The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-23
REVIEWS DISAGREE
AS TO AUTO CHAMP
Milford, Grant and Bruce
Brown VariouSIy Given the
Coveted Honor.

The annual almanacs and annual re.
views Of various papers, in naming the
champions of the year in different lines
of sport. seem to disagree as to the
automobile champion of the year, Null
ford. Grant and Bruce Brown being va
riously 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 condi-
tions. For instance, the Grand Prize
race at Savannah had no car restric-
tions beyond the requirement that the
car must have reverse gear and he
propelled by gasoline motor The
race at Paramount park was run under
the same conditions, but cars were d.
vided into five classes. The Vanderbilt
race was free-for all, but limited to
cars under 60G feet piston displace-
ment. The two races Mt Santa Monica
were divided into one for strictly stock
chassis ears and race for cars of any
size or horsepower, as IN the Grand
Prize at Savannah. The Elgln race
was limited to cars of 600 feet piston
displacement, but conformed strictly to
stock car rules. The national stock
chassis road championship title was Of
ficially awarded TO the winner of this
race. and il was the only event which,
strictly speaking, carried with it cham
pionship honors.
The Vanderbilt race. through its past
history and Importance, has been looked
upon as one of the greatest road races
Of the year, but close followers of the
sport know that its importance as a
championship event has declined.
Every road race of the year except
70 Id
different winner, so that aside from the
Official championship accorded to the
winner of the Elgin race, it is impos
sible to say which event really con
ferred any degree of championship hon
ors,
In any line of sport, it must be con
ceded, however, that no champion can
become such without defeating recog-
nized champion. Ralph Mulford, the
winner of the Elgin national stock chas-
sis 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, Mulford can
claim greater honors, for the reason
that he defeated Grant twice during the
season; 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 Mulford in the Van.
dcrbilt 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 exactly
the same conditions as those Of the
Grand Prize at Savannah.
Zengle is the only driver of the year
whom Mulford has not defeated, and1
Zengle only ran one race, the Fair
mount park. defeating Mulford by less
than six seconds. Furthermore, Zengle
was running in class above that of
the Lozier; in reality Mulford was not
competing in the class in which zengle
had entered,
Mulford with the Lozier bases his
claim to the 1910 championship through
the fact that he has defeated a major
ity OF times every driver in the country
against whom he has raced in more
than one race and, Furthermore, he
claims the championship through the
fact that he is the only driver who |
competed in the Elgin, Vanderbilt, Fair |
mount and Savannah races-every big !
eastern road race--and finished in ev. |
cry one either as winner or among the |
first five contestants.