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Show iWBiW l w nflluffitonm rniMmua T RU T H. 13 verting main line steam roads which 1,000 Miles Without Stop, were closed to the direct current mo- A thousand mile nonstop automobile tor and rotary converter combination record trial was started a few minutes f G o'clock the Alternating by eight of Aug. 6 on Made Possible the Grosse Point track in Detroit, Mich. At 9:21 Sunday morning the rail when heavy Lou Dillon Well day The Again. first 500 miles had been covered, the in- AT At electricity the Cleveland by operated be will staDriving park time being fifteen hours five minutes, ways has been brought a Dies it was said that Lou Dillon, the or an average of more than thirty-famou- s tea(j 0f seam successful introtting mare, had almost en-- three miles an hour, gt deal nearer by the recovered from her recent ill-This is a remarkable performance, flation of an alternating currant tirely ness. She will be a probably given on the Balston considering it was accomplished electric car service rest of several weeks. ing the night, when the big track was Her owner, Mr. Billings, says she not as well extension of the Schenectady railway lighted as might have will not be asked to do any fast work been desired, General Electric company. Is better than it has by the a double is for extension some to time Ballston and come, will she The it is probable that with daylight the ever been before. . . not be to rec-after ballasted, permitted go deal any tracked, gravel speed could have been a good Finest Dancing in ords she is 15 lentil of fit. The road thoroughly driver Charles but the Schmidt, greate, railed overhead trolley the State. 4 V chances are she will not attempt any- of the Packard voiture 1.8 of with maximum legere, grade 0jles with a sensational until the meeting which he broke the mile record for curvature of thing maximum a and cent at Memphis in October. per voiture legeres at the Ormond Beach for is J. E. LANGFORD, Lessee heavy, It adapted cent. o 44 per race meet in Florida last winter, did high speed work. not care to take too many chances Important Tennis Matches. in it that I not only unique is car The Kreigh Collins and R. D. Little won and drove in a rather moderate way current the with Western tennis championship in in order to avoid any possible acch alternating is equipped can motors doubles at Kenwood from L. H. Wald-- 1 dents. motors, but in that these In Hitch Over Referee. ner and Reuben C. Hunt In straight I alterno a 2,000 volt, be run either from Kid McCoy threw a bomb into down in the sets. The score was Yale and Harvard May Split. current, stepped the other ating Miss May Sutton and Miss Carrie I Yale will not diher profession-Neel- y the worlds pugilistic camp up give car to 400 volts, or from a an aay when he made the "won the womens doubles from I al rowing coach, John A. Kennedy, as nouncement that the startling rect current. This makes it possible Miss Edythe Parker and Miss Hallie heavyweight suggested by the Harvard Bulletin, , one 1 between on current part direct to run by J.e' The finals in mixed the organ of the graduates of the lat-J1 current Champlin, of the road and by alternating doubles were won by Kreigh Collins ter university, even if the refusal 1LrTeJS Coffroth of on another. and Miss Carrie Neely from Mrs. means that Harvard will no longer I through the Yosemite club, under whose ausElectric railway motors in general meet Yale on the water. The Yale current use are operated by direct the men are to fight, and the Alumni Weekly makes an editorial pices with a trolley voltage of about 600 Jeffries party insist on Eddie Graney cost of Gotch Throws McLeod. answer to the Harvard Bulletin, say-i- s for referee. yolts. For heavy service, the Harry Pollok and Mun-roAt Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 6, Frank I ing that Yale committed to the copper required at 600 volts becomes McCoy says, will not stand for a serious item, and for some time A Gotch of Humboldt, Iowa, success- - principle of professional coaching, Eddie. Pollok because of Graneys calls attention to the fact that decision in there has been felt the need of a high- fully denfended his title in a match It Corbett-Jim- the er trolley voltage. The possible use of with Dan S. McLeod of now has professional base-- mV'Britt contest Young Harvard Ont. Hamilton, PoUok alternating current would admit ofdi-a McLeod secured one (all, the first, aft-- ball, track and other coaches, and for 'Corbett clalms wag robbed blg boy higher voltage than is possible with er a terrific struggle, lasting 31 min- - merly had professionals to coach her reMunro0 and could be lg be becatIge rect current as the voltage utes and 44 seconds, with a half Net crew, and further says It Is willing to to cagt bls 0t wIth b,s manager Pol. duced by a transformer on the car to son I defend of professional and crotch the hold. Gotch principle won the motors. the the potential required by coaching at any time. In conclusion, The development of large power statthe Weekly says that the suggestion ions and transmission systems has New Bike Records at Salt Lake. of the Bulletin provokes mirth among been principally with alternating currnew bicycle records have been men. Two Yale ent, requiring commutating devices Jewett A. Drops Dead on Track. o established on the Salt Lake City for changing the alternating current The trotting stallion, Jewett A., be would Honors. current. There saucer track by W. E. Samuelson of into direct Aspire to High Turf valued at $2,000 and owned by Hermotor a great advantage in a railway S. Ambrose Clark and his brother, Utah, professional, and E. B. Heag-bert Gray of Haverhill, Mass., dropped from could be operated equipment that the two stepsons of Bishop Potter, pen of California, amateur. Samuel-State Granite the dead Dover, at park, an alternating current high voltage driven one mile! I have formed a partnership to purchase son rode ten miles in a competition in- N. H., aftV being of without and the necessity trolley lower- race from scratch in 21:29 This is the third horse that has died and race horses. termediate commutating devices. They started the stable by claiming- Ing the record held by W. A. Vaughn This problem has been before elect- under like conditions at the track. out of a selling race re- by nine seconds. Heagren established rical engineers for some years and The peculiar coincidence has aroused Witchcraft the crack new amateur record for a two-mi- l both. the General Electric and the the suspicions of horsemen here and cently, and have purchased from John competition race, riding the distance Westinghouse companies have now an autopsy will be performed on Jew- steeplechaser, Presgrave, I or 6 in 4:06 seconds under the Ferris. The Balston extension ett A. mastered it. was former record. exhibition is the first commercial reThe price paid for Presgrave o- Balston sult The operation of the not stated. will motor Hanlon. and McGovern equipments compensated It is the intention of the Clark Breaks a Worlds Record. be watched by railway engineers with announces that Terry brothers to purchase some fine horses Sam Harris At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 5 Major much interest as their success will McGoverns next fight will be against Duryea, with vie to Whitney, an(j demonstrate the fitness of the alter-natinof Sep- - mont and Keene for the honors of the Delmar broke the half mile record at latter the Hanlon part Hudson River Driving park, going the current motor for heavy suShould Hanlon refuse to turf. burban and interurban mixed service. tember.' distance in 59 seconds. will be the meet Brooklynite Terry deThe compensated motor, having He broke his own record of 1:01, Corbett forj Meet. Have Running monstrated its fitness for traction matched against Young Memphis May made at Memphis on Oct 23, 1902, twenty-roungo. work, opens up possibilities in con either a six or a It is announced that officers of the vbich is the worlds record for that Memphis Jockey club have obtained stance. control of the Memphis Driving park, Lem Dillon trotted the middle half concerned. are races as so far running of her mIle ln 1;5g jn 58 seconds, The trotting association will retain but Major Delmars record was made control of all trotting events and. the j mile, stated distance of one-haTHE be contin will AND fall harness meetings THE SEASHORE ued. It is said that St Louis parties MOUNTAINS JOIN AT New Kansas City Club. were offering tempting financial in a The Kansas City Jockey Club and ducements to the trotting track for Fair association, a new racing associwinter running meeting. ...SEPTEMBER 5th ation, will give a fall meeting ol twenty-fiv- e days, beginning Saturday, Water Boy to Be Retired 1. There will be no purses of-Oct BAKE. Water Boy will not be raced nert fer8d wltb legB tban j5 added; and in a MONSTER FREE CLAM season. Jack Joyner, his trainer, s AWAY. n0 overnjgbt handicaps with less than TWO TONS OF 0LAM8 GIVEN be would Diamond Black added. In addition nine stakes that the retired to the stud after be bad been are oferel The people of Utah who have been so genraced once more. erous in' their patronage to this resort, Odom will be given the mount, as ' Ransch Injured on French Track, sre invited. he seems to be able to handle the big I X Ransch, the American Jockey. horse better than Lyne. races at Vichy, B. Haggin, owner of Water was thrown in the Bound 25c, James Trip &o1i:3o p. a. 7: 3, and was curried off TRAINS ?;!? Bov fears that his horse will break France, Aug.to a hospital. He Is suf- course down completely if he is raced much the fering from concussion of the brain, more. NEW ERA IN ELECTRIC I ker BATHING I SALTAIR dur-comple- te 75-pou- nd 1 v 6-- 4, 6-- 4, 6-- 2. . 500-vo- lt 6-- 2, 6-- 0. V e, 1 I 3-- 5, 2-- 5, 2-- 5 Bel-Edd- ie g d lf L A G O G) N it 1 |