The Washington times., 1911-01-28
NEW YORK REEVES
MOTOR COURSE IDEA
Racing Enthusiasts See Big
Prospect for Scheme as
in Indianapolis.
By HARRY WARD.

If plans now being considered are
finally carried out a permanent auto
mobile course will furnish sport for
New York enthusiasts.
For many months racing authorities
and manufacturers have been agitating
the proposition. ScnenIes of all sorts
have been launched but sidetracked
because the cost was too great Ex-
cuses were that real estate in the met
ropolitan district is too high and the
cost of building a big motordrome in
New York like the indianapolis brick
oval, for instance, too great. 1t ap-
pears, however, that the project is
being taken up again and pushed. A
New York man interested in the auto
mobile racing game is quoted as fol-
lows: 1T would not surprise me II
the motordrome for which New York
has been clamoring will be a reality
next summer. To my knowledge there
are two tracks planned. Moreover. the
promotions are absolutely independent
of each other. Surely something
should come out of one schen I at
least" 4
There is no question but that a we'll
planned motordrome like the Indian
apolis speedway would pay handsome
returns on the investment. Not only
would thousands of New Yorkers pat
ronize the sport on a track of this
kind, but additional thousands from
Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and
in fact the entire East would attend
If the kings of the racing game like
Harry Grant, the Vanderbilt cup win
ner: Joe Matson, Joe Horan, Bert Ding
ley. John Aitken, Ralph De Palma.
Chevrolet, and Ralph Mulford were
carded to drive.
Emile Brouard, French racing
driver, wants to inf1ict another hippo
drome on a long-suffering public by
arranging a series Of races with Jack
Johnson, the pugilist. Brouard mod
estly says that he will race any dis
tance from one mile to 500 miles, and
will wager $500 on his chance to beat
Jeffries' conqueror. II Brouard has
and If by any chance he could lure
Johnson into automobile speeding other
than 10y riding" it would be a case
Of embezzling $500. The Barney Old:
field match showed Johnson's exact
status as race driver.
r. c. Smith, president of the Over
d-Washington Motor Company, is
en- route to Chicago, where he VIII
attend the automobile show. which which
Yesterday from a trip through Vir--
ginia. where he visited a number Of
Overland subagents, and Immediately
departed for the West.
One driver in particular will lend an
unusual amount of interest to the Mardt
Gras automobile carnival in New Or
leans next month. He is Caleb Bragg,
the Cincinnati millionaire, who went IN
TO the racing game for the love of it.
For many months he was the champion
amateur driver of the country, winning
every race in which he was entered. At
last. with no other amateurs to give
him battle, Bragg was forced to be-
come a professional. He is going to
New Orleans with the expectation OF
lowering the worlds mile track record,
for which an extra prize OF $500 is Of
fered by the New Orleans Automobile
Club.
national automobile racing circuit
will be established next year. This fact
was brought out at the annual banquet
of the Quaker City Motor Club in Phila-
delphia this week, when Samuel NJ. But
Ter, chairman of the contest board of
the American Automobile Association,
announced to the hundreds of prominent
motorists present that the circuit would
be established and that the Paramount
Park road race would be included. The
Fairmount Park race" said Mr.. Butler,
islands without a parallel in the annals
of motordcn. 1t exemplified the acme
of protection to the public and to the
drivers. There will be no race in this
country in the future that does not come
nm to the high standard that has been
established by this particular event"
Manager John Thomas. of the United
Motor Washington Company, is pointing
with nriGe to the new colors exclusively
shown in 1911 Columbia cars. The latest
Is wedgewood green. which takes its
name from the well-known English
ceramics, for the beauty of which the
English potter, Wedgewood, was
knighted.
I F. sheldon, general manager Of the
Rambler Automobile Company Of Wssh-
ington. who has Just returned from New
York, announces the sale of a model
Rambler touring car to
frederick Eehrend. While in New York
Manager Sheldon arranged for large
display of Rambler cars at the national
show here next month.
The building at the northeast corner
of Fourteenth and S streets is again
occupied as an automobile salesroom.
If has been leased by the Hinds Auto
Company, agents for the Lion and
Schacht cars The new salesroom was
opened Yesterday and q number of
motorists visited the place to inspect
the Lion models A shipment Of Schacht
cars is expected next week.