Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1910-10-22
ENTRIES FOR
DESERT RACE
Fourteen Cars Will Make
|. A.-Phoenix Trip
LISTS CLOSED YESTERDAY
Maxwell, Rambler, Kissel
Kar, Apperson, Franklin,
Mercer, Knox, Ohio, Ford,
Velie, Pope Hartford, Alb
bot Detroit, Duro, Parry.

A special dispatch was received by
| The Republican last night from
! Chester Lawrence. automobile editor
| of the Examiner. announcing the
close of entries yesterday noon for
the Los Angeles Phoenix road race
during fair week, for The Republi-
cans cup and the cash prize of
| $1,000 raised by the MaricOpa Auto
mobile club by subscription. The
message also gave the names of the
cars entered which are as follows:
Maxwell, Kisselkar, Apperson,
Franklin, Mercer, Knox, Ohio, Ford,
Velie. Pope Hartford, Abbott Detroit,
Duro, Rambler. and Parry.
The race will start, says the mes
| sage. at 1880 o'clock on the night
of Saturday, November 5. the cars
starting five minutes apart from the
| Hollenbeck hotel The last car will
therefore be shooting up North Spring
street in the Angel city when the
town clock strikes midnight and be-
fore Sunday morning breaks the
fourteen big racers will be hitting
the high places. some of them al
| ready battling with the sand on the
/ California desert.
Unless something tragic occurs the
people of San Bernardiho in the
early hours OF Sunday morning, No
vember 6, will see fourteen streaks
of fire shoot through their peaceful
| village like fourteen comets and fas
| tended to each streak will be two
men with their eyes on the main
| chance, their hearts yearning for
| glory and their fingers reaching for
the money. One will be the driver
and the other will be the mechani-
clan but in each instance the latter
will be competent to go some at the
| wheel a part of the time.
Nobody knows when or where trou-
| BILE will happen, or whether it will
| happen at all but nobody expects to
meet any trouble until long after he
| passes the good roads country around
| San Bernardino. 1t is not expected
| that any of the cars will pass each
+ other until after they pass San
| Bernardino for five minutes will be
very quickly stretched out into some
miles of space between the cars and
| it is presumed that all OF them can
| go like the wind as long as the road
| is good. However, some of them
| may be better than others on a
smooth road and less capable on a
| rough or sandy one, wherefore it is
not understood that if any car over
| takes another, it will be deferred
| from passing merely out of polite
ness Some may be banking on max
| ing speed enough over the good road
| to offset slow desert action and vice
versa the desert whirlwinds may
| lag on the smooth roads, saving
their strength for fine demonstra-
| ton in the sizzling sand.
| 1t is to be a race for blood, fig
| uratively speaking and each man will
| depend only on himself and his own
| arrangements If A breaks an his
| tires forty miles from anywhere, Il
! will leave him to his fate. Sentiment
| will all be ditched on the evening OF
| November 5. A lucky dog might di
! vide water with a stranded enemy
| to save his life but otherwise all
| human sympathy will be dessicated
| until after the goal is reached. Ii
any unfortunates machine refuses to
| work he will be reminded that the
| walking is good And when it is all
| over, friends of the contestants will
, trail back over the line and pick up
the derelicts, if there be any.
Last year only one machine eXpe-
rienced real serious trouble and in
shat instance a relief rescued the
crew Just in time, finding the men
i'm western Arizona. off the road and
all but done for. 1t is expected that
this wear each contestant will have
friends at both ends of the road with
his special interest in mind and II
they do not reach one or another OF
the checking station in reasonable
time, relief will be sent to them
There is little danger of loss OF
life except through the always pos
sible auto accident. Many of th'
drivers are familiar with the roac
and it is expected that before th'
day of the race all of them VII
have Travelled over it, in which cast
they ought not to lose their way, ant
I unless they do lose their way, all o
them should make port somewhere
even if they are wrecked and on
of the race.
III Anyhow it is a fine bunch of en-
tries and will beyond any question
be the most spectacular automobil
road race ever negotiated.