The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-05
AUTOISTS DISCUSS
COL. HANDLES OFFER
Committee Chosen to Inves-
tigate Proposed Change
of Club Quarters.
By HARRY WARD.

special meeting OF the Automo-
bile Club Of Washington was held last
night 10 consider a proposition to re-
move the clubs quarters 10 RandIe
Highlands.
Every phase CT -re suesticn was
discussed by various m smbers. and il
was finally determines 10 appoint a
committee Of fVo : - -. e confer
with Col. Arthur z Eard.e ana 70 get
a written agreement from him as 10
what he viii offer inc ci-J in the way
OF accommodations.
Colonel Randle is anxious to have the
club take up its headquarters at
Randle Highlands and 10 this end has
offered TO furnish the organization
with well-equipped club house. to-
gether with a IN Ousand acres Of
ground. II is his intention 10 light
the roads approaching the club house
by electricity and TO install shower
baths, lockers. and other conveniences-
A nlne-hole golf course Will be laid
out. together with S-nnis courts, crO-
Quet grounds. and means for other
The committee that Will meet Col
onel Randle Is composed Of President
w. s DuvaN, r 3. Caverly, Charles
w. Bender. W. Hamilton Smith. and
l.. A Dent Another special meeting
will be held next week TO receive the
report Of this committee.
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Philadelphia's annual road race OF 200
miles, which VIII take place next Satur-
day in Paramount Park, has received a
notable addition TO its entry list by
the nomination OF the two Stoddard-
Dayton cars which competed in the
Vanderbilt Cup race last Saturday.
The drivers Will be Hugh Harding
the veteran racing pilot, and Tobin De-
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the same cars in the Vanderbilt The
race will be held entirely within the
city limits.
The course is a serpentlne. having
have always taxed the capabilities Of
the drivers to the limit ard provided
much spectacular work
The course is one which suits De-
Hymel even better than the Vanderbilt
circuit, for this intrepid Indian seems
10 have an almost unnatural control
over his car, and when IL was said that
he made the second fastest lap in the
Vanderbilt Cup race it merely indicates
what may be expected Of him IN a
race over a route that is more like a
Chinese puzzle than a city driveway.
The FairmOunt course IS not new to
Harding, since he has driven in the
preVious races, and has always made a
creditable showing In the Vanderbilt
he kept his car going until the finish
of the contest, and had IL not been for
a series of unavoidable circumstances in
the beginning Of the race he would, IN
dOubtedly, have been nearer the end
of the route when the checkered flag
was flown.
Harry Grant, who won the Vanderbilt
Cup race in a siN-cylinder Alec car, de-
Clares he would have won by "A bigger
margin had II not been for a. mistake
IN the signals. Through some kind of
a miX-up he was given to understand
he was in second position whe nthe race
was about half through. when he was
really in sixth position. Grant saws he
won the race by steady driving in ad-
herence 10 a preconceived plan Of max
ing each lap in from u:l5 20 1870 min
utes. he drove every lap with a maxi
mum variation Of only eighteen sec
onds. He changed two tires on the
course besides the one at the pit, in
fifteen seconds