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Show I IN AUTOMOBILE WORLD 1 I Rules for Driving. Charles W. Wears of the Winton Motor Car company, who is one of the veterans of motoring in this country, in a recent, talk with a young enthusiast, enthu-siast, gave out some rules for driving a motor car that, it would be well for every amateur driver and some others to learn and practice. .Mcnrs says that naturally no motorist motor-ist Avill acknowledge that "lie is reckless, reck-less, but he is never satisfied Hint his car has yet reached the limit of its speed and he "gives her another chance. " "Just, a trifle less speed," says Mears, "will keep down the number of accidents and decrease the damage when the accidents sometimes unavoidably unavoid-ably occur. "Keep in the middle of the road. You can't turn into a ditch unless you get dangerously near to that ditch. "Avoid any spot in the road or at its side where underbrush appears. Underbrush Un-derbrush thrown on the road often covers dangerous holes. Underbrush on the roadside is very like!' to have its roots in a ditch and that means trouble with loo close proximity. "Never approach a curve at greater speed than will allow of the car being be-ing stopped within its own length. Nobody knows what may be coming in the opposite direction, and if anything is coming the chances arc ten to one that the approaching driver will not be observing (ho rule of the road to keep to the right, "Never let your car stand on a hill. The average country road hill is never too wide at the best and traffic needs all available ,;room. "Never let a car stand at a curve on tho road. Another car or vehicle rushing around the turn may maim or kill, or ruin tho car. "In passing vehicles on country roads if is safer to pull off to ono side and come to a stop than to lako a chance of slipping off the roadside. "At night there is danger of blinding blind-ing passing drivers by the rays of gas lights. Take great care. If blinded yourself pull cautiously to one side and stop or go slowly, for flic other fellow may be blinded by your lights and drive into 'ou." $10,00 for Winners. The act of President Charles W. Murphy of the champion Cubs in dividing di-viding among the sixteen members of the 'Chicago team $10,000 as a bonus for landintr the pennant and champ- pionship has been considered the high-water high-water mark of generosity among the followers of the sporting world. But President Murphy has been outdone out-done bv the announcement made a few days ago by William .1. Meade, the official of the Buick Motor company, to the effect that $10,000 has been given the members of the Buick team as a reward for winning the big Cobo trophy race on June 10 at a distance of '100 miles over the Indiana road course. The money was split onl3r three ways, going in equal parts to Louis Chevrolet Chevro-let , the winner; Lewis Strang and Bob Burman, his teammates. Thus the three greatest American pilots get as much money as a bonus for winning ono road race as sixteen of the greatest great-est ball players in tho world get for playing 150 games and winning the world s championship. The rich bonus is but a part of what the drivers get for one of their number num-ber winning the Cobe race. Each of lhm receives a big salary for his yearly year-ly sei vices, and when tlie bonuses of the carbureter, spark coil, magneto, tiro and other accessory makers are added, the total amount received by tho Buick stars for the Cobo victory will exceed $20,000. In addition, the citizens of Flint, Mich., the home factory of the Buick, have arranged a monster demonstration and banquet in honor of the boys, who, althougn they nro adopted sons of tho Michigan city, are none the less honored hon-ored and appreciated. Motor Cycle Meet. The 1009 national meet of the Federation Fed-eration of American Motorcyclists will be the biggest gathering of tho enthusiasts enthu-siasts of the -'ower-driven two wheelers wheel-ers that has ever been held, according to adv. res received from headquarters. The executive committee of tho federation fed-eration ha3 already awarded tho meet to Indianapolis, and affairs have been put into the hands of tho Molorej-cle club of that city. All motorcyclists know that the annual an-nual meet of the Federation of American Ameri-can Motorcyclists is the event of tho year in their circles. A large number of t .ur:- have already been planned to the eastern city from tho west and a largo attendance is guaranteed from the east. At the opening of the meet there will be an endurance run and it has practically been decided that this will be from Indianapolis to French Lick, a distance of 173 miles, for the first day, the contestants returning to Indianapolis In-dianapolis tho second day- The route coming back will be different from that going over in order to give a complete change of scenon' and roads. |