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8 [[title]] [[symbol]] STODDARD DAYTON [[image of S and D with a tire with wings on it in the center [[/symbol]] MONTHLY CHAT [[/title]] Volume I DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A., NOVEMB[[cut off]] [[image of man driving car with trophys around him]] [[symbol - circle around 9]] 1st 10 MILE $2750 TANFORAN, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 6]] 1st 25 MILE FREE FOR ALL FRESNO, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 7]] NORTHERN CAL. 24 Hour Endurance 570 MILES ON 25 GALLONS OF GASOLINE [[symbol - circle around 8]] 1st 10 MILE $3000 and UNDER TANFORAN, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 2]] 1st 25 MILE FREE FOR ALL CONCORD, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 3]] 1st 25 MILE FREE FOR ALL SANTA ROSA, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 4]] 1st 10 MILE $2500 to $3500 CONCORD, CAL. [[symbol - circle around 1]] 1st 10 MILE FREE FOR ALL OLYMPIC CLUB RACE MEET TANFORAN, CAL. Wiseman, Driver and Anthony, Mechanician in Stoddard-Dayton Model "K" with a few of the trophies won during the past few weeks. Both boys are in the employ of J. W. Leavitt & Co., San Francisco, Cal., agents for Stoddard-Dayton cars. [[symbol - circle around 5]] 1st $3500 AND UNDER SANTA ROSA, CAL. [[column]] 44 [[line]] COBE TROPHY WON BY MARGIN OF ONE MINUTE [[line]] Louis Chevrolet, in Buick Car, First in Auto Race in Sensational Finish. [[line]] [Special by leased wire, the longest in the world.] CROWN POINT (Ind.), June 19.- After a bruising and nerve-racking contest, and the most spectacular in the history of auto road racing in the United States, Louis Chevrolet, the "Demon Frenchman" driving a Buick car, won the Cobe trophy race over the Crown Point-Lowell course to-day by the narrow margin of 1 minute and 5 seconds. A fellow-countryman from Pau was his closest competitor. He was William Bourque, driving a Knox car. Fully 50,000 people witnessed the grueling contest. So intense was their interest in the races to-day that men, women and children stood and sat for hours under a hot sun until men and women alike succumbed to the heat and were carried in a semi-conscious condition into the temporary hospitals at different points on the course. Drivers and their assistants in the race suffered from heat and dust. The 700 member of the First Infantry, Illinois National Guard, on duty at the speedway, were also sufferers. Won on His Nerve. The victory of the Frenchman, Chevrolet, was a wonderful exhibition of stamina, of nerve and of resourcefulness under the most trying conditions. His car was not the best in the race by any means. He had trouble more than once with the engine. He made lap after lap with only three cylinders working. And yet he never faltered. He won the race on his nerve. The race was run over a road that was in a terrible condition. There were patches in the course that were hardly in shape to travel over, and yet the dozen drivers who faced the starter willingly took their lives in their hands and sent their cars tearing around the course at a mile-a-minute speed, turning sharp corners and plowing up the rough places with never a thought of danger. Luckily no one was injured. Narrow escapes were numerous. Once a skidding racing machine struck a flagman. The latter, William Mueller, suffered the fracture of a collar bone. The interest in the race, while great all through the long hours of the day, grew to a white heat as the hair-line finish of the two unemotional Frenchmen, struggling for victory, for glory and, incidentally, for money, began to grow apparent. Bourque, who had been started second in the race, never had been actually headed. But one after another of the racing machines had crept up close to him, and some had bettered the time he made. Started Tenth. Chevrolet had started tenth. He began by making a fast lap that put him in the lead, and he held this advantage up to the tenth lap, when he had troubles with tires and engine, and lost the lead to Robertson in the Locomobile. He regained it again only to lose his place at the head of the flying procession a second time. Again in the fifteenth lap he was in front and he remained there to the finish. The Locomobile, with Robertson again at the wheel, captured third place, with "Eddie" Hearne and the foreign Fiat fourth and Englebeck in the Stoddard-Dayton fifth. Chevrolet occupied 8 hours 1 minute and 33 seconds to travel 395.65 miles, an average of 49.4 miles an hour. The Knox took 1 minute and 5 seconds longer, while the Locomobile needed 13 minutes more than Chevrolet to hurdle the ruts of the roughest road autos ever were required to race over. [[line]] SPARE WHEEL WILL BE [[/column]]
