The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26

The Chalmers Motor company, through
 Hugh Chalmbers has announced it's in-
 tention of offering more prizes to ball
 players of the two major leagues and 1t
 will be interesting to see what attitude
 the National commission will assume to-
 ward the offer. Of course, as the conl-
 pany proposes to offer them this season
 the commission will have no power to
 prevent the Chalmers people from offer
 ing the prizes and awarding them as
 the result of the competition would have
 nothing to do with the official records
 of the leagues. "a.
 Last year the Chalmers people of
 fered an automobile of the most approved
 type to the player having the highest
 batting average in either league. The
 competition between Harry Lajoie and
 Ty Cobb was so fierce that all sorts of
 a scandal was raised. Scorers were &C.,
 cused of fayoring Lajoie. and Cobb and one team was accused of permitting La-
 j0ie of making seven hftspin one game,
 which almost gave him the prize. At the
 end of the season the National commis-
 sion announced that there would be no
 more prizes offered and as a result Ban Johnson announces that he will keep the identity of the official scorer secret this
 year.
 |. The conditions of the Chalmers offer this year is two automobiles will be awarded the player doing the most to help his club and the matter would
 be decided by committee of sporting writers. The fielding or pitching rec ords of the players would be eliminated and the all-round utility of the player considered.
 The offer stands for five years and
 will be open to all players of both leagues. exclusive of mana gers, both playing and bench.
 The past week and this week are
 marked by numbers of automobile sh ows all over the United States. There is goodly calendar of shows and from all reports all of them have been suc- cessful.
 Yesterday marked the, closing of the following automobile exhibits: Annual
 show in the Central Armory, Cleve- land. Ohio: automobile show under the auspices of the Minneapolis, Minn., Au- tomobile Show association; automobile show of the Brooklyn association; sec ond annual show of the Binghamton, N. r., Automobile club annual show in Newark. N J.. under the auspices of the New Jersey Automobile EXhibi- tion association. and numerous others. The coming week will offer shows at the following places: New Orleans, Toronto, Kansas City. Sioux City, Ia., auto show week" in Indianapolis, Ind, Boston and San Francisco.
 UNUSUAL ITEMS. J. A. D. McCurdy. the aviator, is having considerable trouble on account | of an oversight which he or his man agers made when he left Key West for his flight to Tampa. McCurdy neg Iected to get clearance papers for his
 machine and officials refused to allow 1t to enter the port of New York. The custom authorities claim that it would be necessary for Congress to pass a special bill to allow the machine to legally remain in. the United States. Q tempora! 0 Mores The first recorded newspaper use of the word Chauffeur" in the United States occurred in 1902 when Recorder Golf of New York city decided that the city magistrate did not have the power to fine automobilists and chauf-
 feurs exceeding the speed limit
 In order to stop aviators from trying for altitude the legislature of Mis- souris sisscontemplating adopted law ptohibitfng aeroplane operators from going higher than 1000 feet. Wonder how they will keep them from do- ing it?
 According to newspaper reports from
 Franklin county, Kentucky, man has been indicted for maintaining public nuisance because he purchased motor
 
 not take kindly to the idea and an in- dictment followed. THE WEEKLY OFFERING. 'rFhe automobile is a tire]ess thing Said Mary, the small and the cute. ..Oh, mo- there's tire on every wheel"-
 That's all, we murdered the brute. v Motor Era. MA. Hawkins, commercial manager of the Ford Motor company of Detroit. was | in the city during the week on business. I MT. Hawkins was accompanied by his
 wife, and John Kelsey of the Kelsey wheel company They left Thursday afternoon for New Orleans to attend the speed carnival and Mardi Gras festivities. hi discussing the conditions prevailing in the. automobile world MT. Hawkins
 said: .i:0The coming season. which will |. open up shortly, is going to be wonder ful one for the high-grade, low-priced Icars, People are just beginning to learn that they can get much more for tneir money by buying~a well built, 1ow-priced car than by Investing in car which costs tllousands of dolfars to buy and more to maintain l:.'The Ford company intends to manu- fracture 10000 such cars during the com 1 ing year which will be 10000 more than were made last year. At the present time kthe Ford factory Is turning out 175 cars a day and expects to be fully able to
 handle all orders