THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MAY- S. 1908.
Portland Automobile Road Races Attract Attention Throughout United States
. Course Is Laid Through Rolling Country East of Portland and Is Ideal.; Being Ifast With Number of Sharp Turns to Give Spice of Danger.
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You've Always Said:
"If the Cadillac Company would only
build a big car as good as its little car
they would have - the whole . world
beaten." '
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BY W. J. PETRAIN".
PORTLAND'S 100-mile automobile
road race to be held here on
June 4. of the Rose Carnival
la., attracting widespread attention
amonsc the racera and automo
bile dealers throughout the United
States. Scarcely a day passes but some
. utw entry or prospective entry is re-
celved by the Portland Automobile Club,
' under whose auspices the event is to take
,- place, and the correspondents are anxious
' to be informed of the conditions and
.: rules governing the contest. Some of
'; the prospective entrants are not satis-
fled to leave the matter to the malls
and are either in the city at present or
'.' on their way here to investigate for
themselves.
Among the out-of-town entries now on
; the ground Is F. Fatberth, who will race
;' the Oldsmobile car in the lou-mile event,
and Friday morning he went over the
course with one of the local drivers for
the purpose of looking over the route.
'. On his return to the city he was en
' thusiastlc In his praise of the route se
.lacted,, and declared that It was a much
.'.better road than is the Briarcliffe course,
over which the recent races were run
In New York state. Falberth was espe
cially pleased with the splendid sc-mile
straightaway from Merrill's Twelve-Mile
House to Russellvllle, which he says is
one of Wie best pieces of macadamized
roadway in the United States.
The opinion of this Eastern expert is
voiced by most of the local drivers, and
the Portland Automobile . Club and -the
'Rose Festival Association are congratu
lating themselves on arranging for such
ia. gigantic attraction for the festival
week.
" The start of the racers will be made at
-a point on the Base Line Road a little
.east of Russellvllle and . the course runs
jwest to where the Russellvllle road in
tersects, and turning south on that thor
oughfare, will run over to the Section
"Line Road, and thence east to Greshara,
'and from that point north to the Base
JJne, thence west to the starting point
.and continuing, the entries will make
-the circuit seven times In- order to com
plete the 100 miles.
The route "at present possesses three
exceedingly dangerous points, but before
,the races are run the county officials
.and the promoters of the race, working
In conjunction, will have alleviated most
nf the danger by widening and ballasting
Hho poorly equipped ; portions of the
course.
The first .danger point is located at
what Is known as the "S," just east of
'the Gresham hill on the Section Line
JRoad, and in making the double turn is
where the drivers will be called upon to
,-exert all their skill and Judgment. In
order to round the two sudden turns
safely the driver will have to hug 'the
'north fence at the first one and then
"shoot directly for the opposite fence
t,at the second curve.
. From that point it is but a short
distance to where another bad corner
ts found. This is at Rigler's corner,
'where the course rounds fromthe Sec
tion Line Into tho Gresham road and
, extends from there to Cleveland's
ranch. hardly half a mile distant,
i where another turn is met, and this
"lattpr turn leads Into a short stretch
to the dangerous turning point at the
.gravel pit. This pit Is at a point on the
..Gresham road where the second turn
.leaves from the south to the Twelve
.Mlla House. Charles- Cleveland, the
"owner of the property at that point,
' has agreed to make a cut of 12 feet
I'lnto the bank on the southeast corner
of the turn, thereby widening the
i .roadway. If the embankment on the
'west side of the road -here can be bal
lasted and a temporary earthen- wall
: 'erected, the danger of driving over Into
tthe pit will be greatly alleviated.
Along the route are any number of
.-.vantage points whereby the spectators
-will be afforded an opportunity of wit
' nessing the races. .The best ones are
"located at Gresham and vicinity, for,
'from the heights near tht place a
view of Beveral miles of the winding
roadway is to be had.' From Gresham
iHUl the best view is to be had of the
l"windlnsr Bortion of the road known
as the dangerous b, ana from tnai
..nlTt the tour of the autos an the way
- to the gravel pit is plainly visible. The
grandstand to ba erected wui be cap
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able of accommodating 50U0 people and
will be situated on the Base Line road
one and one-half miles from the turn
at the Twelve-Mile House, and Catlin's
Field, directly across the road, will he
thrown open to the spectators who at
tend the races In automobiles, car
riages and other vehicles. A view of
six miles of straightaway road Is to
be had from this point.
The entire course will be policed by
the Third Regiment, O. N. G under
the command of Adjutant-General W.
E. Flnzer, and the militiamen will
keep all persons off the track during
the- time the racing machines are in
competition. '
" Among the' entries likely to partici
pate in these races are three cars from
Detroit, Mich.; two from Toledo, O.;
two from Buffalo, two from Salt Lake
City, three - from Denver, four from
Los Angeles, three from San Francisco,
three from Seattle, .one from Spokane
and one from Omaha. The Kastern
cars will be driven by experts who
fiave participated in the Briarcliffe and
Vanderbilt races, and several who have
raced cars at Cleveland and at Ormonde
Beach. Among the local celebrants
are Howard M. Covey, William D. Wal
lace, R. D. Inman; Will F. Lipman,
Billy Eastman, Floyd Cook. George
Ainslie, M. W. Dickinson and several
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others who will probably enter cars in
either the . century or half-century
events. ,
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M. W. Dickinson, the genial manager
of the Oregon Hotel, and one of the
most enthusiastic motorists in Port
land, will have a brand new car on the
ground during the coming week.
Lucky Dick, as his friends style him,
delights in sending his .car as: fast as
possible, and is rated as one of the best
drivers among the private owners of
automobiles in this city.
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1 George Ainslie, one of the really new
devotees -of the sport, has joined the
ranks of. the speed marvels, ana pos
sesses a high-power machine of well
known capabilities .'and delights' in
hustling some at every opportunity.
Fred Leinenweber Is". another new
member of the autoing fraternity, and
.now takes, a keen delight in careering
around in his handsome new runabout.
Howard if. Covey will be represented
in the road races with four cars of
different makes and will drive two of
the cars, one in the 60 and the other in
the century. The makes are the Cadil
lac. Locomobile, Pierce-Arrow and
Corbln.
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I Chit-Chat of Sporting I
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BT Willi. G. MAC BAB.
DID your dog win a prize? . If be
didn't, get a better dog for the
next kennel show. :
An Illinois sport rolled a barrel of
water two miles and won as a wager a
barrel of whisky. We know lots of peo
ple who would travel twice the distance
in quest of the same kind of a trophy-
A ballplayer's wife got tired of having
her husband coming home drunk, so she
got soused as an object lesson. Her
husband proceeded to get a divorce, all
of which goes to show that even some
ballplayers are without the sense of
humor. - -
What lias become of that noise about
a "runaway race" that was heard around
the' smoke joints? Even the San Fran
cisco papers have reached the conclusion
that Portland "Must be reckoned with."
Mug.gsy McGraw has engaged in his
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first fistic encounter of the season.
He stopped a couple of wallops shoved
in his direction by Dan McGann, ex
captain of the New York Giants.
Big Bill Lange, once a Chicago star
and Jim McDonald, the old Coast League
ump, are sweet on the Portland team.
Manager McCredie has put the lid on
poker playing. Here is a part of a
speech he delivered the other day:
"You fellows have got to cut out this
poker playing. No more on this club,
and if I catch you monkeying with the
cards I will slap a fine on you. You
lose your money and because-1 won't
stake you you get sore and disgruntled.
You play late at nights and you don't
get your natural leep. I don't care if
I don't have two players left on the
club, poker must stop."
Packy McFarland, who whipped Jim
my Britt into retirement, is going to
quit the ring. He has an offer as
cattle buyer at the Chicago stockyards.
Tommy Sheehan, one of Mique Fish
er's former stars, is playing a great
game at third for Brooklyn. He is a
fixture in the big bushes now.
In 1870 the population of Manltoha a
17.000; today it is 400,000.
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Oil Lamps
Model H, Four Cylinder, 30-H. P.
Lamps and
9 You realized when you
said that, that the supe
riority of the little Cadil
lac lay in its enormous
strength, its elemental
simplicity and its perfect
standardization.
5 You knew the little Cadil
lac had the pulling power
of a pack-horse and the
speed of a high-bred
racar; and you wondered
if these qualities wrould be
... emphasized in' proportion
if the cylinders were mul
tiplied. 9 "Well, while you were
"wondering," the Cadil
lac Company was building
the ideal Cadillac you had
in your mind a magnifi
cent high-powered car in
which the line qualities of
the smaller ear are repro
duced on a larger scale.
9 Today one-third the out
put of this great plant con
sists of these uperb 4-cyl-inder
Cadillacs, and their
owners are . saying pre
cisely the same things
about them that 16,000
' , owners say of the smaller
car.
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Members Association Automobile Manufacturers.
COVEY MOTOR GAR GO
SIXTEENTH AND ALDER STREETS, PORTLAND.
MANY FDR BOXING
Prominent Men Approve of
Ciub Tournament.
PARTICIPANTS NOT INJURED
Club Management Not Responsible
for Donntoun Betting Boxing
Events Are Arranged In' San
Francisco During . Festival.
BY W. J. PBTRAIX.
The recent boxing and wrestling tourna
ment of the Multnomah Club has un
loosened the flood-gates of criticism. At
the ringside during the three-night box
ing and wrestling carnival were a large
percentage of Portland's most prominent
citizens; men whose integrity has never
been questioned, and yet none of these
have come forward to complain that the
bouts were brutal or in any sense danger
ous. Many of those present are the fath
ers of boys who frequently come home
with the marks of combat, and it is a
poor parent in such an event who would
censure his offspring for defending him
self at the expense of a discolored optic
or a swollen nose against the assault of
another lad. The youth of today needs
athletic training and the best and most
productive exercise is that of self-defense.
It is this principle that the
Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club adopts,
and in the effort to carry out its theory,
affords iU younger, and for that matter,
older members, an opportunity of learn
ing the manly art, A good, healthy boy,
full of life and action. Is the boy who
espouses the boxing or wrestling game
at the Club, or any other place, and
many of Portland's most prominent cit
izens have had their little mills at the
Club durine their younger days, and any
of them will tell you today that they are!
better, stronger and healthier men for
the opportunity afforded them by the ath
letic training of their youth.
One especial feature of the boxing con
tests at the Multnomah Club was the
careful attention ' given the contestants
by Referee Jack Grant, who scanned the
features of each boxer after he had re
ceived a hard blow, and at the first sign
of distress or weakness the referee in
terfered. A great deal of the adverse criticism
of the bouts was relative to the contest
between Niecken, of Multnomah, and
Speck, of Seattle, which took place on
the opening nisht. Niecken received a
cut over the eye In the second round,
and as usual in cases where the blood is
heated by exercise, he bled profusely, but
Touring Car, $2000, Including Three
and Horn.
Touring Car, Including Thres Oil
Horn, $2500.
9 This 4-cylinder car was
really live 3-ears in the
process of building,' be
cause it crystallized the
invaluable exjrienee of
these five years in perfect
ing the standardization of:
the little car and repre
sents the highest mechani-
' cal possibilities of a huge
plant which builds the
largest line of separate
.models made in any one
factory in the world.
.9 It represents the new era
in automobile building
which demands a car so
strong, and so perfectly
synchronized in every part
that it will last, not one
season, but two, three,
four and five.
9 These long-lived qualities
have been realized in the
$2000 4-cylinder 2o-H. P.
and the $2500 4-cylinder
30-11. P. cars, and they
possess in a superlative
degree all the rugged
qualities of the smaller
car.
9 "We urge 3011 to verify
these statements by per
sonal investigation, com
. parison and demonstra
tion. the cut was simply a scratch and harmed
the. youngster not at all, but Mayor
Lane's official guardians of the law,
knowing nothing of actual boxing condi
tions, thought the boy was being jnal
treated and were about to interfere when
the bout came to a close. Niecken was
unharmed, and" while defeated in the
match, it was not due to the cut over the
eye, but to hla physical condition before
entering the ring. The boy was over
trlaned and weak on that account; other
wise he would have made a much better
showing. The day following the alleged
bloody fight he was on the street look
ing as though he had never engaged in a
contest with padded gloves in his life,
for there was not a mark to show for
his experience of the night before.
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As to the bets wagered on the con
tests, if there were bets made at the'
ringside, they were wagered without the
knowledge or consent of the club offi
cials, and why they should be censured
for something over which they have no
control is an injustice. It is true that
considerable money changed hands on
one of the bouts, but this was practically
all wagered down town before the
night's programme was inaugurated. And
it might be mentioned, incidentally, that
about ten times that amount won or lost
during the entire three-day tournament
changed hands at recent elections.
The Olympic Club, of San 'Francisco,
which was represented at the recent
Multnomah Club tournament, will short
ly hold a boxing and wrestling carnival
at San Francisco. These contests will
take place during fleet week at the Bay
City, and will be open for entries from
all parts of the country. The dates of
the bout are May 11, 13 and 15; the first
night's programme to be held at the Au
ditorium rink, and the second two at
Dreamland Pavilion. - Many Portlanders
who are going to San Francisco to wit
ness the arrival of Admiral Kvans and his
ships will be afforded an opportunity of
witnessing these bouts.
During the stay of the Atlantic fleet at
San Francisco, Jimmy Coffroth. the San
Francisco light promoter, is anticipating
reaping a harvest, for he has billed the
two best boxing attractions of the day
for May 9 and May 16. Next Saturday
Stanley Ketchel, the shining light among
the new stars in fl-stiana, will meet Ja( k
("Twin") Sullivan in a 35-round bout.
Ketchel has participated in 4i rini; bat
tles and has wonvery one of them by a
knockout, while his. opponent has defeated
Tommy Burns. Jack O'Brien, Mike
Schreck, Hugo Kelly and Bill Squires,
and Is rated as one of the most dangerous
men in the ring, either at the middle or
heavyweight divisions. On the following
Saturday, May 16, Battling Nelson is
scheduled to hook up with his old-time
rival, Rudolph Unholz, the fighting Boer,
who gave Nelson a hard battle at Los
Angeles several months ago.
Baseball Game This Morning.
The Wabash Independents "and the
Spantons will meet in their first con
test for the city championship on the
Vaughn-street grounds this morning.
Both teams are in fine condition and a
close and exciting game is expected.
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a single, head often weighs 20 pounds.