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Show JAPS ENJOY . AUTOMOBILE Japan's nerves pro j't TooTiiii from' the surprise of its first automobile auto-mobile endurance contest. Percv Keeton, who was Roosevelt's photographer photog-rapher on the trip through Africa, took ut, important part in he contest which has made automobile historv for Japan. Jap-an. No prizes weie offered, but the management so ai ranged it that all the cars arned on time at the last control, making everybody a winner and satisfying each and every Japanese Jap-anese that his car was the best. One of the. amusing features of the run occurred on the third day, when Keeton, who was drhlng a Paige touring car. yielded precedence to Prince Nagasl, driving a sixty-horsepower car recently imported, who demanded the right to pilot the wayfarers way-farers through the ton of Yaraka-Gho, Yaraka-Gho, where his paternal ancestors still eat the rice laid on their graves each morning. Now it so happened that Prince Nagasi, intoxicated by the fragrance of the wistaria blooms on tho way, so far forgot his august self as to hit up a clip of slt. miles an hour He had foi gotten that the principal street thiough his native town Is less than fift-sl-lnch tfead. and when he hit the expectant and bewildered village at high speed he carried half tho town with him as he plowed through the bamboo structure of tho business housps and residences. This little adventure cost Prince Nagasl one wagon-load of yen, or ?G in Amei-ican Amei-ican money. ' The motor car the Japanese needs is one of ample power, but' comparatively compara-tively light weight. It Is estimated In a United States consular report that there are not more than 121 motor cars Jn Japan. |