The Personalities

Leinster Leader, Saturday 4 July 1903, Last Edition - Page 5.

MOTOR RACE.

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THE WEIGHING AT NAAS

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The dashing and intrepid French motorist, Gabriel, whose machine (the famous Paris-Madrid car) was the first to depress the scale, and Edge, the holder of the English Cup, who weighed off at a later stage, were the two personalities perhaps on which interest was most concentrated. Edge alone of all the competitors was greeted with a hearty cheer, which he received with a modesty which is characteristic. Gabriel is also a modest, unassuming young fellow, albeit keen and alert, and is the very last in the world whom an uninitiated observer would suspect to be capable of the brilliant daring and absolute contempt of risk which have signalised his past performances.
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