Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-07
CARS START ON
LONG ROAD RACE
ACROSS DESERT
TEN MACHINES LEAVE FOR
PHOENIX, ARIZ.
STREETS JAMMED FOR BLOCKS
AROUND HoLLEN5EcK
Italian Racer Gets off First, and the
Others Follow at Fifteen-Minute
Intervals Until After
Midnight

Midnight
BULLETINS
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.
Nov. 6.-Car No. l, the Isotta
Fraschini, passed through here at
11:52 p. m.
SAN BERNARDINO, CAL,
Nov. Car No. 2, the Elmore,
arrived here at 1910 a. m, turned
south and left via Mill street.
Car No. 4, the Doris, went
through city at 1885 a. m. at a
fifty-mile gait.
Car No. S, the Franklin, passed
through at 12:43 a. m.
Car No. 8, the Pennsylvania,
broke down ten miles west of
here, but arrived here at 1880 a.
~; was in garage seventeen min
utes, leaving at :07 a. m.
Car No. arrived at 1918 this
morning.
Car No. 8 reached here at | 81
a. m. today.
UY HE Los Angeles-Phoenix road race
started at 10 o'clock last night
Il from in front of the Hollenbeck
hotel, Second and Spring streets, ten
cars undertaking the 419-mile journey
through mountain passes and over des-
erts to the Arizona town. So dense
was the jam of pedestrians, pleasure
automobiles, street cars and wagons
that speed for the first few miles was
impossible, even had not Chief or
Police Dishman threatened to arrest
any driver exceeding the speed ordin-
ance within the city limits.
Although each car as it got away
through the lane of eager spectators
started with a buzz and whirl and
sputter, clouds of smoke and steam
seeming to exude from every angie,
the noise was more grandStand play
than actual attempt to forge from the
machine every ounce of ppwer. Bnt
each oe the ten cars, leaving at fifteen-
minute intervals, started the long race
with apparently every effort Pnade 10
produce racket and speed.
Ford is Dark Horse
The long. rakish Italian racer, Isotss /,
F'raschinl, with Frenchman, Max
Poisnans, In the drivers seat, was
the first to crawl through the crowd.
Though not more than eight miles an
hour speed was made from the start
ing place to the Plaza the big exhaust
pipe was belching lire and clouds OF
evil-smeling smoke. :,
A great cheer greeted the rattle ana
burr of the engines when the car start
dir0CtlV III
front of the car had been opened by
squad OF policemen and the lane
opene6 wider as the machine passed
through though only TO close imme-
diately, to the CONSERVATION or MOTOR
men and chauffeurs driving autos
crowded with Inen and women eager
to see the start of the long road race.
The cars were let out a little after
the plaza was passed, but the drivers
understood we'll that the contest Ter
.superiority lay on the long, level desert
roads and through the treacherous
mountain passes--not on the smootn
streets of Los Angeles.
Italian Car First
The Elmore followed its Italian rival
ffteen minutes later, and nom tneh
on until half an hour after midnlgnt
the racing cars, stripped to the rrame-
work, left at intervals of quarter OF
an hour. When the Apperson, VIZ
Harris Hanshue at the wheel, lett the
HoIlenbeck at 1890 o'clock this morn
ine the first cars were far cut in the
orange belt, their noses fast nearing
the Arizona border.
The first car to approach the start
ing point was the famous Italian stock
car Isotta Fraschini which Fred =
Fenner, acting for the Motor car I'M
mort company, had brought to Los An
ioII IN take nAft In the
race to Phoenix
Fenner was the winner of the last
wears race with the Black Bess,
White Steam car, which made the run
in twenty-nine hours and halI, pul
this year with the cars that nave been
entered and with the reputation or the
cars as flyers. he realized it would take
more than the .sBlack Bess'' to win the
coveted prize of $500 in cash, and the
cup offered by the Arizona Republi-
can. as we'll as the copper cups pvc
mn by the mining companies pr Afl~
zona. Hence the Isotta Frasehini
Great Cars In Race
AGAINST the Isotta are ranged such
splendid cars as the Kisselkar, with
her six cylinder equipment and driV1
ing her that magnificent speclmep. OF
humanity Harris Hanshue, the, nolder
of the worlds record at Santa Mon
lea, and which today STANDS unlm-
peached, according to the report or
the A. A. A. contest board. Then there
is the Franklin Greyhound No II, IN
the hands of Ralph G. Hamhn. on
whose skill and the name OF his car,
wagers have been laid in large
amounts that he will take the coin on
the first prize.
but there are numerous youn gstefs
who are determined that they VIII also
figure in the result Among these are
the Elmore--the little t@o-cycie en-
CINE car that has laid out a private
schedule that, if exposed to the pub
lie gaze would cause wonder on what
basis it could be done.
Then there is the PennsylVania.
with Joe Coberly at the wheel, and
Joe has been over the read from start
to finis... and knows it like au open
book. and Joe has laid for MIN a tiF
schedule that win mako him 81
busy as well as keep tne other
lows guessing.
Latham Not Optimistic
Bert Latham is the least optiml
of all the drivers. He Is the pilot
scantinued on PATE si1l