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MOTORCYCLERACES HELDAT HASKELLFt. Worth Driver Hurt InSpill; Crowd Of 4,000 Attends * GefIHASKELL, July 4.—A crowd es- | Etimated at 4,000 witnessed the Fourth of July motorcycle races here on the Haskell county fair association race track this afternoon.Jesse Bristow of Fort Worth was7iNseriously injured during the preliminaries as he was taking the south j in£ curve of the track. One of his 2 inlegs was broken in two places and Newed 1theihe received a serious scalp wound.His machine was demolished whenit hit the ground after going over J Amc the embankment. He was removed scor to the office of a physician and j later to a Stamford hospital. j * ^Winners in the various events were: Event 1-time trials—E. A. Cathcart, Fort Worth, time for 1 1-4 miles, 78 1-5 seconds. Event No. 2— ten miles, rural Murray, Ranger, first, time 11 minutes and 9 seconds.E. A. Cathcart second: Jesse Mont-LouYanlarghimmathittBy Universal Service. theWASHINGTON, July 4.—In | gamfraiBabT ed Ispite of the fact that law enforcement officials declare that Fourth of July celebrations are growing saner and safer each year, imports of fireworks into the United States continue to increase, the department of commerce reports approximately 1,-000,000 pounds more of fireworks were imported during the first | four months of 1927 than the same mopths in 1926, government officials said. 11oneeverSi\vliiceOoslJudjsRuelBlueTateRe*iThuJohrgomery, first, time 6 minutes, 583-5 seconds, ‘ L. A. Myers. Wichita Falls and Hugh Ricks. Evenut No.4—five miles free for all, Rural Murray, first, time 5 minutes, 39 seconds. Hiram Thompson, second! and George Zerschausky, Austin, third. Event No. 5—five miles,: x stock machines, Wade Anthony, Con first, time 5 minutes, 3-4 seconds, j *^tr; Robert Enloe, second and Herbert j (joh] Morris, third. Event ft—five miles, free for all. Hiram Thompson, first time 5 minutes, 50 seconds, Gus LaBude, Lawton, Oklahoma, second, George Zerschausky, third. Event No. 7—ten miles, free for all, Rural Murry, first, time 11 minutes, 31 seconds, Gus LaBude. second, J. A. Myers, Wichita Falls, third. Event No. 8—five miles, consolation race, stock machines used, Robert Enloe, first, time, 6 minutes. ^I and 3 seconds, Elbert Morris, sec- by I ond, J. B. Jones, third. lt;iLaz;DugCollI * 1 PITlt;WasNewSiGoalehhas
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Abilene Morning News
Abilene, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 05, 1927
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