Arizona republican., 1913-06-02
MAIN MOTORING CITY
Revival of Maricopa Club Makes it Plain Phoenix Will Become Headquar- ters for Sport; Race and Touring Features
Phoenix, the motoring headquarters

Phoenix, the motoring headquarters Of the west.
 Some title. that. And it's what the automobilsts of this fair city are contemplating tack1ng onto the metropolis of the state of Arizona.
 What is going to happen here this coming fair time will make Phoenix the recognized stronghold of the mo toring fraternity of the west. Of tours and runs there are host for this summer and fall and lots of them have already gone into history. And Of races there will be three the biggest events of their kind ever staged. Last Friday they pulled off q 500 mile race on the two and q half mile brick speedway over in Indianapolis Mir Phoenician, did you ever stop to think that each of the three great races that will end in Phoenix at fair time this fall will be longer than the Indianapolis race and that each of them will be harder crueler, more exciting, better test. greater trial. more dangerous. more satisfying It's a fact. Indianapolis has started out and copped the name of the Speed City. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to make the few hours race there each Decoration Day the Big gest thing that ever happened But with a hundredth the expense of eff fort,s Phoenix, with the help of the coast cities and Fl PasO will hold set of events that will skin the speedway classic in everything that makes for thrills. Excitement makes the fan go is a true saying, and the motor fans will certainly have to push on the throttle to keep up with the excitement and interest in the Los Angeles, Fl Paso and San Diego road races this fall.
 In the first place. the events are going to be the most powerful draw ! ing factor at the state fair this fall IT. the second place, The Republican cup race is going to be the greatest 1 desert race ever pulled off-eVen sur passing those ancient time trials. which have made it possible to call 1 the fifth annual run the Desert Gas 1 sic. with capital letters mile high. With the Maricopa Auto club 1 thoroughly reorganized and made . lively through the unaided efforts of 1 The Republican and its friends mo- ] toring in Arizona has been placed ! on an OIllc1dl CO-opeIdli DetSif7- <N list of the things that have been accomplished since the agitation for : organized autoing was started in this paper would read long and interest i ingIy Through the good offices of l the president of the club, MT. Bull lard. who is in most excellent stand 1 ing with the greatest of all sporting i bodies, the A. A. A, state Organl- zation of that association is soon to be made permanent at a meeting to he held in Phoenix. The Maricopa club is the leader in all things Mo-
 tOrous, and will naturally be the main packer of the state wide move ment for organized motoring With
 the confidence of the A. A. A. the club will in it's present state of high 1 enthusiasm and large membership be the supreme force in that great di vision of sportdom in this state. ] Los Angeles motorists have come back into the A. A. A. so that now q race can be held between the two cities. The Republican likes to be- lieye it was largely through It's ef- forts that the Maricopa club stayed with the Three As and also in part due to the stand of the MartcOpa club that the motorists of South CdllOfnla came DdCk Into the A. A
 A. The starting of an agitation by The Republican for the Fl PasO to Phoenix road race had more to do l with the Los Angeles men coming into the fold than many have known Bert Smith, the popular auto editor of the Los Angeles Times and one of the best friends Arizona has on the coast is sponsor for the state ment that the good old Republican i Cup race from Los Angeles to PhOe- nix means a lot to the automobile men and motorists of the coast city, and when they saw it slipping, they
 made quiet plans to save it.
 So that when on or about the first day of the state fair, the winner of The Republican cup race and the winner of the San Diego to Phoenix
 race and the winner of the Demo | crat cup race from Fl Paso cross the finish line before the cheering ] stands at the grounds, another tre- 1 mendOus stride toward motoring fame will have been taken, and Phoenix | will again be able to say Gosh all ] spark plugs, We done it again."