The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-20
AMONG THE AUTOMoBISTS
ALL CARS FINISH IN RUN OF
SEALED BONNET TEST.
FortyIsey en- Machines Complete First quar-
ter OF Task without Trouble In -Four
Day Event Of Automobile Club OF
America The Pace Moderate Gossip.

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Amor,o. -Th pace Noderate-GOssip
All Of the forty-seYen, cars that s'erVeu
yesterday morning on the four DAY run o.
the. Automobile Club OF America search
bonnet contest finished at the clubhouse .as,
night With the seals intact. Percy owen hau
entered a Blanchi, TO be dri"cn by u Noihoe''
but II did not start,
OF all the endurance and regularity events
conducted in this country since the advent OIL
mower driven vehicles IL Is quite safe 10 SAY
that meyer before was an auton'ohhe event
characterized 10y such safe. sane and cohee',
yative driving, As the cont est Is oesigneu
10 show the reliability am hoh-tIhAeline
qualities of modern automobiles, the rules
acre strict about excessive speeding Aho pro
,ided also that time lost in attending 10 tHe
troubles must not be made up
In consequence of the very hoeral tlne
allotted for yesterdays 100 nile Journey 10
Patchogue and return a majority OF the
competing drivers were forced to trlNel az q
much lower rate Of speed than their haoitusi
high powered cars adorned with numbers
and being driven at a sedate pace aroused
Sreu, ., Ell: n n,o rnutbfuI Ions Islsnders,
out in the minds OF the driver. 80 Of 4, no oOn3o.9.
e. ~ Tho contestants except drivers
:, Cisss for cars costing
OF r~unsoouts IN tlahs ~ '' 'al' 1851.
$500 and over, the distance to be covered
daily is $50 miles. but for the exceptions
noted there is an additional run of twenty
i've miles daily. Inc ohly TWO Glase
abouts were r. G.. Kelseys 40 horse-power
nne ~ aocb ~ these amateurs
poHet paliauI' ur stevens mad No.
tat and conseouentIv 6nished latest through
49, aSsarranoa ~ the snirit of the com
test rules. He reached the clubhouse iast
night at 9n O'Clock, his ma Slmum time
oeins s:5s.
As far as could be learned last nleht; none
Of the contestants had CONNECTED WIN tne
rules against speeding, though IL Ia possible
~, son,n 81 the,, CANE in loo carly through
- sHmS,t. ,ha,r r,,,;,r ,ir,o
hIssaieuiatihb tnyH iunntIH ."'s
according to the wish of the entrants, left
,be e A club house i'm FITtv-fourth street
vas Of Broadway At S o'clock yesterday
fsprV Nv =" Nav Of B~roadwny'' Thirty-sixtb
.etrreeee, az and First aye1ae. The cars were
ofTcis,,T' Timed from a point on the hoffman
Pom there The Toute led through Queens
FiorsI Park HYDE Park. kings Corners,
SNoIwSicb ,JeTicbo Hicksyilie MassaneoIa
Ln1itvyiIIe RsbvIon Raw shore Tslip. fAst
islipl.' SaTvilie' BSyport and Blue Point 10
pstseh 70. NJ ere t6e ttrn bo,nevaTd was
nosSe pSnet tenttbs ~ n mile from Roes Hotel
IN hn,nemsr io,,rnew rss mazda Nv re-.
,racn, fba MAJ va ri u rnuIt "'The event was
t tba sbiv orSari Jed and the clnb had its
.wn 49, 81 snX Grade rsiiroad crossines
whicb 1sre unnrofected by regular fagmen
~ eates Tonday tho roite is from New
YYorf TO Ia injury COM. and return through
White Plains, Newcastle Corners. BEDFORD,
Noi'h 0e'ein a"u WI" i""
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ha We beo,,n m cor pratulate themselves that
he neriod il near at hand when il will be
Eossible for the or ganization TO extend prac-
ticsI and obyious benefits to tho entire mem
bersbip. saws The Chica 90 Automobile Club
Although II Il has been the steadfast
purpose OF the board Of managers during
the entire neriod that the club has been with