Arizona republican., 1911-10-08

WELL-BORER
VIII Race To Arizona Fair
Al Phoenix
WILL DRIVE HIS CADILLAC
Meantime He is Carefully
Studying the Road and
Mapping it Out for the
Other Fellow - Shows
Something in Prizes.

race of 1912 from Los Angeles to the
Arizona territorial fair at Phoenix
is undoubtedly the finest road that
could have been picked out in the
United States for a test of endur-
ance and skill both in machines and
those who pilot them. Every racing
driver who has come over the road
yet has agreed To that There were
two of the best known among them
w W. Bramlette and Ralph c. Ham
lin-in Phoenix yesterday, and they
added their testimony to the pre-
yious testimony of Herrick and Tetz-
| laff to that effect But all this only
nerves the drivers up TO do and dare
| Not one of them who has come over
| it has flunked, yet Both of those
who were here yesterday declared
| that they would certainly be in the
race. The difficulties the drivers will
have to encounter but spur on the
public interest. George Purdy Bull
lard, director of the road race said
last night that he had received the
$1,000 from San Diego and $500 from
Yuma counties which they were to
ducements for the race.
Probably the most careful study of
this road that is so full of danger
and of toll, and possible brilliant
victory for some, is being made by
Bramlette. From surface indications
one might say that no one is better
fitted temperamentally, as well as by
experience, TO make it. Born and
raised in Pinal county, Arizona, by a
father who fought Apaches, made
trails, and in other ways developed the
country about Box canyon. he has
that careful steadiness which stands
one in such good stead i'm such mat
tiers in such places as that road race
will be run in. Besides that, he
banks 4 good deal on his choice of a
mechanician for the rum. w. Nell
sOn-with him here.
Mr.. Bramlette was not in the road
race last year, but he said yesterday
that he would be in il this year, with
his pet Cadillac That he intends to
leave as little of the possibilities of
victory to chance as possible, and
turn over as much of il to science
as he can, is made evident by the
fact that he and Nelson spent ten
days coming over the road between
Los Angeles and Phoenix They ex-
amined every part of ii carefully.
They ran out on every bye road that
had any relation to it until they got
a good knowledge of the whole system
of roads that may be said to con-
stitute the racing road. They even
was no road whenever they thought
il advisable in order to get a better
idea of the real road. They put in
about thirty miles in this way alone,
Mr.. Bramlette said yesterday. Withal,
they mapped the road as they went
along, and they are going to map il
better as they go back; and then,
rather unusual thing in a race. they
are going to give a copy of the map
To every other car driver who wants
one and to anyone else in the auto
mobile business
Were going to be white about
this, and see that every other driver
has all the information that we have
about the road. I expect to take
about six days to go back over the
road, and shall start today or tomor-
row. We arrived Thursday The
worst piece of road is the last rs
miles coming into Yuma from Los
Angeles. We did not have any acct
dent, though, until just as we were
coming into Phoenix, when we in
jured the radiator and l had to send
for a new one. That has kept us
here longer than / otherwise would
have stayed
Yes. this is the little Cadillac that
I have used in nearly all the races
that l have been in I shall use it
i'm the road race to Phoenix this fall.
but / expect to have a new chassis. |
The most notable thing about our
trip, 1 think" he said yesterday as he
showed the machine to friend in
the shop of the Arizona Motor Co, |
us the way the Nobby Tread Nor !
gan & Wright tires stood the trip. |
We went fully thirty miles out over |
the desert where there was no road, |
and yet / took one of the tires down |
TO one of the experts here, below the |
county court house, yesterday, and |
had him cut into it where there was
a little scratch, purposely to see
how well the fibre was holding to the |
gum, and he said the tire was in as
good condition as a new one; it had !
held perfectly On the outside. as
you can see, the tire shows hardly |
any wear at all, and yet it has had /
over 200 miles of the worst wear.
am more pleased at this than at al
most anything else in our trip. /
expect to take another trip over the
road before the race"
Mr.. Bramlette is the agent of the
cadillac at Downey His friends say
that he has been taking pretty nearly
all the road race prizes the past year
in California. and they expect to see
him come in in good shape in the
road race to Phoenix Among the
California prizes with which he is !