La Grande evening observer., May 13, 1916, Image 11

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 191t.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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SCHEME IS WELL USED
WHO HAMMERED THE CHAMP? !
WHY. HAMMER DID
THREE COMING CHAMPIONS
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A part of one business block was
cunvassed a dr.y or two ago by com
mittees from the La Grande Motor-
club for memberships to tha associa-
4'n and so generally successful were
u men, mat ino financial tuture of
to- nstitution is looking very bright.
pr idea is new and appealing.
' : How It Works.
One man interrogated about the
matter, thought he was asked to con
tribute to a good cause and was
about to willingly diaige it up to ex
pense, but his money was refused on
that basis. The club this year offers
season tickets to three meets for $5.00
to each owner of an automobile. Now
that not only takes him to the bif
classic, but all preliminary meets, and
cllows use of the track when there
is no meet. On it he can speed up
'his car and enjoy a really fast ride
f.ee from dangers of speed cops. The
.businessmen are looking at it in that
way, now, and realize they are getting
something for their money. Those
iiho are not auto owners are asked to
pay $2.50 for their season tickets
which is less than if they bought t'hem
for ach meet in the same way help
ing the god cause along. The surface
has merely been scratched for mem
bership. '
It i'b purely a co-operative proposi
tion aiming toward one of the great
est motorcycle classics in the country,
which is not a fantastic dream. The
building of tha hack here is attract
ing much attention and factories are
quering about the near approach of
the day when they can send men. here
to test it out prior to the Speed 'Em
Up races July 22 and 23.
SPORTS POT POUR1U.
Bob Alexander Thursday evening
drove a Maxwell out of the Leighton
garage.
Officials lined up for the Eastern
Ocagon track meet at Baker this af
ternon include two Olympic stars in
the persons of Daniel M. Kelly, Jr., of
Baker and Coach: Edmundson of the
Whitman College track team at
Wialla Walla, thev having been se
cured to act as officials.
Kelly, as, every sport fan here
abouts knows, sot the amateur hun
dred yard dash mark at 9 3-5 seconds
or at least it was so announced
which has never been beaten. Hn
mada his record at Spokane and ac
companied, the American . Olympic
games team to the Iondon meet. He
will act as field judge,
Edmundson, who will officiate as
starter, is the former University of
Idaho half-mile champion, holder of
the collegiate half-mile record. Ed
mundson, too, has crossed the deep
to represent Uncle Sam in the Olym
pic games, having been a member of
the American team contest at Stock
holm in 1912.
New York, May 13. Some of the
most prominent horse owners in the
country have their favorites entered
in the two days race meet of the Un
ited Hunts Racing Association,
which onens at the Belmont Park
Terminal today. The second day's
events will b; held Wednesday (May
17). The entry list is 270, the great
est number ever received for a race
meet in America. There are thirteen
events for cash prizas totalling $13,
500; and handsome trophies. Two
races each day are limited to gentle
men riders and to encourage their
participation in all of the events the
amateurs are allowed a five pound
handicap in the other races.
Word comes from Mexico of a thril
ling trip from Columbus, N. M. to
Casas Grandes made by Dr. W. L.
Brown, of El Paso, who was called to
attend Lieut. Col. Tyree Rivers who
was ill with pneumonia at the Ameri
can front.
Dr. Brown was conveyed across the
Mexican desert in one of the regular
Dodge Brothers cars in use in the
army and the remarkable. time of six
and one half hours was made by the
army car.
As ireported in an El Paso paper
Dr. Brown said that the roads were
in horrible shape, due 'both to their
' natural condition and to the constant
travel of the heavy motor trucks used
in conveying supplies to the American
troops.
Robt. Brack, who has faithfully
served as mail carrier on R. D. 2 out !
of Elgin for several years, has pur
chased the re-constructed Ford known
as the "Red Devil" which racsd at the
fair last fall from Dorse Barnes and
is now using the same regularly on
that route and with good satisfac
tion. Brack's route covers a distance of
17 miles and while he and Barnes
were trying out the machine succeed
ed in covering that route and mnkine
all deliveries and collections of mail
in exactly one hour and 11 minutes.
Of course, Brack does not make that
time regularly but makes his daily
trips in one fourth the time required
by horses and with but little expense
remarks the Elgin Recorder.
He plans on using the auto during
a greater part of the year and esti
mates that a considerable saving can
"be made thereby.
Ralnh Mulford broke tha World's
record Sheephendhny May second,
Hudson's Upper Six Stock Chassis,
covering eighteen hundred and nine
teen miles in 21 hours, average 71
miles per hour, total distance equipp
ed with Silvertowns, made only one
replacement at fifteen hundred and
twenty miles, chajvge being merely
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Elizabeth Becker. Aged Thirteen Cameron iV.iTcy, Aged l our, High
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Here '.ore three young swimmers the experts promise 'will beccmo cham
pions in th water when they gl ow up. hlizabet'.i Becker, ageu thir
teen, of Philadelphia, is already the equal of, many full grown women
swimmers, and lately she gave Miss Olga Dqrfner, n tussle to heat her at
fifty yards. Cameron Coffey, a LosAngplcs youngster of toa: years, ha,
done some dating high diving. Hejumps from a height cf twenty feet.
Jeo Handy is the best, in the Brookline, Mass., high school. He has co
vcred 100 yferds in oli 4-& seconas. - -
Tominorrow, barring bad weather,
the La Grande ball team goes to Elgin
for tho second game of the Valley
league season. Imbler goes to Cove,
and both the teams now on top are
aeterminud to stay there. (
That La . Grande faces a stronir
team in Elgin tomo:row all will admit
who saw the game last Sunday. But
it is also clear that the Elginites are
not invincible, and that when the op
posing team takes the aggressive with
enough vim. the nowerful Elgin de
fense crumbles. That was seen in the
ninth inning of. last Sunday's game.
But, if by chance, that little shrimp of
a Blumonstein boy should keep his
rigger trimmed for full nine innings
the e is small chance of La Grande de
veloping enough offensive power to
break the wall down. Ths Elgin team
is not to be snickered at, but it can
be beaten though La Grande found il
necessary to keep pecking away for
morp than eight innings to do it.
All this praise for Elgin then
some for La Grande. It took per
sistency to turn the. trick, last Sunday
and the fighting spirit sterns to bo in
tho tiquad this year to do that very
thing. We haven't seen Imbler and
tove in action yet, but if they can
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Ever Hammer
Everllamnxer a tough Chicago
lightweight, has joined the ranks of.;
tr hoys who have whipped Freddy,
Welsh-Rabbit, lightweight champion
of the world. In a ten- round contest
in Milwaukee the other evening Ham- j
mer showed' up the champion as hud
been done by Willie Ritchie, Benny i
Leona'rd and Joe Shugrue. Managers
of other ligritwidghts are now deep-!
ly interested in Mr. Hammer and his
punch, - . '
sylvaniu, Cornell, Harvard, Yale,
Syracuse, Columbia and Navy hlave
crews entered and reports indicate
that the race will.be sensational.
Special dispensation has ibeen allowed
in the case of crewa entered in the
Nteep a pace tha"t the other two clubs jChilds Cup race. Th;j winner of tha
have struck, the valley. will see some w" F'""",
good ball this year. ' Pst entry for the Stewards Challenge
:' N Cup race later in the day. Tha Childn
Catcher Shelton of the La Grande ' CuP ce "3 to, hlb"" i
' -hen he squints n.ong the Br:!
111 GT lino nl thl vnn)li hnmin. Ri.pa n " .v-..- - tr
large number of' his own team last
year when he guided tho O.-W. shop
team. All but three or four were un-
Many parents, relatives
and friends have satis
factorily solved the prob
lem of what to give the
children on their birth
days l-y starting them
with a savings account
and adding to it ' from
year to year.
In the meantime the child
is also encouraged to stive
and thus early in life is
educated to the habit oi
W thrift.,.
"jS? The Officers of The Uni
Jyj ted States National Bank
fQ recommend savings' ac
"W counts ' as satisfactory
yy birthday gifts. As little
"PWs s $1.00 will start the
child oh the ;"Bank Book
Road" to future happiness.
der him in
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12 Game Schedule of theValley League
WISE FOLKS La Grande Elgin Imbler Cove
READ ' May 14 June 11 May 28 ;
LA GRANDE THE June 25 July 9 ; July 10 .
May 7 May 21 June 11
blgin . Junel8 ; observer; Julyl0 jly 2
x,r. June 4" May 28 May 14
IMBLER Ju)y 2 July 25 FOR BBS 1 June
May 21 June 4 May 7 SPORT
C0 E July 25 July 9 June 25 NEWS
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.Last Mmulnv we mentioned that
"Claude" V1den was some pumpkin
in the Sunday garni. Now, as a mat
ter of fact "Claude" is seme nunipkin
on the bowling alleys but on the base
ball diamond it is Earnest or Emit,
wmc'.i ever suits best, that is beinji
reten-cd to.
which was not to Ue rowert over -tha
' regulation Henley course of ono mile i
I and 650 yards, but it was cut to the
standard distances, un aumtion to
the Childs and Stewards cupsr the
I various men and crews entered in the
twelve events on the .program will
strive to capture tho Farragut Cup
for the first singje sculls, trie Schuyl
kill Challenge Cup for the first double
sculls, the United States Navy Cup
for the special four oared shells, and
'ithe Franklin Challongo Cup for the j
I intorscholastic eight oared shells, i
" I W'hen t University Barge crew oi :
The I ourteenth Amehcan Henley Philadelphia, meets the Ariel crew of j
Philadelphia, May 13. All is in Baltimoie and the -Undine four, an-:
readiness for the fourteenth annujil other local crew, in the race for the!
American Henley regatta to be rowed Nnvv Cup, fur is expected to fly.
on t'-.e Schuylkill river here this after-1 Ariel is picked to win, but the Uni-
noon. with crews entered from pra?-1 versitv Barire crew is heme touted 09 I
ticnily all Eastern Universities and wonder this year. The Stewards!
boat clubs. Th:i most important Tace Cup contest has brought together a
will be that for the Childs Cup, in noted gathering. (Several local crews,
which crews from the University of the Union Club of Boston, Harvard
Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia Bophomores and the Pennsylvania
and U. S. Naval Academy will com- j third crew, are all entered. The dop
pete. This event was rowed at Prin- j esters a.; e doing little predicting on
ceton last year. The Junior colleg-ithis ovent and the result is awaited
iate eight oared shell race will be an- j patiently. In tho single sculls race
other attraction of tha regatta. Penn-for the Farragut cup, Jack Kelly of,
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H United States
Tfik National
E Bnk La Grande, ' jg
Oregon.
Vosper, who broke the record for the
event last year, will again he the
favorite, )'.'. . ; ' ....
a matter of . precaution as nothing
wrong with tires. Mulford drove en
tire distance; best previous record
made by Edges . in June 1901 at
Brooklands Track, England, with six
cylinder Napier covering 1,581 miles
in 24 hours." , .
So r.?ads a telegram from Ackron
Ohiio.
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The National, a car that costs $1720
at the factory, has made its debut to
I,a Grande. Miss Etta Foley is tha
owner and driver of this machine, of
splendid lines and generally attractive.
She .recently traded in a New Dodge
preferring a more expensiva car and
got this six-passenger touniout. L.
C. Smith handles the Nationals here.
H. O. Harrison Co. distributors of Our Want Ads bring results,
the Dodge Bros, car, San Francisco,
think so highly of motor oil made
from western asphalt 'base cruda,
that they use nothing else in th;ir
demonstrating cars, and all the cars
they sell go out filled with this oil.
"We have had a good opportunity
of observing its action in the Dodge
motor," says H. P. Huddleston, Man
ager of the Service Dept., "both in the
hands of our own man and of our cus
tomers, and are entirely satisfied-with
tho results. Our motors are free
from carbon, compression is at iis
highest point of efficiency, and we
.are never troubled with over-heating
and laboring of the motor on long
hard pulls." -
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BUYERS. AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, COUNT THE HUPMOB1LE SERVICE SYSTEM
SOMETHING MORE THAN THE SIMPLE RENDITION OF FREE SERVICE.
They see in it an unwritten but none the less
trustworthy guaranty of the quality and per
formance of the car.
And they accept it as a further concrete ex
piression of our belief that tho four-cylinder
Hupmobile is "the best car of its class in the
world."
Indeed, no car less worthy could support a service
system such as we have installed for Hupmobile
owners.
For your own sake, find out about the Hupmobile
service plan before you buy any car.
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New Foley Building,
La Grande, Ore.
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