Arizona republican., 1909-12-03
MAY MAKE TUCSON
 TERMINUS FOR RACE COAST MOTORISTS STILL HOLD A GRUDGE AGAINST PHOENIX
 HOTELS
Participants in Desert Race Say They Will Go Through Phoenix at
 Sixty Per

That the Los Angeles dutonoDiilStS who partook in the desert race are still generally dissatisfied and are harbor- ing grouch against Phoenix hotels is the report brought back yesterday from that city by Charles K. Pishon. Mir. Pishon met several of the motor ists who told him that d general meet ing had been held at which 1t was decided to make Tucson the terminus next year instead of Phoenix.
 Pishon met a party of the racing men at the Cafe Bristol Among them were Roger Stearns who drove the Ford. and Morris O'Donnen of the Pennsylvania crew.
 Nix. Phoenix for us,' said Stearns when asked about the prospects. for a race next year We are going through Phoenix at sixty per and wig-wag a farewell as we go by" O'Donnell and the others intimated that Phoenix mad a lovely climate and a fine track. but cast strictures on the hotel accommo- dations.
 It was stated that negotiations would be opened with Tucson to see if that city would offer inducsments for the next big desert race. The race is one that the motorists would not like to see .obliterated. as it has attracted more interest in the southwest than any other single event.
 Several of the business men of Phoenix were asked yesterday what they thought of the new move on the part of the Los Angeles automobilists. one man, well known in real estate circles, said:
 We all know that hotel accommo- dations in this city are not adequate to the situation whenever there is an un- usual crowd. such as is attendant on fair week The hotel men do the best they can to accommodate the increas- ed numbers The fault seems to lie in another direction.
 "The Los Angeles Phoenix race is now an event of national import. The description of this race has filled the pages of the automobile magazines and a detailed account of the event has been telegraphed to every newspaper of consequence in the country. It has brought more advertisement to Phoenix than any single event in recent years. People in the east who never before heard of Phoenix, eX- cept in their school days when they were. taught that it was the capital of Arizona, now know it as the terminus of the greatest endurance race in the country Automobile day at the fair lacked by few dozen people being the largest of any day in the matter of attendance. Monday, the first day of the fair. was made a big day. instead of simply day on which to get ready for what was to follow. by the fact that the racing cars finished at the fair grounds on that day.
 Tt does not seem to me that Phoe- nix can afford to lose this event. If we can afford to present the men who take part in this great race with purse of $500 and with silver and copper cups. we can afford to treat them properly while they are here. I think they should be given the best that the city affords at the most req sonable rate. With the single excep- ton of the winning car every one of those who competed in the race did so at a loss. Only one car came through unscathed. all the others suffering dam age more or less serious and expensive. Men who undertake this race and take the long chance of coming out winners or undamaged are entitled to the best we can give them.
 Tn my opinion, accommodations at fair rate should have been reserved for these men before they undertook the long desert race. When they ar rived here the hotels were crowded and