The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-08
5 MORE BNTRIESPOR
MILWAUKEE MEET
Trio Of Mason Cars Enter for the
Wisconsin Trophy Event Harry
Endicott Nay Head Team.

Three more entries were made thiI
week for Milwaukee's great meet. which
10 TO be staged within the next two
weeks. These are trio Of Mason carr
entered for the wisconsin Trophy event
which takes place on September 20. thret
days after the Grand Prix event Thil
is a 17f1--mile event for cars OF from
1920 cubic inches. AS yet the pilots foi
the little cars have not been picked. but
Harry Endicott may head the team
Another Mason car has been nominated
for the As-mile Pabst Trophy event. and
will strive to- capture the beautiful prize
offered by Col Gustave Pabst
Host of Crack Drivers.
list for the big car races. q whale OF
a meet is assured. Milford. Bergdoil
Hughes, wishart. Tetzlaf. and several
others are to be seen in both Vanderbilt
and Grand Prix events, while In the
International Grand Prix Bruce-Brown
and Bragg will team with Tetzlan on
the Flats and Boillot. winner Of the
French Grand Prfx, and two other for
eign pilots will have Peugeot mounts.
Whether or not Boillot will drive both
big races has not been decided. The
makers has been advised that four cars
are on their way here and should arrive
early in the week. Three OF these will
be put into competition and one will be
reserve car, to be used only in case
one Of the trio breaks down.
De Palma and "wild Bob" Burman.
Fresh from his double victory at Elgin.
the intrepid Ralph de Palma Is expected
to enter both big races with Edward
Schroeder's sensationally fast Mercedes.
Whatever events he decides to enter II
Is quite evident that he will be one of the
most closely watched drivers in the con-
test
wild Bob" Burman's manager is plan
ming to put the Speed King In the Van
derbilt and Grand Prix on fast cars from
his racing stable, and Louis Disbrow's
entry is expected shortly. 1t will be re-
called that Disbrow's was the only Amer
ican-made car to finish the last Grind
Prize race at Savannah.
Other star pilots who are tentatively
named for mounts in the races are Len
Zengle. winner of the 1910 Paramount Park
race and 1911 Elgin trophy event; Morti-
mer Roberts. Dave Lewis. Joe Koran.
Charles Merz. George Pullen. Eddie
Hearne, Joe Matson. and Johnny Jenkins.
Ample Protection for Pntrons-
The daring drivers may fling their
lives at fate II their thirst for speed
and celebrating danger so prompts
them, but no patron of the races will be
injured. The management is familiar
with the possibilities of danger and will
eliminate all those circumstances. Split
ting the air at 100 miles an hour neces-
sarily is accompanied by possibilities of
Injury to the driver. Dangers are great
ly increased by the possibility Of tires
out and the fact that the curves
must be made at lightning speed.
Patrons will not be allowed within
zones Of possible danger. At the curves
around which the machines will skim
the guests will not be permitted within
100 feet of the road limits, so that a ma
chine may lose its. course. turn somer-
sauits, and meet absolute destruction
without menace to the spectators.
The course is built for safety as we'll
Is for speed. The straightaways will be
built to a minimum width of thirty feet
Without a flaw, and the fiat curves will
be so constructed that they may be
aiken at a speed of seventy miles an
.our with safety.