Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-01
PHOENIX COURSE
IS THE NEXT TEST
TERRITORIAL FAIR OFFICIALS
OFFER FAT PURSES
Money Prizes, Banquets and Springs
Resort Without Money and With
out Price for All Who
Participants

The Baldy race is over for another
year. Santa Ana is in the throes of ex-
citement over the events she is to pull
off among the automobile enthusiasts
but there is still another event that
received its initial impetus yesterday
and promises to exceed in interest any
similar event that has ever taken place
for the reason that the run is a long
one, accompanied by the utmost diff
culties that an automobile can go up
against. 1t is the Los Angeles-Phoenix
race, which that indefatigable hustler
of the automobile world locally-Col.
Fred c. Fenner-dug UP and set in mo-
ton.
But additional interest is to be given
to the race this season, for Col. G. P.
Bullard, district attorney of Maricopa
county, Arizona, came all the way to
Los Angeles to place before the auto
mobile dealers the hospitality of the
Arizona territorial fair commission,
and to tender a purse for the winner of
the Phoenix run. This is fat purse
of $1,000 which goes to the winner Of the
race from this city to the territorial
capital. Then to add interest to this
amount, and the interests of the auto
mobile owners, there are to be races
between the machines participating in
the race, with a purse of $500 for the
winner in the 50-mile race on the
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and another $500 for the winner of the
50-mile race in the class of big cars.
Then the Copper Queen Mining COM
pany of Bisbee, Ariz., is having made
the handsomest cup, wholly constructed
OF solid copper from the companys
mines at Bisbee, which is valued at a
very high figure, and this goes to the
winner of the Phoenix run and will be a
handsome affair as well as novelty
beyond the average trophy offered to
prize winners.
But this isn't ALL by any means. Tho
Hot Springs hotel, located at Hot
Springs, Ariz., famous for its waters,
has generously offered all of the own
ers, drivers and mechanicians partici-
pating in the event of the Phoenix run
the hospitality of the house, with room
and board and baths and springs for
as long as they want to stay-no re-
strictions as to time.
Then the Phoenix people are to BAN
quet the owners and drivers and those
participating in the event with good
things galore, and with the generosity
for which the territorial plungers are
famous and to which the newspaper
representatives are to be guests.
Already six cars have been entered
for the race. These are Black BeSs, tho
old war horse of the Phoenix road, by
Col Fred c. Fenner; the Franklin, by
Stearns, local representative of the
Ford and Veile cars, and the Elmore.
Two others had signified their inten-
tion of entering last night and will
probably close their entries today.
There is but one proviso made by the
territorial fair commission, through Col.
Bullard, and that is there must be at
least six cars entered to make the race.
The start is to be on November 6 at
6 o'clock p. m, and the first general
| stop will be at Ehrenberg, where the
| cars will rest for the night, and this
time will be deducted from the running
| time of the racers leaving the latter
place the following morning.
The Los Angeles-Phoenix run is a
severe one on account of the difficulty
of the sands to be encountered, but
sands are what the traveller must ex-
pect to meet with, should the desire
lead to a transcontinental trip; conse-
quently this race is a demonstrable ex-
position of what may be expected OF
the cars that participate in this event,
and lesson of value to the buyer of
automobiles. The car that can success
fully overcome with the greatest ease
this obstacle to their propulsion is wor-
thy the highest consideration OF pros
pective purchasers of machines, for au
tomobiles are expected today to do
more than glide softly and swiftly over
beautifully asphalted and macadamized
streets and oiled roads.
In the preparations for the event the
citizens of Arizona have assuredly en-
tered into the spirit of the sport with a
generosity that appeals to those inter-
ested in automobiledom and general
good sport, for the run to the territorial
capital, while a long one and full OF
obstacles that will make Jobs OF the
drivers, is unaccompanied with the
dangers of such courses as Baldy, and
even the run-around- -the-circle tracks in
which some have loved to indulge for
three or four hundred miles that prove
nothing.