The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-23
Citizens Arrested for Violation of the Speed Limit
 Ordinances
AUTOMOBILE CLUB WARNS
 MORE RECKLESS DRIVERS
All In Readiness for Great Road Races, Beginning With Small Cars, Wednes- day-The Course and
 the Drivers.

Savannah November 22-Determined that there shall be no more serious acci- dents to mar the closing days of the prac- tice period, the officials of the Automobile Club of America, in charge of the light car and grand prize races, have warned the more reckless of the foreign drivers that greater care must be exercised in the future No practice trials of any sort were permitted today, and the course was crowded with touring cars and sight seers. All Savannah is racing mad. There were more than a score of arrests on the streets yesterday for violation of the speed law.
 The city already is filled with a host of visitors. and when the final rush arrives the hospitality of the citizens so abun- oantly in evidence, will be taxed to the utmost to provide for the throngs attract ed by the races of Thanksgiving and the day before.
 Start of the Races.
 Most of the drivers of the light and cup cars will have their final practice spins tomorrow afternoon. Tuesday will be de- voted 10 the last touches of course prepa- ration, and Wednesday morning at II o'clock. eastern time. the light car race will be started. The distance of this race will be 2o5.S miles, the little mosquito fleet Of b probable starters making 21 laps of the short 9.S mile course The winner of this race is expected to av- r-t. ming consequently will require approxi- mately four ard one-half hours, the finish being around 3:3O o'clock D. m.
 The grand prize race on Thanksgiving Day, which 1t is declared, will eclipse any road race ever held in this country, and which contains many of the worlds most famous cars and drivers, will be started at o'clock a. m., eastern time. The total distance of this race is 4O2S miles, or 16 laps of course which meas ures 25.1S miles. In this race an aver age speed of from 67 to 70 miles an hour is antioipated, and the running will re- quire about six hours, bringing the finish to o'clock D m. or after The "Sa- vannah cup" as the race popularly is
 
 events, and will test the ability of the drivers to inc utmost.
 Fearful Speed Probable.
 The strain of hurling car forward at bursts of speed which will exceed 100 niles an hour and around high banked turns, where the slightest deviation means disaster aild possible death, is nerve racking experience at any time. but to keep up the terrifice pace for six contin- uous hours covering a distance almost as great as from Boston to Washington-a railroad run in which four different train crews would be employed-is placing a task upon the drivers in which hazard is the predominating element
 The Savannah course is calculated to coax the utmost of speed from the drivers. Immediately after the start, following a nhort turn to the left, there is straight away stretch of four miles down the white bluff road. Short stretches and essy turns soon lead into second arrow flight stretch three and a half miles in length and to feet wide This part of the course was specially constructed for the iNSeF " S"N pViiiB AidbC tHtouSn a virgin forest of towering pines. Along this stretch known as Ferguson avenue Nag zarro, of the Italian drivers has declared the leading cars should make a speed of IT miles an hour. The home stretch. the third of the long straight reaches on the course is three miles long, and the grand- stands are so placed that the cars can be seen coming down a slight incline for nearly two mics.
 Something of the Drivers.
 The light car race on Wednesday, will have probably 15 starters, most of the cars being of American manufacture The race is a novelty, and while interesting and fraught with danger, will not take rank with Thursdays big event.
 In the grand prize race there will be five French, six Italian, three German and six American cars. The foreign driv- CTS engaged are former winners Of the Vanderbilt cup. Victor Hemery, who is to drive one of the German cars, won the Vanderbilt cup in 1905. and Louis Wag- ner, who this year is a member of the Italian team, won the race in 1906 Nag zarro. the Italian is credited with hay ing made the fastest time ever accomp- lished in a road race when he recently maintained a speed in excess of "A miles an hour in competition for the FYorio cup in Italy. Henri Fournier Lewis Strang. Francois SzisZ Alexandre Cagno. Arthur Duray, Ralph de Palma and others among the men who will sit behind the big steer ing wheels in the Thursday race, have heen identified with feats of automobiling ever since the craze for speed had its inception.