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Show NEW WORLD'S RECORD. Roadvillc, Mass., June 17. Averaging Averag-ing 5G 3-G j-ccnds for each of twenty-five twenty-five circuits of the one-mile Readville .track today, Ralph Do Palma, driving a slxty-horse-power Flat cur, set up a new world's record for twenty-five miles, the finish flag being dioppei twenty three minutes ao.l thirtj--flve. seconds after it had been waved from tho start. De Palma's now record displaces the mark of twenty-three minutes, thirty-eight thirty-eight and three-fifths seconds made by Barney Oldfk-ld at Fresno, Cal., December De-cember 13, 1901. j |