Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-20
MANY ASPIRANTS
ASF|RST DRIVER

] The annual almanacs and annual
reviews of various papers, in naming
the champions of the year in differ
ent lines of sport, seem to disagree
as to the automobile champion of the
year, milford, Grant and Bruce
! Brown being variously given the
championship. This is due to the
fact that the big road and track
events of the year have been held
under such widely varying conditions
For instance, the grand prize race at
Savannah had no car restrictions be-
yond the requirement that the car
must have q reverse gear and be pro-
PEELED by a gasoline motor The race
! at Paramount Park was run under
/ the same conditions, but cars were di-
! vided into five classes. The Wander
! bilt race was free-for-all, but lin
| tied to cars under 600 in. piston dis
placement. The two races at Santa
Monica We're divided into one for
strictly stock chassis cars and race
for cars of any size or horsepower, as
in the grand prize at Savannah The
! Elgin race was limited to cars of
GOO in. piston displacement but con
| formed strictly to stock car rules. The
national stock chassis road champion
| ship title was officially awarded to
/, the winner of this race, and it was
the only event which, strictly speak
ing, carried with it championship
| honors.
The Vanderbilt race, through it's
past history and Importance, has been
looked upon as one of the greatest
! yaces Of the year, but close followers
of the sport know that its importance
as championship event has declin-
ed.
Every road race of the year except
the two at Santa Monica provided
different winner, so that aside from
the official championship accorded to
the winner of the Elgin race, it is i'm
possible to say which event really
conferred any degree of championship
honors.
In any line of sport, it must be CON
coded, however, that no champion
can become such without defeating a
recognized champion. Ralph milford,
the winner of the Elgin National
Stock Chassis Road Championship,
can with greater consistency lay
claim to championship honors than
any other driver. If Grant, through
his winning in the Alec, can claim
the championship, milford can claim
defeated Grant twice during the sea-
son; once in the Elgin race and once
in the Grand Prize at Savannah. |
Bruce-Brown, who has been given the |
championship through his single win
in the Grand Prize race at Savannah, |
was defeated by milford in the Van |
derbilt race, and Tetzlaff the Lozier |
pilot in California, won two races in /
one day, each in better time than |
Bruce-Browns time at Savannah; the |
free-for-all event being run under ex-
actly the same conditions as those of |
the Grand Prize at Savannah. Zengle |
is the only driver of the year whom
milford has not defeated, and Zengle !
only ran one race-the Paramount |
Park-defeating milford by less than
six seconds. Furthermore, Zengle |
was running in class above that of |
the Lozier; in reality milford not
competing in the class in which
Zengle had entered
milford with the Lozier bases his
claim to the 1910 championship
through the fact that he has defeated
a majority of times every driver in
the country against whom he has
raced in more than one race and, fur
thermore, he claims the championship
through the fact that he is the only
driver who competed in the Elgin,
Paramount and Savannah
races-every big eastern road race
and finished in every one either as
winner or among the first five con-
.estants.