The Sunday Oregonian., December 13, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Page 7, Image 41

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. DECEMBER 13, 1908.
BENZINE
BUGGIES
OF EVERY DEGREE
Portland Automobile Show to
Be Comprehensive in
All Details.
UNIQUE DECORATIVE PLANS
Armory Will Be Bower of Beauty,
and Cars Will Be Sent to Local
Display I-Yom AH Coast Agen
cies, Sao. Francisco North.
1 Plana the past week for the bis Auto
mobile and Sportsmen Show In March
progressed in leaps and bounds, until
now It has become a question among the
dealer as to how much Fpace they will
be allowed to take for the display of
their cars. Assurances have come from
' the East and from San Francisco that a
great number of different cars will be
sent to Portland for exhibit. With the
latest models coming from the East and
the opportunity given of seeing the lines
carried by the local dealers all displayed
In the Armory, those Interested In motor
cars are looking forward to a treat that
haa been denied them before In Portland.
Much praise haa been justly sounded for
the energy and perseverance maintained
by the Automobile Club directors In
getting the show under way and. now
that the hardest part of the work is
I over and the success of the show assured,
: enthusiasm la being shown by every one.
' and wonderment that so many years
have passed without Portland having had
a show.
Blue prints were sent to the local
dealers the past week showing the fto
plans of the Armory and the booths re
served for display of cars. It is ex
pected that all bids for space will he
made this week and reservations taken.
After the local dealers have had their
choice the plans will be sent to the
Eastern manufacturers for inspection. A
drawing will be published next Sunday
in The Oregonlan showing the elaborate
fixtures that will decorate the Armory.
Frederick H. Elliott, secretary of the
American Automobile Association, In a
letter to 'Will Ltpman. secretary of the
Portland Automobile Club, says: "I am
very muoh Interested in the automobile
show which your club Is to promote in
March and will be glad to have you
advise me as to the success attending
your endeavors In this connection, and
also aend me copies of any literature or
data published In connection with the
came. It haa always been the writer's
contention that local clubs without trade
affiliations should conduct a local auto
mobile show and I think you are to be
congratulated on having so successfully
arranged for a show in March, the pro
ceeds from which will be used for the
promotion of the good roads work and
the general welfare of automobiling in
your locality."
. i
The automobile-owner has developed in
the past few years a habit which was
correctly atyled by a local dealer as
"the good enough habit." An owner finds
his car is not running perfectly and I
makes some repair or adjustment which
will do for the time. He knows that It
is not what It should be. but the car
runs and. he thinks that It will do.
Things go from bad . to worse, and the
car haa to go to the repair man.
Of the 2X1 automobiles owned by the
city of New Tork the Oldsmoblle leads in
number with eight. The styles range
from the curved dash to the latest six
cylinder model.
The plan of giving a racing automo
bile a name has never reached the pop
ularity that haa been noticed among
fast motorbeats or racing yachts, yet
veveral of the big speed monsters are
designated by some special name, and
when that la mentioned the motorist
knows at once the car spoken of.
One of the first cars to receive a dis
tinctive cognomen' was the "Flying
rhitchman," owned by H. L. Bowdoin.
of Boston. Mass. This was a Mercedes,
with a double engine, and was built for
the purpose of breaking records at
Ormond Beach. Later, on this same
beach, appeared the Stanley "Teakettle."
which made the remarkable time of
28 2-6 second s for a mile. At about the
same time Old field painted his Peerless
racer a bright green and christened it
the "Green Dragon." The Reo people
were close to follow with the "Reo
Bird, which Is now In Los Angeles,
and about the same time the Wayne
factory turned out the "Wayne Kite."
"Whistling Billy" was a product of the
White Sewing Machine Company and
was so named on account of the shrill
whistle that accompanied Its bursts of
speed. This car uas also been known
as the "White Flyer" and the "White
Ghost."
Two years ago the Fiat people put
out a . small racing car which was
named the "Flat, Jr." It waa Intended
at that time to build a big car to be
known aa the "Flat, Sr.," but this car
waa never completed. Last year the
Premier Manufacturing Company des
ignated the car that was used in laying
out the 108 Glldden Tour the "Premier
Pathfinder" and the car that Is at the
present time engaged in the same work
for the tourists of 1909 is from the Stude
baker factory and is known as the
"Studebaker Scout." The car that won
the light car race at Savannah recently
Is known aa the Lancia "Lampo," the
latter name. It is asserted, means a
flash of lightning. Barney Oldfleld Is
this season driving a big six-cylinder
Steams that has been named "Big Ben"
and the small Stearns used by his racing
partner la known as the "Red Devil," as
was the Peerless he carried with him
last season.
The annual hill-climbing contest which
takes place on Box Springs Grade, in
Southern California, on Thanksgiving
day, was this year postponed and oc
curred last Saturday. Several surprises
occurred during the afternoon and one of
them waa the showing made In the touring-car
class by the Oldsmoblle with five
passengers up. This car was driven by
William Folberth. who was injured here
last Summer when his car was wrecked
In the practice before the Rose Festival
races.
Box Springs Grade is just one mile In
length and reaches a grade in places of
1 per cent; it contains several curves
and one of them is quite sharp, yet this
rsr made the distance to the summit in
The fastest time of the day was
made by Stanley Steamer In 1:18 and the
fastest time made in gasoline cars .went
to the Chalmers Detroit, with Bert
Dingley at the wheel. Dtngley's time was
1:39 1-S. The Stoddard Dayton was
second In 1:22 J-o.
,'
The record-breaking crowd that greeted
Barney Oldfleld at San Francisco last
Sunday deserved a much better exhibi
tion than his Initial appearance fur
nished. The races were held at Tan
foran track and were witnessed by about
14.000 people, most of whom went home
jn Uw-evsniatt disappointed. 5 Wills-tt is
true that the condition of the track,
resulting from the Tain of the day before,
made fast time Impossible, a good card
would have done much to have en
couraged attendance at the meet which
will be held today.
During the past two or three weeks a
great deal of comment has been made on
this series of races owing to the posi
tion taken by C. A. Hawkins of the
White Company. One of the events
scheduled on the card was to be known
as a J3fi sweepstake race and would
have been participated in only by Barney
Oldfleld. his racing partner and the
famous front drive Christy machine.
Hawkins, however, came to the front
with a demand that one of the Special
White racers be allowed to enter and
succeeded In carrying his point. This
made a crowded race, and for the pur
pose of safety, it was divided into heats.
When the drawing took place the White
fell to the beat in which Barney's racing
partner was entered. It was defeated
handily by the little Stearns and since
It failed to qualify for the final it did
not even try against the Champion. How
ever, later in i the day this car was
allowed to make an exhibition drive
against time and succeeded In making a
mile In 59 seconds, which is the fastest
time ever made on that track and one
second better than the fastest time made
by Oldfleld.
The season of 1909 will witness but
little automobile racing on circular
tracks. After two years of discussion
and agitation over the matter the
directors of the American Automobile
Association reached a decision at their
annual meeting in New York last week
and have decided that no sanctions will
be Issued except in the cases of special
ly built tracks like Los Angeles has now
undr the course of construction.
The report submitted by Secretary
Elliott of the, racing board shows that
this form of sport has rapidly diminished
during the past two years. According to
this report but 24 sanctions were granted
for track meets in 19. against 52 during
the season of 19f7. This is exclusive of
the sanctions granted to Oldfleld during
his tour of the country.
...
In St. Louis a scheme lias been de
veloped between the members of the
Automobile Club and the Police Depart
ment that saves the owners of motor car
riages much inconvenience and humilia
tion when there Is an occasion to make
an arrest for fast driving. I'pon appli
cation to the Chief of Police, by any
member of the club, a card is Issued that
may be taken by the officer making the
arrest as a means of identification In
case the offender falls to keep his
promise to appear in the Police Court at
the time specified.
These cards are countersigned hy the
secretary of the Automobile Club, and
this organization practically goes the
bail of the offender. In case he falls
to appear they look him up and see to
It that he is properly punished. The
svstem applies only to the owner of a
machine, or his driver when accom
panied by either the owner or a member
of the family. If the driver is alone and
commits a breach of the law he Is
promptly taken to jail.
...
The decision of the committee in charge
of the route for the 1P09 GHdden Tour, to
bring the motorists west has aroused con
siderable enthusiasm among the owners
and dealers of the Pacific Coast. Although
there Is little doubt but that the farth
est point toward the setting sun that
will be reached by this body of travel
ers will be some place In Iowa, still
there is a hope ahead that in 1910 per
haps they will reach the Pacific Slope.
and enjoy the nospitainy ot crt-gun,
Wnshlnsrton and California.
The apparent desire on the part of the
committee to increase the difficulties of
his route and the rapid spread of the
good roads movement In the Eastern
States, has made necessary the western
Journey.
Several of Portland's dealers last year
went East and made all or a part of
the our. and throughout the entire
United States the daily progress of these
pilgrims was watched with great Interest,
especially by those Interested In the de
velopment of the motorcar.
...
W. H. Klrkpatrick, . the sales manager
for the Peerless Automobile Co., left last
Friday evening for Seattle aftei a visit
of several days here. According to Mr.
Klrkpatrick the outlook for trade is ex
cellent. . He states that already his firm
has delivered 39 cars, against 143 up to
the same time last year. As a result of
the demand the Peerless factory will
build 1000 machines this season instead of
SCO. as originally planned.
...
The newly formed Motor Club of San
Francjsco has announced that they will
hold a long-distance road race In the
Spring over the roads of Alameda County.
This race will take place shortly after the
races in Portland In May, and. It is -expected
that several of the fast men who
compete here will go directly to San
Francisco for those contests.
Dr. Andrew C. Smith has purchased a
Packard "30" Roadster from the Keats
Automobile Co.
FIGHT FANS ITCH
'TRIP' LiGFORD
Dusky Middleweight Training
for Big Mill With Jim
Flynn. .
GOSSIP OF WESTERN PUGS
California Season in Squared Circle
Promise's Much to Followers of
Manly Art -Baseball Situation
Peculiar Portland's Team.
BY HARRY B. SMITH.
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 12. Sam Lang
ford, the marvel of the Eastern world in
the middleweight division, and the fellow
who has been signed to fight Jim Flynn
before Sam' Berger's club on Monday
evening. December 21, Is the main sensa
tion Ir. pugilistic circles these days. The
black demon, who has been likened in
type to Joe Walcott. has taken up his
quarters at Joe Millett's training quarters
at Colma, and does his work before a big
crowd each day. He is doing plenty of
boxing when it is remembered that he
has still some time. In which to train for
the match. So much has been written of
him in the Eastern papers, however, that
the fight fans are glad to have a chance
to see him in action, and to say that he
has Impressed them favorably is putting
it mildly. . .
Makes Good Impression..
Langford arrived a week ago, and was
at once the center of an inquisitive
crowd. With his broad, flat nose and his
big mouth, he looks not unlike Walcott.
although to do him credit, he Is better
looking than the Barbadoes boy. Lang
ford Is by birth a Nova Scotlan, having
been born in Halifax, but as far back
as he can remember he has lived around
New York, Boston and other large sea
port towns on the Atlantic Coast.
He is not overly tall, but has a good
reach and is powerfully built around the
shoulders, from which he undoubtedly
gets his Immense driving power, which
has enabled him to win so many of his
fights. One of the important features of
his success has been his ability to with
stand punishment. He can't explain this
himself, but to those who remember that
he stayed 15 rounds with Jack Johnson it
is evident that he can take some punish
ment and survive the ordeal.
Just a Plain Tramp.
The story of his entry Into the ring
reads like a romance or a dime novel.
"I was Just a plain tramp." he said,
"hanging around a fight one night In
Boston. They wanted some one in the
featherweight class, and I told them I
would go on. I was broke and hungry,
and needed the money. . They told me
all right and gave me a nickel. I got
some doughnuts. Then I was ready to
fight, and after I licked my man I just
kept on at the game. Most of the time
I've been against men much bigger than
I was. and this fight with Flynn looks
pretty easy to me."
Ills Meeting With Ketchcl.
One of the interesting incidents of his
first reception was the meeting between
Langford and Ketchel. the middleweight
champion of the -world. There has been
a deal of talk about this pair mixing It in
the ring, and they eyed each other very
close as they shook hands. .
"Well," said Ketchel, as he turned
away, "Langford doesn't look so big to
me. I guess that' I could take care of
myself with him in a mlxnp. I am will-J
ing to fight him all right, but there will
have to be a lot of money in sight if
anything of that kind is going to take
place."
Langford was no sooner matched for
the 2t-round scrap than he commenced
work. He does some little boxing with
Jimmy Walsh, the Boston bantamweight,
for the sake of speed, but has a couple
of dusky middle weights who keep him
busy.
The newcomer in the pugilistic ranks of
San Francisco has an awkward way of
protecting himself and a vicious punch
that will be bound to make him a top
heavy favorite in the approaching battle.
In fact, the odds show that already.
Tom Corbett, who fixes the prices, gave
Company Approaching Hitherto
Unprecedented Production
A SINGLE DAY S SHIPMENT
30 Cadillac 30's Shipped Nov. 30th
These thirty cars were shipped to the
following points: One, Baltimore; two,
Ogden; one, Chicago; three, Denver;
three, Kansas City; three, Milwaukee;
' one, Grand Rapids; one, Atlanta; three,
Boston; three, Utica; five, Los Angeles;
three, Rochester; one, Brownwood, Texas.
The Cadillac output is increasing ex
actly as scheduled. In a short time at
. least thirty of these high-powered, four
cylinder Cadillac "Thirty" cars will be
shipped every working day.
Thirty complete cars per day is a
pretty big output for an automobile plant
it's true, but when you consider that
the Cadillac Company inherits 50 years'
of vital, practical manufacturing ex
perience; when you consider that the
Cadillac "Thirty" is absolutely stand
ardized; when you consider that Cadillac
capacity means a 4000 men plant, oper
ating special machinery not possessed
by other plants; when you consider that
for the tool maintenance account alone
$60,000 is spent in a single year; when .
you consider that 95 per cent of the en
tire car is built right here in our own
plant; when you consider that the equip
ment includes more than 500 especially
designed, automatie, labor-saving ma
chines which enable one man to do with
greater accuracy the work of four or five,
or maybe ten men; when you consider
that the Cadillac organization comprises
50 distinct and separate departments,
you commence to understand how it is
possible for the Cadillae plant to pro
duce thirty cars in a single day, each
exactly like the other in every essential
detail.
EXPERIENCE COUNTS.
It counts in quality.
It counts in durability.
It counts in service.
It counts in appearance.
It counts in redaction cost.
Oliver Wendell Holmes whimsically
said: "Training of the child should be
gin with the grandparents."
The Cadillac "Thirty" is the child of
conditions peculiar to the Cadillac plant ;
the child of an experience which antedates
by a quarter of a century the construc
tion of the first automobile. It is the
concrete expression of the ability of a
master mind to produce the highest
standard of excellence in construction at
low cost. It is the heir to all the vir
tues of the 20,000 motors which preceded
it. It compares with its seeming com
petitors as the product of the expert of
fifty years usually compares with that
of the apprentice of one, two or five
years.
The Cadillac "Thirty" motor of today
is a better motor than any of those which
preceded it better in design, material
and workmanship; better made, more
efficient, more reliable, if such a thing
is possible, it possesses at least ten points
of superiority over any other car made
in America selling at less than $2,300. It
is fully equal in every way in these tea
points to cars selling at any price.
Hundreds have verified these state
ments by actual service.' You can ver
ify them by personal inspection and trial.
They are corroberated by the following
quotation of an editorial in the New
York Globe, Monday, November 23.
AN AUTOMOBILE THAI
IS WORTH WHILE
The New Cadillac "Thirty" for 1909
Season Establishes a New
Record.
LEADS POPULAR PRICED CARS
Obtainable at $1400, It Is Good Looking,
Comfortable, and Accommo
dates Five Passengers.
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Cadillac Motor Car Co.
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COVEY MOTOR CAR CO.
16th and Alder Sts, Portland, Or.
The new Cadillac "Thirty" which sells
at $1400, seems to be the best value for
the money of the popular-priced cars that
re now being shown for the season of
1909. Not only has the new Cadillae
"Thirty" established a new standard in
automobile values, mechanically and
otherwise, but it also is a good-looking
car all over, and a comfortable five-pas-eenger
car besides.
It out tart night that the odds are 10 to
i that Langford will win. and even
money that the black man will turn the
trick Inside of 15 rounds. Flynn Is ad
mittedly a tough proposition 'and a hard
man to beat, but there will not be many
to take the short end, even though the
price Is so tempting.
Jim Flynn Is saying nothing, but Is
sawing wood. To himself he argues that
If he could last with 'jack Johnson aa
well as he did, that Sam Langford Is not
the chap to frighten a rough-and-ready
Colorado fireman. He says that the peo
ple will see one fight, and aa Jim never
backs up, they are assured of that.
Walsh and Attell Matched
In addition to the Langford-Flynn
fight, there la to be a 15-round go with
Jimmy Walsh and Monte Attell aa the
mixers. This pair of bantams had two
six-round bouts In Philadelphia in 1906
and matters were fairly even. Walsh, of
course, has Improved more than Monte
since those days, but the brother of the
featherweight champion Is nobody's fool
when it cornea to donning the gloves, and
Is amply able to take care of himself.
Papke's New Manager.
The new of the switch in managers by
which' Sam Berger, the haberdasher kid,
when he can find time, is handling Billy
Papke, vice Tom Jones, of Kewanee, 111.,
fame, is rather old news. Nevertheless, it
CARTOONIST'S IMPRESSIONS OF SOME OF PAST WEEK'S SPORTING EVENTS
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is still being talked about and there are
many who are laughing In quiet at the
turn of affairs. The action of Tom Jones
in throwing down Jack Gleason was not
considered the correct thing In sporting
circle, and It la figured that he got about
what was coming to him.
The trouble with Jones was that he
made a certain arrangement with Jimmy
Coff roth and failed to explain It to Papke.
Jones thought the house was bound to
run better than C0.00O. and when it scaled
only 13.000 he was In bad and explana
tions to a defeated fighter were worse
than useless. Somebody, very likely Jack
Gleason. advised Papke that a change In
management would be a good move, and
Papke asked Berger to handle him. Sam
still thinks that Papke has a future and
agreed to accept. His first management
will consist In getting Papke ready for
his fight with Hugo Kelly, In Los An
geles on December 15. If the Illinois boy
is successful, he will be looking for a re
turn engagement with Stanley Ketchel.
Nelson's Latest Stand.
V Willis Brftt. who has been sick for the
last two weeks. Is again being heard,
from In regard to Battling Nelson. Inci
dentally, Willis put the crusher on,
Packey McFarland and Freddie Welsh,
the English lightweight.
"Nelson will positively not fight until
February af the earliest," he said. "He
will pay no attention to either Welsh or
McFarland. Let them fight It out until
one of the two is the winner and then
they can talk business to the Dane, but I
will tell them right now that it must be
a 45-round fight. The Dane is not anxious
to continue in the game, and certainly
not in a limited round encounter."
Nelson, by the way. Is In debt to Dr.
Ben Apple, a local physician, for $150, a
Judgment having been rendered against
the lightweight champion in a Justice
court this week. Before his first fight
with Gans, when he won the champion
ship, Nelson was sick and consulted Dr.
Apple.
After the scrap Dr. Apple put In a bill
for $150. Nelson repudiated It, and stiid
the services were not worth more than
$26. Dr. Apple sued him and as the Bat
tler paid no attention, Judgment was ren
dered by default. And the next time ha
fights In California you can bet that Dr.
Apple will be on hand to see that his
Judgment Is satisfied.
Jimmy Brltt's New Plans.
After his fight with Johnny Sum
mers, that will take place In London
on February 22, Jimmy Brltt will take
a trip to Australia, the present Mecca
of fighters. So Jimmy writes to his
friends In Ban Francisco. He says
that he Is booked In the London musio
halls until It Is time for him to com
mence training for Summers, and that
the same syndicate that ts handling
the Johnson-Burns fight has offered
him good Inducements to fight In SyO-ney.
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