The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-18
IN DATES OF
GOPHER MOTOR
JUNKET
Tourists Will Not Visit
Grand Forks Until Mon
day, August IL.

Announcement Is made by DIR. C.
+. Dutton, president of the Mime
sofa State Automobile association,
that the annual reliability run which
this year goes to Winnipeg and back
to the Twin Cities, will be started on
August S instead of July 25 as orig
inally planned. Several things are
responsible for the postponement,
principally the question of getting
the sanction back from A. A. head
quarters in New Yrok and allowing
for the five days which according to
the rules, must elapse between the
closing of entries and the start of
the tour.
This means a change Of dates all
along h line. Thursday morning.
August 8. the of cars will
check out from the St. Paul hotel,
st. Paul. n will reach Wadena on
the evening of the eighth for over
night. August 9 will find the tour at
Thief River Falls over night and Sat-
urday, August 10, will see them in
Winnipeg where they will spend
Sunday, the eleventh of August.
Here August IL.
Monday night, August IL, will find
III HOIkS U lIle hight.
An early start will be made Tuesday
and the tour will follow the route Sc
lected by Pathfinder Prior in the
Mitchell Baby Six" going via
Crookston. Ada, Fargo. where lunch
will be had, in to Wahpeton and
Breckenridge for the night. Wednes-
day, August IA. will give the tour the
longest days run. 1884 miles. to
Annandale. where the summe hotels
on Clearwater lake will entertain the
tour for the night. A half days run
in to Minneapolis will wind up the
journey of 1905 miles.
Many communications from motor
lists throughout the state have been
received relative to the our and the
qualifications for entrants. Any mo-
torist who is affiliated with the A. A.
through membership in a local club,
can enter either as contestant or in
Class q, the non-contestant division.
The distributors of automobiles in
the Twin Cities are scurrying around
trying to get cars to enter and run
and many have already signified their
intention of making the trip. The
Marmon, the winner last year of the
Journal trophy, is entered, having
class. while the Hupmobile will also
be a contender. The Lexington, Max
we'll. Havers, Colby, Mitchell and sew
eral other we'll known lines are also
scheduled to start.
Many Private Cars.
Many private cars will also be in
line and DR.. Dutton anticipates there
will be a big entry this year as COM
pared with former years. Reports
received on the road conditions since
the trip Of the Mitchell pathfinder a
month ago are most encouraging and
this will influence many owners to
make the run.
The Daily News of Minneapolis has
offered a beautiful trophy valued at
$500 for the roadster class and this
announcement has stirred up con-
%ciderable competition among the
owners and agents of the small cars
The showing made by roadsters on
previous runs has been the occasion
of much surprise in years gone by
and the trip to Winnipeg will see A
spirited contest between the two
seaters for the honor of winning the
Daily News trophy. Several other
prizes have been put up by Mime
apolis and ST. Paul business houses.
including a fine line of motor acces-
series. There will be drivers prizes,
tokens for the most successful cars
and drivers.
Through the courtesy of the Win
nipeg Automobile club all arrange
ments will be made in advance for
the crossing of the international
boundary line so there won't be any
time lost on the rather long days
run from Thief River Falls into
W%innipee.