Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-18
AUTO RACERS
IN RICH MEET
Cups and Money Awards for
Four Big Milwaukee
Contests Brings
Competition
PRIZES TOTAL $5O.oOO.OO

A kings ransom Is represented in
the trophies and cash prizes hung up
by the Automobile Club Of America,
the Americas Automobile association,
the Milwaukee Automobile Dealers
association and Col Gusrave Pabst.
Milwaukee, for the four International
road racing classics TO be run on the
Wauwatosa course this week. The
Milwaukee speed carnival will De
known the world over as the most
richly pursed automobile contest that
has ever been held, for the sum OF
$4,000 barely covers the mere intrin-
sic value OF the solid gold and silver
cups and the money purses. The near
est approach to the Vanderbilt cup
races at Milwaukee, in point OF value
OF the prizes. was the last interna-
tional sweepstake race on the Indian
apoiis speedway on Memorial day.
but the total given to drivers then was
only $4,000. one-half of the amount
which will be contested for in Mil
waukee.
Cannot Compute Value
No one has ever undertaken to fig
ure out the actual value OF such Ia
nous trophies as the Automobile Club
of Americas Grand Prix, William X
Vanderbilt, .Ir.'s Vanderbilt cup, the
new Pabst Blue Ribbon trophy of Col
Pabst of Milwaukee or the Wisconsin
Challenge cup of the Wisconsin Mo-
tor Manufacturing company. II is
not tie actual money value of the
precious metals in these cups which
is bringing the worlds greatest rae
ing drivers TO Milwaukee, but the i'm
measurable honor and glory associat-
ed with the winning OF any OF the
four principal trophies.
The honor of winning the Wander
bilt cup and the American Grand Prix
as well, has for years been the great
est glory any car or driver could
achieve. Beginning with the Milwau-
kee races, another trophy of equal i'm.
port and value, intrinsically as well as
otherwise, viii enter the motoring hail
Of fame. 1t is the Pabst Blue Ribbon
trophy. decided by Col. Gustave Pabst
for annual competition and carrying
with II emoluments which give il a
rank as high as that attained by the
Vanderbilt cup. Col. Pabst is probab-
ly as well known throughout the world
as William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., and his
trophy is as richly endowed as the cup
which the New Yorw millionaire hung
up eight years ago for the first long
road race on American soil. and which
has been contested for annually ever
since
Expect Finish by $3.50
The richness nf tho
and the great field of world-renowned
cars and drivers which it has attract.
ed, will make Friday, September 20,
as important a racing day as Tuesday
and Saturday, the days of the Grand
Prix and the Vanderbilt cup races.
Practically every driver who will COM
pete in the first and last days events
will be seen in the Pabst cup race on
Friday, including the famous French
team Of Puegeot cars, driven by
Georg Boillot, winner OF the Grand
Prix de la France on June rs and 20
OF this year, and his three teammates.
A few OF the great drivers will neces-
sarily be obliged TO stay out of the
Pabst race, for Col. Pabst's deed of
gift makes il a race for cars of the
class driven by majority of the PEG
pie on the American continent, and
excludes the high-powered cars OF
mammoth piston displacement How.
ever, large number of star pilots are
provided with two different kinds Of
racing cars, one excessively powered
and the other medium powered, SO
that they will be eligible for any race
with one of them.
The first annual competition for the
Pabst trophy will, like the Vanderbilt
cup, be run on the native heath" u
the donor of the trophy The first
Vanderbilt cup race was run on Lone
Island roads. the summer home o.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr. Thus it is
that the Pabst cup viii be contested
for initially at the home of Col. Pabst