The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-27
THE AUTOS AT ORMOND
IDEAL RACING CONDITIONS IN THE
 AFTERNOON.
Drivers of Powerful Cara, Despite Strenuous Efforts, Fail to Break the KilO- meter Record Made
 by Basle.

ormond. Fla, Jan 2e.-Aithough bleak
 weather prevented the carrying out of the
 morning program, a brilliant array of en-
 thusiasts lined the course in the afternoon
 when weather conditions returned to about normal and witnessed the races under ideal conditions.
 Few records were broken. The feature of the day was the attempt to break the kiiometer record of 2i 1-S, es- tablished by Basic tn Ostend, Belgium. last wear. Drivers of powerful fast moving cars put forward strenuous efforts to smash the foreign record, but none succeeded. When the time was announced it was learned that the European record stin held. The near est approach to Basles record was made ny | Arthur P. Mcdonald, who negotiated the distance in 2S ftatt one anu thre"-hn1hs seS onds too slow t The record for one kiIometsr of 2s 2-5 sec onds. made by Charles Basic on the Or mond course last year was lowered by MT. l MacDonald by 8 2-5 seconds. Louis s. Ross I broke the worlds record for steam cars
 Thia record of 27 S-5 was held by Le Blon
 made at Dourdan, France, in 1905. Mr. Ross , mada the kiIoneter, which is about three fifths of a mile, In 0.2A l-b, lowering the worlds record by 2-5 seconds and the American record made by himself, 5S 2-S
 seconds for a mile.
 srhe rases opened at o'clock with one
 kilometer time trials for classes A. B and l C From l433 to 2.204 pounds; B from 1 e51 to l,b42 pounds, and C, less than 65l
 hounds. The following time was made:
 w K Vanderbilt, JT., In 90 h. D. 9S S-S | ssoonds; H. L. Bowen, In 100 h. D., 22 S-5; l Arthur E. Mcdonald. in 90 h. po 22; Ed ward R. Thomas, in 90 b. D.. 20 S-b. Pau | ssrtori. in Alfred c. Vanderbilts 90 h. D., l 2s 4-5: Charles de Plus in Mr. Hellers SC ! h D., ss s-5: Samuel B. Stevens in his 90
 h. D.. as 2-53 Webb Jay in le h. D. steamer
 8s i-s: Louis & Ross in his 20 h. ?. steamer
 rrbe k,lometer record is 71 1-5. made here
 last year by Charles Basic in 60 h. ?.
 The first heat in the kiIometer race
 was won by Mcdonald in 9T s-S; W. K
 Vanderbilt. second; Edward thomas. tnird The one kilometsr was won by Mir Ros' in 2s seconds, with William Wallace sec
 ond and pJplus third
 l In the third heat Mir. steveps was first in 30 s-5; Alfred Vanderbilfs machine sec-
 ond-
 In the one kilometer record race, open for the H. L. Bowden trophy, she first heat was won by Ross, 27 8-5: Macdonald second. as Is: W, K vanderbilt third, s2 l-6. second hsat-Wna- Wallace won in s2 s-s
 and R. NJ. shanley second, 94 2-5.
 Third heat-stovsns won, sl Is; A. Vanderbilt secoEd, S.
 Final heat ta one kiIomster race won by
 Ross in as 2-5: Macdonald second in 2s 3-5. Stevens third in 31 3-5. Vanderbilt dropped out.
 In the final heat for the H. [. BowdeD trophy for the one kilometer open race, Arthur Mcdonald won the heat and the trophy is 27 s-5 seconds. Louis Ross was aecond sn 2s1-5 seconds: Samuel Stevens, in A 90 h. D., third. Time, 30 seconds.
 William Vsllace fourth. no time. William
 Vanderbilt started but did not finish in the
 finals for the kilometer open race. In the one mile class race to vehicles. exerything from Ssi to l'4Sz pounds. Webh Jav in his IS h. D steamer won in 5l 4-5 1 seconds: Guy Vaughan. in his 40 h. D.. sec
 ond; time. 5t s-5.
 Tn the final for the one mile Corinthian for the L. C. Weir cup Louis Ross in his 90 h. p. steamer won in ti S-b; Samuel s-
 Stevens. in his % h. p, sscon4 Time.