Evening star., 1912-06-30


Vanderbilt cup and grand prize race CON-
mttee that an effort would be made to
secure Boiilot's entry In both OF the
| classics al Milwaukee In September.
At present it is pract cally certain that
the winners Of all the recent big races
will be seen in the coming classics David
Bruce Brown, twice winner of the Sayan-
nah grand prize races. who gave the for
| eigners quite a scare by winning the first
| leg OF. the French Grand Prix, stated be-
| fore leaving for Europe that he would
| surely try to secure a car for the Mill
| waukee event
| Ralph De Palma, the bear cat" OF
the last 5oo-mile race a. indianapolis will
be among those present" De Palma
! has started for visit in Switzerland.
wife's home He and Mrs. De Palma will
return TO America, and the Vanderbilt
| and grand prize probably Will be the
next competitions in which he appears
| Bruce-Brown and Spencer Wishart Will
| return from Europe in the meantime and
several of the foreign pilots may ac-
| company them.
| The Texas ranchmen's cross-state tour,
| which from it's very novelty has attract
| ed widespread attention will start from
| Dallas on Monday, July %. returning to
the starting point on SATURDAY. July =.
| The press committee has already been
| over the route to be taken. and will pilot
the contestants in the same big Kissea
| car that was used in the preliminary
| jaunt. The car came through the 1000
miles covered with an absolutely clear
| record.
| The big event is open to any farmer or
ranchman who drives his own car,
whether it be a touring car or a run
about The cars are classified according
to purchase price. and the speed to be
mainta tained is fourteen to eighteen miles
per hour. There will be penalties for
i time only.
The prizes will consist of: First, the
Holland Trophy and $500 in cash; Sec
ond, $500: third, 500.
The route is from Dallas to San An
tonic and return, each touring car to
carry rot less than four passengers, and
runabouts at least two persons.
\ pleasant feature of the trip will be
the attendance of the party at the beach
races in Galveston.
What becomes OF the aged automobile?
ing question, a well known Detroit auto
mobile authority made an investigation
among motorists. news of the results OF
which was received here today.
In determining what becomes of the old
automobiles. the authority was unable to
find any of these cars which were scrap
ped" In several instances it was dis
covered that old cars were being used for
pleasure on farms. and were also being
employed in doing some of the farm work.
Some big, beautiful cars. of years ago
were doing service as delivery wagons,
others were being used in livery service
still others were being used only occa-
sionally, while few had been stripped of
bodies and were converted into power
plants for pumping water and general
work. Very few of the aged cars of the
infant days of the automobile industry
had been lost to sight completely
|. 1t was found that with one make of
car the Hudson, none had worn out, and
motorists were successfully operating all
of them Some cars, though they had
sold and resold several times. were still
in operation. But it was found that most
of the old automobiles were still running.