The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-23
ALL SAVANNAH ISfACING MAD Filled With Thou sands of Visitors. RECKLESS DRIVERS WARNED Foreigners Must Exercise Greater
 Care in Future. onciaIs Are Determined That There Shall Be No More Serious Accident
 To Mar Thankssiviny Duy Races,
RECKLESS DRIVERS WARNED
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Savannah. Ga. Noe. Predetermined that there shall be no more serious ac- cidents to mar the closing days of the practice period. the officials of the Au- tomobi1e Club of America, in charge of have warped the more reckless of the foreign drivers that greater care must be exercised tn the futeure.
 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 score of arr rests On the streets yesterday for vio-s lation of the speed law.
 The city Is filled with q host of vig- itors and when the final rush arrives, the hospitality of the citizens. so abund- antly In evidence, will be taxed to the utmost to provide for the throngs att tracted by the races of Thanksgiving and the day before.
 oMst of the drivers of the light and cup cars will have their final praetice spins tomorrow afternoon. Tuesday will be devoted to the last touches of course preparation and Wednesday morning at il o'clock. Eastern time. the light car race will be started. The distance of this race will be 206.8 miles, the little mosquito fieet". of, fif- teen probable starters making twenty one laps of the short s.s mile course. The winner Of this race Is expected to average about forty-five miles an hour. The running consequently will require approximately four and one-hah hours. the finish being around 3:s0 p. m.
 The grand prize race on Thanksgiving day. which is declared will eclipse any road race ever held in this country and which contains many of the world's most famous cars and drivers, will be started at 2 a. m, Eastern time. The total distance Of this 1ace is t02.eS miles. or sixteen laps of cgurss which measures 25 ls miles. In this race an average speed Of from sfxtytseven 10 sewenty miles Rn hour as anticipated. and ths running will Fequire about six hours Infringing the nnish to ?. m or after. ef
 The "savannah cup" as the race a populaFiy known. Is tine longest of the events. and win test the ability Of the drivers to the utmost. The strain of hurlin ga car forward at bursts of speed which will exceed 100 miles an hour, and around high banked turns. where the slightest deviation means disaster and possible death, is a nerve.racking experience at any time, btu to keep up the terrific pace for six continuous hours, covering a distance almost as great as from Boston to Washington--a railroad run in which placing a task upon the drivers in which hazard Is the pre- dominating element.
 A Splendid Course.
 The Savannah course is calculated 10 coax the utmost of speed from the drivers. Immediately after the start, following a short turn to the left there Is a straightway stretch of four miles down the white bluff road Short stretches and easy turns soon lead into second narrow flight stretch three and a half miles in length and sixty feet wide. This part of the course was specially construct ed for the race, a cut being made through a virgin forest of towering pines, Along this stretch known as Ferguson Avenue. Nazzarro of the Italian drivers. has declared the lead ing cars should make a speed of 110 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 miles.
 The light car race on Wednesday will have probably fifteen starters, most of the cars being of American The race Is a novelty. and while interesting and fraught with will not take rank with Thurs days big event.
 In the grand prize race there will be five French, six Italian, three Ger man, and six American cars. The foreign drivers and cars are favored in the speculation as to the outcome Two of the drivers engaged are former winners of the Vanderbilt cup. Vie tor H Emery who Is to drive one of the German cars. won the Vanderbilt in 1905 and Louis Wagner. who this year is a member of the Italian team won the race of 1906, Nazzarro. the 1 Italian. is credited with having made l the fastest time ever accomplished in A road race, when he recently main | tained a speed in excess of seventy four miles an hour in competition for the Florida cup. in Italy. Henri 1 Fournier, Louis Strang. Francois l szisz, Aiexandre Cagno, Arthur Duray l Ralph de Palma and others among the men who will sit behind the big steer ing wheels in the Thursday race, have been identified with feats Of auto mobilinE every since the craze for speed had it's inception.