New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-28
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
BRACES Family Objects to His
Becoming a Professional.
THREATENS TO DISINHERIT
Meeting of Garage Owners to
Consider Method TO Stop
Oil Dripping.

Following the announcement that Caleb
5. Bragg had turned professional and
would drive his at the Atlanta motor.
drOrne automobile meet next month, IL has
leaked out that his family we'll known in
Cincinnati and New York. has declared
that disinheritance faces him IL he takes
this action.
Bragg Vas a student at Yale when. as an
amateur. he beat Barney OIdfeld on the Los.
angeles board track in two straight heats
last ApriI-One Of the most remarkable and
sensational races ever seen He has
turned professional because the new amer
lean Automobile Association rule bars
amateurs from competing in events with
professionals
Bragg probably is the best amateurs
driver who ever grtpped steering wheel.
and he has said repeatedly he could derive
no sport in beating other amateurs, who
we're hopelessIy out of his class.
Mr.. Bragg declares that he viii drive
IN all events in which he is eligible on
November 3. and > He has been man
aging the Fiat team at Savannah. and will
drive over to Atlanta shortly and try GU.
the course upon which he has won races
before Brags will drive his 9O-horsepowes
car.
The drivers are arriving al Atlanta daily
for the big motordrome meet milford.
Koran. Disbrow and Matson are now on
the ground. and Harding. the StOddsrd-
Dayton pilot is on his way. as are several
others
One encourag ing feature Of the first DAYS
practice was the fact that the drivers wers
delighted with the condition Of the track.
milford. who has been driving IN nUHl-sr-
Gus road races this year. and who has had
10 contend with the bad surfaces ovcr
which twenty four-houT races have been
run. came back after averaging seventy
two miles an hour on his first spin, anazsft
at the condition Of the course. They say
there are few bumps" he said. but
didn't find them. II is fine. fine -
II will be recalled that Louis Disbr0w
won the 10000 city Of Atlanta trophy last
year. and he is hopeful Of duplicating his
success.
1t was officially announced yesterday
that the Reo Motor Car Company has pur-
chased the plans of the Owen Motor Car
Company of Detroit: that in the future the
Owen car will be manufs ctured in 4 new
factory in Lansing. Mich. owned by the
REQ company, and that the construction o.
this fOur-cyIinder car is 70 be under the
direction Of Ralph II. owen. the former
president of the Owen Motor Car COMPANY
The acquisition Of the Owen company by
the REQ Motor Car Company means that in
the future this 5O-hOrsepOwer car. under
whatever name it is manufactured. will BIS
a licensed machine. For some time r. r.
Olds. the president of the REQ Motor Car
Company had wanted a car Of about 80
horsepower to meet the demand for esr
of this type.
c. Il. Teaboit, & Co, OF No 1859 Broad
way. recently obtained the agency for the
Owen ear for the metropolitan district. the
north half of New Jersey, all Of Long ISL
and and the south half of Connecticut.
There will be a meeting at the rooms OF
the National Highway Protective Society,
No. 46 East 2eth street this afternoon at
4 o'clock. of hotel men. garage proprietors,
of taxicab companies. au-
tomobile drivers and others to devise q way
to eliminate the dripping of oil from motor
vehicles on the streets. ". n Edwards.
Street Cleaning Commissioner. will be in
attendance.
Atlanta. Oct Z-when asked to-day
about the possibility OF Barney OidneId's
in the automobile races next
week at the Atlanta Speedway. J. H. Nc.
of the Atlanta Automobile AssO-
ciaion. said:
NO driver will be allowed TO cOmPsts
here il he is not IN good standing with tns
American Automobile Association"
Oldfeld was disqualified by the American
Association for entering an IN
race with Jack johnson. Oldheld
Is one Of the ffty-three entries already
made for the Atlanta meet. II was report
ed to-day that he might choose this meet
as an occasion for court action 20 procure
restoration OF his standing.