Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-26
AUTO RACES AT
 | SAVANNAH START
Greatest Events of the Kind the World Has Ever
 Seen.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 26.-The tn- ternational grand Prize race to be run here tomorrow has attracted to Sa- vannah thousands of automobile en- thusiasts from eveIy part of America. The number of visitors is far in ex- cess of the early expectations. The small car race today is a sort of an appetizer for the great contest to De decided tomorrow. There are seven teen contestants n the small car event, representing the leading manu- lecturers of Amer "a and Europe.
 But 1t Is in the grand prize race tomorrow that public interest is cen tered. It is expected to be a strug
 gle that for speed and daring has never been equalled in this or any other country. The circuit of 26.13 miles on the outskirts of this city In- cludes in part the excellent course used last spring ir the first Swan 1 nah race which was won by Strans with an Isotta.. The old circuit mas been heightened and improved. anu 1t is believed to be the fastest course 1 ever offered for a race. There are DO railroad crossings and the sharp turns have been parked sufficiently so that cars can take then at top speed. There will be fifteen laps oI the course for the race. ard at the start and finish a grundstand seating i6.00O persons has been erected. The local authorities have made ampIe provisions for guarding the co Irse and protecting the crowds of specta- tors.
 The first car in the big race will be sent Of at g o'clock tomorrow morning and the other machines Will follow at one minute intervals. -.-. Of the drivers whu will pilot Amer. ican machines Willie HaIpt. who wln handle the Chadwick car, is perhaps the best known. He has taken part in many big races anI plIoi ed one of the cars in the recent Vanderbilt cup contest. Michenor, the Lozier pilot, drove in the previous Savannah race and in the Briarcliff trophy con test, and he has been prominent m twenty-four hour contests in the vl- cinity of New York. Zengle and Hard ing are less widely known than ,Ie others, but they are counted as worthy rivals of the foreigners. The foreigners present a formida- ble array of expert race drivers ana in each team are to be found win
 
 the most conspicuous team is that from Italy, for 1t contains NazZaro winner of last years Grand Prix, Ger man emreror's CID, and Florio races, and holder of the record for the tasI- est average time ever made in a road race. Wagner, also of the Fiat team, won the 1906 Vanderbilt cup race wi h a Darracq and De Palma, the third Fiat driver, has won notable victor. ies in races on this side of the water Cagno of the Italy team was third n the last Florio cup race, averag gIng 66.4 miles an hour and Fournier, ms team mate, also competed iD the Flo rio cup race but was ditched in the fourth lap.
 The French team includes LewIs
 Strang, who this year has won the | tit'e of leading American driver, by | capturing the Savannah, Briarclif and Lowell races, Szisz. who will a. i so pilot a Renault In tomorrow's race
 won the Grand Prix race in France 1 in 1906. Duray, the DeRietrich driv- CT, was third in the 1906 Vanderbilt | cup contest and also drove in the ' same race the year previous. The ! Clement team, consisting of Regal
 and HautYast, is not as well known
 here as some of the other drivers On account of the excellent show
 ing made by the GCrman drivers n
 the last Grand Prx race, the Benz
 and Mercedes teams are considereI
 very highly by those who are figuring
 out tomorrow's winner. Hemery wltl handle a Benze machine and HanrIot
 will be his team mate. Hemery ana
 HaDriot were second and third in this
 years Grand Prix and Erie, the driV,
 CT of the third Benz car In the race
 tomorrow, was seventh in the Grand i Dr{x