Arizona republican., 1909-08-22
II WILL BE AN OPEN RACE
Nearly a Score of Cars Will Enter Upon Run From Los Angeles to Phoenix Interest of the East in the Contest

District Attorney Bullard returned to the city yesterday after an absence of two months. during which he has been from one end of the country to the other, accompanied by Mrs. Bull lard He came here directly from Los Angeles. whither he returned from the east to see what had been done there among the automobile men about the race to Phoenix for The Republican cup and the subsequent races at the fair grounds.
 As president of the Maricopa Auto mobile club. Mir Bullard took that matter up on his arrival at Los An geles two months ago, but he found things in pretty much of an uproar on account of the attitude of the Dealers association. whose contention was that none should take part in the race who were not members of the association. That would have eliminated Col. Fen ner and others.
 When Mir. Bullard got ready to leave he told the autOmObilists to settle the matter among themselves and that on his return from the east he would visit Los Angeles for day to see what had been done. He was pleased on his re- turn to find that there had been an amicable settlement and that the race was 10 be open. The race will be run under the auspices of the Maricopa club. which will have to raise $1,OOO for expenses.
 Col Fenner will enter two cars, Black Bess," which was in the race laet year. and the Isotta, which won valuable cup in the east last year. Ralph Hamlin will enter the Grey hound" seen here a year ago, and he will be the first to put up a forfeit.
 Leon Shettler will not run the ''Jackrabbit' of a year ago, but he will enter a seven-passenger car, the Ap- person Jackrabbit, capable of seventy miles an hour. He will have with him a reported each for The Times, the Examiner. the Herald and the Express, through whom Phoenix will be given the most advertising it has ever had in the sporting pages of the newspa- pers Of the country.
 Andy Smith will enter another E1- more able to make sixty miles an hour. The LOcomObile people will al most certainly make an entry and in that case the Stearns people will also come in. The big Chadwick Six will also be in the race. Captain Ross. who last year drove the White Steamer as far as Mecca, will be in the race with a Corbin. There will be a Mitchell motorcar and a Maxwell There will be a procession of autos strung along the desert along in the early part of November.
 Most, if not all, the entrants in this Los Angeles to Phoenix race for The Republican cup will take part in the lOO-mile race at the fair grounds for the S1,0O0 prize which the fair com mission will hang up In fact, in order to get into that race one must have taken part in The Republican cup race.
 MT. Bullard said that great interest was felt in Los Angeles sporting and other circles in the two events, the cup race and the 1OO-mile race. Fen S HiIdreth has sold four boxes to Los Angeles people who said that they were coming mainly tO see the cars come in and to see the fairground event.
 When MT Bullard was in New York he met the president and secretary of the American Automobile association. and they told him that the Los An gcles to Phoenix race was the only western event in which eastern auto mobilists took the slightest interest. They requested that application for the permit for the race might be made early in order that they might give it full publicity in the eastern sporting papers. /
 While in Chicago, Mir. Bullard met Barney Oldfield, who said he wanted to get into the 1OO-mile race. He was told that he would have to qualify for that event by making the Los Angeles to Phoenix run. Mr. Oldfield did not think he would have time to engage in that stunt
 The Los Angeles entrants are con sidering new rule regarding the race under which they may use one gear on the trip across the desert and another for the fairground race. That had not been settled when Mr. Bullard left Los Angeles.
 Under another rule, when the cars reach Ehrenburg they will be taken in charge by representative of the Mari copa Automobile club and the owners or drivers will not be allowed to ap- proach them for examination or re- pair the machinery until they are checked out by the custodian.
 Leaving Los Angeles five weeks ago,