The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-16
AMONG THE AUTOMOBILES
rom cars LOSE POINTS N THE
4. 4. 4. TOT RING CONTEST.
70. 4. RaIncy Drops 'iut Of GIidden Trophy
Competition -s:eOrgc =. barr Another
tO Fall From the Perfect Division BUFF
TalO and l'lttsburs Teams Are Tied.

to Fall From the Perfect Division Buff
TalO ana pittsburs Teams Are Tied.
SoCTH BEND. Ind. July Four cars. .ost
points IN tO-day's run of the fourth annual
tCur Of The american Automobile Association
from Chicago hack to this city aud one ina
chine was WithdrH WI from the tour by it, en-
trant and did not leave Chicago this morning.
The Buffalo and Pittsburg clubs still are
lied with perfect team scores. All the
How or contestants are As they were on Friday
night except that u. &. Kelsey of the Long
Island automobile club has withdrawn from
the contest. Il, \. Rniney Of the Automobile
Club of Americas team did not have hi rs
hon So power REQ tu1rinE contestant for the
Gndden trophy start from Chicago this morn
ing, though the machine was still Ia the perfect
score division at the time. The car has been
withdrawn from the tour and all the hotel
reserVaj ions made for the passengers in II
have been cancelled
The other perfect score car TO fa' OF its
uerch was George 4. RHrr's ~ horsepower
Aero ear. which was y member of the team
representing The Automobile Club of Detroit.
While 'iie machine was being driven through
The bad mud hole In the road AT Crocker. Ind.
tho water pipe was broken so that by the time
he machine reached Mich gan City one Of
he pistons had become overheated. The
occupants Of the car stopped for lunch while
he piston cooled and then fixed up the water
ripe. They were I hour and ~ minutes late
N checking in here and consequently the
ar .ost IO4 time points.
II &, shoemaker. who has been driving
his q 80 horsepower Shoemaker as q member
of the Cleveland Automobile club team of
Ilidden contestants. announced his with
travail from the contest Tonight, as he has
broken some springs and has no duplicates
on his car to make the needed replacement.
III a. a. IaV .n 1l.-.1 a.AWs la lAaRA -.
ol his mishap. His Withdrawal entails a loss
Of all his individual points and deducts ~
POINTS from the totaf score of the Cleveland
Automobile Cub. Ne had also lost - points
Inst Friday. II il not known whether or not
Nr Shoemaker intends 10 continue with the
p<'y as.a non-contestant.
X q. Kelsey of Riverside Drive. Manhattan.
and without much doubt the hardest driver
~ the Long Island Automobile club of Brook
lyn. threw mp the sponge tonight so far as
further attempts to win the Hover prize is
concerned. Through the goodness of his heart
ne PLAYED first aid to the injured when the
.Ost almost an hours time, being penalized
a points for being late. Mr.. Kelsey tried to
have this penaliZatIon removed. but this
cnort was unsuccessful.
lie enters contests and makes or breaks
records between New York and Chicago
dtiye his sporty looking Matheson runahout
1nd SO he continued TO be n contestant for
The Hover prize. even though he was nifty
I perfect score. But the mishap hat befell
him to-day finished him IN and he will retire.
Nhen about ten miles west Of this city w"
~ the studs on the connecting rod broke
and a big hole was punched in the crank
Mr. Kelsey said tonight that II ne were a
lrPnufacturer or were interested financially
IN the car he is driving that he might turn in
oar 10 continue. but instead he will drop out
here.
When NJ NJ Cole Of the New York Motor
Clubs team arrived at the Hotel Oliver. the
checking 10 point IN this city. this afternoon
he found that the frame OF his 80 horsepower
sutocar was broken on the right hand side
lie was very much discouraged, hut when
wallace \. Owens told him how he could tx
wards OF stout wire he felt better. II is eE-
pected that he will continue as a contestant
fer the Glidden trophy
trouble IN the awful mud hole at Crocker,
Ind with his 10 horsepower REQ and was a
oolld not force itself through the deep ruts.
he Buffalo and Piitsburs Club teams are
stil! tied for the Glldden trophy, contest with
charged against i, $50 points being imposed
The Automobile Club of Detroit team has a
toral penaization Of 27e points. ESQ. points
being deducted to-day for the withdrawal
nounced previously.
The score of the Chicago Automobile Club
Der" Of fFt tRe rss M ma made Roi peffe eSs' scores ss me to %f%
The cleveland Automobile Club team has
lost a total OF 255 SO points, Of which III 10
we're deducted because of the withdrawal of
r. e. Shoemaker. The New York Motor
Club team had a previous total of ~ is lost
points and its present total loss is 70 Is
points: Lockwood lost 2i2 time points indi-
vidually.
The gong to-day was almost as rough in
places as the roads over which the trip from
Toledo 10 this city was made last Thursday,
as a heavy rain fell during the night and
thoroughly soaked. all the road surfaces
that were not OF either macadam or era vel.
The plan Of giving to each driver a number
designating his place in the procession worked
very well and there was not nearly as much
speeding. as there has been on other days.
II turned out tonight that this remedy for
racing was suggested by =. d. Maxwell of
the Driscoe concern, when he was
IN Cleveland the day before the tour Was
started. At that time the idea did not APP
peal to the touring board chairman. hut the
many protests by entrants and others against
the undue speed caused the plan to be tried
to-day with very fair success.
Charles Price, who has been running a Max
well around his home city of ChiCa 20 for some
lime past with its bonne sealed up. Joined
the party to-day as q nonContestant and will
keep on 10 New York. He stil has.the seals
on the bonnet that were put there when the
car made a perfect score In the recent reliabil-
ity test Of the Chioag go Motor Club.
Before Price turned the cars head toward
New York to-day there were some more seals
added 10 the original ones by the Chicago
Motor Clubs technical committee, Charles =.
Root, g.. SINS baugh and David Bcecroft.
Tomorrow the party ira wells over it1i,
miles Of what are sai id to be fairly good roads
from this city to ndianapoli