atudy of geograpiiy. Never use emery cloth to clean the point of the spark plug or the porcelain, aa it roughena it, making soottng. all the easier. l's? an old tooth brush. French chauffeurs have secured the promise of the minister of public works to auporl their bill to require every driver to be a mechanical engineer. With forty-three clubs as members, the New York State association of the Ameri can Automobile association Is the strong rst. numerically. In the country. After having furnished for many yetrs a large proportion of the steel used in au tomobiles built In other cttlva, Pittsburg at last baa a factory of its own. If a motor doaa not si art by turning It over two or thre times one should ha sure that the switch is on and that ilia cur ium ttrr Is properly pitmed for starting. u4 nd wltn iOUChes of gold, en hanced at night by 10.000 electric lights, were the colors used in the Piuaburg deal ers' second annual show tho last week. Actual test haa shown that the automo bile used by Fire Chief Coots of Indian apolis can be started and gotten under way quicker than a horse can be hitched. The kaiser and German empress took with them to the Island of Corfu, where they are spending several weeks, six tour ing cars and twe motor transports for bug gage. The management of the annual fall fair at Appleton, Wis., already Is making ar rangements for a series of automobile races during the three days of this year's show. Owing to the large number of automo blllsta which now frequent that city, the Toledo (O.) city council has adopted an entirely new set of rules designed to aid traffic. Paris police recently arrested a genuine autophobe, a man who apparently had a mania for damaging a car whenever he found one standing unattended along a street. Much time will be devoted at the Inter national Congress of Highway Kngineers at Paris in Octolier to discussing methods to prevent automobiles injuring macadam rotula. In the endurance contest to be held by the Norrlstown, ra., Auiomonue ciiin, on April 27, no mechanical device for showing apeed will be permitted on any of the ma chines. The cities of Frankfort, Wiesbaden and Hamburg have united with the Imperial Automobile club of Xlermany In pushing the proposed $1,000,000 speedway, or motor drome. Special care should be sKen in filling grease cups to remove mud which may have splashed upon them; otherwise the grit is likely to find Its way to and injure bearings. The Automobile club of Bridgeport. Conn., will hold its annual hill-climb on the morn ing of Memorial day. on Sport Hill, Easton, Conn., the roailup which Is both steep and tortuous. . Milwaukee sutorrmhllisls are lubllant over the plana of the Milwaukee County Park commission, which la planning to make Milwaukee a succession of parks and boulevards. It ts now thought that either the Atlan tic Cltv or Car May beach, in New Jer sey, will be relected as the course f-r tht annual race for the trophy offered by 8ir Thomas Dewar. The Automobile club of Little Rock Is the first to be organized in Arkansas, while others ars, under way at Pine Bluff and Fort Smith, with a state asso ciation in sight. ' President J. p. Coughlln. of the Dor chester, Mass.. Automobile club, who re cently sailed for Naples with his wife. In tends visiting France In time to wltnesa the Grand Prix. New Haven auto lovera atill are compli menting the promotora of the recent show tnere on the excellent taste dlsplaved in using stately palm trees as tba principal floor decoration. Pr Henry O-trom. sn evangelist, who Is preaching In Philadelphia, urges motorists Kt to be afraid to attend church In their machine, and to use them to carry aged and Infirm church-goers. Th MasMchuaetta Hla-hwav commission writes itMM tliwu j motor vehicles, expects to. collect $90,000 In license fees this year, of which nearly onc lialf already has been received. A fight for good roads has been Inaugu rated In Virginia by the Board of Directors of tho Virginia Travelers' Protective aaao cittion, representing nearly 2,5u0 traveling men, wholesalers and manufacturers. Americans who winter in Paris have adopted the faahion of breaking the sea son by motor trips to tho Kivieru, and at this season of the year many American cars are seen daily on the roads of south ern France. The Minneapolis Automobile club has persuaded the city council to agree to re peal all of the existing municipal motor vehicle regulation, in return for which the clubs attorney is to furnish a draft of a proposed new ordinance. As an Instance of the dvslre of the muni cipal authorities of iCuropean resorts to cater to the pleaaurea of tourlsta the council of Nice recently Improved it prin cipal streets and coated It with a dust pre ventive to attract motorists to the cityl So many senators and representatives at Washington drive their own runabouts be tween their homes and the capitol that a garage may be built under the capitol terrace to care for the machines while the owners are attending to the affairs of state. The Chicago Motor club, the younaest organization of autoists In that city, has "'"" uijuiM-iiun proceeaings to prevent the enforcement on May 1 of th wheel tax which Inflicts upon motor-driven ve hicles double the tax imposed on horse drawn ones. In the Wisconsin city made famous by b-er they have thla most euphonious wsv of announcing that a motorist liaa been fined for exceeding the speed limit. "John Heber has Joined Judge Neelen s 1908 auto club and has paid his Initiation fee of 111) and costs. ,1" A Paris court has sentenced to six months' imprisonment the chauffeur who fatally Injured Mme. Lumber, wife of the architect of Versailles palace, and has or dered the owner of the car to pay the widower an annuity of $:to during the re mainder of his life. Alexander S Revell of Chicago, who Is at the head of the commiaalon in charge of the erection at Paris of the statue of lM fayetle. paid for by American acliool c hll oren, ia touring Italy in his car with Mra H,".)V whtlH w'"nT the time for the official dedication of the statue. lnNfiT- JZT reaped fS5 S4 from motorists In 11,. $w.,,4 from 1..61S regisiratlon cer- K "id ,S;,6 ,3rlvr'' ''nses and t,6 from finea for law fracures. All thli money waa uaed for road Improvement the coat of maintaining the department ni motor vehlclea, 113.372, being borne by the state department. ' Bxploslor - In the muffler of a multl cyhnder car are caused by the cylinders firing Irregularly. The unexploded charge psases through th exhaust pipe into the muffler and la Ignited there bv the heat of the next explosion. Very often a poor spark caused by a weak storage battery Is the cause of tha trouble. George W. Cooley. engineer and secre tary of the Mlnnesoia Slate Highway coin mission, is working on a unique experiment wlih sand 'roada. He has planted clover In the road and along tha aides. Wheji If attalna a good growth he will cut It and mix It In the sand of the roadway. In thla manner he horwa to so change the nature of the soil aa to make It good for road-buildinc. f... 7 Think of riding fifty miles to make a call and coming back without the slightest fatigue. ' Your far-away friends practically become your next door neighbors and you can give them the pleasure of frequent rides with the aid of a Rambler. You can spend your vacation in a Rambler and come back to work again with renewed health and a keener zest for business. Automobiles We want to give you the names and addresses of Rambler owners who have driven their cars from 15,000 to 50,000 miles and can tell you how little it costs to run a Rambler. 1 We want to show you why any man or woman can drive a Rambler why the Rambler unit power plant increases power, reduces wear, and makes it the easiest car to care for. We Want to show you the tilting body on Model 31, and to demonstrate what it means to have every working part of your car easily accessible. May we? I RAMBLER, AUTOMOBILE CO. 2044 Farnam St. Omaha. Neb. Agents Wanted. Liberal Cnntrnct. ni... VM I ' IHWHHIS II .III . Ill' m snwiir an AMERICA'S CHAMPION 531 O U LLETIN Sl.OOO.OO REWARD All We Ask is a Square Deal and No Favors AVhile many competitors are fair and realize our victory benefits the whole American industry, certain knockers, to boost their sales and injure ours, have made false and malicious statements that the Thomas Flyer was not a stock car, that cylinders were changed, and that the car was necessarily rebuilt during the race. We hereby notify them that their statements are false and malicious and must cease, or they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. AVe make the folloAving statement in order that our friends and the public may know the truth, and we offer $1,000.00 reward for proof to the contrary. WE HEREBY CERTIFY that the Thomas Flyor In the New York-to-Parls race. IS ABSOLUTELY AX ORDINARY STOCK CAR. selescted only six day before the race, and was not especially prepared or tested. Futhermore. It is Identical In piotor, clutch, driving shaft, radiator, carburettor,' trans mission gsars, frame, wheels, bearings,, and in all other essential features of its mechanism with hundreds of Tbonips tars now in use by Thomas owners. WE ALSO CERTIFY that the Thomas Flyer ran from New York to Cheyenne, a distance of 2,028 miles, almost entirely over roads made practically impassable by snow and mud, climbing moun tains, plunging through ruts and fording btreams. without overheating once; without repair or re placements of cylinders, spark plugs, transmission, radiator, bearings, clutch, carburettor or other meehancial parts except at Buffalo, not having time to do so before shipment to New York, a regular stock uxle, such as Thomas owners have been using for two years at Tonapah and Ooldfield, was substituted for tho dropped type which, however, was in perfect condition. In fact, the only breakage was two chain links, easily replaced, and a sprocket housing. Detailed reports beyond, have ot been received, but telegraphic reports state repairs were in- significant, and that the car arrived in San Francisco In splendid condition, ready to proceed on the long Journey, a feat unparalled in the history of automobiles the longest and severest endurance contest In the history of the world, and one that makes the Glldden Tour on well traveled roads between large titles, pale into insignificance by comparison. The Thomas was only entered be cause we believed it to be a reflection on the American industry to have five foreign cars carry five foreign flags across the American continent without an American car contesting for American supremacy, (Signed) E, R, THOMAS MOTOR COMPANY, By Edwin Ross Thomas, President. I H. E. FREDERICKSON - 2046 Farnam St.. Omaha. Neb. aTr.' ,T." ITT. ' ". 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