Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26
SMALL CARS WILL
RACE FOR TROPHY
Fifty Mile Contest Feature of
Meeting Arranged for
Indianapolis
SHORT EVENTS ON PROGRAM
Grounds Will Seat $4,000 Per-
sons and Will Be Crowded
Is Expectation
SHORT EVENTS ON PROGRAM

The events that will make up the
program for the meet at the Indian
apolis Motor Speedway for July 1, and
4 promises to surpass even the attract
i've card of the Memorial day meet
when the championships were run. The
Cobe cup, the Vanderbilt of the wests
will be the Independence day feature.
while the Remy Brassard on July 2 and
the G. & j. trophy on July first round
out the long list of events.
The G.. 65 ]. trophy will be for cars
in the small class at the distance of
fifty miles. The Remy Brassard tro-
ply shall be for cars of 45O inches in
piston displacement or less for stock
chassis, while the Cobe cup shall be for
cars of SO cubic inches or less with a
minimum weight of 2300 pounds. Al
series of short events will also make
up the program with cash for first and
second place in all events excepting the
long races for which the cash will be
given for the winners.
In the handicaps and free for alls the
purses will be increased. In the handi-
caps there will be cash purses for the
first six drivers to cross the tape, while
for the free for alls there will be cash
purses for the first three
In addition to the long events there
will be events for five, ten and twenty
miles each day, while there will be fea-
ture events added.
The record crowd of May 30 promises
to be surpassed at the July meet, and
the increased seating capacity now be-
ing constructed will take care of the
crowd.
Thirty-f1ve thousand spectators can
now be seated at the grounds and this
has been found to be insufficient so
that the seating capacity will be in
creased to $4,000, while a special pad
dock will be fenced to accommodate
10000 more to be used in case of emerg-
ency.
The parking space will accommo-
date 10000 automobiles, and this has
never been tested to the utmost al
though it was stated that over 5000
automobiles passed through the gates
of the Speedway on May 80.
All of the cars that t ok part in the
last races are expected, while the Lo-
zier and many other factories have
promised to have cars entered at the
next meet
Performing before enormous crowds
is what the manufacturer desires and
it is at the Motor Speedway that they
have their wish.
The Cobe classics of the Fourth
promises to have the largest number
of entries of any event ever held in
the world. This record is now held at
the Speedway for the Wheeler -Schebler
trophy when nineteen starters left the
mark at the crack of Wagner's pistol
and all records were lowered for 200
miles by Harroun with his great Speed
way wasp, the Marman. Indianapolis
factories are making great prepara-
tions to hold the bulk of prizes and tro-
phies here, while the o. tsiders are de-
termined to wrest the laurels from
them. The Buick company has prom
lsed to send some special racers to the
Speedway that will eclipse the per-
formances of the big Benz driven by
Oldfield and the predictions now are
that the foreign cars will not hold a
single record after the next meet is
over, but that American made ma
chimes will sweep all before them in
the free for alls in the same manner
that they have won the stock car
events.