Evening star., 1909-05-14
WARM CONTEST OF
AUTOS TOMORROW
Final Instructions Issued for
Reliability Run of Wash
. ingt0n Club.

At a largely attended meeting last night
at the clubhouse on Georgia avenue final
instructions were issued to the entrants,
drivers and observers in the third reli-
ability contest of the Automobile Club OF
Washington. which will take place to-
morrow. Robert B. Caverly, official ref
cree. addressed the meeting and explain
ed fully the details of the run.
He advised all drivers. observers and
passengers to provide themselves with
goggles and busters, as the contest VIII
be most strenuous one. Large numbers
will be displayed on the cars, and eX-
treme care should be takep not to mis-
take any of the local cars for those
which will take part in the reliability
contest of the Maryland Automobile Club.
which is scheduled for the same date and
over part of the same route. The auto
mobilists from the Monumental city will
be met on the road between Emmitsburg
and Westminster. In the event of restive
horses on the road the day of the contest
the motors of the machines are TO be
stopped only on instructions from the
observer on the car.
A thirty-minute stop will be made at
Waynesboro for lunch, and cars not max
ing the stop will be charged with the
time just the same. Gasoline will be per-
mtted to be taken on at this point sup
ply wagon having been arranged for at
the checking point within the town. The
cars will be started at three-minute in
tervals, the pilot car leaving at 4 o clock
tomorrow morning and the first car in
the contest at 3 o'clock. Observers will
be assigned to cars they are brought
opt of the car barn at 14th street and
Park road. If a car is not ready TO start
when the time iS called il will be pen
allied for every minute over time. 1T was
decided by unanimous vote of the club
last night to change the hour of storing
the cars in the barn from O'Clock this
morning to = o'clock this afternoon in
order to give the entrants sufficient time
in which TO get the cars ready. a bull
letin announcing the winning cars will
be posted at the clubhouse Sunday after
noon. After the run tomorrow the cars
will be locked up. and Sunday morning
tee will thoroughly examine the machn-
cry of the cars, after which they will be
released.
Drivers and Observers.
The drivers of the various cars entered
and those whom they nominated as OBJ
servers are as follows:
Ford roadster. Charles Z; Mller-S I. Compiler
Stoddard-D Day Clarence Barnard.E a pitkin
Pullman road. John Il: Thomas. 5. NJ; Trammell
FRANKLIN tour. N. s. Bates Roy De Neal
Chase run. e. j. Drake. Irving Hamilton
Buick tour. J. a. Muehleisen. Thos ID. Walsh
Packard tour. John Day. Dr.I. W Mcconnell
REQ roadster. George Thomas. X. 4. Bates
Wayne. ......A. ID. Bortcn. II. Chaplin
Packard. Isador Freund. Joc Waldron
Matheson +. w. b. McE,urney. Charlc Drme
Oldsmobile r. Frank Ty ser. :. Joe Trew
Matheson I. James 0rIne. 4. VI. Brown
Oldsmobe L. II. l.. Leimbach &c. Green
Ford roadster H. G.. Machn. M. +. Miller
Brush run. IL. w Nichols. Ernest Love
Thomas Det. Joseph j. Ryan. Pete Euhanks
Columbia. Otto Jacobie. b. ]. Doherty
Chalmers-Det. A. Stanley Zell. y. Il. Sperry
Brush run. ID. l. Bussey Chas. II Fickling
The observers nominated AT last nights
meeting will not ride in the same car 1s
the driver who nominated him, but will
be assigned to competitors car tomorrow
morning just before the start.
Starting and Finishing Time.
The starting and finishing time of the
cars In the respective classes. together