Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06

touring car, and Samuel ]. Masters. a
| seven-passenger car OF the touring type.
Arrangements were completed last week
| and an agency established in this city
for the Staver-Chicago car. western
product The line will he handled by
| the Bennett-Colins Company. the meni-
bers OF which Arm are both well known
in auto circles. They will also be dis
| tributers for Delaware, Maryland, Nir
ginia and eastern Pennsylvania. The
| firm has secured offices in the Metropoli-
tan Bank building.
The most noticeable tendency OF to-
day is the energy with which clubs are
alta cking the twin evils OF bad roads and
lack Of sign posts. Evidences multiply
Of the Willingness OF prominent organi
"a tons all over the country to give Law
ishly Of their time and money to per
form the work which is not done simply
because officials fail to do their duty.
Samuel j. Masters. one Of Washington's
earliest motorists, has purchased an Ell
moro touring car, having become fnfat-
uated with the car with no valves Mr..
Masters and the members OF his family
contemplate doing considerable touring
during the coming season.
Lester d. Moore. jr is on a two-peek
tour OF his territory I'm Maryland, Nir-
ginia and West Virginia in the interest
of the REQ car.
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| Charles W. Terry is confined TO his
home with severe attack Of the grip.
His condition is slightly better during
the past few days.
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]. w. David of the Chalmers staff has
left after short visit at the National
Capital last week.
From the standpoint of early entries.
the 1910 Daytona Beach speed carnival.
scheduled for March %, % and a, is far
ahead of any previous year in the
history of beach racing. Although the
official entry blanks were issued only a
week ago. the following stock cars have
been entered for the stock and handicap
events: buick. Chalmers 40. Chalmers
30. two Cadillacs. ope-Hartford. Slearns.
Knox. Benz. packard and Peerless.
In the free-for-all events, Barney Old
field and his 200-norsepower Benz, Ben
kerScher, with the Vanderbilt Cup win
ming Durracq; David Bruce Brown ami
the 12O-horseDoWer Benz, and NJ
Bonds Stearns arc the entries up to
date. In addition, the racing committee
has received many applications for entry
blanks from noted racing drivers and
factories.
Walter Christie. the noted front-drive
inventor. is in communication with Sec
rotary Fitzgerald of the club, and the
indications are that he will enter his
latest racing car in the free for-all races
Barney Oldfeld is in Daytona ready
for practice with his e0o-horsepovcr
Hemmery- Benz. which he expects TO drive
mile in about 25 seconds. or at least
fast enough to break the present record
of % 10. Oldfield figures on exercising
much caution in speeding the car on the
beach until he has chance TO study all
conditions. The champion motor car pilot
has seen many great cars wrecked ~.
broken up before a race or record trial
and he is determined to take no chances
on not being able to go To the starting
line in record-breaking form Barney
spent month at Hot Springs Ark
training with the base ball stars and is
in excellent physical condition for travel
ing faster than human ever Travelled
The beach is in better condition for rae
ing this season than at any time since
the modern juggernauts were first sent
over the cementlike sand surface
L. NJ. Bradley, who for the past three
years has been advertising manager OF
the American Motor Car Manufacturers
Association and assistant to former
General Manager Alfred Reeves until
the latter accepted the general man
agement Of the Association of Licensed
Automobile Manufacturers. has Joined tie
United States Motor Company. the re-
Gently organized Observation-Disclosures
corporation which has already absorbed
the Maxwell-Briscoe Motor Company and
the Columbia Motor Car Company. He
will act as director of advertIsinc and
publicity.
The New York-to- Boston automobile
run, which was scheduled to start from
New York city yesterday, has been
postponed until the middle of April, The
exact date to be named later. T. l.
Moore manager Of the run, said that
the change was made owing to poor
weather conditions that are likely 10
be encountered in March and bad roads
He added that there appeared to be
DISPOSE, on among the contestants to
make the run of longer duration, and
to include more towns and cities than