Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-10

terest to the auto racing public in gen.
eral. but to the manufacturers. who de-
sire to equal II not eclipse the record
established by the Lozier last fall.
The well known speed pilots expect to
see their ambitions realized.
The record as it stands today is 1,178
miles.
At the contest held at the race course
last May over 10000 persons were pres
ent. being the largest attendance at any
auto race of this kind held in the vicin-
ity of New York. Announcement is made
to twelve, a fact which will appeal to the
drivers who take part in the contest.
With a small field of this character the
drivers believe they can make greater
speed and that a certain amount Of dan
ger attached to contests of such long
duration is eliminated. With a larger
field Of cars the drivers lose much time
slowing down at the curves for fear Of
collisions. A number of important
changes are being made to the track, with
q view to insuring faster time, and the
prediction is made that the twelve-hun-
dred-mile mark will be reached at the
coming meet.
The honors Of winning the 1910 Gid
den tour fell to Ray Mcnamara, who
drove his big six-cylinder Premier
touring car to victory under the most
trying conditions OF any tour in the
history Of the Glidden trophy. This
car travelled nearly 5000 miles, through
thirteen states in the west and south
west, starting from Cincinnati and go
cago. finishing the run out of thirty
three starters. with a total penaliza
ton of only SO points against it.
1t was the longest run and the most
strenuous trip ever known in the his
tory OF endurance runs in this country.
The only road penalties were for put
ting water in the radiator outside OF
the regular scheduled controls The
car was No. ! on the run, and before
the run had gone very far it picked up
carrying these officials, in addition to
running on the schedule as contest
ing car.
The auto racing public deeply feels
the sudden death Of Thomas Kincaide
one of the youngest racing drivers Of
the country. killed Wednesday on the
Indianapolis speedway by crashing
into a fence in his National racing car
He was but nineteen years Of age, and
had been prominent for the past two
years as a daring pilot Of high-speed
cars.
He was on the track In trial practice
with his car when 1t ran of the high
embankment at the southeast corner
OF the course. He failed to pass the
for him. He was found ten minutes
later crushed beneath his machine.
For the first time since he has been
racing, he was without his mechanician.
His racing partner Is Johnny" Aitkin,
another daring young driver.
At Atlanta early in May young Kim
caide won the ten-thousand-dolar At
lanta trophy In an exciting two-hundred-
cash at that meet. At the Indianapolis
races Decoration day he captured the
Prest-O-Lite trophy. when he averaged
nearly seventy-two miles an hour over
the two-hundred-mile course.
He also drove his National in the two
hundred-mile CODE trophy race July 4.
which was his last public appearance on
the race track. His last victory was
the Atlanta trophy race. While he was
known as fearless driver. he was Of
the resourceful kind
A party Of forty motor enthusiasts par
ticipated in a trip about twenty-five miles
out on the Brookeville pike, July 4, and
INDUCED in picnic and luncheon in the
woods adjoining the Brookeville School
grounds.
The party left here Monday morning
and filled six automobiles, returning home
in the evening. The trip was in the ma
ture Of small-sized sOciability run.
1t was made in the Marion touring
car Of A. d. Loffier, Cliff v. Sparrow's
Overland. T. E. Jarrelrs Cadillac go
Charles E. HOover's Overland, II. r.
Norton's Marion and j. H. Ebersole's
Overland car.
Mrs. Harriet Clark Fischer has landed
In San Francisco. after q years tour
In Europe and Asia, in her Locomobile
touring car, and is about to begin a
transcontinental trip to New York city,
completing the first round the-world"
tour that has ever been accomplished
by woman.
Mrs Fischer Is a well known society
woman in New York and this city, and
Is the widow Of Capt. Clark Fischer, u.
s. A. Mrs. Fischer and her party ex-
pect to arrive In New York, the starting
point of the tour. the latter part Of Au-
gust. passing through Washington en-
route.
The Carter Motor Car Corporation has
Just closed with o. H. Whitman Of Phila-