The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-02
GREAT AUTO RAGE TO-DAY
INTERNATIONAL CONTEST FOR
 JAMES GORDON BENNETT OUP.
start. at seven o'Ciook Thi. morning ., Kildare. Irsland-Handreds of Motor
 Car. Went Over shs Course Yesterday
 Great Preoautioa. to Prevent ca.u-
.isiss-EIsmen,s of Danger.

Kildare, July Everything is now in readiness for the international automo- bile race for the James Gordon Bennett cup. which will start at o'clock to- 1 morrow morning. All day long the counties of Carlow, Kildare and Queens, through which the course winds have been oVerrun with numberless motors. At speeds varying from 15 to 60 miles an hour. cars of all sorts and descrip- tions have been flowing along the course, which is dotted with stands and warning flags and is lined at intervals with spectators.
 The weighing of the racing cars at Nasas resulted satisfactorily for the American competitors. but badly for two os the French automobiles. though the latter's overweight apparently was partly due to a defect in the weighing machinery and the lock Of an official standard for reducing English measures
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 to the metric system It is announced that M. Gabriel will replace Henri Fournier in the French contingent and M. Genatzy will take the place of IT. Braun in the German trio. The four competing teams will therefore be as follows:
 England $. F. Edge, c. Jarrott and J. w. Stocks.
 France chevalier R. deKnyff, M. Farman and M Gabriel.
 Alnerica-A Winton, P. Owen and l.. F. Moers.
 Germany Baron de Caters, Foxhall Keene and M Genatzy
 All the cars are expected to start. They will leave the post in the follow. ing order:
 |, Edge; ?, R. deKnyff; 3, Winton; {, Baron de Caters; 5, Jarrott; 6, Farman; V, Owen; 8, Foxhall Keene; 3, Stocks. no, Gabriel; Il, Moers; F, Genatzy.
 The race should be over late in the. afternoon, but the result may be in doubt until Friday. The complicated system of stopping the cars at the con- trols at the entrances of the towns of Carlow, Castledermot, Athy, Kildare. Monasfereyan, and Stradbally and de- ducting the time taken in passing through the towns, the speed In which must not exceed about fourteen miles an hour. was shown by experiments made to-day to result in great confu- sion, and unless the race to-morrow is better managed than to-day's rehearsal the winner will not be known until Fri. day and even then win be the subject of controversy. There was some talk to- night of abandoning at the last moment the more complicated features of the. timing system.
 More police than have been seen in. any district in Ireland since the days. of the Phoenix park murders are patrol- ing the course Great precautions have been taker to prevent casualties but the broiing sun and the traffic of hnn- dreds of motors, motor cycles and other vehicles have created layer of thick dust on the course, the raising of which by the racing machines tomorrow will add great element of danger to the contest.
 ftGuTys INOlIildils NFllO WuS Fl sent as ali automobile club official at to-days arrangement said there was a general feeling that the American com- petitors might come to grief if they att tempted to cut the corners too close.
 Messrs Winton, Moers and Owen are regarded rather as the dark horses in the race, but neither of them is much fancied. Jarrott and Gabriel (the latter made $, record from Versailles to Bor- deaux in the recent Paris Madrid con- tes) generally figure as the favorites, though there is little or no betting. The American team took quick spin from Naas to-day and all seemed in good condition. Foxhall Keene on his Ger-. man car is expected to take all the chances that the extraordinary narrow roads and numerous curves afford.
 For the moment all central Ireland is given up to the motors, whose vagaries and colors are no less remarkable than the babel of tongues eranating from their occupants. French and German visitors are everywhere noticeable and this greatly increases the bewilderment of the Irish peasants, who for the most part have now taken the safe side of the hedge.
 ANDERSON WINS.