Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-01
FORTY CARS PERFECT IN
State GOOD ROADS TOUR
One of Them Was the Jour-
naI'S, No. 32---Sixty Cars
Started


Forty cars made perfect scores in the
Constitution-Teleeraph-Chronicle tour
around the state. and - OF them Will
divide the prize money. They are the
trophy winners among 50 starting cars
out Of an entry list OF -. OF all the cars
tina; LETT Atlanta. D came through with
clean record.
The Atlanta Journals White gas car.
No. =. is one of the q. -Four OF the -
cars making perfect scores were non
contestants. the Atlanta CONSTITUTIONS
Pullman. the Augusta Chronicles Speed
wei. z W. Ogiesby's oIdsmobIle, and
the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
graph company's Selden-
The Atlanta Constitution OF Monday
morning announces the foregoing. In
that announcement It is stated that the
tour committee has decided 10 penalize
none OF the cOntesting cars which SUI
fered delay on the run between Waycross
and Savannah. or which were caught In
the West Indian storm or suffered from
the effects Of that Storm This decision
puts the Macon. AiG-ny. Sylvester.
Thoma svfIIe Bafnbridge and Valdosta
that storm. on an equal footing with the
:. aycross cars. which preceded the hur-
ricane. and the Atlanta cars. which came
along after its effects were spent Al
of the cars that continued with the tour
despite the storm have been allowed by
the tour committee TO share in the prize
money IL they made schedule thereaf-
ter.
PRIMO PROTEST WITHDRAWN.
DIV FnH- a.
protest against IL cars Cof which The
Journals White gas was not One) that
checked In ahead or II, the pacemaSer,
at the Constitution office last Wednes-
day has been withdrawn on the state
naent Of the protested cars that a police
man a. MOrelsnd and Ponce de Leon
avenues told them to go ahead"
The only formal protest that remains
on file Is that of B. r. Beck. OF Eaton
ton. who charges that his Overland was
crowded into the ditch near Augusta by
another tour car. This protest ties up
the award in case OF the protested car,
only.
According to the Constitution. the fast
est time made around the circuit was
BY Sydney Jones. of Waycross. in his
speedven bearing the Augusta Chron-
icle's banners
Accounting for the cars that are not
shown in the prize list. the Constitution
shows that George W Dsen's Buick
dropped out at Sylvester. its owner. be-
fng called ahead to Waycross by bust
ness c o. Duvalrs Thomas car stop
ped at Douglas. It's owners home town
Z p Ansleys White steamer. the pace
maker. turned turtle near Savannah and
had 10 be shipped back The White Star
withdrew at Augusta TO come on to
Atlanta a day ahead of the others 9th
er cars shown Thy the Constitution TO
have dropped out are A. II. Prisons
Buick. from Sylvester; the Americas
Board OF Trades Mitchell; J. B. VIII
lafssen's Halliday. from Ellaville: W.
H Nestberrys Halliday. from sylves-
ter q e Affords National. from Syl-
vssfssr. Dr. r. L. Bridges Buick. from
F1llasFiie2 G. ". Cooper's Cole. from
rshanasvfIIe. and ard &, III. Caldwell's
Haynes from cambridge The Constitu-
at0a remarks that C-K c. sAusley's
@kuick. from Bainbridge, got as far az
kA6anta all right. but the records do not
show his arrival at Albany or al home;
also that the brownsville Board Of
Trsde's REQ seems 70 have missed reg
serafiou al Albany and cambridge.
The Wk1der Board OF Trade car had
beer given permission TO run ahead as
far as Decatur pilot. says the
Constitution land had instructions to
wait at Decatur. It overran the pace
was automatically disqualified"
Following Is the distribution OF the
prize money. as published by the Con-
etitution-
Prizes for each clas amounted to $500
The rules state that unless thoue were
I've entries in a class. all cars in such
elias would be punched in with those
IN the class next above for division
Of the prize money. This rule reads as
follows:
NO car shall compete in any class
below that TO which its price entities il.
except II there are less than five entries
IN any class. the cars so entered Will
be elassed with the cars in the CLASH
fcation above"
In the class for cars costing from
sS0i 20 81 .20o. inclusive, there was only
h one entry. the Atlanta Gas Light com
pany's Hudson This car. therefore.
goes into the elias with cars costing
over Ssoi and the prize money viii be
divided equally between five cars. giving
each 500.
In the fourth class for cars costing
from 81. sol 10 S2.0oo. inclusive, twelve fin
Ished with 6 perfect score. and each car
gets s4i-es.
NJ In the nth class. for cars costing
s200l TO S3cO there were four cars with
q perfect score
In me sixth class there were four
entries, but only two TO finish with a
perfect score. These cars go in the
nth class. The prizes will be divided
equally among the six cars
There were four cars entered which
cost more than t4.OO0. but only two
started and neither finished
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