The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-07-13

Chicago. July 12.-The West Chester
Motor Clubs team was eliminated from
the perfect score division for the Giidden
Trophy in the third days run Of the 1907
annual tour Of the American Auto Asso-
citation to-day from South Bend. Ind, to
Chicago. The teams representing the Au-
tomobile Club, Of Buffalo, and the Pitts
burg Automobile Club. are now the only
ones still In the perfect score division.
The struggle among the runabout
drivers for the Howe. prize remains as it
was yesterday. except that R. G. Kelsey,
Of the Long Island Auto Club, was to-day
charged up with a loss OF &c points for
time lost yesterday, about which there
had been some dispute.
The first man TO arrive here to-day was
Montgomery Hallowell, Of the Automobile
Club. OF Buffalo, who started sixteenth
from South Bend. His 60-horsepower
Thomas followed the two confetti cars
into this city and his time for the trip of
10 miles was hours 10 minutes. The run
to-day was over much better stretch OF
roads, which were nine miles longer than
the original 10l miles journey scheduled
IN the route book.
Thinks Hover Car.
The principal topic of conversation
around. the auditorium tonight is the res
ignation Of L. z. Myers as a member
OF the executive committee of the A. A.
A touring board. Myers is member of
the Chicago Automobile Club. II seems
that he has become dissatisfied with his
position on the executive committee. He
has had a number of differences with
Chairman Hover. and finally he told
Hover at South Bend last night that
he wished 70 resign as a member OF the
executive committee. He supplemented
this by telling Hover that the latter did
not need. any executive committee to
help him. as ne was deciding every
thing that came I'd without paying any
attention 10 the opinions Of his associates
and evidently wanted to run things his
own way
The West Chester Motor Club team
tumb.ed out of the perfect-score division
through a series Of mishaps
The scores Of the club teams were
given out late tonight. " H. Vansicklen
and T. J. Clark, Of the Chicago Automo-
bile Club, were each penalized 142 points
for time lost, and F. Z. Dayton, of the
same club, lost 224 time points with his
40-45-horsepower Columbia which, with
the . - points lost by the team yester-
day, leaves the Chicago club tonight
with total OF 343 points lost as a team.
Many Teams Lose Points.
OF the Automobile Club of America
team Orrel A. Parker withdrew his Royal
as a contestant, which entailed a loss of
80 points, and this. with the 81 points
lost by the. team yesterday, leaves the big
New York club with a total loss OF
259 GA points
The New York Motor Club team finished
to-day's run without any penalizations
but its score TO date shows % Is points
lest yesterday. The Cleveland Auto Club
team has lost up to tonight a total Of
u 20 points as a team. It's previous total
Of points lost was 1241-9, and the points
lost to-day We're time points, lost by A
J.. Petersson's Meteor, and IS time points
lost by II. c. ShOemakers Shoemaker.
The score Of the West Chester Motor
Club team is figured unofficlally as 335 %
points lost, of which 333 Will be for Flem-
ing's enforced withdrawal. and eight
points lost by I. s. Tyler for requirements.
The score Of the Automobile Club Of De-
tToit team was 2j1 points lost up 10 last
night, and to-day r. D. Chaplin lost 81
time points and points for replacements.