The Washington times., 1910-03-04
RACES
IS LATEST IDEA
Auto Dealer Thinks Much
Suspicion Can Be Avoid
ed This Way.
By HARRY WARD.


racing. is tho very happy suggestion OF
Windsor T. White, head OF one Of the
largest automobile manufacturing con-
| Germs IN the country. To this end he
proposes a rule whereby any machine
| entering contest may be claimed by
any other entrant on the payment OF
the list price Of that car
4 think no one will dispute the state
ment that there has been much ground
for dissatisfaction with. and distrust !
Of, the stock car racing situation" said
Mr.. White, in disclosing the proposed
reform. The examination OF contest
ing cars at race meets is necessarily |
/ Of the most superficial character" he
( continued, "and generally dlscloses
nothing more than tnat the cylinders
are Of the proper dimensions and that
I the general arrangement OF parts is the
same as In the stock model Such an
I examination cannot reveal, for example, |
| whether or not the racing car has
! chrome-nickel steel crank shaft Cwhen
/ real stock cars Of the same make use
I only common machine steeD, or wheth-
! er or not there has been a similar sub
| stitution Of materials throughout
The public has had ample reason
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have not understood why it was neces- |
sary for stock car which competed
one week in New York TO be rushed
/ by express to compete in Minneapolis
or New Orleans the next. The ordinary
citizen would imagine that any car in
Minneapolis or New Orleans would
fully size up 20 the true capabilities OF
the stock car and could be used.
With this unsatisfactory situation
/ confronting automobile racing, why
should we not avail ourselves OF the
I experience Of a much older line OF
I sport-namely. horse racing, wherein
various protective measures have been
! devised for safegua ding the interests
J Of the public as well as OF contests. 1
1 refer particularly 10 the regulations
/ covering what are known as selling
/ rarpg 1 believe that these regulations
/ could be applied with advantage TO all
/ stock car raCing in this country. with
/ the result that any car entering stock
/ race could be claimed by any other
/ contestant in the race on payment or
! the list price Of the car
/ II is Mr. Whites opinion that by the
! enactment OF such an amendment 70
/ the automobile racing rules. motor car
/ racing in this country would receive "A
} tremendous boom He points out that
there are many manufacturers and
agents who would be very willing 10
engage in various kinds OF speed I5S u
/ if they were assured that they would
be confined tC stock models II is his
belief that at present they feel tnat
the cars which are being sent first 70
one city and then TO another 70 en-
gaze IN race meets are not bona fide
/ stock cars
I Under the proposed rule any maker
who engaged in a race and who Eus-
I Dected that one Of the cars cOntesting
: 90 n "a EFn
could simply bid Il IN at the list price
and could quickly assure himself
4 whether or not such was the case.
With this regulation enforced the prac-
tiCe Of building specially constructed
cars for racing would be discouraged,
there would be many more cars entering
i races, and the public and the auto in
dustry would benefit largely from the
new conditions
John r Thomas, who was recently
appointed manager OF the Washington
branch Of the. MaxweU-Briscoe Com
pany. received word this morning that
IN the future the United States Motor
Company will act as general sales
laCent for all the lines manufactured
ing TO President BrisCOe, this does nos
mean. however. that ali the lines
which eventually will be manu-
featured by c2gacegns 2falisted afi with
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pany are 10 be marketed by the
new company are located at Tarry-
town. \. Y, for the time being. the
permanent location OF the United
States Motor Company's general Offices
viii be In New York city.
According to advices received this
morning by Lester d. Moore, the Reo
agent, Paul Hardin. Of Chester. s. c..
is out with a challenge that has set
the auto gOssips busy in at least four
IoF his nefghbOriug counties A few
huy a twO-Cylinder REQ on condition
thar II would be run under It's own
power from Chester % Bullock : Creek
by Hardin Thomson lives twenty
miles from the nearest county seat
where the roads are OF a heavy red clay
which al this time or the year are i'm
Dassable for wagon in many places.
TIC lOnE trip NaS successful made
hy Hardin. though he got on the road
twice Thomson is now the owner Of
the car and Hardin offers to bet thar
any car costing twice the price Of the
REQ cannot follow the REQ In a cross
lcouutry run 10 BulOcks Creek or over
any other similar road within nifty
miles or Chester The challenge has
not been accepted to date
The Association Of Licensed Automo-
bile Manufacturers has Informed Wash
Ingtou dealers that seventy-five makes
Of American and foreign cars are now
operating under the Selden patent.
j Those appearing on the list for the first
time are the FlandTau Motor Car Com
many, of New York, importers of the
Rrasier: ". II. Mcintyre Company.
( Auburn, Ind, makers OF the Mcintyre,
and the Simplex Motor Car Company,
Ior NIishawaka, Ind, makers of the Am
pIex car, formerly known as the Amer
Can-SimplcN.
A l. Cline, president OF the Auto
Livery Company, has placed an order
! with tine Carter Motor Car Corporation
for three Washington touring cars
They viii he finished in wine color.
TUE RENERX