The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-24
Big AUTO RACES
AT ELCIN, ILL.
Prizes Aggregating $4,000 Will
be Awarded by National e
Organization
NoTED.DRlvERs!ARE ENTERED
Ten Thousand Dollars Have Been
- Spent in improving Course ~
> Much Oil Being Used.

| Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. -icverytiing
| Is i'm readiness for the running of. the
lAmericnn Automobile Associations
lsecond annual national stock chassis
road races at Elgin. III. under the aus-
plces OF tho Chicago Motor Club. Aug.
| 25 and &c. Last year there were. 40. =
0O0 paid admissions to the event and
this year it IS expected that the at-s
tendance will reach $4,000.
With favorable weather conditions
several track records may he brol<ir
lis now considered one OF the fastest
In the world. Ten thousand dollars
have been expended In Improving the
course since the last race meet. Sevs
enty thousand gallons of oil have been
put on thel course in the past month
which has had the effect of hardening
the surface and. making h.practics MIN,
ldustless. The Elgln track is sls miles
in length. over a triangle course, and
for most of the. distance is 81 feet
wide. W4
Prizes Aggregate $4,000
Chicago and other adjacent cities have
been treated with dust proof liquid
for the benefit of the thousands who
will go to the races in automobiles
Prizes aggregating $4,000 will lie dis
tributed among the winners of the four
events.
Persons Interested in automobile rac-
ing from nearly every state in the un-
ion will attend.
The officials who viii act at the Eli
gin races this year embrace the best
known automobile racing experts in
the country. ~ ,,4ss $50 4
Thirty-fve cars piloted by some of
the best known Automobile drivers In
the world win compete IN the four
events scheduled for the two days
meet.
Famous Drivers Entered.
A few of the famous automobile dri-
vers who will compete In the principal
events are:
Harry Grant. the only driver who
ever won the Vanderbilt cup race twice
In succession. He won this race in
1909 and 1910.
Ralph De Palma, known as the speed
king of the American tracks and hold
or of a majority of race records.
John Aitken, winner of many long
distance and speedway contests.
Ralph Mulford. winner of the Elgin
National Road Race last year and the
driver VINO finished seconds behind
the winner i'm last years Vanderbilt
Cup Race.
automobile races i'm England and
France.
These drivers constitute the "Big
Five" at the meeting.
Camps have been established for
each OF the cars entered i'm the races
and Elgin and the adjoining towns are
crowded with automobile men, Driv-
ers who have inspected the course are
loud in their praise of the work done
by the officials. Driver Jenkins, an
Australian who has seen all the famous
courses i'm Europe declares that not
one of them compares with the Eigin
course.
Seventy Miles an Hour.
Ralph De Palma, the driver. expects
to see the big race won at 20 miles
an hour while the more conservative
believe the maximum speed will be 66
miles an hour.
Governor Deneen will see an auto
mobile race for the first time i'm his
life when he attends the opening day
of the Elgin meet as the guest Of hon
or. He Is particularly interested I'm
seeing the Illinois cup race run.
The hours between IL and | o'clock
have been set apart for practice each
day and the drivers already on the
ground are taking advantage Of the OPP
portunity offered to acquaint them
selves with the details of the course.
The track is crowded with racers each |
day and arrangements have been made
to have the Third Infantry regiment |
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