Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-04
NEW ASSOCIATION
IS TO Be FORMED
Meeting to Be Held in Seattle to
Organize the Coast
States
A. A. A. is DECLARED UNFAIR
West Has Not Been Fairly Dealt
with in Racing, Is the
Claim
A. A. A. is DECLARED UNFAIR

The air is rife with "insurgent" thun-
der. Whether politics or sport, there
must come a readjustment of condi-
| tions. The automobile field of endeavoT
is too large to be the plaything of a
select coterie who would be the final
arbiters of all thnt must interest the
motoring public in the United States.
The "A. A. Az was all right at it's in
| ception, but it's executive offices have
been filled with men from one section
of the country only. Their knowledge
! of motor cars may be all that could
be asked of any set of men, but their
knowledge of conditions as affecting
the motor car racing game is hemmed
in by the environments of New York
and contiguous territory.
There is a big and growing west
that has not been taken into consider
alton in dealing with motoring sports.
The man who has lived from coast to
coast and participated in all that makes
for genuine gentleman sportsmanship
Is best qualified to speak for the real
necessities of motor racing. Every
kind of American sport that has come.
under the public ban has had the con-
ditions thrust upon it unsought, just
because one section of the country
would not concede that another section
had aught of intelligence in the game
these would-be dictators would set for
the guidance of ALL Temperament of
people more than climatic or geo.
graphical conditions must be taken
into consideration when anything of a
national scope Is promulgated.
WANT THE DOLLARS
The motoring public west of the Mis-
sissippi river are just as intelligent as
those Of the effete east and while they
want our dollars they must not ignore
alNf 0afkr 90 zt,alr A1w.
ourselves.
We can very we'll afford to be called
OUTLAWS" out in this western country,
for we know what conditions our own
people win accept and win not will
lingly wear the yoke people who do
not know us have forged in the cru
cibles of their brainstorm pudding
pots.
The new association that will be
formed September I8 in Seattle in the
interests of motoring is a crystaliza-
ton of a sentiment that the west has
been too long overlooked by the parent
association of motordom-the A. A. A.
and the insurgent appeal has gone
forth and the dict5lm will be laid down
that there are Just as bright minds |
capable of judging the right from the |
wrong in motor racing, and we can |
consistently say more intelligently |
There are supposedly 100000 machines |
in use in the United States, and yet |
a full 10 per cent of them are licensed |
under the state law of California. But |
CaIifornia's representation in the A. A |
A. organization is such a small part |
of the whole as to be ridiculous The |
conditions must of necessity change,
and what has not Eeen accorded as a |
matter of right and courtesy must now
be made a demand, and though old |
lines are split, the indomitable spirit |
Of the west will win, and those who
would keep their eastern affiliations,
with inadequate representation, should
be allowed to do so unmolested, but
those of the coast motor car owners
who desire public contests will not
longer be subjected to the discrimina-
tions of the past.
NEW SPORT
Motor racing sport is comparatively
new, but the principles of all clean-cut
sport is the same, and there is no real
reason why q west of the Mississippil
contest board should not rule In the
affairs that pertain to our own affairs
Cars will go neither faster nor slower
because of what any man may say
and with the Pacific states, where ellie
natic conditions are such that we can
lold speed contests the greater part
If the year, 1t should be the aim of
very man loyal to the west to encour-
Lge speed contests of the clean kind
hat will get us the migration of auto
,wners from sections of the country
lot so favored, and to hold just as