The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-25
Drivers Called Together Last Night and Given Final h. structions for To-
 days Race.
WILL START AT II O'CLOCK
Fifteen Contestants to Be Ready for Starting Gun--Grand priSo Race Starts Tomorrow Morn
 Ing at O'Clock.

Savannah, Ga, Nov 2i All of the foreign and American drivers who are to pilot ears ln the international light car and grand prize races were called together tonight at the headquarters of the Automobile Club of America. in the Hotel De Soto and given their final | instructions for the races, The light ear event, 20 lap run around q short ten mile rectangie, Will be starte1 to- morrow morning at Il o'clock and the indications point tonight Co t5 final en- trants.
 The grand prize race of io2oS miles, the longest road race ever run in Amer lea. win ha started at o'clock Thanksgiving morning. with % of the fastest cars representing France Ger many, Italy and the United states, cn- tered
 The conditions of the races and tho rules of tho course were read to the ! drivers tonight through interpreters and the last doubtful points were dis- cussed and disposed of Everything is ] in readiness for the light ear race toe morrow The tiny racing machines will he sent away at half minute inter- ! vae md f an goes well the last of l the fifteen should hardly he under way before No. I comes swirIing down the home stretch in completion of the first lap The unusually large number of laps to the raco and tho short intervals separating the cars arc expected to furnish plenty of excitement to the thousands gathered at the finish line. Tho only serious accidents of the prac- tice period have occurred 10 tho light cars and thcrc is not little apprchen- sion tonight lest the moro daring of the drivers should send their frail little charges along tomorrow al too great a speed for safety
 There are but four turns on the course. however and all are well banked Six hundred troops arc to be thrown about the racing roads and nacmen are to bo stationed at short intervals
 With the light car race starting at fl o'clock tho result should he known shortly after 8 D, n1u for the experts are expecting that tho little racers will ho able to maintain an average speed of between 45 and 5o miles an hour, The exact distance of the race ls 196 miles.
 Tho two absontees from the 17 starters originally announced for to- morrow's race will he "The American Aristocrat" which did not arrive, and tho Gregore. a French entrant, which George Robertson, the winner of the
 Vanderbilt cup and the Fairmount Park races this year, was to have driven. Robertson did not receive the car until yesterday and found 1t could not be gotten into condition to make a proper showing, The $. r. O. car which crashed into two trees and wont completely through 12-inch telephone pole last Saturday, when Mcchanlcian Do Rosa was Killed has been practically entirely rebuilt since the accident and although it had not been out on the course up to tonight lt was announced as a sure starter. Herbert Connors will he at the wheel | instead of Jean Ju Hasse, who was injured in the wreck, The revised list of light cars and drivers starting tomorrow morning Is as follows
 No. 1, s. F. O., Connors No ?. Lan. ! cia. Hillard; Nc 8, Chalmers-De l Bergioll; No. D. Cameron. Cameron: No ! G. Tsotta, Poole, No, s, Buick, Burman; | No. 3, Maxwell, S. p, E.; No 10, Chalm- ers- Detroit Lorimer; No, il, Buick | Heelne. No. 12, Maxwell Costello No 1 l3 Chalmers Detroit, Burns, No. 1A, 1 Buick, Easter, No, E. Maxwell, Nun weller, NJ. (, Buick, Jeffers; No, IT,, | Maxwell Kelsey
 ! tico to-day was resonded by the Au- 1 tomobIe club this afternoon and most light cars took aiyauiage of the hour allowed tO them as exclusive occupants of tho ten mile rootangle. Later In the day nine of the twenty entrants in the cup race went out. The LoHlec ear, one ur the American team had a narrow esc1oc from total wreck this morning, when Mulford, q mechanician, lost inc road and took the bark oft biS oak tree one wheel slightly damaged, was quickly replaced and the ear made several of It's fastest laps this afternoon The speed honors or the day, however, wen' to pePama, of the Fiut-ltalian team, who made circuit of the 2613 miles In 22,b5.
 Two ocean steamers laden down with enthusiasm. arrived today They were held ug at the mouth Of the river for several hours by fog special trains