Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-06
$500 IS SUM
OF BIG PRIZE
$500 is ADDED TO $1,000 FOR
PHOENIX RACE
Cars Start Tonight from HolIenbeck
Hotel-FIrst Car Out at 10, and
FoIIew Every Fifteen
Minutes

Tonight is the night. There will b;
things started, at least, tonight in the
automobile kingdom. Ten of the fleet
est, best and classiest cars that are
ever seen on the streets of Los Angeles
will be started over the long, hart
grind of the California and Arizona
desert in the hope of winning glory
and taking down the neat sum of $lS0'
besides, for this is the sum that Is now
put up for the winner of the Los An
Celes-Phoenix run, and with 1t goe:
the Arizona Republican cup and q
copper cup from each of the two lead
ing copper mining companies of the
territory.
When the race was proposed for this
year the sum to be given the winnei
of the race was $1,000. Since then there
has been an additional $500 added tc
this, making the total sum that the
winner may take $500. Then there Is
still the opportunity to get $500 more
60 the track event at the fair grounds
Every detail that can be covered has
received the finishing touches, and all
that remains now to be done is to
make the run.
The Maricopa Automobile club OF
Phoenix has sent men down to the
Ehrenberg to Phoenix, so that there
will be no difficulty for the drivers
to find their way into the territorial
capital
John s. Mitchell has also received
word that there need not be the slight
est anxiety about the ferrying OF the
cars at Ehrenberg, as the Phoenix
people have arranged that all the cars
will get across promptly and that not
over forty-five minutes will be con-
sumed in making the transfer.
a word, too. about leaving Los An
geles tonight and a tip for the drivers
The time from the Hollenbeck hotel
the starting point-to the plaza will be
twelve miles per hour, and from the
plaza to the city limits twenty miles
per hour and the cars must not exceed
these limits of time. These are the
specific instructions from Chief Dish
man. and with the intimation that
twelve miles per hour is not fourteen
1t would be well for the drivers to
make a note OF this.
The cars will leave from the Hollen-
beck hotel in the following order and
at the times specified in the schedule
herewith:
Isotta Fraschini-F. c. Fenner. en-
trant; Max Poismans, driver; Harvey
Herrick. mechanician. Time of start,
10 o'clock p. m.
Elmore-The Elmore Motor Car com
pany: d. 3. Rose. c. F. Smith; George
Dake, driver. Time, 10:15 o'clock.
Pennsylvania-Vai Motor Car COM
pany; Morris O'Donnell and Walter L.
Vail, drivers. Time 10:30 o'clock
Dorris-Dorris Motor Car company;
William p. Bosbyshell and r. w. Har-
rison. drivers. Time, 10:4S o'clock.
Franklln--Ralph Hamlin; c. s. Car
rls, Guy Irwin, drivers. Time, II
o'clock.
Studebaker E. M. F.-Lord Motor Car
Harry Lord and Bert Latham,
drivers w. ]. La Case, mechanician.
Time, ills o'clock
Ford-Standard Motor Car company;
Roger Stearns and Charles Harris,
drivers. Time. 1880 o'clock.
Columbia--Bireley & Young; Harold
Stone, driver; Charles Illingsworth,
mechanician. Time, II :45 o'clock.
Buick-Howard Motor Car company;
j. K. Nilkrent, driver; Louis Nil1rent,
mechanician. Time, IL o'clock.
Apperson, Kisselkar or Reo-Leon T..
Shelter; Harris Hanshue. driver; Lee
Gehrieke, mechanician. Time, 1915 a.
M, November Z.
The Herald will have a complete re-
port of the races as the cars trundle
their way across the desert. There will
be some very fast time made this year.
Schedules have been made as fast as
twenty hours, and the time made in
that schedule. so that, barring acci-
dents, the old time to Phonix by the
automobile route will be shattered all
TO smithereens in all probability.