New-York tribune., 1911-03-21
AUTO NEWS Of THE DAY.
Tetz!aff Makes Several New
American Speedway Records.
CUBANS DEMANDING AUTOS
Louis Disbrow Goes TO jackson.
vile with New Car to. Try
1t Out on Beach.

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Teddy TetzlaT's remarkable performan.. !.
in creating now American automob,,.
speedway records for all distances from
twenty-five 10 one hundred miles at ,hs
Los Angeles motordrome on Sunday wa,
topic OF much comment among auto.
mobile enthusiasts YESTERDAY
Tetzlan drove Lozier and was pushed
al the way by Ralph dc Palma IN Fla,
Tho performance is the more remarkabl.
because Tetzlaff was hardly heard 0, b..
fore last Thanksgiving Day. when he won
the Santa Monica road race, creating new
American read records for average mileag.
an hour -H
on Sunday he turned the ono hundred
miles In / hour II minutes % n seconds.
tho best previous mark being made by
Harroun. driving a Marmon on the same
track on April Il. 1910 Harroun's mark
was hour l6 minutes 2ie0 seconds
Tho Los Angeles track Is built of boards
stoeply banked and resembles an immense
saucer. Some of tho new marks are as
follows:
twenty-five miles. "a minutes 22N sec.
onds, nfty miles. 3s minutes 35 81 seconds;
seyenty-hve miles 81 minutes 1850 seconds
Tho hundred mile record Tor the
Brooklands track I'm England. which IS a
twonile circuit with cement surface il
hour minutes = % seconds. This means
an average Of 897 miles an hour. Tetzlafr
drove at the rate Of more than eighty
miles an hour.
Tetzlaff will probably follow the track
circuit arranged for this summer and will
surely he seen in all the big road races
Louis Dsbrow. who ia entered n drive q
Pope Hartford car in the Florida beach
races the latter part of this month. sailed
Saturday on the steamship Comanche 50
that ne can tune up his new machine on
! the beach before tho races are held on
tho Long Island motor parkway few
| DAYS before his departure for the South
Dishrow drove the car at a rate OF ninety
miles an hour. He believes he can better
that mark on the smooth. water washed
course IN fact. he predicts a speed Of on.
hundred miles an hour.
Accompanying the racing pilot wer. n.
Emil Holt. president and 3. &. Fincks,
treasurer, Of the Pope Hartford Automobile
Company. and Heinie. DisbroNs nechani.
clan.
Edward T., Desyernine. general manager
of ono Of the largest automobile importing
firms in Cuba. sailed for Havana on Sat
uiday. after completing plans with the
export division Of the United States Motor
Company for an aggressive campaign. Mr..
Desyernine said that the automobile busl-
ness I'm cuba at present is insignificant
compared 70 its possible ultimate volume
-.
neers has taught Cubans the value Of auto
mobiles for utility purposes.
In cuba there. are only two classes ~
people" said Mr.. Desvernne the wealthy
man and the man who hasn't cent. We
have no middle class. and for this reason
the demand seems 10 favor the larger and
more powerful cars for pleasure purposes,
although the people are beginning 10 see
how they can save money by using smaller.
economical cars. either partly or entirely
for business purposes"
Mr.. Desvernine says that good roads are
practically unknown and until the Cubans
recognize what an important bearing they
have on economic transportation the auto
mobile business will be- retarded; however,
he feels that there IS enough American
progro ssiveness in Cuban communities 10
set the ball rolling.
Motor trucks are Just beginning 70 ind
favor i'm Havana also.
"As to the new American Automobile
Association contest rules. | am thoroughly
in favor Of them and so IS every other
manufacturer Gho is in the racing game
for the real good Of the automble industry
and for the education Of the public" says
George NJ Dickson, of the National Motor
Vehicle Company. which has entered sew
eral National "i0's" in the Florida beach
races At jacksonville and in the big fve-
hundred-mie contest on the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
Under the new rules there will he closer
mechanical inspection by paid technical
committee Of experts. In the past the pess
possible supervision could not be nad'
owing 10 the fact that the technical COM
mittee gave its services gratis and nat
urally could not be expected 10 devote sS
much time 20 its work as II viii under V'e
new ARRANGEMENT on a salary basis MUG"
closer inspection will result in the eiml.o
nation of contestants who are ln'llhso "
eyade the rules and VIII saiesudid .,T .ng
public, who are not familiar with tne III.
details of what constitutes stilcty SUI"
car ,,.,,,s p,
.'One of the most important additions -
the rules is the one which conpels easn
maker to carry in his advertising u" .."e
registration number Of the model WIZ"
which he wins races. ...,o,
The Ame, lean Automobile ASSoclau.S
contest board assigns registration nuIhD"j
to each stock model \ certain series !"
numbers cover stock cars of 1919 dnoln.s
series those of 1870 and still another setMH
OF numbers will cover stock ears ol
Under this Arrangement me pupnc rlcs On
know whether the car winning a rae %
the track is a model OF the current 20. 81 -
or an obsolete model when the mahu.aah, b..
urer has discontinued building, possluS$
because n was not properly coNstt -
for general service In tie past uncs, IN
old rules a manufacturer couid IdCes
obsolete stock model and by the "Vlu"ss
of his advertising create the lmpresSSloan Sas,s
the minds Of the public that that opsooSs
model which won was the same l, r.rs
which he was delivering TO his cuS'V'He''
during the current year