The sun., 1909-11-02
AMONG THE AUTONOBILISTS
NO PROTESTS IN CONNECTION
WITH VANDERBILT RACE.
Cup Donor and Referee Announces
Awards OF Trophies for Three Glasses
In Saturdays Contest--Nteet on New
Track at Atlanta Attracts Entries.

Announcement was made last night that
the executive committee OF the Motor Cups
Holding Company held meeting yesterday
to settle the flnal details for this year a
Vanderbilt cup race last Saturday. The
meeting was held at the ONCE of william X.
Vanderbilt. Jr., donor of the cup and referee
OF the race as well as president OF the Motor
| Cups Holding Company. IL had been ex-
| pected that plans for the races next year
! for the Automobile Club OF Americas grand
prize gold cup and the Vanderbilt cup
would be tentatively settled. on but no news
regarding them was given out.
Mr.. Vanderbilt reported that as referee
he had awarded the Vanderbilt cup to the
| American Locomotive Company, entrant
OF the Alec No, 8. with which Harry +.
Grant finished first In the race on Saturday.
! He had awarded the Wheatly Hills trophy
and the cash prize of si 900 to the Nordyke
! and Marmom Company. entrant OF the
Marmon No. 81. with which Ray W. Har-
roun had finished first in his class on Satur-
day. He had also awarded the NASSAU apeaua
trophy and the cash prize of 81 900 to the
Chalmers-Detroit Motor Company, entrant
OF the Chalmers-Detroit No. IS. In which
Joe Matson won the class for small cars.
He further reported that the Fiat No.
IL entered in class 1 OF the two VRnoer-
bllt cup classes by the Flat Automobiis
Company. and driven by F. II. Parker. was
placed second In the vanderb bilt cup race
and that the Atlas, No. s, and the Chal-
mers-Detroit, No. 2, were stil running
when he called the race on and that no
award was made In class ?. which included
the cars having from Sol to $50 cubic inches
piston displacement that were entered for
the Vanderbilt cup. The announcement
sent out by A. r. Pardington. manager OF
the race for the Motor Cups Holding Com
pany. also contained the following:
rRa1 haS
statement had been made and signed by
the official timers and scorer to the effect
that they had omitted TO score one lap
their error Mr.. Wand er6lIt also reported
In the discussion OF Saturdays race
along Automobile Row yesterday there |
MAS SSthns SYt for the
that the spectators had been kept on the |
course not only in front OF the grand stand |
roads was hailed ns an achievement that |
had heretofore been accounted impossible |
was as @ Tery Seneraiiy praised. and the start start
in broad daylight was very generally |
credited with preventing the wholesale
that was seen at all the former Vanderbilt |
races.
starting the race at o o'clock was not only |
a good one from the standpoint OF per-
mitting mcst or the spectators to obtain
race but that a chauffeur or automobile
owner who would not hesitate to cut holes
in the wire fences during the night would |
leave the fence alone IL he had TO use wire
cutters OF the fence in broad daylight
lie said ne had noticed a iOrmer races
I hat chauTpurs and others would break
the fences down 40 they could get their
cars right onto the course when they
could do their work OF destruction under
cover OF darkness but that no such cases
were reported in connection with the race
on Saturday.
Men VINO had watched the race from the
Old Country road and had visited bot the
Westbury and Ilicksville turns while the
race was in progress said that Henry Sander
son, chairman Of the committee in charge
Of the policing arrangements had made his
preliminary plans so thoroughly that the
drivers had been able to round these turns
without being in constant danger Of tnjur-
ing reckless spectators. as had been the
case during the former races for the Van
derbiit cup
There will be quite an exodus OF racing