El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-08
FAST TINE FOR
RACE TOPH0ENIX
Roads Better than Last
Year; Arizona Towns Ap-
preciate Races Value.

Tucson Ariz. oct. 7.-R. H Rine-
hart and Lew Gasser arrived here from
FL PasO in the Stutz Bear Cal ed-
nesday afternoon at o'clock. Gasser
at the wheel with Joe Gray or Bis
bee. Arizona. representative Of the E
Paso Automobile club, as a guest
They left Bisbee at l.l5 Wednesday
morning. stopping at Tombstone TO
arrange for checkers, timers and
checking station.
fast as the time Of the car that ran
second in the race last year and only
an hour behind the time Of the car
that won first money which indicates
that the road is very much faster an
the way from FL PasO TO Tucson this
The only bad road encountered 50
far was west Of LOrdsburg, IS miles,
which is not quite as good as last
wear. but viii be in good condition
Tor the race. as the county authorities
of Grant county are now WOEhlns on
the roads to put them IN c0ndluon-
The state Of Arizona has built new
state highway from the Santa Rita
mountains west to Tucson and racer
can make from so TO 20 miles an hour
FOR a distance Of 40 miles
The winning car TO Phoenix viii
have TO make better than IS miles per
hOur TO get first money this year.
An towns along the route are very
much interested in the race. as they
think it means much added tourist
traffic The FL PasO party met nine
cars on the way TO Fl Paso and points
east since Monday. Most Of them were
All towns agree that the race last
wear has been a very important fac
tor in increasing the tourist traffic
and want the race to be a permanent
Rinehart and Gasser laid over Tues
dav in Bisbee 10 take M matters with
GRAY pertaining 10 checkers, tuners
and checking stations for Arizona
The party left here today at 9 a m
for Phoenix, stopping at Florence
Chandler, Mesa and Tempe en- route.
A party OF automobile race enthuSl-
asts went out over the state highway
to Vail Wednesday afternoon TO meet
the two 81 'PasOans- IN the party
came TO Tucson from II Paso at the
time OF the last race, j. Moss KUN
rauff- John F. Myers. T. O. Cowan, A.
c. Falls and Charles r Stewart
1Iotorcyclists En- Tour
lTotorcyclists are also touring the
Borderlaud pathflndiug for the coming
motorcycle race from Fl Paso 10 Fnoe-
nix. The motorcycle pathlnders from
III Paso were here day ahead OF the
Automobiles
Two brothers. %. A. Dorset and W
C. Dorset were the visitors from the
Pass City. They arrived on an inspec-
tion tour OF the roads and left yester-
day for Phoenix to talk over the race
with the promoters there Basil keatOn
came from Phoenix and was present al
a meeting here with local motorcyclists-
He stated that three Phoenix riders.
Connell. Lane and Tompkins. would
arrive today on their way from Phoe-
nix 70 FL Paso and would talk over
the situation with Tucson riders
All OF the visitors favored Tucson
for the second night control The city
viii be asked TO raise $50 for the race
and there does not appear TO be much
doubt that but what IL viii be done.
the roads from FL PasO were very
muddy and in many places were "cut
TO pieces" They reported that the Vail
road was the best Of the entire route
They declared that they could easily
make so miles an hour on this stretch
Signs still Up.
M hlnenart says practically all OF
the signs which he and associates
placed on their preliminary trip last
year are still NJ. and those that are not
will be replaced before the race is run
To show the spirit which animates
the race boosters along the route. Mr..
Rtnehart says that at LordsburE. when
they secured gasoline and had repairs
made at the garage OF o. ". Onby. he
refused to accept a cent, saying that as
the travellers who were boosting the
race were engaged in an effort TO bring
business, both tourist and permanent.
TO all the towns along the line. he con-
sidered it only pleasure 10 help IN any
way he could
44E- Is44eullEL ana MI Gdsser declared
that the race will be won by an aver
age speed OF IS miles an hour. which
viii mean a time Of approximately IS
hours for the trip. or more than two
hours better time than last year.
Purse For Race Raised Quickly.
It took Tombstone just 81 minutes to
raise its prOrata OF the purse for the
FL Paso-P Phoenix race and. as 20 per
cent more was required this year than
last. Tombstonites think they set a good
nTHT~Twfa NJ f#U sister -fHHHz
which are a little slow in raising their
purse for the greatest OF all races IN
the west
day morning by the polcie at his home
in Chfhuahufta lfartfnee IL is claimed