The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-01
monster PARADE
BEFORE PRACTICE
Autoists Will Form Process
sion to New York's Speed
way Course.
TO BE ON SEPTEMBER IS
Motorists Will Park Their Machines
and Watch Worlds Racers in Their
Preparatory Runs.
TO BE ON SEPTEMBER Is

By way Of a fitting curtain raiser to
the throwing open Of the Sheepshead
Bay Speedway for formal practice fol
the inaugural 350-mile race on October 2
, there will be q monster parade of auto
mobiles from Central Park and through
Brooklyn to the great two-mile motor
race course by the sea-
This inaugural procession will be con.
Quoted by the Motor Club Inc. OF New
York, in whose membership autobobile
row is very generally represented. Ar
engagements for the parade are In charge
of President s. s. Toback, w. c. Portner
c. H. Carson and E. c. ]. McShane. ana
other directors and members of the club
The date set is Saturday, September Is.
Roughly. the Motor Clubs plan is to
have the parade form at an uptown
point at 1 o'clock that afternoon. pro-
coed down town. and cross one of the
East River bridges over q route and to
rendezvous to be determined later,
where the procession will be Joined by
the Brooklyn contingent for the run to
the Speedway.
Arrived at the course the motorists
will park their cars on the grounds and
view the events from the grandstand
without charge. The general public not
participating in the parade will be ad-
mitted to the grandstand and grounds at
an admission fee to be announced later
and to obtain through the practice for
the elimination trials scheduled for Sep
TENDER "a, % and IS.
Practice that day will be confined to
those who have actually entered for the
race. thus giving the public a first chance
at seeing the famous drivers and cars
that are to contend for the $50, 600 purse
on October 2. Special speed exhibitions
and trials for new worlds records will
be arranged.
The procession to the course will not
be merely a big automobile run. 1t will
have the added feature of a great dec
GRATED parade, for which the Sheepshcad
Bay Speedway Corporation and others
will offer prizes to owners of cars for
decora tons based on beauty, grotesque-
ness and humor. There will be special
divisions for decorated gasoline. electric
and advertising cars.
Prizes will be offered to dealers for the
largest representation of owners cars of
various makes parading in a body.
Entry blanks will be issued shortly. No
charge for entry will be made, and driv-
ers and passengers up to the full COM
plement of the car will be admitted free
Last Friday. Nancy Hanks visited the
site of the once famous horse track-not
Nancy Hanks, the great thoroughbred
race horse-but Mrs. Nancy Hanks (Airs.
Austin X. Hanks), of Forest Hills Gar
dens. Long Island, who Is an ardent
motorist In a high-powered roadster.
with two passengers, she drove several
complete laps at high speed. the speed
ometer at times showing a speed of bet
ter than eighty miles an hour. Owing to
the fact that the outside edges of the
turns are not complete, and because of
the temporary runways across the course
she was forced to slow down frequently
She enjoys the honor OF being the first
woman to drive a car on the new board
track.