New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-05
AUTO NEWS Of THE DAY
Paramount Race May Be Called
OF Unless Wagner Starts.
SPEED TRAP AT SCARSDALE
Charles Y. Knight, Inventor of
Inner Sleeve Engine, Sails
for Home.

There is some possibility OF calling OF
the Paramount Park automobile race. in
Philadelphia on Saturday. The managers
want to have a man start the race who is
a local favorite and who has had a fair
amount OF experience in handling big fields.
The drivers themselves want the starting
TO be in the hands Of Fred Wagner. who is
considered tine best man for such work IN
tho country. lie has had experience in road
and track work for years. and has started
and handled most OF the big races all over
the country Yesterday afternoon, after the
Quaker city Motor club, holders of the
American Automobile Association sanction
for the race. had shown no sign OF sub
shutting Wagner for the man named. Sam
uel Butler chairman Of the contest board
OF the American Automobile Association,
sent a letter to the Quaker City Motor
club. He told them that unless Wagner
was named as starter the sanction would
be Withdrawn.
Up 10 a late hour last evening nothing
had been heard from Philadelphia on the
question. Wagner is the official American
Automobile Association starter, and tho
drivers have asked for his services, wishing
to be safe and to insure the safety of the
spectators so far as possible.
The Automobile club OF America has
issued the following bulletin:
"On entering Scarsdale from New York
speed trap is located on the New York
Post Road. about five hundred feet after
passing the public school on the left and
the GarWin estate on the right. At this
point there is "a clump of trees on the cor
ner which the officers use as a hiding place.
The trap starts from this place, and ex-
tends about two thousand feet north along
the trolley line over good macadamized
road which has recently been oiled
Charles Y. Knight. inventor Of the silent
Knight internal combustion engine, sailed
on the Mauritania yesterday for his coun-
try house in Coventry, England.
Mr.. Knight arrived i'm New York on Tues
day after a hurried trip of ten days TO the
Middle West. and spent Monday in consul
tation with the engineers OF the Columbia,
stearns and standardization cars. whose
motors are built under the Knight license
the only American cars operating under the
patents.
Although my visit was brief took occa-
sion 20 visit the plants of our American
Licensees" said Mr. Knight last evening,
and am really delighted with their meth
DDS of shop practice. The extraordinary
number OF orders for Knight equipped mo-
tors is quite a tribute 10 it's efficiency Under
the contract with our European licensees we
can issue only ten licenses i'm the United
states. We have already granted four-the
Atlas works of indianapolis, having re-
Gently been licensed to build our motors
but as We have had dozens of applicants
for he six other licenses, we are going a
bit slow before granting them
During the last week Mr.. Knight deliv-
cred an address on his motor before the
Society of Automobile Engineers at the Au-
tomobile Club of America, he gave a
lecture before the Society of Engineers Of
Western Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh. ad-
dressed the employees OF the Stearns fac
tory IN Cleveland, and lectured before the
members of the automobile club Of his
home clty-Indanapolis. Mr. knight will
return TO the United States early next
spring.
Because so few favorable responses have
been received TO his invitation to attend