The Washington times., 1911-09-23
ENTRIES POURING
INTO BOX FOR THE
MOTOR CAR RACES
Great Interest in Events at
Point Breeze
Today.
By HARRY WARD.

Twenty-eight entries have been drop
ped into the box for the automobile
track meet at Point Breeze, near Phila-
delphia. today.
Ten events, including a ten-mile match
race between Ralph DePaima, holder OF
all kinds of worlds records, and Louis
Disbrow, who also can lay claim to
some speed records, have been carded
by the Philadelphia Automobile Trade
Association, and rare sport g in pros
pect for the racing fans.
Fred Wagner, the veteran starter Of
the American Automobile Association,
will send the drivers away from the
post. Elaborate arrangements to safe
guard the spectators. who are expected
to throng the track, have been made
by the promoters. Aside from DePalma,
and Disbrow, other drivers of note who
will compete are Jack Tower, Morti-
mer Roberts. Joe DiNapoli, Irving Berg
doll, Frank Yeager, and Willie Haupt.
Automobile racing, like all other
branches of sport, has its Hall of Fame,
in the inches Of which are the names Of
, daredevil drivers, who have oeen fortu-
nate enough to win classics or lower
| records. Among those who are known
wherever automobiles are raced is Louis
! Disbrow. At Pablo Beach last spring,
Diebrow surprised rhe automobile world
| by anneXing record after record at dis
! tances from fifty to 800 miles, his rec
! ords being made in races in which the
cream of the auto talent Was pitted
| against him.
In the last Vanderbilt Cup race Dis
brow finished fourth. while at Brighton
Beach and New Orleans he was placed
in many races. He finished second three
times and third once in twenty-forr-
hour races at Brighton Beach. Disbrow
also Ill owe in the Grand Prize at Savan-
nah He is one of the most popular
racetrack drivers in America.
A few days ago he challenged Tom
my Sopwith, the English aviator, fer
special cross-country automobile
aeroplane race SOpwith has accepted,
! and the race will take place as one %
the features of the international avis-
ton meet at the Nassau Boulevard
field on September "a Tie distance is
to be fifty miles. and Disbrow will use
the same racer which won the national
stock chassis championship event at
Elgin last month.
Timothy D. Woodruff, formerly leu-
tenant governor, through the aviation
committee, has offered a cash prize OF
s.. coo, and W. J. FaIlon, promoter Of
! the Port Jefferson hill climbs, has put
UP 4 trophy valued at $500.
Disbrow's car is one of the fastest IN
the world, and Sopwith will use one Of
the fastest aeroplanes ever built Dis
brow certainly will have to go some.
The event will have A truly interna-
tional favor. as Sopwith is English aud
ptsbrow Is an American. Fred j. Was-
Her, official starter of the A. A. A, has
been asked to start the race.
Racing fans are anxious to see which
will show the most speed in a real
race OF fifty miles, the aerial craft with
It's birdman or the racing car with a
worlds Tecord-holding driver.
Capt. William MitSher Lewis, presi-
dent of the Mitchell-Lewis motor COM
panY, and j. w. Bates, designer of ths
Mitchell car, have Just returned from
A flying trip to Europe. A great de-
inand for Mitchell cars has sprung up
In Europe. Captain Lewis and Design
er Bates make frequent trips to Eu-
rope tor the purpose of keeping in
touch with changes and developments
in mOtcr car construction.
I'VE find 1t pays to keep track Of
what the other fellow Is doing,'" said
CAPTAIN Lewis.