Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16
PHOENIX ENTRIES
TO CLOSE FRIDAY
Outlook Good for Twenty Start
erS in the Great Endur-
ance Run
MITCHELL AT H0LLENBECK
Phoenix Business Men to Look
After Entertainment of
Racing Guests
MITCHELL AT HoLLENBEcK

October q is the last day in which
to get in entries for the Los Angeles
Phoenix race to be run November 5.
AS there are already twelve checks
up with Referee Mitchell, that many
starters are assured. But it is almost
just as much a certainty that there
will be five more entries. 1t would
not be surprising if the actual num-
ber of starters would total twenty 1t
will be the first of the big races for
the winter season; and is a contest Of
such a character that the greatest
amount of credit will go to the car
that wins, and to every car that COM
peteS; for the distance of 400 miles
presents all kinds of road going, and
the car that can stand the grueling
race is certainly a car that can be de-
pended on by any owner for almost
any test that private individual could
put it.
Several oe the entrants have already
been over the course, and more are
going this week. Joe Nikrent, VINO
recently went over the road in a Knox
says that the roads are in much bet
ter condition than last year; but that
it would be suicide for a driver to start
in the race, who had not previously
been over the course. 1t is the un
marked roads beyond Mecca that are
going to give the trouble. The mat
ter of marking the roads all the way
to Ehrenberg has already been taken
up with the Southern California Au-
tomobile club, and it is possible that in
the next few days a pathfinding car
will be started out, that will place
road signs. Not the big painted signs,
however, but markers of wire similar
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of red flannel attached. These viii
be placed so feet beyond an intersect-
ing road, so that drivers may know
they are on the Phoenix road. The boys
will have no time to read printed
signs, and as on the desert a small
object can be seen for long distance,
the wire stakes will answer all pur-
poses.
Referee John Mitchell will be busy
rounding up all the entries the first
of the week, and on Saturday next,
the day after the entries close, there
will be a meeting of all entrants at
the Hollenbeck hotel to pass finally on
the rules and regulations governing
the race.
George B. Bullard, president of the
Maricopa County Automobile club of
Phoenix, who has direct charge of all
details of the Phoenix race, has the
following to say as to the way the
Los Angeles contingent will be taken
care of on their arrival in Phoenix:
Things are looking very favorably
here for a splendid time in November
and Tuesday or Wednesday night, we
intend to give a banquet which will
be a crackerjack the plates costing
IS to everybody excepting the auto
mobile men, the fair commission and
the supreme court, who will be guests.
During the banquet, we expect to have
a continuous vaudeville running by
courtesy of numerous vaudeville acts,
besides numerous speeches will be
made. l have made arrangements to
have free passes issued to the theaters
for all automobile men and also prob
ably will have arrangements made so
that they may have the privilege of
the plunges and baths at the Y. M. c.
A. building. In other words, I am
leaving no stone unturned on this oc-
casion to make the Los Angeles
Phoenix race and the meet an un-
qualified success.
GEORGE p. BULLARD."