The Washington times., 1911-09-02
AUTOMOBILE RACES
/. FILL WEEKS CARD !
WITH RECORD TESTS
Fourteen Track Meets and
Other Reliability Runs
Scheduled.
By HARRY WARD.

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Next week will be one of the most I'M
portant of the year in several particu-
lars as applied to the automobile in
dustry.
In a sporting way there will be four
teen track race meets, two road races,
two hill climbs, and two reliability con-
tests, which is certainly the high-water
mark Of the year as far as contest
work Is concerned. The track races will
be held In many parts Of the country,
and most of them will take place La
Dor Day.
The reliab ility run Of the Automobile
Club of Buffalo, September to ., will
be one Of the most important OF the
year, with a strict technical examina-
ton Of the cars before and after the
nnish Of the run. Inc other reliability
contest, that OF the Wolverine AuIomo-
bile Club OF Detroit Wednesday, mas a
large entry INST, and Will BRING out
many or the 1917 InoQels IN compeuuon-
lie hill cnmos will take place SaLuI-
Gay and Will be staged at Port Jener-
sun, L. l., and Augusta, Ne.
The most important track races OF
the week Will be at Brighton Beacn
Monday, when Bob Burman, Billy
knlpper, and other stars Will De seen
in action. The Riverhead, L. l., road
race ana Ine IOdu IdSC a. OAA-
cinnati, both scheduled Tor next Satur-
day, will bring out some OF the best
known drivers in the country.
In addition TO the big sporung events
of the week, number or Leading gov
erning bodies of the automobile indus
try will hold conferences.
The Manufacturers Contest Associa-
ton will meet 10 act upon the suSsSs-
tons and Recommendations MADE at the
recent Detroit session OF the rules COM
mtttee On this meeting depends the
future of automobile contests. II Is
quite apparent there Is a DIVISION OF
opinion as to number oil major ma ma
tiers in this class The Automobile
hoard of Trade will meet TO select the
exhibitors at the New York show IN
January.
The National Association of Automo,
bile Manufacturers Is scheduled 10 noio
several meetings during the week u
order to take in some new memp
and thrash out some automobile show
All in all, the coming week will be
one of the most momentous in the au-
tomobile calendar.
Among those who recently have been
II anted licenses to operate automobiles
in the Distric tot Columbia by the Au-
tomobile Board are Lieut.. Com. D. E.
Theleon. U. s. A; L. NJ. Oyerstreet,
Navy Department; Maj. L. NJ. Koehler,
Maj. c. e. Hearn, Maj. L. A. Legarde,
Charles B. Hanford. Capt. H. A. White.
s. Kann, Sons & Co., Cotter T Bride,
DIR. J. 8. Arnold, and W. B. Moses &
Sons.
Joseph NJ. Stoddard, Of the Cook & stod-
dard Company. Is the proud possessor
of a "good-luck medal" a sterling
silver talisman that is all the rage in
Paris; i vas presented esSa1 to him by
the Washington Railway and Electric
Company, who has Just returned from a
trip to Europe. The good luck medals
are fastened to the dashes of automo-
biles, and are supposed to bring good
fortune to those who possess them.
Mr. Stoddard has attached the medal to
his Cadillac car and expects to be i'm
mune from all the troubles that beset
motorists.
The Wilson Company has secured tenn
porary quarters at the Carpenter gar
age, Seventeenth and U streets, pending
the selection of a new salesroom In the
downtown section; The Wilson Com
pany will handle the Cole and Krit ma
chimes for the 1912 season The 1917
Cole has made its appearance in Wash
ington, Mr.. Wilson having brought one
of the model ID" cars over the road
from New York. THE recent rains
have made the roads extremely heavy"
said Mr.. Wilson, but the Cole had no
trouble blowing through the mud be-
tween Wilmington and Washington"
The United Motor Washington Com
pany reports the sale of Maxwell cars
| to DR.. ]. r. Wellington, DR.. Sterling
| Ruffin, DR.. W. Earl Clark, DR.. Albert
Ridgely, and Mrs. A. B. Castle.
I'M. Stoddard, of the Cook & Stoddard'
| Company, left yesterday for his summer
| home at West Springfield, N. H., where
| he will spend the next two weeks
The contest board of the American
Automobile Association has selected an
EMF go touring car to lay out the
path Of the Glfdden tour from New
York to Jacksonville. The car will be
in charge of A. L. Westgard, Of the
three AS touring information board,
and 1t is expected the pathfinding party
will leave New York early next week.
The EMF car has done notable work
In the past in mapping long automobile
routes 1t was selected to blaze the
route of the Munsey historic tour last
year and was also the official pilot car
of the tour. The 1909 Glidden route
was also blazed with this make Of
car. The Studebaker Corporation, max
ers Of the EMF, has entered three
cars in the tour.
Arthur Stanley ZeI, president of the
Zell Motor Car Company, will leave
| Monday for Cleveland and Detroit,
where he will visit the factories repre-
scented by his company. While in De-
troit, he will endeavor to secure a
larger allotment Of Chalmers cars.