New-York tribune., 1911-04-06
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Babylon, Long Island, Wants n
Run Big Road Race.
DISBR0W LAUDS MECHANIC
Tells How Heine Ulbrecht Hall
His Head Against the Pressure
of the Wind.

! II the state authorities can see their -.
to granting the use Of the state militia a.
| the protection Of auomoble road rac,,.
courses Long Island will witness som. -
markable contests this season
In addition TO the Vanderbilt and a..
Riyerhead races. already planned, Baby,o.
! now wants 10 run big road race son.
time in the carly summer. The peops :,
Babylon are sure they can handle s,,cb !.
race better than II has ever before b.,
handled on Long Island. but they insist. a.
does the American Automobile Associat..
that the course must be protected by n.
militia.
Edward s. Alley has just been elsc,A
president Of the village. and he thinks tn,
the one thing needed TO put II on IN. man
Is TO run big road race near il this sum.
mer The local Board OF Trade will tai.
the matter up and make formal dAmans
on the contest board Of the American Au,o.
mobile Association for sanction Baby.
lon offers an eighteen-mile course tina,
runs over level and well kept macdan
roads. II crosses railroad tracks three
times. The circuit az planned Is as folloy,.
South Country Road. Babylon. Deer PARK
avenue. 10 Deer Park, Deer Park Bou,t.
ward, west to Wyandsnch. south over ,hs
Pinelawn road 20 Wildwood avenue. Linden.
hurst. and east to Babylon over the South
Country Road.
AS the Riverhead meet is planned tor ths
period about the Fourth OF July, the BABY.
lon race would have 70 be in August O,
September, possibly on Labor Day. How.
ever. the entire matter rests with the Coz.
ernor II the authorities will grant mili,A
protection the race is a possibility; other.
wise II Is impossible.
Louis Disbrow, who won the DO mile and
other races on Pablo Beach last week,
arrived in town with 3. s Finck from
Jacksonville yesterday. Disbrow says b
wants one thing straightened out
II want the public 10 know" he SAT-.
that ! didn't do half 80 much 1ard win.
ming those races. and particularly the ~.
mile race on the last day. as did Hem.
Utrecht. my mechanic. He drove with M
in the Vanderbilt and has been with me IN
all the racent races, and I want to tell yss
he is the best mechanic in the world TIA
boys can call him tho human frsnkfurta
and laugh about him all they want, but il
is a comfort in car that is going one hun.
dred miles and orer an hour. never covh
have won the 3oo-mile race If II had not
been for IIcins.
For the last two hundred miles - san.f
over behind me, his elbows proppe1 on ths
tanks. and held my head against tbs
pressure Of the wind. Tho wind was blov.
ing thirty miles an hour. and we were
going into it AT the rate Of ln8 miles an
hour on the stretches. as shown by N,
speedometer. 50 that when We had don,
about one hundred miles my neck muscle
began TO be achingiy tired. I never could
have stood Il without Heine's big hands
supporting my head, and he stuck then
till his elbow bones came through his tnr
elbows. That's the kind Of o mechan.
that wins races
The little Pope Hartford could have sons
on for another two hundred miles. but
could not You see, the coIrse fixed
at either end with barrels. and tho tun
was so sharp that We md 70 make :.
slowly so wa had 10 mako up the going
on tho straigh's. Funny thing In 'ts
ten-mie handicap the frs, day. Burnsi
decided he would start with the Darrsct
He was on scratch, and he had Literally
never driven the car before. She is fast
but he had time getting her going s.
that when ! had made the turn and uss
coming back met him. put when he sN
20 the barrel he couldn't stop the thing
couldn't make his gear levers wcsk
couldn't find his brakes and he went zippins
on up the beach for about five miles, I'LL h
ran into p sand bank.
Il thought he was going IN q Ausus'
tine He shouted when I passed him. an! Z
he was yelling, Whoa, Mary" 70 his car 5