The San Francisco call., 1909-06-02
ENDURANCE RUN
IS DISCUSSED
Motor Enthusiasts Think Speed
in Last Contest Was
Fast Enough
Now Suggested That the Con-
testing Cars Go Forty
Eight Hours
By r. r. PHOMMEDIEU

The main topic of conversation yes
terday along automobile row was the
results of the "a hour run at san Le-
andre. finished Monday. Some few
thought that the pace should be in
creased. while the great majority fig
ured that as a demonstration of the
ability of the modern motor car it was
fast enough. 1t proved to the buyer
what the cars of the present day can
what any motor car is likely to be
called upon to meet for its owner. 1t
was suggested that instead of increas-
ing the speed the event should be held
for As hours instead of "a. The pres
ent speed is as fast as any private
owner should drive and to prove du
rability 1T was thought that the cars
! should run a longer time.
| another subject that received much
! comment from those who drove in the
contest was the gracious treatment
they received all along the course. The
officials of the different towns through
which they went and the citizens were
more than hospitabIe, and il the
Automobile Club of California is sue
cessful in getting official permission
| to hold its road race this fall Il will
be more than surprised with the treat
ment it will receive.
| A. Z. Hunter. OF Osen & Hunter. in
discussing the contest. said yesterday
that he had found that his road TO
! success in obtaining a perfect score was
in the fact that both of his cars were
driven according to schedule. He did
not care for the honor of making the
| fastest lap. but had started his cars
with the object of completing the "a
! hour run in as good condition as when
the cars started. The schedule on
which the san miles was made was:
Seven minutes to San Lorenzo six
minutes to Mount Eden. six minutes
to Alvarado, nine minutes TO Center
vile, five minutes to Irvington, FIVE
minutes to Tom Kinks, nine minutes
TO Mission San Jose, eight minutes to
Niles. twenty minutes TO Hayward
nineteen minutes TO High street and
the county road. and fourteen minutes
to the starting point. This gave them
running time of 1 hour and as min
utes. This schedule allowed u min
utes on each lap in case of tire trouble
The next event will be the run to
Los Angeles and return. which will be
held by the Dealers association next
month.
J. H. Eagal of the Studebaker Brothers
company has a real hard luck story in
the penaiizing Of
renaIized by The The + stude6aksr u6e si E.
Own Observer said said vsstsraa1 eas =: Easst g !
the time when we
were penalized ii so happened that we
had one OF our own men on as observer.
which came about purely through an
accident. 1T happened that this OBJ
server, whose name is G. A Wilson
was down for observer on the Winton
car, tNo- %. Gauging his time to be on
the hotel to get a bite to eat At the
end OF that lap the Winton beat the
E-M-F in, and when Wilson came out
the Winton was just pulling out with
an observer on 1T. Being anxious to
make the dash over the triangle. he
asked the chief of observers to nix him
ing that lap. lust then the EMF
pulled UP and the observers name was
called. The latter failed to respond
after several calls and Wilson was told
pretty tough luck to have to be
penalized with one of your own men
on the car as an observer"
Among the Is cars that will tske
part in the road races of the CHICAGO
automobile G II 2,
wise1nan June IS and -
wan Drive o stoddaPd-Dsstonsi Pd sstoTsi
one of which will
be driven by Fred j. wiseman. the
Wei Known driver VINO VIII shortly
leave for Chicago. Wiseman will drive
for the Cobe cup.
J. II. Burkhardt, of the firm of Burk-
hardt & Crippen, local agents for the
Inter state cars.
iRig Shinment has received let
/ of Inter states ter from the home
... office in Muncie
Ind. telling of the
shipment of 10 machines. or carloads
recently to an Indiana agent. This is
the largest shipment the company has
ever made at one time.
The overland delivery of automobiles.
made popular by the makers of the
Buyers Visit sha, because the
Rambler Plant factory Is located
----- in the geographi-
cal center of the
great automobile buying territory of