Arizona republican., 1913-03-09
How It Feels to Be
 Los Angeles Suburb
The Sport Editor says, sezze, some
 

The Sport Editor says, sezze, some
 what like thi:
 With the to- be- expected selfish ness, Los Angeles through her. hys- terical sport pages is just now eX- ercising her Remingtons and Smith Premiers over the proposed trans continental automobile race, and as usual placing this event of much i'm portance below and subsequent to one of her own little buzz cart con tests.
 The bully, enthusiastic way in
 which Los Angeles drags into any new thing is only equalled by the ennui she looks upon that same thing after it is q day or so old. It must be handed the old burg near the coast that she gets most every thing she wants, even to the sea. and that in nearly every instance some good results from her frenZies But with every plan for a road race from Los Angeles to San Francisco and another one vice versa as to route, the merry AngelenOs are ham nering spikes in the coffin of the famous old standby desert race to Phoenix. It has been well known for a long time that Los will throw
 this town into the discard when the
 time comes for the planners to make
 the 1913 road race It is also pretty well known that between Phoenix
 and Los Angeles as between the dis ease near the ocean and other towns
 of south California, there has been
 growing a breach that will not be
 bridged in time for motor cars to
 pass next fall. With the recent se
 cession from the A. A. A. still sim
 mering and all parties lying low.
 things look pretty bad for Phoenix.
 If the disgruntled automobile drivers
 and sellers who broke away from
 the national organization would only
 keep hammering at the A. A. A.
 that body would soon start the ineV-
 itable clean up. But as their butter
 fly tactics have permitted the matter
 to cool. and Chairman !Schimpf of . the contest board of the three As
 is also holding his horses. it seems
 there will be no show down in time
 for d readjuStment that will allow
 Phoenix to resume negotiations
 The worlds best pilots, which in
 Angelese means Oldfield Tetzlaff,
 Bragg, De Palma and Burman, not to
 mention hundred other decent
 drivers who never heard of Los An
 geles, will be in the Ocean to Ocean
 race-after they have driven to the
 honor and glory of Los Angeles in
 the main events which will just pre-
 cede the tran continental spurt.
 Phoenix is kindly allowed to bask
 in the sunlight of prominence with
 her name on the map of the pro- posed road race. Perhaps this town should be mighty glad to be on the route. especially as Los Angeles can not help her being there.
 At any rate Arizona will be grate- ful for the favo"s Of being on earth
 and will likely Go as much per square mile, and more per person than all California put together, to | assure the success of the cross America automobile race Aside from it being bis advertisement of the state as a good roads state. the race will solidify tire right of Arizona to a section of the year round Ocean O-Ocean highway. As is brought out in another part of this issue, the getting of the national highway will be easy. in fact, automatic, if there is once an assurance that an auto mobile can get across Arizona all in one piece.