Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-26
1910 TO Be THE
GREATEST RACING
YEAR EVER KNOWN
rs CONTESTS ALREADY PRO-
JECTED IN BIG EVENTS
General Belief Is That New Worlds
Records for Road Racing Will
Be Made In Coming
Season

Based on inquiries made by the con-
test board of the American Automobile
association, at the suggestion of the
manufacturers organization, the i'm
portant part that contests will play in
automobiling during 1910 can be pre-
dicted. Seventy-five promoters have
responded thus far, giving notice Of
their intention to conduct contests of
various kinds, and the probabilities
are that the number will be increased
to at least one hundred by New Years.
One of the objects of the manufac-
turers in requesting this information
was to form, If possible, a circuit of
races that would involve less expense
to the participants than under the old
system. An experienced routing agent
of one Of the large factories is now at
work on the list as 1t stands, fixing
tentative circuit over which the rae
ing teams may travel so that long
jumps by railroad may be avoided
The adoption of the suggested cir
cult by the race promoters, when the
scheme is fully worked out, is hardly
open to doubt. They will derive as
great a benefit from the plans as the
reason that they will be assured of
larger and higher class fields than it
would be possible to gather were the
contests set at widely separated points
on dates close together, as in the past.
While the contest board of the A. A.
A. is not in a position yet to make
public an authoritative list of the
various events scheduled, 1t can be
said that practically all the important
Gxf, Of hA
repeated. The compilation Of the list
at this time does not mean, of course,
that any contests eligible to sanction
that may be projected next year will
be shut out. Failure on the part of
promoters to arrange their dates to fit
in with the others, however, would
probably prejudice their chance of at
tracing the star racing performers.
Among the important events to be
renewed in 1910 are the Cobe trophy
race, the Vanderbilt cup race, the Cal
ifornia road race, the National stock
car race (for which a different course
than Lowell is likely to be selected);
the Wilkesbarre hill climb. the Algon-
quin hill climb and the National En-
durance tour.
OF the road races the most impor-
tant, from the manufacturers point of
view, may be the National Stock Car
year. There is every probability that
in 1910 this race will be decided over
the speedy Riverhead circuit, where an
American road record of seventy miles
an hour was established last fall. The
men who pay the bills, while desiring,
in all sorts of contests, to finish ahead
of their competitors, are equally anx-
ious to make the best average time
possible, and the opinion is unanimous
that the Suffolk county course is the
fastest thus far discovered in America.
There is a general belief, in fact,
that in a race where the leaders will
be pushed at all stages to hold their
places a new worlds record for road
racing is possible. The present record
of seventy-four miles an hour was es-
tablished in Italy in a race for spe-
cially built cars, and it would be quite
a feather in the American industry's
cap to eclipse that with stock ma
chimes.