Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-03-14 | Page 22 | Wonderful Record of Touring Car

RECORD OF GAR CAR CARGoes GARI I I Goes Fro From III Sixty Sixty- Sixty Hour Hour Run Into Two-Day Two Endurance Contest I 1 Ending p. p a sixty hour hour stop non run j nY tiro lma t a n. tWo d two days two day na r c a Q twenty eight twenty t hor T. epo r ortt few M Ju days ago rags homo homa City CHr ac accomplished the tho don 11 tent fent ln tn tot f completing com com- both without an adjustment and It finished time the contest o over or r rough roads In twelve o hours two twenty minutes minutes min min- utes while Its two competitors which finished took respectively fourteen hours two twenty minutes and seventeen seventeen seven soven- teen hours thirteen minutes This Is the first endurance contest ever held In Oklahoma motorists having hav hav- haIn having In ing been fearful of ot the tho roads road but hut an another another nn- nn other IH is to be bo held In tho the summer The course courso was tram front Oklahoma City through El EI H Reno no Kingfisher Enid Perry and and back to the starting point The stop non run lUD was conducted b by Charles W. W Talbot and D. D S S. DuBois DuBols This was held indoors which increased time the danger of ot overheating o tho the engine which however howe remained cool during during- the tho entire sixty hours On tho the evening when this period closed the tho piping which chic m carried the time exhaust was disconnected disconnected disconnected discon discon- and und without stopping Mopping the tho motor the automobile was as run to a garage ar ro and there stopped In the morning Mr 11 Talbot Talbot Tal Tal- bot took look the time motor car and put It through tho the road contest in which It if was made use of ot as tho the press car In defiance of ot fate fato and the power of the much dreaded hoodoo the car throughout hout tho the competition bore bolo the time contest number thirteen In a second or runabout class in tho the contest Mr r DuBois drove an el horsepower runabout his timo being twelve twel hours and sixteen minutes In this class a n. protest was made marle over 01 tho the wa way of oC figuring tho the time those contestants who were were- started late Inte having an ad ad- advantage vantage it was waa claimed and Mr Ir DuBois DuBols held that the tho performance of his car in comparison with that of oC others was wat In reality much better bettor than It appeared short as 09 tho time was with which hewa ho he wa was credited