The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-20
500 MILE RACE FOR
MORE THAN $4,000
Real Rich Prize List Offered
for Annual Memorial
Day Event.
BONUSES OF MANY SORTS
Castor Oil Is Not Barred i'm Con-
test-A. {. A. Run
Saxon Fuel Test.

May 30 will indeed be deserving OF being
called a rich event. as the prize list OF.
Tered by the Speedway mana cement, to-
gether with additional bonuses offered.
conditional on tho tse OF certain Access
soriss by tho placed cars bring
the offered totals up above $4,000. The
prizes for the cars that finish In the first
ten are respectively 10000. $4,000. s5,-
900. $4,000. $1,000. $1,000. $500. $1,000,
$500 and $1,000. This comes to $50, 900.
There are trophies ut the intermediate
distances. Al 100 miles tho leader gets
the u. a j. trophy, valued a, $1,000. Al
200 miles there Ia the Re.ny trophy and
brdssard. worth s2.b0O. At 800 miles
comes the Prest % Lite trophy, s2,75o
The Wheeler & Schebler trophy, worth
$4,000, IL for the leader at 400 miles
ana the finish carries with IL the 1900
bayfield, trophy. Ii can be seen that
thousands are juEsled around lightly and
that the air will be about equally full
~ dollars, dust ana exhaust
For we have not yet reached tho END
OF the tale. -Four carbureter firms are
~ there with offers for tho placed cars
For Scheber carbGreters the money goes
$1,000. 5000, $500 and 800 among the
first four. Longuemsre win split 81 600
three ways and the Rayf-ld will divide
also will divide $500. The Peugeot en-.
tries, among others, have the Iongueinare
Carbureter, so there is n good chance Of
the company paying OFF most OF this
That is unless Ralph de Palma and that
Mercedes aviation motor don't turn the
trick.
There are two magnetic prizes Bosch
offers $500. $500 and 5000 and the Remy
has one offer OF 81 900 for the winner
only. The Standard Roller Bearing Com
pany offers. II It's wire wheels are used
prizes totalling 1915. Bosch and Gross.
man both offer spark plrg prizes. The
Bosch, In addition 10 It's magnetic bo
muses. viii give 500 apiece to the first
three In. The Grossmnn offer is $500
$3.50 and 500 respectively to the first
three home. Ames equalizers and Hart
ford shock absorbers offer prizes totalling
$500. divided In each case $3.50, $50
and 500. Last OF all In this division
there Is Il tank prize offered by Janney-
Stenmetz amounting to $3.50
Furthermore, to show how the poor rae
ing driver liz pcstercd with chances TO
make money, the Bosch Magnetic Company
offers $500 IL tho record la broken: the
Walthsm company ofters a 5000 watch
TO the driver spending the least time At
the pits--an efficiency trophy--and the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Of
fers a prize OF $4,000 to first and $1,000
to second IL It's make OF tires 10 used W.
either OF these.
| II was reported that the Speedway man
! agement would bar cars using castor oil
grand stand folks. However. MS several OF
the cars are built specially 10 use this
! lubricant tho race promoters will permit
| 1t this time usual Next year perhaps
not.
/ IL ~
terday afternoon and last night there were
two entertainments. In the afternoon
motion pictures designed especially for
the children were shown. Among the
pictures were "Alice in Wonderland" and
wild Animals at Large" In the evening
was the second OF the touring and techn-
| cal talks. There were Views OF New Eng
land scenery, followed by general tour
ing talk by Prof. +, n. Hutton. Herbert
Chase, laboratory engineer for the club,
explained motion pictures showing the
mechanism of an automobile In operation.
/ There were other motion pictures.
Both entertainments proved decidedly at
! tractive.
Further activity in the A. C. A. will be
"A club run on May 20 to Lake Ronkon-
koma. The cars VIII run out to the Motor
! Parkway and follow II to the Petit
Trianon Inn at the Ronkonkoma end OF
this road. There will be music and dane
! ing ana Tor those VINO WISH ulilfl'T VIII be
served in the evening.
More than forty -four miles TO the gallon
is the mark made in 200 mile fuel test
of the Saxon car by l.. A. Van Patten
New York distributor. on Saturday. The
run was over hills, rough roads and
through long stretches OF sand from Long
Island City TO Southampton and return
Although the showing OF the New forh
| Saxon Is extraordinary under the condl-
lions II Is probable that Van Pntten did
not win the national saxon dealers con
| test as he received word from H. w
Ford, president of the Saxon Motor Com
pany, yesterday that dealers In New
Rochelle. Des Mones, Ia, and Webb city
! la, all did fraction better than forty
seven miles to the gallon. The New
Rochelle car was handled by Frank Davis
and the run was in and around New
| Rochelle,
There were 265 Saxon dealers who com.
peted. The distance in all cases was zoo
| miles, and according to Geographic re-
ports an average of over tliirty-hve miles
! to the gallon was recorded. This Is con-
| sidered extremely remarkable In view OF
the general road and hill conditions and
serves to prove the claim made by The
builders OF the Saxon car that IL VIII
average thirty miles 10 the gallon in ths
hands Of owners.
Van Patten Is planning TO run special
| New York fuel test In trafilr IN "'lvH
h. expec,s 10 shatter all previous records
! in economy,