The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-30
GREAT SPEED IS
EXPECTED
Auto Contest for Vanderbilt
Cup at Long
Island.

twelve and fraction mile course,
situated in the heart of Long Island
a score of auto drivers, representing
America, France, Italy and Germany
will tomorrow contest in the sixth
international auto race for the Van
derbilt Cup, emblematic of the Am
erican road racing championship
That the race this year is bound to
surpass all of it's predecessors in in
terest, speed and personality is the
unanimous opinion of all of the ex-
perts identified with the contest.
The fact that the Motor Park sweep
stakes is to be run the same day has
added considerably to the popular
interest manifested in the main
event
The course for the Vanderbilt
Cup contest is the same as last year.
the circuit being 1884 miles in ex-
tent, and the race will be twenty
two laps, or 27S.0S miles, the same
as last fall The circuit consists of
the Motor Parkway, Messapequa
road and Old Country road. Outside
the parkway, which has specia!
racing surface, the roads are broad
and have been we'll oiled. There
are only four turns, which have been
banked so that they can be taken
at speed.
The Vanderbilt Cup race will be
started at nine O'Clock tomorrow
morning, and for the first hour
there will be no other cars on the
course except those competing for
the main trophy. This it is expected
will eliminate the great confusion
that occurred last year when the Mo-
tor Parkway sweepstakes classes
/, were started simultaneously with
the Vanderbilt Cup cars.
The Motor Parkway sweepstakes
to be started at ten O'Clock. will in
Guide two classes, the Massapequa
and the Wheatley Hills sweepstakes
for trophies and $1,000 cash in
each, and open to cars in class p
OF the A A. A contest rules. This
class is for stock cars with piston
displacement and minimum weigh!
restrictions The Massapequa sweep
stakes will be open to stock cars OF
161 to $50 cubic inches piston dis
placement and 400 pounds mini
mum weight. The Wheatley Hills
sweepstakes will be open to stock
cars of 231 to 800 cubic inches pis-
ton displacement and 1900 pounds
minimum weight For the Massage
qua sweepstakes the circuit will be
covered fifteen times, making the
total distance 1896 miles.
The worlds most prominent and
daring drivers are represented in
the entry list for the Vanderbilt Cup
race this year ana for the past two
weeks have been preparing and tun-
ing up their machines Unless there
are one or more eleventh-hour with
drawals, eighteen and possibly twen-
ty cars will start in the mad dash
around the twenty-two-lap circuit in
an attempt to win the coveted silver
trophy emblematic of the auto
championship. The majority of the
cars named to compete are of Amer
lean manufacture, the percentage of
foreign-built autos being considera-
bly, smaller than in previous years.
George Robertson, who won the
Vanderbilt Cup two years ago, will
drive Benz car in the big race. The
other members of the Benz team
will be Edward A. Hearne and Da-
vid Bruce-BrOwn. Harry F. Grant
winner Of last years race, will pilot
an Alec. The Pope-Hartford team
will consist of Fleming and Dingley;
the harmon team, Harroun and
Dawson; the National team, Aitken
and Livingstone; the Simplex team,
Mitchell and Beardsley; the Mar
quette-Buick team, Louis Chevrolet,
Arthur Chevrolet and Robert Bur-
man. The Jackson car, one of the
new entrants in the cup contests,
will be driven by E. F. Scheifler,
who has never appeared in the East
before but who has a reputation in
the West for skill and daring.
Among the other cars entered for
the cup contest are the Apperson.
with HarrisHanshue as driver, and
the Inzier with Ralph Milford