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Show FORD AGAIN TAKES THE DUNLOP TROPHY Ten thousand enthusiastic Canadian motorists lined the one mile circular courso at KIrkfield track, Winnipeg, on Labor day and saw Billy Rogers in a twenty horsepower Ford racer capture the annual Dunlop trophy race from a field of five entrants. And the ten thousand onlookers cheered themselves Into honrseness as the miniature racer sped around the track, lapping all of Its opponents and finishing the twenty-five mile grind In the remarkable time of twenty-flvo minutes and thirty-two seconds. From the very crack of tho pistol there was no doubt as to the outcome of the race It was a clean victory for the Ford all the way through, Rogers taking tho curves on tho track at a speed which was absolutely unapproachable unap-proachable by his heavier opponents and thereby giving the Ford a lead" sufficiently largo enough to lap each of the other cars at tho finish Entered against Rogers wero an Overland, an American Underslung rncer, an E-M-F and a Cadillac At the end of the first mile tho Ford car led with the American second and 100 yards behind. Increasing his lead with every Btroke of the motor, Rogers Rog-ers soon had a quarter of a mile lead at the fifth lap and this was stretched Into nearly a half at the end of tho seventh. The American Undcrslung gave the best race to the Ford car and it was not until the nineteenth mile that the daring driver of tho Model T was able to pass one lap ahead of the big American Am-erican car. Rogers succeeded in crossing cross-ing the "wire a mile ahead of the American Am-erican Underslung, his nearest competitor, com-petitor, and a full three miles ahead of the Overland car. In a ten mile open event for stripped strip-ped cars Rogers won against the samo field of contestants as entered the 25-mile 25-mile race. His time for this event was 10 minutes and 40 seconds as against the nearest time of 10.59 for the Underslung. Besides winning the Dunlop trophy for the 25--mile event, Mr. Rogers was given a diamond medal and $300 In cash. This is the second consecutive year that the Ford car has won the Dunlop trophy. In 1911, Mr RogorB completed complet-ed the course In 25 minutes and 35 seconds, Just three seconds more than it took to cover the 25 miles on last Labor day. |