Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-11
AUTOS RUN OFF THE HORSES
Many Dirt Racetraoks Converted to
the Use Of the Auto.
Nv RECRUITs FRoM HoRsEMEN
More Automobile Racers Were RE-
GRATED from the Ranks OF Former
BicycIe Raeers-CoIors for
the different Teams.

NEW YORK. Dec 1o-The automobile
speed game has changed into the province
OF horss racing 20 the extent OF taking
possession OF innumerabie dirt tracks
throughout the country OIL drips from steel
TANKS and masked drivers urge different
types OF racers past the Judges stands.
Sometimes the old stables are converted
into garages for the invaders and paddocks
are transformed into parking spaces for
the audiences. Automobile racing has taken
many features OF the thoroughbreds; but
one side has been overlooked
The colors Of a big handicap are always
most attractive. The Jockeys wear silks"
that contain all the pigments that the rain
bow can offer. All kinds Of combinations
are shown. and spectators recognize rider
and horse by the flying silks" Every
stable has a different grouping Of colors,
and as we'll as making a uniform system
the picturesque side Of horse racing is in
creased greatly.
Most OF the men IN the automobile busi-
ness drifted into IL from bicycling and the
machine trades. A few, however. we're re-
cruited from horse racing. One OF these
former turfmen last night talked OF
scheme whereby automobile racing could
lake on a needed feature He would make
The speed gatherings more picturesque by
making every manufacturer race under
the silks system. He said
why not have manufacturers adopt a
plan whereby they will each have diff
ferent scheme Of colors and race under?
These conditions could be made permanent
Every car entered In a race-track, road or
endurance-should be painted in the makers
colors. The drivers and mechanicians
should also be compelled to wear the same
colors.
More Picturesque.
"The benefits would be many. That Il
would increase the picturesque side of
the game there Is no question. It would
greatly aid spectators. It is some hard task
TO pick out car from two or three blurs
whirling past at a seventy mile- hour
clip. With each car painted certain color
spectators could look at their programs
and find out what silks the manufacturer
Is racing. But the picturesque phase is
more important What sight would be the
start OF a race with all the machines and
drivers sporting different colorsl
The American Automobile association
could assign each manufacturer with his
silks and order that he race under them
IN every meet Under such a scheme the
numbers would be secondary often num-
bers painted on racing machines are un-
satisfactory. They become covered with
oil and dirt and frequent mistakes have
been made in competition There would be
no installing the car covered with a certain
paint OF course. this is only suggestion,
but Il seems to me that 1t is worth look
ing into. The public likes the picturesque.
and why not present automobile racing in
its best dress7"
The idea Of special colors for a racing
team is not new. The proposition that every
manufacturer be made to adopt them is
unique, however and advisable. The Mar
mon, Flat, Benz, Lozier, Chalmers and Ma
tonal are among those concerns that al
ways race under the same colors. The
brightness and completeness of their color
schemes help every race How much better
would II be IL every machine and every
crew were so bedecked?