New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
MILWAUKEE RACE PLANS
GrandStand for Classic Contests
viii Be Huge Affair.
EARLY DEMAND IS HEAVY
Grand Prize To Be Curtain
Raiser, but Prize Money
Will Be Largest.

Thirty-hve thousand seats are to be placed
in the huge grandstand on the Vanderbilt
Cup and Grand Prize racecourse al Nil
waukee. This was decided By the racing
committee during the week II has also
arranged TO stake of reserved parking
spaces adjoining and in the vicinity OF the
grandstand. and thirty thousand unrc-
served parking spaces. In the stand Will
be three hundred boxes along the front
row
The sale Of tickets for boxes, granlstaud
seats and reserved parking spaces opens
tomorrow. Already more than one thou
sand requests have been made for reserved
seats and these have been flied In the order
OF their receipt. and tickets VIII be allotted
OF the -hrst-served' plan. A
number OF automobile clubs have requested
blocks Of boxes and seats for their MEM
bers, while similar requests have come
from societies and bodies having no con-
rection with the automobile sport or IN
dustry.
Although the demand for seats IS 20 te
enormous and in spite OF the probability
that the capacity OF the stand Will be taxed,
the management will not take advantage
Of the big demand by asking steep prices
The best seats will be s. and s. ~ cdch
Boxes seating six Will be so for the Grand
Prize, while FOR the two days including the
medium car, light car and Vanderbilt cup
races boxes Will be SIS.
Closely following the issuing OF blanks
for the Vanderbilt Cup race. entry blanks
for the fourth Grand Prize-otheT"be ''e
American Grand Prix-were issued during
nh of
IN addition 10 the trophy Is offered the
largest ever put UP for drivers IN single
road race.
The curtain raising event VIII De run o'
Tuesday, September Ia new depai e.
for last year at Savannah the Nahuero''.
Gun WAS run first and then the prd""
Prize. The blanks show that the inter
national race for the gold cup Is 10 po
AO-nile affair, covering forty-seFeh I'P'
over the 81 miles course
Tho international rules are simple Ihele
60 M restriction regarding the power OF
,,.o,gb, Of the car. All machines must
havo arst a reverse gear driven by the
r.,,or. second. an exhaust which Is not ol-
root.d 20 the ground; third, the oVerail
,,,,a,b NJ the car must not exceed iee' :
,,oh.s Any agent Of oxidation other thah
atmospheric air is forbidden, as Is the case
with all automobile races 2owadays' y,
~ o,dan deys some drivers used 10 attempt
=" ..' aao,,re more power by doping their
90 90 .o,ere with ether. camphor. picric acid'
etc III. ,,, among
nh ,,o ooO in gold 70 be split up aiiiohe
.,a orst five competitors 20 finish VIII De
divided. namely: TO the winner IN aauI',on on
% the Grand Prize cup, $500; the second ',
best will get $3.50; third N-"; tora,gn touitn,
t-zo and afth, 500. American and torelsh
oars are eligible to compete ana entries
,s, ba made through the recognized auto
os,,a nusr club in the country in which the car
is manufactured. - r,ado
IN this country all entries are TO be Haue
.nrou0h the Automobile club OF An'eii'a
- Erence the Automobile Club de France
Great li Britain, the Royal Automobile ',Io ,ho
- creat Britain and Ireland; italy the
.utonobile Club of Italy; Germahy' ,ne
Ll.toarI,cb Automobil Club. etc. The racing
halS'' ,na - the Automobile Club OF America
will govern.