The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-02
GREAT RACE [:
FOR The CUP
Automobiles From Four Nations
Will Take Part in Americas
First Big Trial. I.
WILL BE HELD SATURDAY
Ninety Thousand Gallons Of Oil
Used to Lay Dust-Soine Of
the Famous Drivers.

Over a triangular road course on Long Is.
lind, beginning at 6 a. NJ. on Saturday. Cc-
tober Sth, fourteen or fifteen powerful auto
mobiles. representing the motor Industry of
four nations, Will meet In n 300 mile contest
for trophy offered by W. X. Vanderbilt,
Jr the holder Of the present worlds re-
cord OF thirty-nlne seconds, and member
OF the A. a.. a. racing board, under whose
auspices the race Is being conducted.
II Is tho first great automobile road race
ever held In America, and tho racing machines
named and tho drivers that will pilot them
o. the long Journey Is a guarantee that the
contest Will compare favorably with the great
races Of Europe.
/! Itaiy are the four nations whose renress nta-
tives WI try for supremacy. and With cars
ranging in horsepower from thirty TO NINETY,
some phenomenal speed should be supp cd
Although the cnrs are capable OF travelling.
eighty OF linetS miles nn hour, the course
makes II improbable that more than mic
n minute pace, can be maintained Though
! eighteen machhes are named. not more than
fifteen arc expected. to start lnsuring sport
OF tho silt edged order. 8i n,
The American Representatives.
Albert c.SNNebb. Of Toledo. will drive the sixty,
horsepower Pope-T Toledo rncer. entered by
the Pope Motor Car Company The real speed
though It has had no trouble beating mile
n minute pace on tho track and about u mi @
In fifty seconds on an ordinary foad. 49, ~
Another entry Is n twenty-four horse powee
Pore-Toledo. TO he driven by II. II. Lyttlc.
who has done such excellent work ION the
track. This IL the ~ stock machine that
has been entered for tho race and Its owners
arc starting 1t more TO prove the speed OF
q high class American machine ON long
Journey than with any Idea OF winning.
N4 The other American starters VIII be Joseph
Tracy. With thirty-six horse power! Royal:
Charles Schmidt with II Packard. and Fra:
Croker. son OF Richard croker. former 20 III.
cal leader Of Tammniy Hall. lin New York,
with seventy-five horse power Simplex.
Some of the Great Drivers.
There arc two cars frn,n Italy; thres
Pantnrds. a Dietrich, as Renault, and n
marhlrcs viii represent Germany.
y or the drivers, Gabriel Is probably the bcYt
known on account OF his svictorylln the famous
Paris Madrid race in which seven contestants
Travelled at the rate &of niDety NIL q s1otir
Heath. who Is All American, but who Will
drive on the zFrcncl team was tho tvi y ner
OF the Circuit dcs Arlenncs while Clement
Is looked upon as one of Europe's best. Paul
sartorl will drive A. c. Eanderbilts car,
while Werner. an Austrian, and a competitAS
in the last Gordon Bennett cup contest, Will
guide c. G. Der snlore's Mercedes.
Ninety Thousand Gallons of Oil
to Lay the Dust.
That there may be no danger from the dust,
the chief danger#in arch contests, the course
Is being thorourhly oiled. Tho twcntv-ttree
carts. 81 1t Will take $4,000 gallons 10 do tho
| Job. and the cost will approximate 5000, Tho
money received from the sale Of boxes: and
scnts viii be devoted to this rUrpose. ss a
! stand proceeds viii not cover the coft or runs
MY o. the race which Is estn,qtaI tnt 1S.rO1