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Show oo NOVEL WAGER ON AUTOMOBILE TRIP Unique among the wagers that have been made involving automobile tra-cl tra-cl and globe trotting Is an agreement which Dr. H. Benton Young, of Trenton. Tren-ton. X. J., and William B Kumpf. of .Mount Holly, X. J., have attempted to fulfill with the certainty that one or the other will win 510O00.. Starting with a high-powered nuto-mobile nuto-mobile and only a S5 bill in his pocket Doctor Young has begun a trip from Maine to California Tndcr the conditions con-ditions of tho wager, ho must cross the continent, linancing his trip by his own earnings enroute. without recourse re-course of his bank account to his friends or to the practice of his profession. pro-fession. In every town where he stops as long as two hours the doctor must earn $10 by legitimate methods The bet grow out of a discussion as to tbe ability of some people to travel extensively and at the same time earn good Incomes Mr. Kumpf ridiculed an assertion of Doctor Young that ho could cross the country, earning $10 in every place he stopped, and the young physician was promptly challenged chal-lenged to do so Doctor Young thereupon there-upon prepared his Columbia roadster and started for Maine, thore to begin a run 'that will mean a dollar a mile If ho wins. |