The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-20
TO START
TEN HOUR AUTO
ENDURANCE RAGE
Competing Cars Will Leave Club
house Saturday Morning for
Run to Hackettst0wn.

Tn final touches have been made by
the contest committee of the New Jer-
sey Automobile and Motor Club to the
plans for the big amateur ten-hour en-
durance race which will be held by the
club Saturday.
The cars will be sen away from the
starting line in front of the clubhouse
IN Park place. promptly at 5 o'clock
next Saturday morning. at which time
Mayor Jacob Haussling. who will start
the competitors on their long journey,
will fire the gun, officially declaring the
race opened.
The arrangements for the policing of
the course and the guarding against
ire have been looked after in all de-
tails.zand the city authorities will CO.
| operate with the club in seeing that the
affair is pulled off without a hitch. In
addition to the regular firemen the big
automobile fire apparatus of the Tea
Try Company, of Newark, which did
such efficient service in the Vanderbilt
and Savannah races, will be on hand in
case of
At $50 a. IN. the Pathfinder car, a
30--horsepower Cadillac, in charge of c.
q. Fisher and carrying d. c. Reynolds
and c. A.. Westervelt, Of the commit
tee, will leave the clubhouse to care
fully mark the course for the contest
ants with arrows, flags n confetti.
The press representatives will be taken
i care of in a big Marmon touring Car,
driven by Mrs. NJ. H. Hickey. There
will also be two Maxwell cars from j.
w, Mason's establishment, which will
be used for official purposes of the COM
mittee.
AS has been previously stated in the
STAR the run will cover abou 1870
miles on a course from Newark to
Hackettstown and return, which will
be travelled twice during the ten hours
of the race. The cars will finish the
first lap at the Newark clubhouse at |
p. m, and complete the second circuit
at 6 p. m.
Three minutes before or after the
time set for finishing each circuit will
be allowed the contestants in order to
make a perfect score, which will entitle
them to a club cup. In a C of the
three classes of cars a handsome trophy
Will be given to the entrant finishing
the circuit In the most perfect time,
which will be determined with the aid
Of a large clock which will be erected
in Military park, opposite the finishing
line.
There will probably be twenty or
more cars start in the contest, there al
ready being fourteen entries as follows:
Glass Al. J.. c.. Humbert, 1s-horse-
power Buick runabout; r. S. Ward, 20
horsepower DE DIETRICH runabout; w.
F. Hopping, 1s-horsepower Buick run
about: Emil M~antner. 20-horsepower
Ford runabont.
Glass BIB. A. Bonnell, 2S-horsepower
Maxwell touring car; M. R. Sherrerd,
2S-~horsepower Maxwell roadster; A.. B
Ward, 30-horsepowsr Cadillac touring
car.
Class CT. A. Croselmire. 40-horse-
power Locomobile baby %tonneau; w. II.
Ccrnwell, 35- horsepower Oldsmobile
runabout; c. E. Callard. 45-horsepower
Marmon touring car; r. G.. P. Dleffen-
bach, 40-horsepower Craig-Toledo road
ster; FL. Kramer, 45-horsepower c
son ~tourabout: w. G. Crosby, ~45-horse-
power Marmon touring car; w e.
shnttleworth. 50-horsepower Haynes
%runabout.