The Washington herald., 1907-08-18
BALTIMORE WILL JOIN
10 Participate in AutOmO-
bile Racing Game
WOMAN DRIVERS DEFENDED
Charge that They Have No Nerve
DenIed-Lnck of ReckIessness Re-
garded as Rather COmmendabie
Than Otherwise-sOme Timely Adj
vice as 20 Care of Machines.

Baltimore is to get into The automobile
track racing game
From the City OF Monuments comes the
news that the organization has been ef-
fected Of the Motor Car Racing Associa-
ton. all the members of which are men,
beers of the Automobile Club of Maryland.
The new association has secured from
the racing board. A. A. A., sanction
for a race meet TO be held on Labor Day,
September ?. at the Gentleman's Driving
Park. This is only a half-mile track, but
It is considered one Of the best half-nile
tracks In the country.
The programme will include a fifty-mile
championship for stripped touring cars;
a ten-mile race for cars costing 5000 or
less; ten miles for cars costing 5000 or
less, and ten miles. for cars costing 81 800
or less; also a five-mile free-for-all race,
and a flve-mile runabout championship
This will be the first sanctioned race ever
held in Baltimore, and the first automo-
bile race meet Of any kind held there in
three years.
John w. Haynes, the race driver, and
assistant sales manager OF the Dragon
Automobile Company. has come forward
in defense Of woman drivers as a class
Recently an English journal declared that
women lack nerve. and iE-imated that
they were failures as drivers OF automo-
biles Mr.. Haynes says this is not So and
instances the work OF Mrs. Cuneo in the
last Glidden tour. After paying a glow
ing tribute TO this woman. Mr. Haynes
continues.
i have observed that women who learn
TO drive cars are. as a rule. exceptionally
capable after they have mastered the ne
ehanical details OF the work 1t is true
that they are not Us daring as men in
all emergencies. But this. 10 my mind.
is rather a recommendation than draw
back. Most men take too many chances
with cars The desire 10 perpetrate the
unusual seems 10 overcome them. Judg-
ment may be good with them nine hun
dred and ninety-nine times. but the thou
sandth chance taken is apt 10 be their
downfall
Woman does not take chances, and
she brings her car and its human freight
home without damage. None OF the &C
cidents which the newspapers play up
with inch-long headlines occurs when wO-
men are driving. Some one recalled this
fact the other day, when number OF
experienced drivers were discussing the
subject and a veteran Of the industry.
who was there, remarked that not only
was this true but IL had been his expert
ehce that the cars which he had sold for
women 20 drive had been the subject OF
less repairing than those which were driv-
en- by men. particularly by professional
chauffeurs. One reason for this, he
thought. was that women did not try ex-
periments with cars. When the cars were
running well they usually let them alone.
This. he thought, was an exceedingly de-
sirable trait"
To obyiate accidents from backfring
when cranking the engine. place the
thumb against the Index finger, and take
the crank and handle between .ae four
fingers and the palm Of the hard. Should
a Blackjack occur, the hand viii open
readily. and the thumb Will not act as
a stop.
Dogs suffer from motor heart One of
King Edwards veterinarians says they
enjoy the swift motion. but in time their
hearts enlarge. become habby. ard gem
orally weak.
Motorists OF Chester, Pa, have set an
example in organizing with a view OF es-
tablishing amieable relations with local
magistrates and constables, and contrib
uting toward the maintenance Of high
ways which they use.
A tribute to the value OF newspaper ad-
vertising recently was paid by the makers
| Of a new tire. who announced that bust
ness had increased 30 per cent since the
| inception Of their newspaper advertising
campaign.
Representatives Of the American Auto
mobile Association will push vigorously