New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-28
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Racing on a Track Only Eighty
five Feee in Diameter.

The season has opened at Coney Island
and first honors go 10 automobiles at the
Luna Park motordrome for a sensational
performance.
on the smallest racecoursc in the world
only So feet in diameter-two Abbott-De-
troit automobiles. driven by track drivers,
race first against each other and then in
pursuit races. on a board track sloping up
ward al an angle Of 81 degrees. Both cars
start on the small platform in the centre
Of the course and work up and around until
they are tearing along the almost perpen-
dicular track at seventy-fve miles an hour.
I'm the old bicycle days an occasional dar-
ing trick cycliSt rode around a slopins
track. but the performance is novel one
for car, and two cars. racing around the
small saucer track, make this thrilling
spectacle
In selecting cars for the races the makers
of a number Of the leading American cars
were approached TO enter their cars for
this terrific strain The Abbott Motor
Company accepted the proposition.
The Yonkers Automobile Club will have a
man stationed at the city line on South
Broadway. to-day and Memorial Day, TO
warn all automobilists entering Yonkers
that an ordinance limiting the speed Of
automobiles to fifteen miles an hour is
being rgidly enforced by the traffic squad.
The club strongly advises a strict observ-
ance Of this ordinance.
George +. Daniels. general manager OF
the Oakland Motor Car Company, Of Pom
Lii la..r so
power roadster will take part in the Gid
den tour this year and will compete for the
Ottawa and Glidden trophies. Howard \.
Bauer. who won a perfect score with an
Oakland IT, a former Glidden. will drive
again. He has been very successful in re-
liability and other runs Of this nature. hav-
ing always won a perfect score, and Is
confident that he can make a good show
ing this year.
"Headliners and special" offerings are a
part Of the campaign decided upon by G.
T. Silver manager Of the Overland Sales
Corrany. Of New York, in his energetic
policv Of disposlng of the small balance oi
his allotment Of fifteen hundred cars by the
end OF the month.
Mr. Silver holds that the buying PUBIC
may have a special fancy for certain
models of popular line, entirely overlook
ing other models that undoubtedly are JUS
as good from a mechanical standpoint.
To draw the public's attention TO lesser
known model in his long line of the year
offerings. Mr. Silver is throwing in some
ton and wind shield equipment, ana Inc
"Tbousand Dollar Beauty" ready Tor 'h'
runnin- is making a decided stir In motor
ing circles as the Silver headliner.
The Stevens Duryea company has loahe'
new six-cylinder motor 10 the Automo
bue School OF the West Side Young Men
/ christian Association. No. SS West 9di
erect The motor. which is worth N'2"'
,,,u he used for demonstration and inst'uc
/ lion purposes. and IS a valuable addltloI
90 the schools already large equipment
:, has been installed and instruction on
,,cl,ded in the shop work OF the schoo'
10 turning the engine over TO the schoo
,ha steyens-Duryea company did not sW'
/ the engine alone. but the entire po"e
/ plant.