Show A Race oil tile Mississippi PITTSDORG March SOONeil and Coy ouners of the towboat W W ONeil have accepted a challenge from the St Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Transpor-tation Company for a thousandmile race between the W W ONeil and a picked boat of the challenging company The boats are to each tow six model barges and the one first reaching Cairo one thousand miles up the Mississippi to be the winner The race is to decide the superiority of a short and a long stroke the short stroke is in general practice while the long stroke is an innovation of Captain 0Neils The race will take place in June |