New-York tribune., 1910-09-22
AUTO DRIVERS At WORK
DingIey Sets New Practice Mark
on Vanderbilt Course.
ALL STUDYING THE ROADS
Entry List Still Grows, and Dia.
brow Will Drive in the
Big Fixture.

Bert Dinglsy. driving Fore -Harss,-.
autonobne. made a new record for uras
tice work over the Vanderbilt Cur ee,-..
yesterday
He covered the 12s4mils course 4, =,
minutes Il seconds. This beats the n n,1s-.
utes 50 seconds made By the ArrpIsr "a.
day before. Dfngley made other attsnp,,
turning the laps in II minutes 81 second.
and Y minutes l second
Mitchell. in his Simplex. scored auo.s..
sensational lap. and made the distance 4,
II minutes Il seconds. This was fro-,
flying start Of only fifty yards.
Jack Fleming, the other Pope-Har-r,-s
driver. who had never seen the vs1dsr-
bilt course before. made a careful stvdv
of it, going over the entire distance var,
slowly. He won the Portola road race !,
California with a Pope-Hartford. and =
looked on as a good man TO watch
Marcel Basic. in Marion. had a teAx
at the course yesterday also. Louis Dc.
brow, with his newly entered Natior,L
went carefully around the turns and bzs :.
good look at them. This morning il Is A.
pected that about fifteen candidates WIN n.
present.
The Benz cars have been delayed gsttinx
through the Custom House. Orders were
given . have them placed near the hatcb-
way Of the steamship Another eonsizn.
ment Of Benz cars was so placed, but ths
three racing cars were slowed deep 4, ,hs
hold. and Robertson. Hearne and the IN
known will have 10 wait day or two 70.
fore trying them out.
Some disappointment was expressed vss.
terday morning at the uon-appearancs NJ
Ralph MuIford and his Lozfer car. with
which he won the stock car championsbln
at Elgin, III. MuIford drove this car from
the scene OF that race TO the factory Al
P1attsburg. ". Y. He viii have IL on fba
course to-day. In addition 10 the ca.
which he will drive in the race. he "a
bringing with him new 1911 six-cylinser
model, which he viii use for practice
work This car has a larger motor tran
the car he will drive in the race and "a
the same type Of car which IIuIford has
used in his twenty-four-hour races.
Krug's Corner, which has once mors h.
come the centre OF interest IN the vardsr-
bht preliminaries, has been selected "a
Lozier headquarters. and MuIford and his
crew Will be located there upon mis- ar
rival from PIattsburg and until the day
of the race.
Four new entries have been announoss
by the Motor Cups Holding Comoanv.
These are third National and AmpIsx m
the Vanderbilt and an s. p o. and A Cor
reja in the Wheatly Hills class.
The National, entered by the Poerrnsr
Motor Ca Company, is TO be guided bv
Louis Disbrow. He is well known through
out the country, and recently achieved con-
siderable fame through his performances
with the National at Brighton Beach. the
National hill climb az WiIkes-Ba Penn.
and Ossinins HILL for which he holds the
Prior TO tins he won the $4,000 trophy for
breaking the then existing worlds two
hundred-miIe record at the Atlanta Motor
drome,, and also scored second places in
several Brighton Beach twenty-fOur hour
races. In the Vanderbilt he will Iry ont
a new demOuntable rim equipment Of bis
own inventiOn-the Jordan
The Amplex 1871 valveiess stock model,
with by inch cylinders, entered BY s. j.
Wise & Co, will be pilOted by Waiter Jones.
a twenty-year-old boy, who has had sx-
hour contests.
Jean Juhasz will handle the 5 P. o.
Hills entry made BY Thomas n.
this car holds the one-hour dirt track rec
ord of ffty-nine miles made at Brighton
Beach this year. Victories at Atlanta, SyIa-
cuse and elsewhere are credited to this
team
The pilot Of the COrrei5, entered BY J,
Mora Boyle, of New York. has not YET
been announced
Three entries for the Massapequa SwssV-
stakes have been made by the Abbott Meter
Car Company. Of Detroit. Mortimer Roo
ertS brother Of Montague Roberts. VII
drive one, Lee W. Oldfeld the second ard
the third driver has not been named fhs
same team will drive in the FdrmounI
Park races and later at Atlanta IN tne
early part of November.