The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21
AMONG THE AUTOMOBILISTS
BE.iRDSLEi TO DRIVE IN VAN
DERBILT CTR CONTEST.
Former Amateur TO PILOT simplex over
Long Island Motor Parkway on Or-
tolser I-COIe Named In Massap~aua
sMcepsaake- RlNerhead Race.

The Motor CUPS Holding Comnany. which
will conduct the Vanderbilt cup race on
: October and the contest for the Automo-
! bile club OF Americas Grand fri/e gold
cup on Ortober ~. issued the following an
noun~ement concerning these two events
yesterday.
! William X Vanderbilt Jr president III
the Motor cups Holding Company. an
nounce- the receipt Of an entry Of anothss
simplex car for the Vanderbilt cup race
. which II TO he held on the Long Island Motor
! PARKWAY on Saturday. October / The
| car II entered by the simplex Automobile
Company Of New York city. and viii be-
tdriv~n by Ralph p Bea rriSley The ear Is
1911 model. rated At "a horse power. With
/ a bore and stroke Of So, inches
-Bea TJislev. who recently LEFT the ranks
| az the amateur drivers TO turn professional.
has been doing brilliant work at hIll climbs
and track races the last few months. nota
bly, At plAinneld. OssininK and A. the July
brighton Beach meet. when he on = horiy
contested raos. With Leland 4 Mitchell
who will pilot 'he other simplex entry. the
sim pleS represent alton will surely be a team
to he reckoned with
Everybody " no IL interested in both the
Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize events i
pleased 20 know that the start Will be a
day break one Just a. soon after dawn
A. the fog. which il probable. lifts to make
No at the starting line and be despatched on
their way at fifteen or twenty second inter
walls The last two Vanderbilt cup races
have had mIdmorning starts. which nave
been ~-ponsihle for a smaller crowd attend
Ing Thousands viii start out a. midnight
from New York to witness the great event
without having hal moments sleep and
enjoy II too. while he same thus lasts
would not care TO retire the night before
and hen arise at 4 VI IN order to reaU b
the course staying up and out all night
II half the fun
That faster time than eyenb-fore may b.
expected in these two races - quite proba-
hle, for tho surface ~ smoother thi-T Yea
than n Was last O"toher. dug TO the touring
done on the PARKWAY this summer The CON
tinueh driS ling has worn the cement surface
quite smooth. End this will mean less tire
trouble IN the rACe than ever before
Foreign drivers entered for the grand
priye race are at work already tuning up
their cars and getting themselves into
proper physical condition for the big event
II must I've remembered that driving "A rae.
nearly toO miles In length il a severe STRAIN
upon even the strongest and most ~eaSored
cars into shape ~ the Mannheim Germany.
factory. NREyAro. ~ the Plat factory IN
Turin. Italy. " supervising the work ON the
practically every factory and -nirant
expecting to enter either OF the bR races
IL deVotins much time and money testing
out and improving lie cars
Many n poor Long Island horse who las,
year was relegaied to the hay field while
his snoriing friend the motor car took
ssnse :" worry Tor a numh., sd N. nan en-
trants have already SECURED racing quarters
In barns and sheds AT points accessible .
quarters Will he converted into temporary
garages and some " III resemble automobile
factories IN miniature waN.
entered by the Coli -S,rstton company /