Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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 Cssc djunm Libert CLASS OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIKXCIOS

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lilly “Earn ” A RELY eight clays intervened before the date set for the big motorcycle races when Brian Pen-field, who had been trying out a new and powerful twin cylinder machine, met with a serious accident on the Tacoma speedway while rounding a curve at a little over eighty miles an hour. A hasty examination at the hospital showed his most serious hurt to be a compound fracture of the left leg. The moment he regained consciousness he asked the doctor if he would be able to ride in the races and upon receiving a negative answer, fell back on the pillows with a groan. Brian's desire to ride in the coming races was not based on a love of glory. He had obtained the general agency for the Royal motorcycle in his city and the success or failure of his business depended on his winning the ten mile open event in the races. The Royal was a new and comparatively untried machine and Brian was well aware of the fact that unless he made a record for the machine during the races, all the trade would go to his rival, a man named Coughlin, who was handling a well known and popular machine. As Brian lay groaning on his little cot at the hospital, he saw all his happy hopes vanishing before the clouds of his present misfortune. His gloomy reflections were suddenly interrupted by the entrance of his young brother Billy who, as was only natural, was soon busily engaged in discussing the chances of the Royal in the now fast approaching races. Every possible person who might be able to handle the machine was discussed by the two brothers but all were given up as hopeless. Suddenly a great idea broke over the active mind of the younger boy. “Say! he exclaimed, “why couldn’t and then checked himself just as suddenly. “Why couldn't what? demanded his brother. “O, nothing, was Billy’s lame answer. “I just thought I had an idea but it wasn’t worth speaking of.