New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-14
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAN
BruCe-BroWn to Drive National
in Speedway Race.
HIS FIRST DOMESTIC CAR
Detroit Reports Indicate That
Flanders, Pelletier and Smith
Will Join Metzger Company.

David Bruce Brown has elected h d,,y.
the third National car in the nv. hundr..'
milo race on the indianapolis Motor sn..S
way on May 30. Brown came direct 10 IN.
National factory, at Indianapolis. from M.
Santa Monica road race. where. on MAY
he won third in a Benz car.
This ~ the first year In the New yo,,
amateurs five years Of race experience. ,h.,
he has driven anything but a foreign car
his other mounts having been either Ben,
or Fiat. Brown has az spectacular !,
| career as any of the pilots who risk Ga
much in speed contests for tho exhllaratIop
OF the dangerous sport.
He was born In New York In isS and m.
| first car he ever drove In a race was OWNED
| by his mother. Last year he finished third
| with n Fiat In the five hundred-mIls rae.
on the indianapolis Motor Speedway. Il he.
| ing his first race on that track.
II have watched the Nationals win race,
for years. said Brown. This year d.
cided that this five hundred-mile race viii
| be the hardest OF the season, and was
keen TO be in the fray. love TO race no,
for the prize, but for the sport. So 7
| FASTENED from the West to see the Ma.
tonal people in order TO have one Of thes,
cars under me In this long grind. cannot
say anything greater In praise Of the IA.
tional other than after driving higher
priced foreign cars for years selected
one OF these cars to carry me in the harde,,
race Of the year"
In 1911 Brown won the New Haven hll
climb with Fiat. He also won the Grand
Prize race at Savannah last year. driving
two hundred-horsepower Fiat car, his aver.
age being 7t45 miles an hour. He won the
Grand Prize at Savannah in 1910 with
Benz car.
What amounts practically TO a great
family reunion is revealed in the facts az
gathered yesterday in regard TO the merger
OF the Metzger Motor Car Company with
the interests controlled by Walter F. Elan.
ders, who. probably for business reasons
purely and solely. strenuously denies IN
toto his own part in the matter as far a.
an exact connection with the Metzger Motor
Car Company or the manufacture Of gaso.
lene driven cars on his own account may
be concerned" says The Detroit fres
Press of Saturday.
For some time there have been rumors
of the severance OF connections between
Mr.. Flanders and the Studebaker interests.
and II has been known that both Mr.. f1an.
ders and +. lie Roy Pelletier have been
anxious TO resign. but that every attemp,
has been made TO hold them under con-
tracts made some time ago. Under the
contract OF Mr.. Flanders he may not enter
into the manufacture of gasolene driven
cars actively but the men who stand as
his right hand are not thus held, and they
may form other connections which are very
significant.
While Mr.. Flanders is very emphatic n
his declarations, the facts as obtained In a
careful investigation yesterday would seem
10 indicate the truth Of the many reports
which have SO continuously connected not
only Mr.. Flanders but all of his men, with
the merger that is now apparently fact,
In fact, Il may be said TO De closed affair.
The passing of Paul Smith. director o.
sales. from the Studebaker Manufacturing
Company interests to the Metzger Motor
Car Company as vce-president and d.
rector OF sales was only the first gun. One
by one other rumors have shaped them
selves into facts during the last week. ana
the reunion OF the men who left the Ford
Manufacturing Company TO form the Evo:-
TT. Metzger, Flanders Motor Car Company
seven years ago is practically complete
combination Of unassailable facts
President Taft has consented 10 serve -
honorary president OF the American Road
Congress, which is TO he the combination
OF tho big conventions Of the American
Association for Highway improvement
American Automobile Association. the "a
tional Association of Road Material and
Machinery Manufacturers and all their
affiliated organizations. The congress Is q
be held next fall, either in September or
October. the exact time and place not yet
having been determined.
STATE LEAGUE RESULTS,
All games scheduled postponed on a.
count OF rain.