Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
GREAT FIGURE IN
AUTO WORLD HERE
F. H. Wheeler, Famous Sports
man, Thinks Motordrome
Fastest Track in World
GAVE $4,000 FOR A RACE
Believes Los Angeles Is Ideal
Place for Holding of
Speed Contests

Ten thousand dollars is a pretty neat
! sum to pay for trophy, then add $4,000
| in gold coin-and all to show maker s
confidence in his goods and give big
! impetus for the best endeaVors of con-
| testants-is so far out of the ordinary
that the man who did this is worth a
"clean score" from every gentleman
| sportsman.
Los Angeles has been entertaining
| for several days past the king bee
| sportsman of motordom, Fred H
| Wheeler, president of the Wheeler
! Schebler Carburetor company of In
| dianapolis, who is accompanied by j.
| E. Bell, a big merchant of Indianap-
oils, and J. J. Avis, general manager
| of the Moore Motor Supply company
| of San Francisco with branches in
| Los Angeles and all other big cities on
the coast. The trio of sportsmen are
here in a private car, en- route to the
big fight at Reno.
| Mr.. Wheelers firm is the donor of the
! $4,000 trophy recently won by Harroun
| in a Marmon at Indianapolis In the
200-mile race, the car using a Schebler
| carburetor. They have also offered
| $4,000 in gold to the first aviator who
! travels from Indiana polls to Chicago in
an air machine with motors equipped
with their carburetors.
To give a general idea of the uni
| states that his firm is selling an aver
age of 200 aerial aluminium carburetors
a month, and that they are not only
| shipped to points in America, but to
| South America, Canada, Australia,
| Honolulu and also to the South Sea
islands. Some of them are for the
seven-cylinder rotary type, and the in
quiries for aviation carburetors will
average twenty-five a day.
DELIGHTED WITH MoTORDRONIE
AS the gentleman was also one of the
| prime movers in the building of the ex-
| cellent motor car race course in In
| dianapolis, he was more than anxious
| to see the motordrome for which Los
| Angeles is so justly famous. Friday
| two AmpleX, a Buick and a Middleby
car conveyed Mr.. Wheeler, and his
party to the motordrome. and an in
formal matinee was held. Some fast
time was made, all the way from fifty
to seventy-five miles an hour in the
Buick car that won last years Los
| Angeles Phoenix race. and the power
full new Amplex roadster that will be a
contestant in the same race this year.
Mr. Wheeler frankly states that our
board track gives easier and smoother
riding than the great brick course for
which his home city is famous His
Judgment is absolutely unbiased, and
he believes we certainly have the fast
est and safest motor car track in the
! world Now, just stop one minute.
for this 'live wire of motordom to
pass this encomium on our boasted
hobby unsolicited would and will cause
all to sit up and take notice. Backed
by the Judgment of his first lieutenant,
Mac Purcell, who was hore and wit
messed all of the races at the motor
drome meet, it is time for motorists
70 I1or rrn 1n1.n
races on the great course before late
in the fall.
MORE RACES ARE NEEDED
Wheeler is enthusiastic as to Los
Angeles. We give more boost to the
motoring game than all America com
bined Los Angeles is the livest city
on the national map, and we are being
held back by a small coterie of would
be dictators If the game keeps up
and is played to the finish, gen
uine gentleman craftsmanship in so
far as the automobile game is con-
cerned is a dead letter More makes
of automobiles are represented today
locally than in any other city of Amer
lea. and if we are to be held back by
this pusilIanimous bunch, then the
game of automobile racing is dead in
the CITY which we f1out to the world
as the greatest city on earth.
There are too many good scouts In
the racing game to permit this. Every
man from an eastern city tells us that
we have the race course, the climate
the cars and the men to pull off big
meet when it is desired; and 1t is de
-,','a1 right now. We were promised
that we will have none until taH.
With thousands of tourists here THIS
summer it Is a crying shame, We have
all the accessories for big automo-
bile success. Will we be done out Of