The Washington times., 1912-05-12
RACERS TEARING UP
! SPEED RECORDS
AT INDIANAPOLIS
jIwenty-seven Drivers Get
! ting Ready for the Me-
mortal Day Classic.
BY HARRY WARD.

BY HARRY WARD.
Tuning, up practice at the Indianap-
oils motor speedway for the 50O-mile In
ternational sweepstakes race Memorial
Day indicates that Ray Harroun's rec
ord Of 4e miles an hour estab
lished last year, will go by the board
lTwenty-seven of the fastest automobiles
every produced have been entered for
the classic event and twenty-seven Of
the worlds best pilots will strive for
the $4,000 In cash prizes that have been
hung up by the speedway management.
- With Eddie Hearne at the wheel OF
q specially built Case car the freak
shaped machine has been fairly tearing
up the track In practice spins. The car
rs OF the armored type, being shaped
IKE big cigar: torpedo-like end en-
tending from the rear as an exhaust
discharge. The racer weighs $500
pounds, being one of the heaviest cars
entered FOR the long grind of five CEN
turtles. The new flier easily reached tho
eighty miles an hour mark on its first
appearance, and Hearne has more than
once reeled off laps at the rate OF
ninety miles an hour, Hearne declar-
Ing 1t was merely "jaunt over the
! Bob Burman. who has the distinction
OF having travelled a mile faster than
any human being, Is looming us as a
factor in the race. He will wear his
specially designed racing togs. and is
confident he will land the main prize II
bis car holds up. Teddy Tetzlaff. who
last Saturday in the Santa Monica race
established new worlds record of 49,
miles an hour, will pilot the same car
he used in that race and will likely rule
as favorite for the event. other noted
drivers who will face Starter Fred ].
Wagner include Ralph DePalma, Louis
ptsbrow, Ralph Mulford, Joe Horan,
/, Wilcox, Spencer Wishart, Bert Dingley,
Harry Knight, Gil Anderson, Charley
Wilcox. Charley Merz, and Farmer
BilP' Endicott.
! Il is expected more than 100000 people
! will witness the race, and many of
them will go to the Indiana capital in
their machines. 1t Is possible several
Washington motorists will make the
overland trip. ........
Among the Washington motorists who
saw the worlds automobile road race
record broken at Santa Monica, when
Teddy Tetzlaff reeled off 30l miles with
the the, fast , ,sI, average Of 7s7 miles an hour
They are attending the annual meeting
LOT the Mystic Shrine in Los Angeles.
, ]. T. Rose, Washington representa-
tive of the Wolverine Lubricants Com
pany, returned yesterday from a trip to
Norfolk, Richmond, Petersburg and
other points in Virginia. Il had a
and booked some big orders for Wolf g
Head and Packard automobile oils"
President Taft has consented to serve
as the honorary president of the Amer
combination of the big conventions of
the American Automobile Associatio
the American Association for Highway
Improvement, and the National Asso-
| ~ MafnrinI
Manufacturers. and all their affiliated
| organizations. The congress is to be
held next fall, either September or Oc-
tober, the exact time and place not yet
having been determined.
; Howard Reside, vice president of the
American Security and Trust Company,
has placed an order with the Cook &
Stoddard Company for a Cadillac tour
ing car. Joseph Letter. president of
the Washington Gas Light Company,
has ordered his second Cadillac road
ster, while other orders for Cadillac
stoddard Company include the follow
ing: Frank Walter, torpedo; Charles
Aufenthie, touring car; J. J. O'Donnell,
touring car; W; Berens. jr, touring car:
Mrs. r. A. Harlow, landaulet.
Py winning the light car class in the
Santa Monica road race, avera ging S1.S
nOuT IOI tUl miles, u Maxwell
car, entered and driven by a private
owner. has established q new worlds
light car record. and recovered the title
which the Maxwell won in Long Island
Stock Car Derby at Riverhead. n. Y,
three wears ago. Notwithstanding that
the MAXWELL Briscoc Motor Company
end other divisions of the United States
Motor Company and other divisions of
the United States Motor Company have
withdrawn from racing, the perform
ance, at santa Monica will be certified
ITO the contest board of the American
Automobile Association bv the United
states Motor Company. This does not
mean, however, that the company will
resume racing; For two or three years
the. officials have not favored speed
conrests. believing that reliability con-
tests furnish better test.
Emerson & Orme report the sale of
two 1,O00-pound Detroit electric delivery
wagons to the Washington Tobacco
Company Each will be equipped with
Edison batteries.
F. W. Powers, manager of the Wash
ington branch OF the Goodvear Tire
and Rubber Company, Is spending a few
days in Norfolk and Richmond.