Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-03
Last of Three Cars, CompIet-
ing Team, Entered by |. M.
Powell of CordeIe - Is a
$500 0IdSmobile- Other
Entries May Be in Mails.
Anderson Trophy to Go to
.lndisidual Earant With the
Best Score In Whole Tour


Cordele's third car for the Glidden.
completing the team which that city has
been ambitious, to have as its champion
In the contest for the great trophy, was
entered Sunday night by !. M. Powell,
OF that city.
1t is an oldsmobile like the two 9TH
ers of the team, except that it Is a four
passenger car costing $500. Mr.. Powell
who, entered 1t. Is the agent for the OIds-
mobile In Cordele's territory. and in
meeting the demand of his city by Of
fering three of his cars, he has accom-
plished a stroke of policy that Is sure to
bring him favor at home.
Cordeles team In the Glidden, however
is the result of no one mans work or
ideas. 1t is the outgrowth of a popu-
lar demand, voiced among the leaders
of the city and given conspicuous pub
licity in the Cordele newspapers The
movement has been backed financially
by the whole CITY, 1t started several
weeks ago, and has been growing daily
resulting in the entry of one car, then
another, and now the third. It's progress
has drawn the spotlight of attention to
Cordele. Other Georgia cities and towns
have found in It nothing upon which to
congratulate themselves. From a place
in the ranks of national highway cities
and towns, Cordele has stepped out to
such company as Anderson, s. c., which
offers the new trophy for individual con-
testants and which has been actively
represented in previous tours; and Win
ston Salem, n. c., which was one of the
few prize winners last year and which
has entered again, and Roanoke, Va,
and Commerce, Ga, and two or three
others Of equal zeal and enterprise.
OTHERS MAY COME.
Cordele's last entry is not necessarily
the final one in the 1911 Glidden, though
advice of II was received by long dis
lance telephone almost at the last hour.
It is quite possible that there are other
entries, mailed before midnight Sunday,
which have not yet reached the contest
board and of which neither that board
nor The Journal has heard.
The Anderson trophy is the recipient
of much attention from the newspaper
and motor publications of the country.
Its conditions have just been made
known by the A. A. A. 1t will be open
to competition among individual en-
trants on their own scores, the individual
entrant having the best score in the
whole run winning it. This is regardless
OF team or other Affiliations, and is in
addition to the class prizes OF $500 in
plate or cash that have been hung up in
each class for individual competition. 1t
is possible, therefore, for one car TO win
its class prize and the Anderson trophy
and also TO be a member of the team
that wins the Glidden trophy. 4
The contest board also officially an
nounces the appointment of P. ]. Walk
er. of San Francisco, as referee of the
tour Mr.. Walker is president of the
California State Automobile association,
and is a good roads and motoring en-
thusiast of the first rank, lie will be
accompanied on the Ghdden tour by Mrs.
Walker.
The New York newspapers are giving
big publicity to the tour. The New York
Times of Sunday says: with more than
three-score entries received, the 1911 Gid
den tour will be the most successful ever
conducted, in its far-reaching benefits to
the cause of good roads. The greatest
enthusiasm ever shown in an automobile
touring contest is being shown in this
years classic run"
Says the New York Herald of Sun
day:
1.-THE Glidden tour of 1911 will not be
wholly an automobile affair. To a great
extent it will be a good roads caravan
that will pull out Of New York two
weeks hence The nomination of cars by
men who will desert huge business in
terests for two weeks in order to travel
with the tour Is tribute to the cam
paign for highway improvement that had
it's inception in the national highway
movement instituted by the, Herald and
The Atlanta Journal"
In an Official statement given out for
publication, the contest board Of the