Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-19
THOMAS FLYER, WINNER OF
ROUND-THE-WORLD TROPHY
American Made Car Is Presented
with Emblem of Its Being
Earth's Champion

Z. r. Thomas, the Buffalo manufac-
turer, whose nerve brought victory tC
the Thomas Flyer in the great round
the world contest from New York to
Paris which started February IL, 1905
and finished July 80 of the same year.
received the trophy emblematic of the
victory at a banquet held at the Auto
mobile club of America on Fifty
fourth street, New York city, Saturday
chell, representing the New York
Times, and LIE Matin of Paris, made
the presentation speech.
The victory of this American car the
only American entry, caused world
wide comment, and was hailed as a
world championship and is SO con-
sidered.
Just as the bells were ringing in Sun
day morning 100 of Americas s repre-
sentative newspaper men sat down to
one of the most impressive banquets
that have ever been served in New
York city.
The table was in the form of horse
shoe or magnet with the speaker S
table at the open end. The guests sat
on the outer side, facing the guests,
and fastened to the back of the table
was a mission rail with photos of the
race from start to finish, the division
between each table being marked by
mission standards supporting lanterns
which depicted the New York-Paris
car winning the race. The trophy was
in the center Of the horseshoe and
faced the speakers table.
Tom Moore was the toastmaster and
in introducing Mr.. Thomas paid glow
ing tribute to the good SportsmanshiI
of the Buffalo maker who alone had
the nerve to make an entry in the
great contest. The actual running time
was eighty-eight days for the sup
posedly impossible trip. Among the
more prominent speakers were George
Schuster, who drove the winning car;
! George Miller, his mechanic; e. r.
Thomas, the entrant of the car, who
was so affected by the credit giver
, him that he almost shed tears as he
arose to speak: Alfred Reeves, Robert
Lee Morrell, chairman of the contest
board of the A. A. A. at the time oi
the starting of the contest; Col. George
Pope, who paid glowing tribute to Mr.
J Thomas; John G. Wetmore, the dear
of the newspaper men, and S. NJ But
let, the chairman of the contest of the
A. A. A. at the present time.
The trophy, designed by George T
Verreaut of Buffalo, for the Gorham
company, is an immense globe OF
bronze. surmounted by large bronze
eagle with outspread wings in an at
titude of defiance. The base is OF
green marble brought over from italy
especially for this trophy. Between
the globe and the base is a subbase o1
pink marble brought from France. The
bronze in the trophy was brought from
! Germany and the route is laid out with
American silver. The entire trophy
J stands as a symbol f the four nations
that had the courage to enter this Ions
grind. On the four sides of the base
are bronze tablets in high relief de-
picting the start, the finish and the
order in which the cars We're awarded
prizes. The main side contains the in
scription of award. The subbase con,
tains the coast of arms of the nations
competing, France, Germany Italy and
the United States. The trophy is the
largest ever given for a contest of any
description and stands six feet six
inches in height and weighs 1900
pounds.
The trophy will be exhibited at the
Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, st,
Louis, Kansas City and Boston shows
There is a well defined rumor that
the Thomas company intends to test
out their new cars by sending one
around the world. The car will be
driven by George Schuster with George
Miller as mechanic, a mechanical eX-
pert accompanying the car to make a
thorough and exhaustive record of the
trip from mechanical standpoint.