El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-13

{ hoped that the automobilists in par
I ticular and the citizens and bushes.
/ men generally will quickly subscrib,
/ the amount needed in this case, which
/ IS $500, as per appOrtionment
The advertising that Douglas vii
! receive from being on the line of thi.
| III Paso-to-PhOeniX race viii be of in
! calculable benefit to the city Head
lines and date lines all over the coun-
Z try viii be filled with accounts of th5
race, and Douglas viii come in for
its share Of the advertising and pub
/ Lefty. Such advertising is of the most
insiduous and effective nature and is
unpurchasable in any other way. II
VIII be of lneSumaD1e Damage to Doug
las II by any means the required
amount of money is not raised
Officials Named for Rnce.
Ofnclals for the races from both e.
Paso and Los Angeles and for the
track races at the State fair grounds
November s. have been announced by
iI3 general George Purdy Bull
The judges will be Walter Dupee. a
mllllonalre sportsman of Coronado,
Cal; n J. Cunningham. Bisbee
Phoen1X. Frank Van TaSner, another
Coronado citizen. is to be the umpire.
CeIora Stoddard will be chief timer at
the Phoenix end OF the line and he
VIII appoint his own assistants who
VIII be the Ell PasO and Los Angeles
tuners If they 90 to Phoenix to see
the finish of the road races. Leon
Jacobs, of Phoenix, is named as chief
scorer Starters and timers will be
named at the places of starting
In all events. general Billiard will be
the representative of the contest board
OF the American Automobile associa-
ton.
Where Is Rerrick3k
Nothing more has. been heard from
Harvey Herrick. he left Phoenix last
week for Ell Paso, but has not put in
an appearance here so far as known.
I. W. Mace, local agent for the Apper-
son car, which is the car that Herrick
intends 10 drive, has not seen him.
Phoenix papers all announced last
Friday that Herrick had left there for
FL PasO by train to investigate the
terms of the race scheduled to be run
from the Pass City to ArizOna's cap
ltal during the week of the state fair.
Herrick came to Phoenix from Los
IN a Benz, accompanied by
Wal Mccain, of Phoenix. They fol-
lowed the route OF last years Los
ming and Indio- It took them u days
TO make the trip Mccain says that
the trip was the hardest he ever had.
owing to rains which washed out the
roads and made them soft.
When he arrived in Phoenix Herrick
registered at the Adams under an as
sumed name. At 10 o'clock next day he
took the train for Tempe, and at that
place he caught the afternoon train for
Maricopa- It was given out that in
ABOUT week he would return and
spend several days in Phoenix
It was in 1910 that Herrick first won
the Los Angeles-PhOenix. road classic,
driving a Kisselkar. The next year he
drove a National and was once more
an easy winner. After that he went
with the Case people and ne was not
IN the 1912 race Since then he has
gone over to the ApperSon company,
which has not decided whether to have
him race to Phoenix from Ell Paso or
Los Angeles.
Mammoth Wash Bad.
In addition to the unfavorable re-
port of the Tucson mechanician for
Herrick relative to the road from Los
Angeles to Phoenix, over which the
Los Angeles drivers viii have to race
to the Arizona fair, other drivers bring
reports that the road is very poor
After having spent two months
touring the coast in their Stutz car
VIM Jaeger and party drove into Tue
son with 5000 miles checked up on the
speedometer- The party drove to San
Diego thence up the coast as far as
Seattle. Returning they drove down the !
Wawona, the entrance to Yellowstone !
park
On Iaeger's trip to the coast he
shipped across the Mammoth wash but |
vowed that the next time he crossed to |
the coast he would drive through the |
sand sea This time he did. The seven |
nile stock long time and cost a com |
11ete set of brand new castings Just |
seven miles of Mammoth Wash did the |
rick
Jaeger says that he considers the |
Mammoth Wash the worst piece Of road /
IN the BOrderland route but he be- |
ieves that this stretch can be repaired |
70 that it viii be permanently pass 1
lble.