The Washington herald., 1912-08-18

| The close follower OF motor racing fs
already thinking Of the feast that awaits
him when the motor racing season OF
| 1872 reaches its grand climax in the lat
ter half of September and early October.
On September II. 20. and y will be held
in Milwaukee a series OF races. compris-
ing the greatest road contests in Ameri-
ca The meet opens on September II
with the race for the Automobile Club
of Americas grand prize gold cup. No
] restrictions govern entries to the grand
prize; IT is a free for ALL nonstock event,
covering fifty laps Of the S.725-mile
Greenfield course, making 436-2S miles in
all.
| On September 20 will be held the light
carsevents. The race for the Pabst Blue
Ribbon trophy will be class division
g c, nonstock contest for cars of from
231 to 800 cubic inches piston displace-
ment The little cars will negotiate
twenty-five circuits Of the track, total
distance Of 2lS.125 miles. The cash prizes
will go to the first four men. in the fol-
lowing amounts: $1,000 $500 $50. and SIS.
The other light car event. the race for
the Wisconsin Motor Challenge trophy.
will also be run on September 20. II Will
be the class c division . c, nonstock
cars, having a piston displacement Of be-
4
circuits of the track. a distance Of I7I5
miles. will be the course for this event.
The cash prizes in the Wisconsin trophy
race will be similar to those offered in
the Pabst trophy contest On September
q will come the piece de resistance of
the meet-the eighth running of the his
toric Vanderbilt cup race. No motor
racing event In America can compare
with the Vanderbilt In popular interest
l ha ic n ha O1n 4 of pclr
event, open to class C cars of not more
than 600 cubic inches piston displacement
nor less than 3o1 cubic inches displace-
ment The cars will cover the circuit
thirty-four times. making a total distance
| of 1855 miles. Present intentions place
the amount of prize money for the Van
derbilt at $500 to the winner. s2.0oo to
the second man. $1,000 to the third driver
| to finish, and 500 to the fourth.
Scarcely will the excitement attendant
on the Milwaukee races have had a
chance to die down when motordom will
be again aroused by the start OF the
Glidden tour. Details are lacking in sew
eral instances for The Herald to men
tion more regarding the Glidden. The
date has been definitely set to start Oc-
tober Z. The route has not vet been en-
tirely mapped out OF course, Detroit
has obtained the honor OF sending the
they will first proceed TO indianapolis.
Beyond that point there is some doubt.
which will only be cleared up when the
| ofhcial pathfinder goes over the route.
The first city south of Indianapolis that
has definitely been decided upon as
stopping place is Memphis. From Mem
phis the tourists will go to Jackson,
| Miss, and then on to the terminus at
New Orleans by way OF Baton Rouge
A Ind NH f- H.
arrangements plan the necessary details,
that portion of Dfxieland comprised in
the Mississippi Valley is preparing to
welcome the tourists with true Southern
hospitality.
Motorists of every kind and sort are
interested in anything pertaining to
roads. Hence II is of more than usual
moment that the Knox Automobile Com
pany has just put out a new type Of
motor wagon equipped with an oil spray-
ing device, which is said to give better
results than anything before invented.
The truck is equipped with a LOO gallon
tank of oil and has a powerful cir
culating pump driven directly from the
transmission shaft, forcing the oil un-
der pressure through a series of smaJ,
nozzles SO arranged as to secure a very
uniform distribution. The driver can
regulate the pump and the nozzles with
out leaving his seat.
In these days when the conauerine
potor car does everything except re-
produce its species, it scarcely sur
prises us to find a motor truck in its
own person performing all the duties
that used to fall to the lot Of the pole
planters" of the telegraph companies
The international Motor Company has
just put out very ingenious post hole
digger and derrick. The superstructure
is reared on a Mack three-ton chassis.
The method of operation of this unusual
machine is simple, not to say dignified.
and 1t is effective to the verge Of the
marvellous. The truck is backed I'D TO
the curb or wherever the pole is de-
sired to be located In less than ten
minutes. with its disc-shaped drill. IL
digs hole seven feet deep, and then,
by means Of its specially devised der
rick, 1t picks the pole up from the
ground and drops the butt into the hole.
The motor Of the truck is. of course,
utilized for the carrying out of all these
operations. The labor-saving possibili-
ties Of this motor machine may be
eatnered from the-fact that it takes two