The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-05
ENDURANCE
RUN NOW A
CERTAINTY
Auto Club Arranges
for Contest TO Take Place
Next Month.

1t is now an assured fact that the New
Jersey Automobile and Motor Club will
hold a Neutrality-suspicious. endurance con
test the middle of November. Alta meeting
of the race committee of the club Thursday
full plans were drawn up for the event,
and the date, November 1915, selected.
No great changes in the original outline
of rules nave been suggested. In many
ways the regulations will follow the re-
strlctions which bound the contestants in
the three day endurance run of the New
Jersey organization last spring, with such
notifications as have been made neces-
sary by the limiting OF the time OF the
contest.
Friday aud Saturday, November 10 and
16, nave been chosen for the contest be-
cause on those evenings there will be a
moon until after midnight, whereas If the
week following were suggested, the drivers
of the cars would AVE the benefit OF this
light only after 10 o'clock. Since it Is
highly important that the drivers become
thoroughly familiar with the course in the
early hours of the run, the committee Sc
iected the earlier date.
As originally planned, the entry fee will
be $40, and here the expense to contestants
will cease so far as the club is concerned.
Each competing car will he furnished with
sets of numbers indicating the position of
the car in the race. The drivers will be
furnished with printed route cards, and the
observers with printed blanks upon which
they will be required to enter all unusual
occurrences during the round, such as
stoppages of motor or car, etc.
The p~enalizations will probably be as
follows:
To enter control on final round more
than three minutes before schedule time,
two points.
To enter control ON final round more
three minutes after schedule time,
two points.
To stop motor without making repairs,
three points.
To stop car on last circuit except for tire
trouble. three points
To stop motor for repairs, four points.
To repair motor with engine running,
two points.
To turn the car in circles at any time
to avoid being early at control, two points.
There will be no controls in the ordinary
sense of the word. Scattered along the
course will be observers to see that the
contestants follow the route mapped out
for them. but there will be no taking of
time of the cars until the competing ma
chimes check IT. at the end Of the race at
The clubhouse of the local organization,
at Broad and Chestnut streets.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
tonight the matter of prizes will be brought
up. 1t is not unlikely that a silver loving
cup will be presented to each contestant
who finishes with a perfect score, or to
those who tie for first place. Whatever
the trophies are, the club will present to
each contestant having a perfect score a
handsomely engraved certificate of the per-
Torrance of his machine.
Each entrant must nominate one or more
observers, who may remain on the cars
the whole of the race or who nay alter
nate. These observers will be assigned
to-cars other than those entered by their
nominators. Drivers will be required to
fill oil and gasoline tanks while the motor
is running in order to evade penalization.
Entries will be received by H. A. Bonnell,
secretary of the club, until the evening
Of Friday. November s.
Uppercu Handling Autocar.
The Standard Motor Car Company has
been organized by Inglis M. Uppercu and
will handle the Autocar, Mr.. Uppercu was
formerly connected with the Motor Car
Company of New Jersey and is we'll known
in the automobile industry. Temporary
headquarters for the Standard Motor Car
Company have been arranged for at 237
Halsey street, and it is expected that new
quarters will be secured in a few days.
A. r, Allen. of Montclair, has taken de-
livery of the first 1908 60~-horsepower
Thomas Flyer to arrive in these parts.
w. II. Ellis, of the Ellis Motor Car Com
pany, has just returned from the factory of
the Knox Waterless, and reports that the
outlook for 1908 by the Knox people is
particularly good. The factory is running
to its fullest capacity on the new ears.