Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-07
AUTO RACING TO GET BOON
Greatest Season Country Has Ever
Seen This Year.
FIVE EVENTS IN TWO MONTHS
Brand Prise Race on Long Island win
TOP the List, Following Classic
Vanderbilt Cup RaOo-
Others Crowd In.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6-The greatest auto
mobile road racing season that this country
has ever seen is looming up. In less than
two months five such events will be run
Topping the list comes the quest for the
international gold Grand Prize cup to be
held on Long Island, october ID. Coming
as II does a fortnight after the historic
Vanderbilt on October l. the sport Is due
for a tremendous boom In the east. Phila-
delphia will help things out with It's Fair
mount Park race on october 5, very neatly
sandwiched in between the Grand Prize
and the Vanderbilt. Even the failure OF
Lowell to come through and let machines
rumble through the Merrimac valley In tho
middle OF September has been forgiven
on august 26 and q, to be exact, exhausts
will boom in the first real road race Of
the year. Cars will whlrl over the high
ways adjacent to Elgin, Ill. In reality two
races will be held at Egin. The small cars
will sputter on August 2e, while 600 cubic
inches piston displacement entrants will
contribute mile minute noise the follow
ing day But the middle west will have
worthy rival in the states nearer the Pa
oific. Denver has road race early In the
autumn. while CALIFORNIA; big event, the
Portola race, will be run IN Golden Gate
park san Francisco. in October. Certainly
road racing Is becoming national
Grand Prise Gets Big Field.
1t is only proper that the Grand Prize
should draw the best field of the year To
date eleven cars have been entered. Many
others are expected. Motor racing sharps
say that the fastest field ever started in
this country will get under way at dawn
on October 10. Fehce Navarro, Louis Wag-
ner, Victor Hemery Barney 0ldfeld.
George Robertson. Ralph De Palma, Ray
Harroun Joseph Dawson, Louis Chevrolet
and Robert Burman will have mounts
Other well-known speed pilots are certain
to compete. A field Of almost equal skill Is
promised for the Vanderbilt. Paramount
park attracts the flyers, too.
A pair Of motor Lochinvars will come out
of the west in September. They are Joe
Dawson. winner of the Cobe cup. and Ray
Harroun. who drove to success In the 200
mile Wheeler & Schebler trophy race at
the Indianapolis speedway. They will race
in the Vanderbilt cup, Paramount Park cup
and Grand Prize events. Before doing so
they will go against all corners In the Elgin
road races and in the speedway events at
indianapolis on September and 8.
The Marmon crew will consist OF three
drivers, with Ray Harroun and Joe Dawson
doing the brunt OF the work. A full corps
OF mechanics will accompany the pilots,
though In past racing these workers have
had little or nothing to do, since the Mar
mob car has won many OF its victories
in nonstop runs. The 20O-mlle Atlanta
speedway trophy was won without stop.
Harroun beat De Palma in a 10 Flta and
Oldfleld in a Knox Six at Los Angeles in
the $1,000 century race without a stop. In
the Wheeler 81 Schebler race at 200 miles
he stopped one time for fuel. In the CODE
trophy 2OO-mile race, which Dawson won.
the little fellow stopped twic~ for tire
changes one being defective. Harroun did
the same. In the 1S0-me Wheatley Hills
trophy last fall Harroun did not make a
stop
Mormon Drivers Confident.
The Marmon drivers will strike the cas-
bubbling over with confidence In theil
ability Of the car They have shown sucl
astounding speed that they figure them
selves unbeatable, since their cars hav,
stood up under the severest strain and sine,
they have been extremely easy on tires
Dawson's average In the Cobe was seventy.
Tour miles an hour. Harroun made seventy
nine miles an hour at Los Angeles. Botl
Harroun and Dawson have infinite conf
dehee in their belief that they will defea
Nazzaro, Hemery, Wagner and the othel
foreign stars in the Grand Prize while the,
count the minor races as mere tuning I'D.
Their work against the Robertson o ldfiels
speed monopoly viii be closely watched.