The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-15
new METHODS
| ADOPTED FOR
ELCIN RACES
ars WIN Be Started Two at a
4 Time and Special Scoreboard
4 VIII Be Supplied
AT LEAST. 80 CARS WILL
BE IN THE ROAD RACES
Many Stars and Several Lesser
Lights Are Ready to Enter
Automobile Classic

ELaIN. III. Aug. f6.-with "a cars
named to date. and with several days
left IN which to receive additional en-
tries, officials In charge Of the coming
Elgin road races anticipate no din
Guilty IN lining up at least 80 machines
for the big speed carnival OF Aug. 81
22. That the ffth annual renewal OF
the annual Kane county classics will
be the greatest In the history Of the
events is not doubted by those who
have followed the road racing game.
among the star drivers entered are
Oldfieid, Anderson, Grant, Burman,
DePalma. Heineman, Rickenbacher.
Chandler, Roberts. Wishart, Pullen,
wilcox, Mulford, Tetzlaff, Carlson and
several lesser lights who have per-
formed creditably In races on track,
speedway and road. The cars to be
pfloted by these men include three
French Peug0ts, two English Sun
oeau1ss a Mercedes. three Stutxes,
three Marmons. three Maxweils, two
Depsenbergs, three MERGERS, Gray
For. a Braender Bulldog, q Lozier
nd q Tahis. With such high-class
Held OF star pilots and fast machines
the races should prove the most spec
tacular ever Witnessed In America.
and the critics are free TO predict
hats new road record will be estab-
| lished.
The large entry list has made Il
to adopt a number Of inno-
5HationS in order to reduce the posi-
Fpility- OF accidents to q minimum. The
M lost. radical departure from former
y ractfce Will be In the method OF
y tArting the races. In former years,
when from IL to Ia cars were sent
|Stway In each race, the old custom OF
M tarting one car at time was all
y light, but this year, with over twice
Vas many machines to handle. the
problem will be more difiicult one.
y IN order to facilitate matters and get
he last cars away before those who
tarted first have made a complete
ircuit OF the eight and one-half mile
Iohrse, two machines will be started
" simultaneously. In this way the great
NJ leld will get under way with less
n langer to contestants and spectators.
and at the same time each pair viii
furnish hot race right from the
art, This method of starting Ii not
], w, however. as Il was successfully
~ ed tout In the last French Grand
rix. This will be the first time X
II Vbeen adopted N this. couptfy.
y Another new feature at, Elgin this
\ ear will be the Pendieton score
board that proved so satisfactory in
the last, two Santa Monica road races.
II Is SO comprehensive that the spec
ators are able to tell at glance Just
3here each car u on the course. and
9 soon as q. lap 10 completed the re-
Mt Is posted almost as soon as the
- passes..a As laid out, the board
IS q separate horizontal column for
n ach ear, while vertical columns d.
"a ide the board into eight sections, one
n each mile Of the course. Around
&. ne circuit at each mile post Is a tel
n phone station, from which each car
b Is reported as 1t passes. The infor-
Nation Is flashed to the board opera
ors and the cars number Is moved to
~ mile post from which the report
ONES I'm case car stops for repairs
1r anything else along the course, It's
number remains stationary on the
GARD until the machine starts again