Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
FIRST OF FALL
RACESSATURDAY
SWEEPSTAKES AUTO CONTEST
ON LONG ISLAND
FORMAL OPENING OF THE NEW
MOTOR CAR SPEEDWAY
Machines of Five different Glasses
viii Contest at the Same Time
Field of Entries is
Large
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The first of the fall road races III the
east is scheduled for next SATURDAY,
when the Long Island speedway VIII
be formally opened. The race prom
ises to be one of the most noteworthy
in the annals of stock car racing, as
five events will be rolled INTO one, the
entries in the different classes being
sent away as in one race. AS over
twenty-five cars have been named lor
the event the spectators are assured
excitement at any place on the course
With a week yet 10 enter the tolloW-
ing cars had been entered: Mitchell,
4; Stoddard-Dayton, 8; Knox. 2; Chal-
mers-Detroit, 2; lsotta-Fraschini, z;
Pennsylvania, 2; Palmer & Singer, z;
Garford, J.; Allen-Kingston, l; Moon,
1; Maxwell, 1; Lancia, /; Hotchkiss, 1;
Gyroscope, 1.
Thousand dollar prizes are offered
for the winning cars in the dlfterent
events, and as the distance for the
divisions differ there will be the ex-
element of successive finishes atter
the first few hours of racing.
An innovation which proves or IN
terest to the spectators will be the de-
pressed official supply station in front
of the grand stand, stretching for 800
feet. 1t will be in the form OF a pit,
ten feet wide and five feet deep. Here
will be kept gasoline, ell, water ana
tires. All changes and repairs must
be made at these stations. There VIII
also be one on the back stretch.
Three-quarters of a mile on the old
Jericho turnpike is being resurfaced.
The dangerous ''hatiron turn" at the
Jericho turnpike and the Woodbury.
road is being rounded for safety. A
new road is also being built across
Hampstead Plains to tho beginning OF
the parkway. 1t is 'three-quarters or
io11f fnnf
width. Twenty-Five tousand gallons or
oil are to be spread on the fourteen
miles of county and state roads in
cluded in the Vanderbilt circuit.
Equipment houses are beginning to
offer big money to drivers The Mich
elm Tire company, for instance, Will
give $1,000 to first, $3.50 10 second and
$500 to third in the Vanderbilt, pro-
vided the cars winning those places
are shod with Michelius.
Joe Tracey, the great driver and
camp manager of prominent automo-
bile events, has been engaged to care
| for the Matheson interests at the van
derbilt cup race and at the Savannah
race and will take charge OF the
Matheson camps Immediately after the
sweepstakes at the opening of the
Long Island motor parkway. Tracey
| will move the Vanderbilt camp to Sa-
vannah at the close of the Vanderbilt
race and will prepare both men and
cars for both events very carefully.
In the last Vanderbilt race Tracey
drove the Locomobile car the fastest
| lap made in the Vanderbilt cup race.
and he has been a contender number
of times, invariably scoring success.
The Los Angeles-Phoenix race is
still hanging fire. f. Q. Fenner has
suggested a twelve-hour layover at
Ehrnsberg, instead of having tha0driv-
ers race at night. He is also not salts
fed with some of the other conditions.
No entries except the Rissel and
White have appeared as yet.
A carload of Kissel Forties will be
here this week. The first Kissel Thir-
ties will leave the factory October Is.
Leon T. Shelter announces that the
first 1909 Reos will leave the factory
about November 1. He has already
booked 100 advance orders.
The Cadillac Thirty demonstrator
passed Kansas >ity two days ago and
is expected here within the next week.