The Washington times., 1911-01-13
IMPORTANT TOPICS
UP FOR DISCUSSION
Automobile Manufacturers to
Consider Racing Circuit
At Meeting Today.
By HARRY WARD.

The sporting side of automobiling will
receive consideration today when the
Manufacturers Contest Association
holds its annual meeting in New York.
Among the topics to be discussed. all
of great interest to those interested in
automobile sports, are: The advisability
OF establishing a national racing cir
cult, plans for a paid technical commit
tee under the jurisdiction of the contest
board of the American Automobile As
soCiatiOn, and the drafting of contest
rules for commercial vehicles. This is
the third year of the Manufacturers
Contest Association, which works in con-
junction with the three AS. In that
time a great amount of good has been
accomplished in regulating contest mat
ters. getting rules satisfactory to the
makers themselves, insuring every one
square deal, and in general giving all
important events in this country the
support of the men who really make
the automobile game possible.
H
The Barnard Motor Car Company re-
ports the sale of a Stoddard- Dayton
roadster to J. L. Underwood and a
stoddard 20" roadster to DR.. W. B.
Mason.
The salesrooms of the United Motor
Washington Company, at 1928 Four
teenth street northwest, are being re-
modelled. Another story is being added
10 the building and other improvements
designed to afford more space are being
made
Bruce Emerson, OF Emerson & Orme,
is receiving the congratulations of his
friends on the advent of an addition
to his family.
Louis and Temple Abernathy, the Ok
lahoma youngsters who drove a Brush
runabOut from New York TO Oklahoma,
following their horseback trip to New
York to greet Colonel Roosevelt upon his
return from Africa received a Spon-
tancous welcome from $50 members of
the American Boy Scouts one day this
week when the dminutive motorists
started from their hotel in New York
to so TO the automobile show in Madi-
son Square Garden. Driving a Brush
car Louis Abernathy led a parade of the
young scouts down Broadway. The Abb
ernathy kids are one of the hits Of
the show. They are in attendance at
the Brush exhibit
Any idea," says Sales Manager Ben
son, of the Cadillac Mote = Car Com
pany, that the payment of 'oyalties on
account OF the Selden patent has had
any influence on the selling prices of
cars is entirely erroneous. The amount
on each car has been comparatively SO
small to be insignificant. Competi- |
ton has been keen within the ranks |
OF the licensed cars as outside. 1t is /
impossible, therefore, for the status of |
the patent to have any influence on |
prices one way or another"
Lewis r. Speare. who has just re-
tired as president of the American |
Association, is firmly of the |
opinion that future Glidden tours should |
he run through more thiCkly populated |
districts, and so arranged that there |
will be no unnecessary hardships to the
contestants. He is also of the opinion |
that it might be possible to consider |
seriously the transcontinental route for |
the year 1912, by which time It is hoped |
the New TOrk-San Francisco roads will |
have been improved to such an extent |
as to make possible the Coast-to-coast |
tour.
Hon Jared Sanders. governor Of /
Louisiana, was the guest yesterday of |
J F. Sheldon, the Rambler agent. in an |
automobile trip around Washington. |
Accompanied by several members of his |
party. Governor Sanders spent de- |
lightful hour riding through the parks !
and driveways of the city.