Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
DIVINE SARAH
PRESENTS CUP
OFFERS TROPHY FOR SIXTY
MILE AUTO RACE
Atlantic-Pabo Beach Spring Meeting
for Amateurs With Stock Cars
Will Be Held Four Days
This Month

What will be the first annual spring
meet on the Atlantic-Pablo Beach.
Jacksonville, Fla, under the auspices
of the Jacksonville Automobile and
Motor Boat club, will take place
this month.
The Atlantic-Pablo Beach is new to
automobilists, and the only test of it
that has ever been made was the small
Fourth of July tournament last year
attempted by the above club.
This meet was confined to stock cars
used by the every day automobilist in
Jacksonville, and was quite successful.
Recently w. j. Morgan, who was in
strumental in organizing the above
club year ago, made a personal in
spection of the Atlantic-Pablo Beach
and reported his finding at meet of
the Jacksonville Automobile and Mo-
tor Boat club in the Jacksonville board
of trade rooms.
Mr. Morgan drove over the entire
length of the beach with a team,
starting at o'clock in the morning and
made the trip from Burnside Bar on
the north to the st. Augustine Inlet,
the end of the beach on the south,
some thirty-five miles, the driving TAX
the going from Burnside which is
three miles north of the Atlantic
Beach and the Continental hotel to
some six miles south of Pablo, fairly
good, notwithstanding that the tide
conditions of late had not been favora-
BILE to a smooth beach.
Twenty miles of the beach he found
to be of inferior quality, but which
could be utilized in long race, espe-
cially in an endurance test where per-
fectly smooth going is not requisite.
Morgan is of the belief, however, that
with Il good northeast wind and tide
the beach would in some places be
found equal to any part of the Ormond-
Daytona Beach, but he does not expect
that more than twelve miles of real
good beach will be available for the
forthcoming meet.
Roads Are Poor
The Atlantic-Pablo Beach, so called
because the Continental hotel and
residences and the little town of Pablo
are situated on the beach, is just sew
enteen miles from Jacksonville by
railroad.
A very poor road for driving also
leads to the beach, This road has
three miles of good going at the beach
end, having just been completed by f.
M. Flagler, and there is two or three
miles of good road on the Jacksonville
side of same, but in the center there
is ten miles of very rough road which
the automobilists and carriage drivers
are trying to have the county author
tiles make good, which would give
Jacksonville a magnificent drive to one
of the finest 'boulevards in the world,
made over twice daily by the action
Of the waves.
The program arranged for the tour
nament on the Atlantic-Pablo Beach,
was gotten up specially to inter-
est amateur drivers of the south, as
the majority of the events are for stock
cars and include Florida interstate and
southern championships.
Some of the fast cars that engaged
at Ormond will undoubtedly be present
for record trials, several being ar
ranged for them, during the meet.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt has Of
fered trophy for a siXty-mile race,
and several other trophies have been
offered to the race committee, among
them one by the Wondsor hotel, Jack
sonvilIe, and one by the Times-Union
newspaper of Jacksonville.
1t is proposed to make the Atlantic
Pablo Beach spring races an annual
event, and it is quite possible that 1t
will be the leading southern tourna-
ment for amateur drivers.