New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-17
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Benz Team for Grand Prize
Race Now Complete.
EDDIE HEARNE THIRD MAN
Cars Will Be Four Cylinder Type,
with One Hundred and
Twenty Horsepower. N

Savannah. Oct. is.-with nominations Of
Victor Hemery Bob Burman and EHdis
Hearne as drivers. the Official entry a,
three cars composing the Benz team In the
Grand Prize automobile race, To be run IN
Savannah on Thanksgiving Day. was mads
to Harvey Granger, president OF tho So.
vannah Automobile Club, to-day.
The selection OF Hesrne was made IN
place OF Ralph De Palma and other dr.yers
who were under consideration by the Benz
company.
Hearne is one Of the youngest drivers
who will be In the race, as he is only
twenty-five years old. He began his racine
career in 1898. when he drove a Buick car
into fourth place in the Savannah challenge
trophy race In 1909 he drove Flats IN thu
Vanderbilt and Cobe cup races, and In tina
last named he finished fourth and won tina
amateur championship cup at indianapolis
He established a record for the Algonquin
hill climb which still holds. in a Benz, in
1910 when he changed his allegiance 10 that
car In a Benz he finished fifth in tina,
years Vanderbilt. won the indianapolis
Speedway Helmet twice, and finished first
I'm the 1OO-mile free-for-all and tho 5O-mlls
Hemery has few equals as driver. Some
Of his most notable performances are the
winning OF the 1913 Vanderbilt in a Oar.
racq the Circuit des Ardennes in the same
car the same year, the st. Petersburg Mos
COW race in a Benz In 1908 and the French
Grand Prix this year. Hemery has finished
second In both Of Savannah's former Grand
Prize races, being beaten by Wagner in
Fiat by less than a minute in the 1905 race
and by his team mate. Bruce Brown, IN
Benz last year by less than two seconds,
after AS miles OF driving at a rate Of over
seventy miles an hour
Burman first gained national prominence
as driver i'm 1905, when he drove a Buick
into second place TO billiard, In a Lancia,
in the international light car race which
preceded the first Grand Prize
One of his most notable performances
was to bring In the first American car in
last years Grand Prize race. when he drove
Buick Marquette into third place. He
won several long distance races at the
Indianapolis speedway last year but the
disoualficati ton OF the car lost him the vic
tories he gained by clever driving.
The Benz entries come directly from the
manufacturing company I'm Germany the
Benz & Gle. Rheinische Automobll und Mo-
loren Fabrik Aktiengesellschsft The cars
are the regulation four-cylinder machines,
rated at 100 horsepower. with cylinder bore
Of 1a5 nm, stroke OF 200 nm. and weigh.
ing 100 kilos.
Brewster Co. are preparing Limousine
, bodies, and also some of their special COM
binatlon bodies known as the demi-hmou-
sine. for the Matheson Automobile Com
pany. as the future equipment for It's 81
lent six chassis.
Berline Lodies are also in preparation by
the Ouinby Company and town car equip
ment by the Armstrong Brothers Com
pany. besides the Matheson standard equip
ment. giving a total OF ten different types
covering practically every requirement OF
the motorist who appreciates high quality
The Matheson silent six chassis mas
demonstrated its fitness for such equip
ment. The six-cylinder motor has oeeh
brought TO so high a degree OF efficiency
that no changes are offered, the models LOT
the coming season being identical WIN
those that have attracted such favoraole
attention by their silence and their proved
ability 10 remain quiet through years OF
steady operation.