The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-09
NEWARK TEAM
O GLIDDEN
CONTEST?
Local Autoist Points Out
Fact That This City Is
Well Qualified.

group of friends. ut seems to me that the
motorists have done almost everything 10
get themselves famous except the one very
thing that would do more than anythmg
else to show that we are really alive here.
Just review for a moment what the
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
has accomplished. While track races were
in vogue we had here at Waverly some OF
the best performers at the wheel in the
country, and before long these unique
events to which no admission was charged
became noted.
Before these officially went out of fash
ion, even, the club arranged a contest the
like of which had at the time been contem-
plated by no other organization, a three
day endurance contest in which the COM
peting cars had to follow a time schedule,
and at the same time be penalized even for
adjustment of their machines.
Meanwhile the club takes a hand in sew
eral campaigns for more just automobile
laws. At length the officials draw up rules
for a 24-hour endurance contest.
1T may be asked whether this has not
done enough to show the motoring world
that Newark Is an automobile centre of no
mean Importance, even IL 1t is close to New
York. To a certain extent this may be
true, but the fact remains that metropolitan
papers have given but little publicity to
the Jersey clubs doings, even Its more
ambitious attempts, such as the endurance
runs. The result is that Newark is hardly
known as an automobile town outside Of
New Jersey.
II realized this very forcibIy when 1 was
out West to our factory. They seemed to
think there that my territory was in some
rural district, where the sight OF a motor
wagon sent all the horses in town cavort-
ing.
Now, don't you think this would be
some different If we had a team in the
Glidden tour? We have agencies for he
best cars right here in this city, and we
have the New Jersey Club to stand spons-
err for the entries, should such a course
be taken by the A. A. A. this year as
was mapped out last season. What more
do we need?
ut undoubtedly would be a pretty heavy
expense, perhaps, but the factories are
willing to provide pretty well in a case
of this kind, where a dealer is going to
the trouble to advertise the car in a man
ner that will help its sale In territories
other than his own. For these reasons I
am certain that the participation In the
national tour would not only do Newark
automobile circles good by showing out
slders that We are alive, but would also
do a great deal in stimulating trade To-
cally.'
Scores of motorists felt that something
was lacking for their enjoyment Of Elec-
,tion Day, and considered that the holi-
day was not complete without the auto
mobile track races at the Waverley-'the
big free show"-as the trade papers called
the event, not understanding that the New
Jersey Club was prohibited from charging
admission to the grounds because they
are a part of the county park system.
Such weather." lamented one motorist,
"and nothing to do but amely tour some
where or other, where, the chances are,
you have been before. Still. I suppose it's
really just as well, considering the fact
that the moral influence of the local club
against the sport was needed to make an
impression against the horrors of the
game"
1t is interesting to note hat the majority
Of automobile clubs whose opinion the
American Automobile Association requested
on the subject of track racing have replied
in substantially the same form as did the
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club,
Some weeks ago the race committee of
the New Jersey Club was called upon by
the A. A. A. to give an expression of
opinion as to whether or not sanctions
should be granted by the Three AS for
track races, especially for races on cir
cults designed and constructed for horse
racing.
The New Jersey motorists replied that in
no event did they believe in speed contests
by automobiles on tracks as small as one
mile in size, and they were especially OPP
posed to all forms of racing unless carried
on on tracks built solely for the purpose,
such as the great Brooklands circuit in
England.
The replies received by the A. A. A. from
/ -AI1-, a1..I- rn a4Dna IN h.W1 tod fnN.La In
low:
In Favor of Sanctions Unqualihedly.
Milwaukee Automobile Club.
Motor Car Racing Association, Of Balti
more, Md.
Favor Sanctions, but with Restrictions
Chicago Automobile Club.
Bay State Automobile Association.
Quaker City Motor Club, of Philadelphia
Against All Sanctions.
Cincinnati Automobile Club.
assachusett Automobile Club.
Pittsburg Automobile Club.
Rhode Island Automobile CLUB.
Cass County qnd.) Automobile Club;
Central Pennsylvania Automobile Club.
GAINESVILLE (Wis) Automobile Club.
Auburn IN. " Automobile Club.
S sdha6ec KaP1ds N SMl S9 An59fd9p.e c1 Hiao
Worcester CMass) Automobile Club.
Long Island Automobile Club.
Weld County (Col) Automobile Club.
st. Louis Automobile Club
Owatonna (Minn) Automobile Club.
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Cluh
Lima co. Automobile Club.
Peoria QlL-) Automobile Club.
Rochester Automobile Club.
Buffalo Automobile Club.
Cleveland Automobile Club
Wilkesbarre Automobile Club.
Albany Automobile Club.
Williamsburg (Pa) Automobile Club.
Sprih gfield (O) Automobile Club.
Detroit Automobile Club.
Brockton CMass.) Automobile Club.
Secretaries Opinions Against Sanctions
Oswego IN. " Automobile Club.
Springfield Qll,) Automobile Club.
Bloomington GILL Automobile Club.
No Action Either Way.
Springfield CMass) Automobile Club.
Maiden (Mass.) Automobile Club.
Washington ID. CO Automobile Club.
North Jersey Automobile Club.
New Britain Comm Automobile Club.
Adirondack Automobile Club, Sandy Hill
N. ",
Binghamton IN. W Automobile Club.
As a result of this marked vote agains
track racing on circuits such as now exis
the A. A. A. racing board has drawn Il
a list of conditions which nus be FUTILE
before any sanction is granted. This lis
will be Immediately submitted to the cluf
which voted, and another meeting of IL
committee soon held to ratify the actor
These conditions are so ard as to max
1t almost impossible for them to be file
, In the case of any ordinary track, sue
: as that at Waverly Park.