New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-26
AFTER VANDERBILT CUP
StiIIman and Nelson the LATEST
Race Entrants.
MORE PRIZES OFFERED
Show in January VIII
Be Biggest IN History of
Licensed Makers.

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Two more entries for the vandarbp,
Cup race were received yesterday. Tbs.a
are two Odds cars. 10 be driven BIZ n "
StilIman. who drove in the Vanderbilt rac.
last year. and Joe Nelson. who IL very
we'll known in the West
The Remy Electric Company. Of Ardsr-
son. Ind. founders of the famous Rsr,v
Brassard race. have offered 500 IN cash
to the winner Of the Vanderbilt race FIN.
car is equipped with Remy naTnst,
They have made a similar offer for in.
Grand Prize race.
Harry F. Grant winner Of the Wander,
biIt Cup in 1909. will drive in the Van
derbfIt. Paramount and Grand Prize raess
the same Alec stock chassis with which
he Won the cup last year. When the AIco
started in the race last year II was some-
thing Of a dark horse" although il was
painted a battIeship gray Now Grant RAJ
had it painted shiny Jet black. When
asked why he had had the car repaiuted.
Grant replied:
Well. black is neat. and then again
been the bette noir Of the other driven,
last year. so I thought I would do what
could TO make it seem TO the eve tn.
same as it appeals to the mind. Lee nv
mechanic. and 1 will wear fun black cos
tunes. also.
The headquarters Of Grant and Lee on
Long Island are opposite the courthouse
at AIineOIa, the same as last year.
Those who follow the racing game now
reckon Grant as one Of the really great
drivers. This is not only because Of what
he has accomplished but because OF ths
heady character of his work. His driving
is distinguished by great steadiness and
GOODNESS
When not busy with racing. Grant Is a.
salesman OF Alec cars at the Boston
agency
Grant drove his first race in 1901 az \
meet on the ReadvfIle. Mass. track. Re
was entered in three races Two of them,
five-miIe event and a twenty-Inile race.
he won; in the other race, a ffty-niIe
event. he held the lead for fOrtyfive miles
and then had a tire blow out. He fin
ished in second place.
In the following year. 1905. Grant MAIDS
a clean sweep at the Readville races
winning every one Of the three events in
which he was entered. and beating Ralph
De Palma. Barney OIdfeId, and others.
The same year he made the best time for
gasOlene cars at the Worcester. Mass.
hill climb. and, after A remarkable series
Of tire troubles, he finished second IN the
Lowell road race; also he made the fast
est lap in the Lowell race. although the
credit for this was at first given 10 an
other. In the fall of 1908 he won two
races on the Providence track
In 1853 he won the gasolene free-fOr-alI
at the Worcester Hill climb. was first n
n ave-miIe race at ReadviIle and won
the Vanderbilt Cup Prior to his Wander
bilt Cup victory in 1909 he lost the Low
ell race through a remarkable piece OF
hard luck He had forged ahead of Rob
ertson and was leading By three minutes.
with only three laps to 90. when a tirs
exploded. a piece of il flew between tho
chain and sprocSet and the chain broke,
putting him out Of the race.
The Buick racing team. consisting OF
Louis and Arthur Chevrolet and wild
Bob Burman. has established its racing
camp AT the Krug's Corner Hotel. on the
Vanderbilt course.
The team has with IT three large Mar
quette- Buick Model 100 cars and a COM
pIete garage Of tools. accessories. spare
parts. etc. The entire team, including
Manager Wsdsworth Warren and his
assistant. G. r Shusrt. has about eigh-
teen members. Chevrolet is going over
the cars in trv-outs for the fourth time,
having been in the Vanderbilt Cup races
Of 1905. 1903 and 1909
BurInan is driving his first Vanderbilt.
but the prOwess of this pilot in other road
events places him high in the list OF con-
tenders. Chevrolet wants to win as a 1T
ting close TO the career of a great motor
racing driver: Burnan wants to win to
make greater the name of wild Bob
for he intends to drive several seasons
yet This is his first Vanderbilt. and IL
he should win he feels the victory would
be greater
The headquarters Of the <. 2. o. team
entered in the WheatIey Hills Sweepstakes
will be located at Great Neck, Long ISL
and. Thomas ". Cooke. of Greenwich. the
owner of the car. returned from a month q
tour through Canada only last Satur-
day night. and as the car needed looking
ever before the race II will be out for
practice to-day for the first time. Juhasz.
who will drive the car. was out with Man
sger KieIdsen yesterday afternoon. going
around the course in his touring car
That the Association of Licensed Auto
mobile Manufacturers purposes to make ths
eleventh national automobile show. TO be-
held IN Madison Square Garden January
Z 10 q, 1911, the most important in the bis
tory Of mOtordOm was made evident this
week by the issuance Of floor diagrams
showing the arrangement Of space tor -
hibItOrs at the double show.
The forthcoming show viii be the largest
In the history OF the trade. Etghty-thrss
manufacturers and importers licensed
under the Selden patent will house their
exhibits in Madison Square Garden For
mer shOwg Oers will scarcely be able TO
recognize the familiar lines Of the amphi-
theatre. so radical are the changes planned
in it's interior construction.