The Washington herald., 1911-05-15
TWELVE AUTOS
WILL START ON
RU n TO-DAY
Sociability Event Instead of
Endurance Run.
WHY CHANGE WAS MADE
Clover Leaf Contest Postponed
Until June 26.
WHY CHANGE WAS MADE
Failure of Participants to Comply
with a Rule of the A. A. A. Neces-
sitated Alteration of PIan-Gettys-
burg, Hagerstown, LeOnardtown,
and York to Be Visited-OfficiaIs
Named-Details of the Event.

morning in a four days sociability
Fun. The objective points will be
Gettysburg, York, Hagerstown, and
Leonardtown, Md. The run will be
similar in its programme to the
Four-leaf clover event which was
scheduled for to-day, but which, as
an endurance run, has been post
poned until June 26.
WHY CHANGE WAS MADE.
Last Saturday the contest board of
the American Automobile Association, of
which Samuel Butler is chairman. sent
word to Washington that only five cars
had compiled with the registration rule
of the association and directed that the
endurance run be postponed for thirty
days. in order to allow the manufacturers
of the car opportunity to meet the
requirements.
This information led to a meeting yes
terday morning of those interested in
the event at the clubhouse OF the Auto
mobile Club of Washington, which is
affiliated with the association. At this
meeting the necessity of complying with
the rules was recognized and a postpone
ment of the endurance run until June 26
was agreed upon. AS, however, all ar
rangements had been made for the trip
and as it was impossible to cancel these
arrangements, ii was decided to hold the
run purely as a sociability event.
Twelve Cars Entered.
A meeting was held last night at the
Office of Emerson & Orme and twelve
cars were entered for the event, as fol-
lows.
rd-Dayton-Clarence Barnard.
Reo-Frank Stewart.
Reo-Frank Stewart.
Marion-J. II. Ebersole-
Ford-H. G.. Machen.
Velie-Charles Miller.
Hudson-H. B. Leary, jr.
observation-disclosures S. Bowles.
K-R-I-T-R. c. Arlson.
Cole-R. c. Wilson.
Apperson-Frank R. White
Regal-E. H. Clark.
officials were selected as follows:
w. D. West referee; William Jose,
starter; B. Stevenson, assistant start
er; H. E Duckstien, pilot; Frank Boyd,
chief observer; Fred Harveycutter and
Frank Olmstead. checkers; technical
committee. w. D. West. chairman;
Howard Fisk, and S. S. Grogan.
Details of the Event.
The start will be from the Hotel
Grafton each day at o'clock in the
morning and this same place will be
the night control on three of the days.
On the fourth day the cars will check
in al Fifteenth and streets, at which
time there will be motor brake and
clutch test, after which the cars will
be turned over to the owners Prizes
will be awarded to the individual cars
making the best class scores and to
the machine finishing in the most per-
feet condition a sweepstakes prize will
be awarded
The official cars selected for the run
were a Matheson. with W. z. McBur-
ney driving as pilot: a Maxwell, do
mated by Harry Williams as a checkers
car: a Buick for the pacemaker; Frank
Olmstead, of the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company, with a Stoddard-
Dayton as the chief observers car. and
a Packard, belonging to George Meeley,
the Frestone representative, as start
erS car.
At $50 the pilot car will leave to be
followed by half an hour later by the
first contesting machine. Gettysburg.
first days run, York, Pa, on the sec
ond. Hagerstown, Md, on the third,
and Leonardtown, Md, on the last day.