The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST
FOR Il AUTOISTS
Long Road Race in Florida Is
Now Being Talked OF.
FROM JACKSONVILLE TO MIAMI

A great road race is TO be run in Florida
Plans are being completed for a contest
from Jacksonville to Miami, a distance of
800 miles. This road has never been
completely covered by an automobile.
Ralph Owen made the trip from Jackson
Vile to Ormond over the road. The White
Steamer has made the trip as far as Rock
Ledge, but from Rock Ledge to Palm
Beach has never been Travelled over.
From Palm Beach to Miami, a distance
of about sixty miles, there is a good roaa
which has been built by n. NJ. Flagler.
The people of Florida are taking a lively
interest in this contest and the makers
of shis country who intend TO compete
at Ormond will TAX great interest and Will
undoubtedly enter a number of ears. The
road is passable, but Will require hard and
clever driving to bring the car through
! successfully. The road for "a long ways
follows the bunk of the Indian River and
tho eourSe is 5ne of the p~rettiest ever
known for a test Of this character. At
places the course viii run under over
hanging moss and Ter miles orange groves
Will be passed on both sides, Pine trees
win be pssss1 all along the road and
many of the so-cailed peonage camps will
be passed Ell route. streams will have TO
be forded in many places. and the road
Will be found deep IN sand. The difficulties
to be overcome VIII make the test very
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perfect today there is no reason to believe
that any car taking part Will he unable
70 reacn Miami and the Royal Palms
Hotel, which Is the destination.
The definition of an amateur has at last
been made an Issue between the American
Automobile Association and the a. a. u.
The A. A. u. objects very strongly to
competition between the amateur and the
professional on the automobile tracks and
on the Ormond Beach and has practically
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to draw IL quick. The A. A. u. objects to
hired drivers competing against pure anna
teurs and also objects to so-called pure
amateurs taking cash for their victories in
automobile races. This matter has been
frequently called to the attention of the
association which controls COM
petition. but has never been given atten-
ton. 1t is probable that in view of the
position of the A. A. u. in the matter now
at issue that the A. A. A. will decide 10
draw rules defining an amateur in auto
mobile competition as compared to an out
and out professional.
There have been men in the past who
demanded that pure amateur competition
be promoted. Among the many was
Ormond cast a gloom over the field of
amateur competition. OF late years r. G.
Kelsey, driver of a fifty-horsepower III. II.
Haynes runabout; Stuart Elliott, w. 1.
Tickling. and many others have asked
that a real field Of amateurs be created
under an amateur definition regarding
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The A. A. A. has steadily refused to
take cognizance of the demand and has
promoted so-called amateur races In which
amateur drivers have been allowed to
enter and then put up a paid driver to
compete.
In the old days of cycling there was
nothing of this sort, and the L. A. w. and
NJ. c.. A. drew very distinct lines between
the professional and amateur rider. In
automobile competition it has been the
custom to put up a prize, the value of
which nnuld lo taIaaa In affhar 90 g1n on
plate. To this rule the amateurs took very
distinct exception and the amateur drivers
of the United States today demand that
the line he drawn between the two classes
and drawn at once.
Savannah wants a road race of three
hundred miles over an ideal ten-mile
In the Georgia city and all have been at
tended by Mayor George w. Tledeman,
who is very much interested. 1t is pro-
stock touring cars. and as Savannah has
many a beautiful course Of ten miles over
ideal shell roads, the Savannah people be-
lieve that some records will be broken.
There has already been done considerable
work in the promotion of the event and
several of the prominent American makers
preached. w. Rand Hollender. of the Fla
Company, whose intention has
been announced a number of times to go
into every open event. has promised the
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Cyclone. Cedrino captured all honor at
Providence in the annual half mile hill
climb, driving the little 50-horsepower car
up n half mile long hill of an average of
Is per cent, at a speed of sixty miles an
hour. The chances of the Fiat at Savan-
nah and also at Ormond are considered
very bright therefore.
Few know of the delights Of a trip down
the canals Of Florida through the many
little lakes and along rivers which connect
the lakes and the canals. Many large par
ties are already being organized to make
the trip from st. Augustine to Miami next
winter in motor boats, and as the new
canal is now open from st. Augustine to
Ormond, the number will be greatly in
creased. Yachting parties will also make
the journey inside from St. Augustine In
stead Of going outside. Last winter Walter
Baker and Messrs. Owen, Fish, Parsons
and many others organized at Ormond and
made the journey TO Miami on the Uncle
Sam, which was later burned at Daytona.
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