New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-05
Not a Penalty Imposed in Long
Reliability Run to New
Haven and Back.
THIRD LEG OF TRIP TO-DAY
FIGHT Machines Have Now Cow
cred Close TO Four Hundred
Miles with Perfect Score.

Many we're cold but few were frozen
on the 17s3-mile run that constituted
the second leg Of the 5OO-mile reliability
run Of the Motor Dealers Contest AS
ISOLATION to New Haven and back, yes
terday.
Nevertheless the seventy odd dealers,
drivers, observers. officials. newspaper
men and photographers enjoyed every
mile Of the way-even that part of the
road between New Haven and Derby
that might we'll be compared to the
rocky road TO Dublin"
Not = single penalty was incurred
during the run, which speaks well for the
reliability Of the cars. The eleven ma
chimes which competed finished with
perfect scores-even the Buick No 1,
that suffered a punctured tire. However,
as punctures were regarded more as
unavoidable misfortunes. these were not
included in the list of penalizations.
The various contestants were in a
happy mood last night when the Of
fcials checked over the lists. for the
test more than demonstrated the Won
derful advance in motor car building.
Before the eleven cars started at :
o'clock yesterday morning from the Man
haitian Automobile Club, ukase went
forth that any contestant who was
called before the bar Of justice would
be disqualified. This came as something
Of a damper On the spirits of some Of
the "speeders," who on the first days
run had fallen into the clutches of the
Long Island catChpolls.
There were several close calls on
the way home. yesterday. when the
hour Of meat and drink doomed up as
reward for a long day, but nobody
was caught really speeding.
The run was pronounced the best of ten
tip 80 far. and it was a good one. 1t
was a straight. smooth trip TO New
Haven in the clear. bracinS air Of the
morning. The eleven competing cars,
and the five others of the committee,
pace makers and confetti carrier, rolled
into New Haven shortly after II
o'clock. After being Guly checked and
tagged, the cars were stored in garage
and their occupants went 10 luncheon
at the Hotel Taft.
There was little dallying over the
table Promptly at noon the men and
ears were on the road, and with A
lo0-mile run before them they set off al a
lively pace IL was a part OF the en-
DURANGO run that was well chosen 10
test the powers Of the cars. too. Not
many miles out of New Haven the
smooth macadam came to an abrupt
end in a country road Of the most APP
proved, or rather disapproved. type. Up
hill and down dale it ran, stony rutty
and tortuous. There were places where
II became so NARROW that the cars, run
ming in Indian file, missed the banks by
bare inches.
The roads led westerly 10 Danbury
and then TO the south through the mis-
10 Norwalk, and then home over the
course traversed early in the morning.
Even the toughest spots Of the ROAD
representative, who made the Journey In
the Hudson car.
During the afternoon he managed TO
curl up in corner OF the machine and
get lot more than forty winks.
The last leg of the test, to-day. VIII
lead the contestants 10 POughkeepsie
and back, a run of 1918 miles.
The cars will start at o'clock this
morning, and the noon control will be
at Poughkeepsie. on Saturday there
will be q brake test.
The following cars have finished the
first and second test runs with perfect
scores:
No. !, Buick: No. 2, Buick; No. 3. Buick
No. 4, Buick; No. 8. Chandler; NO. I"
oldsmobie; No. 9, National; No. II. Buick.
The cars penalized on the first day
run and their penalties were: NO. D.
Oakland, point; No. 8, De Dion' points