New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-07
DOZEN DRIVERS
WILL TRY TO
QUALIFY TO-DAY
Report That Pullen May
Start Adds to Interest
in Auto Race.
AERONAUTICS ADDED
TO PROGRAMME
Juan Domenjos, a Swiss, VIII
Loop the Loop Over Track
This Afternoon.

The supplementary elimination trials
for the Aston Cup race on Saturday
will be held over the sheepshead Bay
Motor Speedway this afternoon. 1t is
expected that a dozen drivers will at
tempt to qualify. and Father Time will
be jolted about in a most discourteous
manner.
There is little doubt that all the cars
viii get inside the e.ghty-hye-mile-an-
hour mark, which is prescribed by the
contest board But this time will be
bettered by many miles, for the faster
the men drive the better will be their
positions when Fred j. Wagner drops
the starting signal OH Saturday at high
noon. The four cars making the fast
est time in the trials will start first,
while the slower cars will be in the
rear. grouped according 10 their speed.
Ralph De Palma, in either Mercedes
or a StutZ; Ralph Milford, who is still
undecided between Peugeot and a
Maxwell; Jean Porporato, IN a +. K. p;
Tom Alley. in an Ogren; Grover Berg
doll, IN an Erwin Special, Carl Linn
berg, in a Delage; Hughie Hughes, in
Baby Peugeot; Eddie Pullen, In a
Mercer, and one or two others will try
for position.
The report that Eddie Pullen would
start in a Mercer has added not a lit
tie 10 the interest in the race. This
young meteor of the roads has sprung
into prominence overnight, it would
seem. He stepped into the limelight
two years ago, when he won the grand
prize Of the Automobile Club of Amer
lea over The Santa Monica course. He
averaged 77.2 miles an hour. This was
the first time that an American car
ever won this race. His performance
was the more wonderful in that only
three days before he was wrecked while
leading the Vanderbilt Cup race. He
believes that if his car IL in a kindly
mood he will show the boys what real
speed looks like.
Ralph milford received word that his
Peugeot had arrived on a tramp steam
or from France, which was at anchor
down the bay. Ralph dashed of to the
Custom House in an effort 70 have the
car rushed through this morning so
that he might drive il this afternoon.
But thrills other than the speed trials
ternoon. Aeronautics will be part of the
programme. Juan Domenjos, a young
SWISS, who has been doing deal OF
flying down in Buenos Ayres during
the last several months, will endeavor
20 show the American enthusiasts that
the late and lamented Lincoln Beachey
was a mere novice. Juan viii operate
a Bleriot monoplane.
Domenjos viii loop the loop and fly
upside down He has challenged any
Of the drivers to race with him, but
they are not especially keen for the
match. Barney Oldfeld, who used to
race with Beachey around the Cali
fornia tracks, said that he had had
enough of that sort Of thing. Domen-
Jos is said to have looped the loop forty
times in twenty-eight minutes.
The drivers seized the opportunity
Yesterday to do little final tuning up
FOR the race. Wild Bob Burman, Eddie
Rickenbacker. Eddie O'Donnel, Ora
Haibe. Tom Alley, Carl Limberg,
Huehie Hughes, Jean Porporato and
Grover Bergdoll were out on the track
flying around at giddy pace. Early IN
the day Dario Resta took few whirls
around the circuit, but none knew how
fast he was travelling.
Burman travelled the fastest in the
afternoon He flew around for twenty
miles at the rate Of 1O3 miles an hour.
Hughie Hughes drove his Baby Peugeot
at a ninety-four-mile an hour clip and
announced that he was just loafing.
p. c. Millman, of Garden City. is an
other aviator who expects 10 afford
few thrills for the crowd this after
noon. He will fly across country from
Garden City, arriving at the course at
about 3 o'clock.