Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-24
PHOENIX ENTRIES TO
CLOSE NEXT MONDAY
TEN CARS NOW IN LIST AND
TWO MORE EXPECTED
Fast Cars, Fast Drivers and Large
Number of Participants Will Make
Event Most Interesting Ever
Held on Coast

The Phoenix road race is to surpass
all events on the Pacific coast this
year. Ten big and fast cars are al
ready entered, their entrance fees hand
ed in and are duly recorded on the
books of the racing committee, and The
Herald is informed that there is a
strong possibility of two additional en-
tries being made on Monday morning
before the hour for closing the appliea-
tions.
The entries officially made up to this
hour are as follows: Fenner, with prob
ably the Isotta, the Italian stock car
that has earned a European reputa-
tion on the tracks of France Italy and
Germany, and should the Isotta car not
arrive in season Col. Fenner has an
other card up his sleeve which is not
for the public to be advised of until the
time for the start is at hand. Then
comes the Greyhound II, a Franklin
air-cooled car, owned and driven by
Ralph c. Hamlin, who got astray with
the Jackrabbit last year when he had
the opportunity to put the Phoenix
prize in his coat pocket, and the old
Black #Bess lugged home the automobile
bacon Next is the little Ford, an un-
known quantity in long desert run,
but there is a knowing look about Roy
Stearns that indicates that he knows
what his little car will do. She is
midget, but can travel like the wind, all
right.
The EImore, in the hands of d. B.
Rose and A. J. Smith is glanced at with
suspicious eyes, for this hummer of a
two-eycle car is apt to do things to
them when they least suspect, and as
the car is out on the course now and
was reported to be sailing along toward
Phoenix at a good clip, with no seeming
attention being paid to the awful
roads," the Elmore may be expected to
be at the tape with her nose to the
front.
Nobody knows what Leon T. Shet-
tier is going to do. Shelter has the
happy faculty of never telling his bus
mess to anyone unless he sees fit to do
so, and up to this date he has refused |
TO say what car he will send Hanshue |
TO Phoenix in. Shelter and Hanshue
are both in the north in attendance at
the Oakland races, where Hanshue |
made such hard struggle to retain the
record the Jackrabbit made last year |
1t may be believed. however that Shet |
tier knows what he is about, and he |
will have a fast car there and a fast |
and wise driver at the wheel in Harris |
Hanshue.
The Buick will be in the hands of |
two brothers, who have already made |
the course from Los Angeles to Phoenix .
and have had a taste of what they will |
be compelled to meet in their trip, and |
the Buick is generally ready and will
ing to tackle anything that sounds like
the word race. Propose a race of sixty
feet or 500 miles, and the Buick outfit is
up in the air and going right there, no
matter what the terms are; and in fact
the great trouble has been in the past
In the efforts made to keep the Buick
out of races, for they are known as
winners.
Number seven in the list of entries
is the Dorris car with a good 'repu-
tation everywhere, and backed by as
clean a pair of owners as there. are
in the automobile business anywhere
-BosbysheH >and Carpenter William |
Bosbyshen has booked himself for the |
drivers seat, with cool Dick Natkenns |
at his side, and the latter will take /
whirl at the pilots work when his |
companion wants a rest from the strain !
of holding her nose in the track of |
sand, through which she will be com
PEELED to travel. The Doris is a pop
ular car and she is out on the road
for the second practice spin and Bosby-
shell has been doing some live stunts
along the sandy route with the little
strong Doris.
Eighth on the list of celebrated cars
is the little Pennsylvania with as
clever and cold-blooded young driver
as eyer sat at a wheel of a car Nor
It's y Donnel Knows ms car as child
knows where the sugar bowl is. He
has been through it from tire to throt-
tie. Not a bolt, nut, gear, screw or
contrivance is. in the Pennsylvania that
O'Donnell has not had out, looked it
over, keyed his pet up to what he be-
lieves is the right pitch to show the
road TO few of them along the line
O'Donnell is not much of talker-
and worse than that he is the most
skeptical driver probably of the ten
now entered in the race He does not
take much stock in the awful road"
stories he has listened to, with all the
seriousness of a monk and then turns
away and smiles all to himself, thus
showing to the keen locker that he has
nothing but contempt for the Phoenix
course over which he has made the en-
tire trip showing his confidence in his
Pennsylvania--or as he puts Tiny
wagon" The writer made trip into
the desert with O'Donnell in another