New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-13
'SAVANNAH'S AUTO PLANS
Postponement Assures larqer
and Better Field of Starters,
RALPH MILFORD TO DRIVE.
Light Cars Will Compete on No.
vember II for Savannah and
Tiedeman Trophies.

The postponennent OF the Grand Prfzs
automobile race 10 November IL at sa-
vannah has resulted in a much larger and
better entry list than the field which
would have started at the Long Island
Motor Parkway II the race had been DE-
cided there on October Is.
Three National cars have been entered.
One will be driven by Aitken, who mads
such an excellent showing in the Wander
biIt and the Paramount Park races. Liv-
ingstone will drive another. and the driver
of the third Is not yet decided. although ~
may be Louis Dtsbrow, whose work re-
Gently has been Of the highest order
Two Loziers will also appear at III.
start One will be driven by Ralph Null
ford. who won the national stock chassis
race at EIgin IN August. made a strong
showing IN the Vanderbilt and finished
second in the Paramount Park race with
less than six seconds between him and
Zengle, the winner.
The three Flats. 70 be driven by Naz-
faro. De Palma and Wagner will appear.
and the three Benzes Hemery will drivs
one Of the Benzes. George Robertson may
find that he IS able 70 drive the second,
and the third driver is A matter Of sone
doubt, now that OldfeId has been disquali-
fed by the American Automobile Associa-
ton
Savannah Is nightly pleased with the
sanction. II allows the Savannah Auto
mobile Club TO run a race on SATURDAY..
November y. for light cars. The Savan-
nah challenge trophy. now held by J II
Tyson, whose sotta-Fraschlni. driven By
Lewis Strang. won il in the spring Of 1903,
will be offered as the trophy for compe-
ton for the larger cars Of the lighter
class on the first day. This is the division
between 231 and 900 cubic inches piston
displacement. The entrant viii have ira
custody Of this trophy until il is zzain
contested for. and the winner will have
suitably inscribed silver bale OF cotton
and 81 900 in cash
The prize for the entrant Of the smaller
division on the first day ISL 20 230 cubic
inches displacement. has not yet been se-
Iected II will be known. however. as ths
Tiedenan trophy. in honor OF Mayor
Tfedenan Of Savannah. vhO headed the
delegation which visited New York, and
the members Of which went home yester-
day.
The Grand Prize race will be TWENTY-FIVE
rounds Of A circuit OF about 1875 miles,
making the total distance approximately
407 miles. The Vanderbilt was 273 miles.
The entrant Of the winning car viii hava
the custody OF the $4,000 gold cup now
held by the Fiat Automobile Company till
the race is again contested The drtvsro.
/ the winning car will receive $4,000 in
| cash, OF the second $4,000 and Of the third
| 81. 900.
Louis Wagner won the first Grand Prizs
race at Savannah in 1908 in a Fiat. Vic
| tory Hemery. in a Benz. was only s.
! seconds behind the winner The Fiat
cars have been on the Noltke. which was
detained several days at Quarantine. but
! which Is now released They will prob
ably be shipped South on Saturday next.
\ This will give the drivers a trife mors
/ than three weeks for training and learn
ing the altered course.
OIdfeId's suspension and reported def
ance of the contest board Of the American
! Automobile Association were much dis
cussed locally yesterday. None OF the
| men who are closest to racing was sur
| prised. and none could be found 10 say ne
| thought il undeserved II is quite pos
sib1e for OldfeId and Johnson to race az
! Sheepshead on any date they may decide.
and undoubtedly there will be 4 great
| crowd 20 see the fixture. II would be
worth seeing. But IL will be impossible
for Oldheld 10 race against any Of the
present drivers again.
| Harry Grant. the twO-time winner CT ths
/ Vanderbilt Cup with the same Alec car. ~
| turned 70 his home in Boston when he
learned that the Grand Prize race had been
called of here. but he did not go until AFTER
he had been the guest of honor at a dinner
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pany. At the dinner Grant and his mocha
nician. Lee. and also his other helpers re-
ceived substantial checks
/ Before leaving New York Grant with
characteristic generosity. asked that their
names be made known and full credit given
to the men who made that lightning change
of tires at the pit on the twenty-frst lap.
The two men who Ieaped from the pit and
who have been referred TO as dirty me-
chanics' were Robert CIeIand. one Of the
Michelin Tire COmpany's racing force. and
/ George BabcOck. who is foreman OF ths
engine testing room at the Alec factory.
The third man was Lee. who rides with
Grant and who is a road tester az the Alec
factory 1t is agreed by all that the chief
credit belongs 70 the N1ichelin Tire Com
pany man, although each of the three
worked as If controlled by one mind.
| The dinner to Grant was held at the En-
| gineers' Club. and when called upon 20
speak the winner modestIy told the story Of
the giant colored man named 'Footsey.
who visited his camp in 1893. and again
this wear. and blessed the car Just before
the race. This wear he LEFT a rabbits foot
on the hood which was put away and car
ried in the race.