Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-11
ENDURANCE
CONTEST IS
ARRANGED
AUTOMOBILE DEALERS PLAN
SERIES OF TESTS
Event Will Consume Five Days and
VIII Extend to Riverside, San
Diego and Santa
Barbara

The first meeting of the Automobile
Dealers association since the hill
climb was held last night and it was
decided to hold an endurance contest
in the spring.
The event will consume at least five
days and will be open TO all whether
members of the association or not. On
the first day it is planned to run to
San Diego via the coast route, return
ing by the inland route and stopping
over night at Riverside, continuing
from there on the third day through
Redlands. Highland and San Bernar-
dino to Los Angeles.
On the fourth day the tourists will
start for Santa Barbara via Newhall
and Saugus, returning from the coast
city on the fifth day by the way OF the
Conejo and Calabasas.
The trip will be more in the nature
of a touring event, about the only re-
quirement for a perfoce score being
that the cars check in at the controls
within a stated time.
The arrangement of the run is such
that those who can be away for only
two or three days can take part, as
the triB is divided at Los Angeles. and
either the first or the last part of it
may be entered.
The decision of the association to
make it an open event will meet with
hearty approval from many quarters
and will tend to silence considerable
of the criticism, much of which was
unmerited. relative to the exclusive
ness of the hill climb.
While the meeting of last night was
not without considerable spicy flavor
the members who were present un-
doubtedly feel all the better for hav-
ing talked it out while together.
WranqIe Over Time
The matter of the time made by the
Rambler was one of the questions that
came up that precipitated a warm dis
cussion, but it was settled amicably.
1t seems that the tangle relative to
the time made by. that car and the
consequent award of the cup to the
Pope Hartford was due to too many
cooks. Mr.. Clifford. one of the OFFICIAL
timers, took the time of the Rambler.
Some of the other timers also took the
time independently. and as one of them
got it. as he thought 1927, the four
timers decided to call it that, but Mr..
Clifford maintains yet that the time
was 2:27, and as he was the one deSig-
mated to take the time and as the time
was taken as 2:27 by at least three
others whose aftldaVltS were preseilteu
to the meeting the award of the cup
has been made to the Rambler and the
time is now officially stated at 2:27.
H. D. Ryus, the agent for the Pope
Hartford, was the one who made the
motion that the cup be awarded to the
Rambler and showed himself again as
the true square sport that his friends
know him to be. He is as good loser
as he is a winner. and while he feels
that his car is the faster and would
like return match to decide the mat
ter, he readily comedies that under
the circumstances the fair thing to do
is for the cup to go TO the Rambler
car
There were other matters that came
up that ELECTED some warm argument.
but in the end good judgment pre-
vailed and most of the matters were
adjusted amicably.
In one case in which the lie had been
passed and some bitter words sent out
to a member of the association by one
of the committee in charge of the hill
climb, the matter was held up with the
hope that the affair can be settled
without calling it to the attention of