The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
Run to Be Held Over 200.
mile Course ia New
Jersey Next Year.

A thousand mile endurance contest to be
held in 1908 is now being contemplated by
the members OF the New Jersey Auto
mobile and Motor Club. So successful was
the Neutrality-suspicious. test two weeks ago
that 1t was a foregone conclusion the club
would take steps TO hold some similar
event next year. Just what form the con-
btest would take was a good deal of, a puz-
zle, until Bernard NJ. Stanley, jr.. sug-
gested a 1,000-inile event, to be held on
Jersey roads, IL possible.
The first suggestion made was that there
be a complete circuit of 500 miles, this
course to be covered twice In a given time.
To select such a course in New Jersey
would be extremely hard. however, and
the club officials now contemplate a course
of something like 200 miles, which would
necessitate the making of five complete
circuits, under practically the same regu-
latlons which obtained in the t~wenty-four-
hour event. A course such as this would
lead as far west as P~hillipsburg, and would
include many stiff climbs. among them
Schooley's Mountain.
Aside from the fact that many. motorists
consider the New Jersey Club should not
go outside the State In seeking a course,
there is still another consideration, which
Heads not a few of the club members 10
believe 1t would be impolitic to include
part of New York or Pennsylvania,
this is the point of law.
If the machines went into Pennsylvania
it would be necessary for eacn TO De pro-
vided with a Pennsylvania license tag,
which would have 20 be attached TO the
car every time it crossed the line, and
taken off again when the car entered New
Jersey. Both the Pennsylvania and New
Jersey statutes are especially strict IN NOT
allowing other license tags to pc dispiayeu
on a machine touring either State. This
would cause much confusion and delay,
but might be borne il 1t were not FOR
the fact that the officials INT Pennsyl-
vania have Il peculiar way OF Interpreting
their State law. Many have been the re-
ports Of late from motorists touring the
keystone State, saying that IL the driver
passes a crossroad, no matter now DESERT
ed the country through which he is travel
ing may be-, at a rate greater than the
law allows for settled districts. then ne Is
liable to be punished severely, even II there
are no houses in sight, ana IL seems tne
country officials have the unpleasant habit
of establishing controls at points Wnere the
motorlst least expects them.
If these charges are true, 1t would De
totally impossible to run a contest through
Pennsylvania and compel contestants 10
maintain an average near the
limit allowed by law. Tit result would
be that they would loaf through Pennsyi-
vania and run so recklessly through New
Jersey that all prospects of holding future
contests would be lost. The CLUB reaIlzeS
that the police throughout the course OF
the Neutrality-suspicious. contest We're exceeo-
1nRly lust In enforcing the spill dho ~
the letter of the law, upon which, perhaps,
some of the contestants might nave peen
given trouble, and in return for this falt
treatment they intend to impose no CON
ditions which would lead contestants IN
another contest to abuse their rights.
AS rophles for the l,UOO-m1le contest the
club would more than likely offer the cups
which could not be awarded In the three
day event held last spring; These trophies
are now in possession of the club, and the
board of directors may do with them as
they like.
Nine cups will be required for trophies
in the Neutrality-suspicious. contest or the
New Jersey Club, instead of seven, as was
at first expected. This is due to the fact
that the race committee has removed the
penalizations from the "Mudlark- o,as-
mobile and the single-cylinder cadillac.
The Oldsmobile had clutch trouble, due ap-
parently to oil getting on that member.
and the committee decided that the act OF
putting fullerS' earth on the clutch TO
take away the lubricating effects Of the oil
did not constitute cause for penalization.
The penalty was removed from the Cadll-
lac because the stop of the engine was
due to the machine swerving into a tree,
and was only momentary. No amage
was done either to engine or running gear,
and the car proceeded without trouble Tor
the rest of the contest, finishing well with
in the time limit.
The condition Of H. A. Bonnell. secre-
tary of the New Jersey club. who was
stricken with appendicitis during the en-
durance race, is improving daily and Mr..
Bonnell hopes to be out again within a
fortnight.
A. G.. Batchelder, one of the honorary
members of the New Jersey club. has
been made chairman of the publication
board of the American Automobile. Assoc
citation. George L. Harrington, of East
Orange, is a member of the executive
committee.
Representatives of leading automobile
clubs of this and other States will be in
vited to attend the open meeting which
the New Jersey Automobile and Motor
euss the legal situation and decide upon
what action the club shall recommend
TO the Legislature. w. c. Crosby is head
of the legislative committee OF the local
club,