New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-28
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Fastest Drivers Begin Four.Dav
Assault on the Mile Mark.
AFTER 0LDFIELD'S RECORD
New Yorker Finds the Road,
in Algiers Ideal for -
Touring.

The assault against the existing su,e.
mobile record for one mile will begin "a,
day on the beach at Jacksonville lila.
The four-dsy meet was scheduled 70 s..
gin Yesterday. but tho beach vas in bad
condition owing 10 2 northeast wind which
covered the hard packed strand with .sna
rolled up from the bottom Of the sea IN.
wind changed into the east YESTERDAY ana
this at Jacksonville beach always kick, 10
a surf that cleans the beach.
While the Pope-Hartford Hummer vas
being driven in practice on Sunday by
Louis Disbrow. with p. s. Finck o, IL.
Pope Hartford Automobile Company. in
tho mechanics seat. at eighty miles an
hour. the car struck a sand hole. ar.
F'inck was thrown out but not seriously
injured. The car was not damaged.
Oldhclds mark OF 27.33 seconds. mad.
over the Daytona beach on March IS Of lac.
year. still stands. and there ere those who
think it will not he lowered 1t Is simply
question Of which beach is the faster
Daytona or Jacksonville.
wild Bob Burman is looked on as the
most likely 10 lower the mark this year
Burman will drive the Bitten Benz which
Oldfed handled In his record mile last
year. f. A. Moross. promoter OF the meet,
has recently bought the car from the Old.
field combination, and it has always been
thought that Oldhed never drove that cas
10 the limit. Burman does not lack nerve.
and II the car f. capable Of doing the work
he will capture the mile mark lie also
will have the Prince Henry Benz the Van
derbilt Darracq and other cars including 4
gres, Mercedes Burman IL reported 10
have driven the Mercedes mile In :,
seconds
Lewis Strang will drive the Case cars.
Just released from their suspension. and he
IS looked on as winner in his share OF
the races.
The programme for to-day follows: --
J. Record trials from one kilomeirA 70
half mile: free for all cars; flying start.
Glass y non->tock; each car ono trial: 10
trial for cars of a speed less than seventy.
five miles an hour; trophy.
,. Fiye-mile open race; free for all cars;
non-stock Class l.; 500.
3. Twenty-mile open race. cars 90 cubic
inches or less: 200 pounds minimum
weight; non-stock Class J.; trophy
4 Ten-mile free-for-all handicap, Class D
non-stock: cars To be Handicapped in a.
cordance with their performance by the
board Of handicappers; trophy.
> One-hundred-mi race, cars no cubic
inches or less. 800 pounds minaYm
weight: non-stock Class T.. $40.
s One-hour race; cars 30l to 80 cubic
inches minimum weight 200 pounds. class
y non-stock: trophy One-hour rare: cars
23l to 90 cubic inches; minimum weight
100 POUNDS: Glass r non-stock: trophy.
One-hour race; cars Isl to go cubic inches;
minimum weight IT," pounds, Class non
stock: trophy. One-hour race; cars 10
cubic inches and under; minimum weight.
1. 100 pounds: Class f. non-s'ock: trophy.
I. Five-mile beach championship amateur
race: non-stock Class y; for REGISTERED
amateurs only; free for all cars; trophy
Dunbar Wright, OF New York Who Is
now making TOUR Of the world IN en-
Oldsmobile six-cS Under car. III recen,
letter from Algiers 10 General John [. cut
ting. OF the OlGsmobile companv writes.
Il arrived At Mustapha SUPERIOR on mo
4th. and had considerable trouble In getting
my family ashore owing 10 the high sea.
aud for d while We gave up Eope OF get
ting ashore Bur Ne were determined to
attempt il, and here We are. Ny car met
me in a light rain. ! drove 20 the hotsl.
and have since done some motoring over
country quite superb and on roads thaJ
are perfect. go
LAS yet we have been only around Al
giers in 4 radius Of two hundred miles ouI
II : wonderfully rne. and the rarlety OF
scenery, together with tho splendid roads
and sunny sky. makes II all that cou.d 0
desired. Ny car is greatly admired by az
ana I think il is tho best thing vo' m A.
gers II goes well, and ] am having
great deal OF pleasure out Of u. Io-GaN !
had a run of some - miles over coun
Try Of mountain passes and heauttW va
levs trees in bud and the grapevine 70
ginning and in the distance the Atas
range of mountains. snow-capped
After tho closing Of the Kansas CITY
automohilc show the Warren-Detroit VOL
VERNE started or a record breaking sprint
for the Pacific Coast. The Kansas ROAD
conditions are very favorable for so earV
in the wear and surely were welcome af'''
tho DAYS OF battling over washed out roads,
through cornfields where roads were Ncoo'
cd This has been a severe test Tor war
ron construction. but so far tho wolverine
has triumphed over some most trying con-
Jitions." SAYS the driver of the test car.
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