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established the pacing record of 1:55 at Saint 

 Paul in 1906. The best running record for a 

 mile is 1:35%, established by "Salvator" in 

 1890. In England running races have always 

 been more popular than harness races, and one 

 of the greatest turf events of the world for 

 many years has been the English Derby, run 



~om, near London. 



Automobile Races. Quite the most thrilling 

 of modern spectacles are automobile contests, 

 on speedways or country courses. They are 

 int< rnational in character and attract the most 

 expert drivers of the world. Courage and stay- 

 ing power, together with exceptional presence 

 of mind and constant alertness, are absolutely 

 -sary to the driver's life in his headlong 

 flight over such courses as are run for the 

 French Grand Prix, the Vanderbilt Cup, and 

 the speedway cups at Chicago and Indianapolis. 

 Great distances are covered in these races; the 

 pace for the mile is less regarded than the abil- 

 a driver to maintain a terrific speed for 

 hundreds of miles. Records established on 

 . speedways for 100, 400 and 500 miles 

 are 56 minutes, 57.72 seconds; 4 hours, 4 min- 



and 39 seconds; and 5 hours, 7 minutes 

 and 26 seconds, respectively. The world's rec- 

 ord for a twenty-four hour run, established in 

 1907 by S. F. Edge, is 1,581 miles. Competition 

 among car builders, who wish the honor of 

 placing a winning car in the great races of the 

 year, is scarcely less keen than among dn 

 since the advertising value is clearly recog- 

 1. The amount of money spent on auto- 

 mobile racing is now an enormous sum, and its 

 popularity appears to be growing, in spite of 

 the fatalities that are too often a result of the 



< pace maintained. 



i:, i.ir.d ^iii.jrrtn. The reader is refer 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Athletics Laurel 



obile Motorcycle 



< le Yacht and Yachting 



RACES OF MEN. The origin of man. the 

 advent. upon the earth and the 

 .i which rent races of mm 



' into existence are questions that ! 

 always interested the world. Notwithstanding 

 -omc of the most noted scientists 

 he last two centuries have devoted much 

 h<- -tudy of these questions, none of 

 th. in is settled. Any estimate of th, 



(1 upon ' is a 



as is seen by comparing the esti- 

 ' <>f dim orities upon the sul> 



whii-h van- from 10,000 to several him 



thousand years. All that can be said about the 

 time is that it is very long, and it can be 

 mated only by tens of thousands of y 



There are two theories concerning the origin 

 of man. The first is that he was a special crea- 

 tion, as explained in the first chapter of C, 

 sis. For centuries no other theory was consid- 

 ered by the Christian world, and this theory 

 is still widely held. The second theory is that 

 man sprang from the order of Primates, to 

 which the apes belong, and has reached his 

 present state through long ages of development. 



The question of the division of mankind into 

 races is also one concerning which there is a 

 wide difference of opinion. These differences 

 arise from the extreme difficulty of arriving at 

 a common basis of classification. The old 

 classification and the one with which most of 

 us are familiar is that which is based chiefly 

 upon the color of the skin, but also takes into 

 consideration the shape and size of the head 

 and the peculiarities of the features. This 

 classification divided mankind into four races 

 the Caucasian, or white; the Mongolian, or 

 yellow; the Malay, or brown, and the Negro, 

 or black. To these Blumenbach added t lu- 

 red, or American, race. Each of these races 

 was subdivided into various branches, those of 

 the white race being the Hamitic, the Semitic 

 and the Aryan, or Indo-European. 



Recent investigation and discoveries by an- 

 thropologists have caused many of them to set 

 this classification aside in favor of one based 

 upon a consideration of the color and form of 

 the hair, form of tin- head, form of the nose, 

 color of the skin and stature. This classifica- 

 tion, known as Deniker's, divides the human 

 race into six groups and twenty-nine races, as 

 follows: 



I. WiOOD] H.iir. Broad Nose 



1. Bushmen 



2. Negfrlto 



3. Negro 



4. Melan. 

 II. Curly 



6. Australian 



7. 1 ' 



8. A 



III Wavy Brown 01 i.ilr, Dark Eyes 



9. Indo- Afghan 



10. Arab or Semite 



11. lirrber 



i airopean 

 13. i ;lar 



i i \\ . - 1. 1 ii European 



15. Adri 



iv i Ught Eyes 



16. ' ><an 

 IT European 



