The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-05-22
CHANGE OF GL|DDEN
DATE CAUSES SHIFT
IN CLUB PLANS HERE
Entertainment Program Must
Be Altered by Com
K mittee.
STARTS POSTPONED
TO JUNE TWENTY-ONE
Tourists Will Leave Capital June
Twenty-frst for Trip to
Ottawa.
BY HARRY WARD.

Changing the date of the start of
the Glidden reciprocity tour from
June 10 to June 81 in order to give
the tourists 4 Sunday layover in Bos-
ton, will make necessary a change in
the plans of the entertainment COM
nittee of the Automobile Club of
Washington 1t is expected Joseph
NJ. Stoddard, who is chairman of this
committee, will call a meeting Of his
committee some time this week to
discuss the matter. Capt Ted" John
ston will also have to make changes
in the plans he has under way to en-
tertain the Gliddenltes.
The itinerary of the tour as an
nounced by the contest board of the
American Automobile Association is
as follows: June y, Washington to
Philadelphia, 1853 miles; June %,
Philadelphia to New York. 1872 miles;
June %, New York to Springfield, 146
miles; June "a, Springfield to Wor-
cester, where the hill climb will be
held. so miles; Worcester to Boston.
ton; June rs, Boston to Springfield,
VT, 1872 miles; June 81, Springfield
to Burlington, 1876 miles; June 2S,
Burlington TO Montreal, 10 miles;
June 2S, Montreal to Ottawa, 121
miles. The total distance to be COW
cred is 1859 miles.
The hill climbing feature of the tour
promises to be interesting, particularly
as this is the first time hill climb has
ever been held in connection with an
endurance tour. Dead Horse HILL" at
Worcester, has been selected for the
climb. AS a testing ground for cars
''slope-eating" abilities, the course is
ideal 1t is one mile in length and has
a grade varying from to 10 per cent,
and slightly over that in stretches
Some idea of how fast a racing car can
surmount ii is evidenced by the record
of "a seconds made by Baldwin in
steamer. The fastest a gasolene car
has ever negotiated it is IS seconds,
Caleb Bragg having made this figure
last summer in a 90-horsepower foreign
racer OF course, the Glidden stock car
contestants carrying passengers and not
having such high-powered, specially
geared or stripped cars, will, for the
most part, require over two minutes and
a half
1t has been the object of the A. A. A
contest board to make the tour this year
of greater interest to automobile users
generally than ever before, by making
il Of more value rs an object lesson
This is to be done not by making the
contest more difficult, but by having the
rules more exacting. The performances
Of the cars will be set forth with fuller
detail because of the improved rules,
and motorists everywhere will get bet
fer line on the possibilities of touring
on schedule between the big cities OF
the East.
There will be fractional points of
penalization, particularly in the hill
climb, which will be timed with the au-
tomobile electric timing apparatus, and
II is certain that in this way winner
for each of the three trophies VIII be
evolved. These trophies, the Glidden,
the Washington, and Ottawa will go to
Individual contestants.
Mrs. Robert l. Fleming has placed an
order with Earl & Allen for a Hupp-
Yeats electric coupe. o. B. French has
also purchased one Of these new cleo
tries.