Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-26

In the order above named the great
mile-high hill climb was finished at
Redlands yesterday, and again was the
record lowered by a new face in the
automobile world on the race track,
save for one appearance. The little
$50" Maxwell clipped the time of Frank
Slefert with a Stoddard Dayton at the
last hill climb contest, but the main
event-the free-for-all still further
lowered the time of the red car TO
22:07h, which was chaiked up to that
old veteran of the track, Harris Han
shue, with the Apperson, and there re-
main but the dttails to be told.
All In all, IL was the best contest of
motor cars ever seen on the race track
on the Pacific coast. There were the
best OF cars to enlighten the public on
what they are capable of doing. There
were the very best drivers on the Pa
clnc coast handling those cars, and 1t
was on the best, the most classic
course in all the country, for II is road
race as well as a great hill climb, and
the manner in which every car COW
cred It, save the two unfortunates
which almost reached the goal but
failed but slightly In their EFFORTS.
proved again The Herald's claim that
locally Los Angeles has some of the
greatest automobile drivers I'm the
country. III anu IfduN W 81 dbHAhHN
the so-called best.
Redlands Was All Present
xRedlands was alive at an early hour.
The local garages. of which there are
a number of most excellent ones in the
pretty little city, were crowded with
sightseers who were anxious 10 HOOK
over the quiet steeds OF the road which
stood mute awaiting but the touch or
the hands of the persons who We're 10
aggravate them into whirlwind OF
life and speed. Each car and Its driver
had its many supporters and enthusl-
nsts among the old and the young, and
thew stood for hours watching the big
armed mechanics giving the cars thelr
finishing touches preparatory TO the
whirling grind through which tney
were soon TO be put.
AT the hour of starting the first car
the streets of Redlands were packed
10 the curb with eager Watchers. me
side streets were filed with automo-
biles and vehicles of various kinds, and
they were packed with humanity For
miles along the route automobiles by
the hundred were on their way 10 some
vantage point where the racers might
be seen whizzing through space at
times more than a mile minute by a
good deal.
Through the fog which early in the
morning had hung low over the city
could be seen hundreds of others car
ried there by carriages and buggles
and automobiles. perched on high ele-
yations where miles OF stretch enabled
them TO follow the speed and courses
OF the cars.
Course is an Ideal One
The course itself was and is the ideal
course for automobile speeding To say
It is the. classic course of the united
states Is but expressing the views OF
hundreds at Redlands yesterday VINO
have seen many of the courses or the
country. 1t is sixteen miles long, starts
from one of the prettiest and wealth
lest cities of Southern California. There
Is no more comparison between this
course and the Badly climb than there
is between a patch of Kansas sun
flowers and a beautiful bed of rare
orchids 1t excels Santa Monica orl
oakland or Sonoma counties in all that
goes to make an automobile contest
ideal. It is run amid the most beau
tifuI orange groves in the state ripen-
ing at this time with their golden and
luscious fruit.
IT passes through the handsonest
streets of Redlands at a seventy TO |
eighty-mile gait 1t proceeds through |
valleys celebrated the world over for
beauty climatic conditions and pro-
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generous hospitality among those who |
do everything that man could ask of |
another to make his visit and stay |
among strangers most pleasant and |
congenial. 1t ends with hearty thanks
for the entertainment the public of
their vicinity have been afforded and |
pleasing invitation to come again.
There has never been a race under
the sanction of the A.. A. A. that has
ever been more splendidly conducted |
than was sanction No. Ill at the mile
high hill-climb. The arrangements were
perfect in every detail. The cars were
weighed in properly and inspected. A
letter of rules was directed to and
given each driver. On the tick of the
watch the starter sent every car away /
on it's run, not a hair late. Away out
on the course eleven miles or more from
the starting point the work of the
starter could be told, for with the reg
ularity of the railway train the sue
ceeding car came to the line but a
fraction behind it's competitor ahead.
The streets over which the cars were
to start out of the city were closed to
traffic and thoroughly policed, so that
from the very heart of the city seventy
and eighty miles an hour could be and
was made. Over the entire course a
patrol of police cleared the road, and
no vehicles were permitted to take tho
ROAD curing Ile races. "A piiNdlc lel-
ephone line from the start to the finish
kept the people along the line from the
finish 20 Redlands instantly advised as
to the movements and finish of the
cars.
The Motorcycle Races
The first event was motorcycle race
between three local riders of the
Orange country-eleven and half
miles to Casa Blanca, which was won
by little youngster on an Indian in
1919.
The second motorcycle races were