Arizona republican., 1912-09-19
AUTO MEETS
 R|CH PRIZES
Cups and Money for Four Big Milwaukee Contests Creating Keen Competi- ton; Total More Than S50,00O


 X kings ransom is represented in the trophies and cash prizes hung up by the Automobile Club Of America the Milwaukee Automobile Dealers association and Col Gustave Pabst. Milwaukee, for the four international road racing classics to be run on the Waueatosa course on Tuesday. Sep. fember Y, Friday. September 20. and Saturday, September 21. The Mil Waukee speed carnival win be known the world over as the most richly pursed auyOmobtlr con est that has ever been held, for the sum of S5o0e0 barely covers the mere intrinsic value of the solid gold and silver cups and the money purses Tie neares- aD- proach to the Vanderbilt cup races at Milwaukee. in point Of value of the prizes. was the last international sWeapstake race on the IndianapoIs speedway on Memorial day. but the total given to drivers then Was only S25ooo. one-half of the amour. witch will be contested for in MIIwauNee.
 Cannot Compute Value
 No one has eyer undertaken to fig ure out the actual value Of such fa- nous trophies as the Automobile Club of America's Grand PriX. William t.. Vanderbilt Jr's Vanderbilt cup. the new Pabst Blue Ribbon trophy of ] Col. Pabst of Milwaukee or the Wis c"nsin Challenge cup of the Wiscon- sin Motor Manufacturing company It i is not the actual money value of tie precious metals m these cups which is bringing the worlds greatest rac- ing drivers to Milwaukee but the inn measurable honor and glory as7ociat- ed with the winning of any of the l four principal trophies
 The honor of winning the Wander i bilt cup, and the American irand l PriX as well. has for years been the i greatest glory any car or driver could achieve. Beginning with the Mil Waukee races. another trophy Of uaI i import and value, intrinsicalIy as well as otherwise. will enter the mo- toring hall of fame It is tfe Pabst Blue Ribbon trophy. deedeI by Col i Gustave Pabst for anuual oompc- tition, and carrying with it emom- ments which give f. a rank as high as that attained oy the Vanderbilt l cup Col Pabst is probably as vol known throughout the world as Will iAhtili AA ft4ANi'A t-4t Ji i anu -.IE ti'lIllA is as richly endowed as the cup which the New York millionaire hung up eight years ago for the first iong road race on American soi; and which has been contested for Annually ever since.
 Expect Finish by 2:3O
 The richness of the Pahst trophy and the great field of vorId-reunWn- . n g.. Tacted will make Friday. September 70. as important a racing day as Tuesday and Saturday. the days of the Grand PriX and the Vanderbilt cup races Practically every driver who will compete in the frs; and last days events will be seen in the Pabst cup race on Friday, inchdi2a the famous French team of Fuegot cars, driven by George Boillot, win ner of the Grand PriX de la France on June 25 and 26 of this year, and his three teammates. A few of the great drivers will necessarily be Iobliged to stay out of the Pabst race, for Cool Pabsts deed of gift makes it a race for cars of the class driven by a majority of the people on the American continent, and excludes the high powered cars of mamOth pis- ton displacement. However. a large number of star pilots are provided with two different kinds of racing cars one excessively powered and the other medium powered, so that they will be eligible for any race with one of them.
 The first annual competition for the Pabst trophy will, like the Van derbnt cup be run on the native