The Washington times., 1911-02-23
MOTOR TRUCK SHOW
PLANS UNDER WAY
Dealers to Meet Again Next
Week and Allot
Space.
CONVENTION HALL
CONVENTION HALL
TO BE THE SCENE
Meeting Last Night Attended BY
Small But Enthusiastic
Crowd.
BY HARRY WARD.

Plans for a motor truck show in the
exposition building from March ) to Il,
are under way.
A meeting of the dealers handling
trucks was held last night at Eckstein's,
and while the number of those attending
was not as large as was expected, owing
to the fact that many of the dea]ers
were in Baltimore attending the auto
mobile show, the promoters feel sure
every motor truck represented in wash
ington will be displayed at the coming
show. The truck show is to be in con-
junction with the first national exhi-
bition of aerial craft. c. Royce Hough
will have charge of the truck exhibits
Another meeting will be held early next
week, at which time the spaces will be
allotted. Among those attending the
meeting last night were Elliott p.
Tough, c. Royce Hough, Paul Peck,
f. A. Garlock, Z. Selby, II. \. c. Fay,
aud B. Holland.
Howard E Coffin, who was recently
elected president of the Manufacturers
Contest Association, has outlined some
highly important work Ior that body to
do within the next few weeks. The first
big stunt will be to get all the makers OF
motor trucks into the NJ. c. A. Motor
trucks are going to be a tremendous fac
tor in the life of the country from now
on said Mr.. Coffin. This year the truck
makers will held many contents and un-
less they affiliate with the ManufaCtur-
erS' Contest Association, draft adequate
rules and support the impartial admin
istration of those rules by the contest
board, they will soon find commercial
car contests in the same chaotic condi-
ton the pleasure car makers found
themselves before the NJ. c. A. was es-
tablished. Last year the few motor truck
contests held were run under local rules
and by people inexperienced in the hand
ling of such matters" A great many of
the truck makers have signified their
eagerness TO get the commercial car con-
tests within the jurisdiction of a re-
sponsible body such as the NJ. c. A.
If there were any doubts about the
ability of the Buick to cover a route
they were dispelled yesterday when a
Buick 'l6," driven by "Bil'' Cronkhite,
carried Referee Tyler and a party of
newspaper men over the route Of the
cross-country run. Barbed wire fences
were the only things that prevented the
Buick from negotiating the entire course.
The discussion going on at this time
regarding the American Automobile As
sociation's reliability tour for 1911 finds
an interested observer in "Bill' Bolger,
who won the Glidden tour last year in
a Chalmers. Il hope to compete in
whatever reliability run the three AS
OIST lot tnlS season, declares BOlger.
1t makes no particular difference
whether the leading trophy be the Gid
den or some other; it's the tour that
counts Three factors are necessary
to the winning of a big endurance run,
according to BOlger. They are a good
car, good luck, and intelligent driving.
Of course, good luck and good driV-
ing might bring poor car through a
short tour, but only a good car can go
through a tour of sixteen days, covering
2,S51 miles. On the other hand, either
bad luck or careless driving could kill
the chances of the finest cars in such a
tour. Given the car and an even break
in the luck, it all comes down to the
driving.
Teddy Tetzlan, the hitherto unknown
California driver who came into sud
den prominence last Thanksgiving Day
by winning the Santa Monica stock
car race with LoZier car in the fast
est time ever made in America, and
with one exception the fastest time
ever made in the world, has de-
Cided to race this year under his own
Tetzlaff will no doubt
be a great drawing card, as he not only
holds the American road record OF
1927 miles per hour, but proved that
this great race was no accident, for
on the same day this race was run, in
fact, within twenty minutes after the
conclusion of the first event, he start
ed In the 202-mIle free-for-all, again
and again making a greater
average speed than had ever been
made in America.