The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-22
OFFICIAL SANCTION FOR FIRST NATIONAL AUTO RACES AL
 LOWED HOT SPRINGS.
WILL BE HELD ON MARCH 5
With the Announcement of the San ton Comes the Entries of Two of the Worlds Most Noted Drivers to Compete in 1000 Race.


 The official word which has been anxiously awaited to make the first national automobile race for the 1914 season a certainty for Hot Springs, came over the wire last night from Chicago, Nanlouncing that the first date for an authorized competitive race meeting under the auspices of the American Automobile Association had been granted, and the meeting would be held in Hot Springs, at Oak lawn race track on Thursday, March ,, next.
 Some days ago it was announced that such a meeting would be heid in Hot Springs when the big drivers of the country would be entered to com pete for purse of $l,000 in an open long, distance race, as the chief fea ture, with several short distance events and sprints to complete the first big auto race meeting of tho 1914 season.
 j.. Alex Sloan, who had been win terilg in Hot Springs, and who has 1 managed some of the big racing events of the country, conceived the idea of staging the first of the seasons meet. ings at this resort. After making the preliminary announcement here he went east last week for the pur- pose of making the necessary ar engagements. First, to secure the of- ficial sanction to make the meeting one of record: to interview the build. CTS of the high-powered racing cars which will scorch for honors during the coming summer and fall and in- duce them to have the big racers ready by the proposed date, and to enter the drivers who will strive for the honor and the cash.
 A speciaI sent out by Allen Ran kin, automobile editor of the Chicago RecordHerald, last night, clinches the matter of the race meeting for Hot Springs. The special says:
 Chicago, February 2l, 1914.
 Official announcement was made here today that the dirt track cham pionship season in the middle west and the east would open at Hot Springs, Ark, where the first sane tion of the American Automobile As sociatlon for the coming season would be granted *
 "Edward Hearne. former member of the famous Benz and Fiat racing teams, and now one of the stars on the Case racing team, wilt leave Chi cago in few days for1the Arkansas winter resort. He will take part in the opening meet, and will drive for the first time a new 150-horsepower Case Special, which was recently turned out of the Case automobile plant at Racine. Wis.
 "Hearne is the best known of the Chicago coterie of drivers. He first sprung into prominence as a member of the Fiat racing team Later as a member of the Benz team, he ran neck and neck with David Bruce Brown at Savannah, Ga, in 1911, and would have won the American grand prize race had it not been for tire trouble on the last lap of the event.
 with Eddie Hearne of Chicago and Louis Disbrow of New York both entered in the opening meet of the season at Hot Springs, great race is promised"
 ALLEN RANKIN,
 Auto Editor, Record-Herald
 Mir Sloane is expected to arrive in Hot Springs the early part of the week to complete the necessary local arrangements and to arrange for the details of the contests to be held here
 The meeting comes just at the right time for Hot Springs, with the city full of visitors and with but few af- fairs of amusement interest to attract their attention.
 The matter of special railway rates and exciirsion trains for the big meeting have already been taken up and will be announced il few days.
 ROBBED iNTERuRBAN.