The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-21
AMONG THE AVTOEOBLTTS.
ALL CARS REARY FOR WANDER
BILT TRIALS.


Eleven Of the Fourteen Machine Take
Practice Spins Over the COufse-W. n.
Owen and u. n. Harding Try Circuit
for first TIme-weighlng In To-day.
Eleven Of the fourteen cars that will start
In the elimination trials tomorrow 20 select
the Ave American ma chimes that wHll represent
this country In the Vanderbilt cup race on
October 0 we're out for practice yesterday
morning. The three candidates that were
not out-Herbert II. Lyttle and his Pope
Toledo. Walter Christie and his direct drive
Christie, and the b. l.. NJ. which Henri DoIoeau
will drive. were all on the course. the Christie
arriving about 8 O'Clock and the B. l.. NJ. be-
fore noon. ISyttle did not take the Pope"
Toledo out. a. he was replacing a wheel which
had been damaged the previous day ana
making some adjustments. A fog which
hung over the course at . O'Clock. VIE. the
practice was due to begin. I'D not disappear
until just before 7 O'Clock, when the racing
cars were required 10 leave the course.
Whether or not the mish ap which overlook
Robertson and his mechanic had anything
to do with II. the crowd at Krug's was the
largest one since the racing machines were
allowed to begin practising on wednesday
OF last week. There we're between two and
three hundred spectators at KruE's to wstch
the racers make the turn from Mineola ave-
nve into the Jericho turnpike. but about the
most excitsng thing they witnessed was Joe
Tracy make the turn at what was unusual
speed for him. with q woman 10 the mechanics
seat. Tracy said afterward that his passen ger
is employed by an Afternoon newspaper with
radical tendencies and she wanted TO see
how It felt TO ride at high speed. Tracy
stopped at his quarters at Lakeville on his
last journey around the circuit and took the
fair journalist aroun the 1911 miles couree
In IS minutes He said that she was p~articu-.
larly interested In the 'hairpin- turn at Old
Westbury, 90 he took her around II st thirty
miles an hour. This IL q rather high rate OF
speed for this turn. and consequently the racer
skidded almost to the fence on the outside
mobile toward Rosiyn. The substitute me
or t. which strss%ed out bach Of her meet of
s snr st sSe sS Sdd 3 oY the turn threw
her against Tracy, 90 thsS her head rested
that K was al very IeLI to trsvel so fast. but
that once was quite often enough for her,
Two drivers made their debut on the circuit
yesterday, Wallace H. owen bringing out the
eight cylinder Maxwell for the frst lime
racy looking Thomas which Csillois had
turned the corner at krugs with q lew
minutes before Owen came along Mineola
Ma Ewell is quite high on the ground for 9
racing car and It's unhOoded eight cylindered
e0Spa Of n sSs t SH T n%nHsTS, a ppe Of Which forms
the dash. II; \. Harding. the young Eng
lishman who has been engaged to drive the
couple OF rounds Of the cincuit with his charge.
II was the first time he had been around the
course and he did not make very last time,
Maxwell, nor had the number IL been painted
on the Haynes. Several more speculative
builders OF some Of them encrOached on the
roadway. Some Of the drivers who will
start in the elimination trial tomorrow were
some Of them two feet in diameter. that are
arranged along the right side OF the North
Hampstead turnpike beyond Mineola avenue
would be removed before Tomorrow morn
ing. The road 70 straight and wide along
this stretch and it was pointed out that Il was
the faster machines would try to pass their
slower opponents on this stretch. II the
rocks are not removed they will add a need
less danger to the contest.
The only air cooled cars in the contest.
day morning. Lee A. Prayer. with Prayer
Miller No. I, started away from krugs promp.
t!y at S O'clock He made three roGnds OF
frank La %weil,snd z. H. BeIden. With FTsyer-
Miller Nos. 2 and .. started away together
rounds 10 $50 and SO seconds. Belden's two
trips around the course being timed in one
ssSDnd Tor A aSs f5s' w ano tS Ssn next Min Sns 10 6OT leave sTs
Krug's, starting at seven minutes after S
and taking So minutes for what was the nEst
az the left rear tire ON the racer had been
P DI.CiUH q. d11sT 2 as5f t %,nu Hsrs SRsa' .t 10 ted
away again at s:32. 30 O'Clock, but did not get
back until after Z o'clock. Montague Roberts
after 8 O'Clock and made two complete rounds
in 4sH and 81 minutes. After finishing, hs
tuTUpiEs but came back over Il Just before
Z o'clock. Hubert lie Blon. with Thomas
No; 2, started out at a quarter after 5 o'clock
Of the New York Motor Club with him on the
Nss S0Rf TOs .Is te place "ToS Sr al' the %ece Eo%Ese f ftD%
Krug's with the Mstheson at 2lh minutes
after S o'clock and completed a round in
one Of kis eXcitabfe friends seemed to think
to have made a round in such times MOnsini
himself said that the hood blew on his racer
while he was rounding the -hairpin turn at
Old Westbury and he lost four minutes putting
Sini travelled at very high speed on some
S Somen o. at III the eS MsnSa sSa T earn s a i1s y soaps
when he drove around that corner;
They we're standing at the left side Of the
in fine style, but in Strengthening out his
n rs't ths iSss Side ~ the road that the thfes
fair spectators fed for a safer point OF vantage.
Tracy passed kruR's with the at
$50 so O'Clock. He made two full rounds
from there in IS and 3s11 minutes, having
the woman reporter with him the last time
he passed. Ernest Keeler went by with the
Oldsmobile at a smart pace just after Q o'clock,
but did not come around again, as he had
some trouble with the carburetor, which
had its valve choked with cotton waste The
cautious and undisturbed Caillois had his
Thomas No. 3 out Of its quarters promptly
at S o'clock. He looked at the fog and said
he would not start out vet. There In nothing
70 he learned by driving at a snails pace.
when you cannot see the road az all well
] shall wait" He did wait. too, not starting
until Ia minutes after Q O'Clock and making a