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.
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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.
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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...
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AMERICA'S
CHAMPION
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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.
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