Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-31
GLIDDEN TOUR
is COMPLETED
FIVE CARS TURN IN CLEAN
SCORE CARDS
JUDGES MUST EXAMINE AUTOS
TO NAME WINNER
Successful Run of $500 Miles Ends In
Missouri with Generous Welcome
from Residents - Howers'
Contest Finished
CBy Associated PressJ

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 30.-The
American Automobile associations
sixth annual tour>and its most success
full, was officially completed at b:O7
this afternoon when Chairman Frank
B. Howers' car, a Premier, bearing two
pilots, three other members of the con-
test board, and Charles j. Glidden,
donor of the Glidden trophy, dashed
across the state line into Kansas City.
Nine minutes later the first of the
contestants, a Pierce, entered the city,
and the others followed In rapid sue
cession
On today's trip between Salina and
Kansas City both pilot cars gave out.
The tourists were cheered by great
crowds as they drove through the
streets of the city.
All the cars will be carefully exam
ined by the technical committee of the
association. All the points of the trip
must be considered before the winner
can be announced. 1t likely will be
several days before this work will be
completed.
on the last leg of their 2.63S.S-mile
journey the Glidden tourists left Salina
this morning for Kansas City They
hope to reach Kansas City by o'clock
this afternoon. The distance to Kan
sas city is 2i2.s miles. The last car did
not get away until S:20 a. m driz-
xling rain was falling.
Ten Cars Not PcnaIlzed
The route of today's run day through
a part of Kansas that has experienced
heavy rains OF late and the roads were
in bad condition. Penalties were al
most certain. All the cars were IN
good condition at the start and the
tourists were outspoken in their regret
at the near ending of the long jour-
ney.
any of the clean scores. Five cars IN
the contest for the Glidden trophy and
an equal number in the Hover trophy
class yet have perfect scores. The Two
Pierce Arrows the two Premiers ana
q Marmion are perfect in the Glldden
trophy class. Two Pterce-ArroWs'
Chalmers Detroit. a Moline and the
Lexington are still perfect IN the
Hover trophy class.
Kansas City was officially today IN
the hands of the Glidden tourists. Amid
the honking of 500 cars that assembled
late this afternoon at the Kansas state
line, Mayor Thomas T. Crittenden OF
Kansas City. Mo, met the incoming
tourists and extended to them an Of
fetal welcome.
relieving these ceremonies, and es-
corted by practically every motor car
in the city, the Gliddenites paraded
through the principal streets and fnal-
Iv officially ended their tour by check
Ing in" at the Coates house. The Kan
sas CITY Auto club and other organiza-
tions provided an extensive program
of entertainment
No Perfect Score Probable
II will be several days before the
winner of the run is known. The cars
were taken to Convention hall last
night. where they will be held until the
technical committee has completed its
examination.
Every part of each car will be taken
out and examined. Measurements VIII
be made for the spring and frame frog
einp and the result will be compared
with each measurement at the start OF
the tour and the winner made known.
Chairman Hover stated that while
there were still five perfect scores
cars competing for the Glidden trophy
and five for the Hover, he believed
every car on the tour would be given
some penalties at the last test. Where
ever the examiners find the cars TO be
out of order the drivers and mechanics
will be instructed to make all repairs
necessary to put the machines in first
class running condition, and penalties
will be levied accordingly.
The tour started at Detroit July II.
Thirty cars were entered. This years
run for the Glldden trophy was the
first outside of the eastern states 1t
was 2636S miles long, exceeding all for
mer Glidden distances by 1000 miles.
The roads traversed were of the true
country type all the way.