The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-24

ers OF the Pierce Racine motor car
announces that 1t Intends to embark
on an automobile racing program with
the Case car that Will be on a larger
and more extensive scale than any
heretofore attempted.
The first move was to employ Lewis
Strang to take charge of the details
and instruct him to pick out two other
racing drivers to make up team~Qf
three men. Strang Is to manage the
team as well as drive In the big eventa
The mechanical forces at the Case fac
tories are at work assembling some
fast stock cars for the different classes,
and are also building speed monster
for the free for-alis.
Strang hopes TO annex the records
that are now held by Oldfield In the
big Benz, and 10 watching the work
on the big car with particular inter-
est.
The boat department Of the Case
works is working on the assembling
OF three aeroplanes. and these ma
chimes win be handled by the racing
crew In the large aeroplane races. But
before they are entered they viii be
given a thorough try-out by making
a number of inter city trips, probably
from Racine to Chicago or from Chi
cage to indianapolis. The plans of the
Case company are on q larger scale
than anything ever attempted BY an
automobile organization, and 1t is diffi-
cult to understand how 1t can be kept
from placing it's cars or planes in front
in number of the large races.
Dangers that beset the pilot of rae
ing automobiles seem TO have no~ter-
rors for young America, as the num-
Der of inquiries which Louis Chevro-
let and wild Bob" Buiman, Of the
Buick racing team receive daily would
seem to indicate, Almcst every mali
brings letters from young men VINO
desire to enter the hazardous accupa-
ton OF driving racing autouiobiies. Oi
course the great drivers cannot an
swer all these communications, but
each one receives AN acknowledgment
from the Buick Motor Company.
one of the recent communications
received by Louis Chevrolet caused the
husky Franco Swiss many hearty
laughs. In Western country town
the motor racing fever had taken hold
with q vengeance. and one OF the boys
whose father owned model 10 Buick
wrote to ask Chevrolet how he could
succeed at the race meeting ny driv-
ing his fathers car.
Chevrolet responded by telling the
young man to open the throttle and
do his best to hold the car on the
track. and after three or four years
of study and trying experience he
might be able to negotiate the cor
ners of a half mile Track successfully
The latest body to advocate the inn
provement of highways is the Board OF
Commerce of Detroit, Mich, the hub
of the American automobile industry.
@lytr ttaxAl f<F "a nee .Af
the farmers In its agitation for better
highways and recently sent petit
ton 10 every postofiice in Wayne euun-
ty 10 secure the signature OF The TILL
ers of the soil. The petition asked the
supervisors TO bond the county Tor
81, 0eo 900 for the purpose of improving
the reads. In addition, the projected
boulevard from Detroit to Toledo Is TO
be carried out
Many persons have been under the
| impression that in the Washington
| Post tour 10 Richmond, Va. and re-
| turn, which is TO take place October
14-1S. there would be but one sweep
! stakes prize, and that only those who
| finished with perfect score in the
! last run you'd be eligible TO compete
| for 1t.
At the conclusion of the last run
| those entitled 10 draw for the sweep
stakes prize agreed that they would
run of the tie If the Washington Post
| would hold another run IN the fall
and open the entry list to all those
who wished to compete. This was
agreed to, and 1t was also stated at
| the time that class prizes and a sweep
stakes trophy. for which all could
| compete would be offered.
The run of last May WAS the first
/ purely local run ever held out OF this
| city which lasted for more than one
| day and many were skepticai about
| entering 1t, for they had heard much
about the condition of Virginia high
ways.
| Though the run of last May was
/ more In the nature OF four days
outing than an endurance run, for
| there was no preliminary or final tech
nical examination. as there will be In
this one, the mere fact that eight ma
| chimes came through with a perfect
road score was sufficient TO demon
strafe to the doubling ones that the
| roadways of Virginia are not the
worst in the country, and that, more
over, an automobile running on q fixed
| time schedule can make the trip with
/ out encountering any trouble en- route.
Among the cars that came through
! the last run with perfect scores We're
/ two small machines--a Buick. selling
for 81 900, and Maxwell. whose price
| Is $500. Ins addition to this, a Ford.
selling for 1925. came through with
! but | point against 1t, and that for a
motor stall on the last day out.
The run passes through section
| of the country that Is the territory
! of local dealers, and all admit that
4 Virginia Is a ripe field for automobiles
! People along the route Are showing
I much interest in the run, and some
of them have gone 50 far as to plan
receptions for the contestants az they
pass through.
/ There Is no more stanch advocate
! of contests of every kind and descrip-
/ ton to test out the merits of car
than G. w. Matheson. head of the
we'll known motor manufacturing
company bearing his name, and Mr.
Matheson Is jubilant over the road
racing fixtures which are to be de-
cided In the near future.
Every manufacturer in the coun-
/ try can learn something about his car
by competition" declared Mr.. Mathe-
son. on his recent return from In-
dianapolis.
THE buying public never will gel
| the best value for Its money until cars
have been thoroughly tried and tested
under the fearful stress of contest on
road. hi1l and truck. Every contest
carries Its lesson with it. and manu-