Arizona republican., 1912-06-09
COl. PABST OFFERS
 NEW RACE TROPHY
Blue Ribbon Prize to Be Given to Winner in Event for Me
 dium Cars.
PLANS TRANSFER OF CUP.
Motor Cups Holding Company to De eide Jurisdiction Where the Val
 table Award Shall Rest.

Col Gustav Pabst, president of the Pabst Brewing company, on Saturday offered the Milwaukee Automobile Dealers association d trophy to be raced for in connection with the Wander
 bit cup and Grand Prix races in Sep
 tcmber. August A Jones, chairman of
 the Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prix
 race committee christened the offer
 The Pa5st Blue Ribbon Trophy" It
 will be contested for annually.
 Col I'abst offers the Blue Ribbon trophy for the medium car event of the September race meet. to be run on the same day as the Vanderbilt cup i race. It is to be contested for by non
 stock cars in the piston displacement | division just below the freefO all and 1 the winner each year will be given replica Of the trophy by the donor. 1 It has not been decided whether the
 Blue Ribbon trophy shall be for Ameri- | can built cars or be thrown open to the manufacturers of the world. This i'm | portant feature of Col Pabsts offer is
 left to Bart J. Puddle, manager of the
 clll'lti J4tt V uP 'NAiNl AeAlAN4 A-N 'A~ ~' and Chairman August A. Jones of the race committee.
 Prepare Race Conditions.
 The Blue Ribbon trophy will be turned over to the Motor Cups Holding company of which W. K. Vanderbilt Jr.. is president, ad the deed and con ditions ander which the Blue Ribbon
 trophy will be contested for will be | drawn up shortly and the decision made as to whose jurisdiction the cup | shall rest in Should it be a national affair. t will be controlled by the | American Automobile assioiation, but if the trophy is thrown open to inter
 national drivers, the Automobile Club
 of America will control.
 It is possible the completion of the
 transfer of the trophy from Col Pabst
 to the Motor Cups Holding company
 will be made at Indianapolis on Deco ration day during the 500-mile sweep stakes races on the speedway, when the executive heads of the American Auto mobile association and the Automobile Club of America, as well as the chair Z man of the contests boards of OOtf s organizations will be in conference. It is expected the announcement o the additional value that the Blue Rib ] bon trophy vii have for the driver winning the trophy will bring out ( ! larger list of entries than any race ha' eyer had in the United States not eVel s 1 excepting the Vanderbilt cup. Accord s ing to the present arrangements, tn 3 Blue Ribbon trophy will be one | S which the manufacturers and the driv q CTS will both participate in the glor , of winning as well as the emolumen 4 that goes with the victory.
 May Enter Claim.
 s IL is expected that Milwaukee WI a nut in a claim for the sanction to com s duct the Blue Ribbon trophy for a s least two and possibly three years. an ss an effort is now being made to hay a the deed carry this privilege with it. E The best known designers of trophle a and 4ilvarsmiths in the United State % have been commissioned by Col. Pabs a to present designs and the winner @ the commission to produce the Blu ss Ribbon trophy will carry with 1t a 8 award of not less than $2,500, maA g ing costlier and more important trC 1 phy to the racing world than ar