The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-01
ALL SPEED KINGS
IN ASTOR CUP RACE
Supplementary Trials, to Give
Every Entry Chance to Quail
ify. on Saturday Morning.
MILFORD WILL DRIVE

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missing from the starting line Except, or
course. those who are doing war duty
on the other side). when the race Tor
the Astor Cup is called at noon to-
morrow at the Sheepshead Bay Motor
Speedway. To make sure that none OF
those who thus far have failed to appear
to qualify may be shut out. the officials
have decided TO hold supplementary
trials on Saturday morning. Those who
appear early at the scene OF the $50
mile race will see something not dow
on the programme In the way OF extra
speed work.
What Ii perhaps most important from
the point Of view of making a race OF
It Ralph DE Palma will be sure to have
a place in the field. Even 10 he doesn't
get his Mercedes ready to start he has n
Stutz car that he will drive. although 1t
is not as fast az his German machine.
DE Palma didn't get out yesterday
for any trials. as he was working on
his car. He will not have a chance to
drive on the speedway to-day as he Is
engaged to appear at Trenton In a track
meet there. lie will drive his Stutz at
Trenton. De Palma made this engage
ment a long time ago and ~ driving only
to keep his promise. If he has TO put
his Stutz In the Sheepshead race he will
have to change the gear radios In the
rear axle to make the car NJ for long
distance work on a two mile board speed
way.
As Barney Oldfeld had his Delage
out late yesterday afternoon the results
OF his accident on Wednesday were not
serious. Resta was an absentee. but
eports were that the work on his motor
was going along we'll and that he would
he about to-day, In readiness to get
/ DntnO anga mana rara without n.
Palma. Resta and Oldfeld would hardly
be a race. so the management is greatly
relieved to know that these speed men
will be starters.
Another well know racing driver was
added yesterday to the list when Ralph
milford came out TO make a trial spin
In a Maxwell racer lie has agreed to
handle as a teanmatc Of Eddie Rick
enbacker. on Wednesday Il was thought
that Tom orr would drive. but orr,
who ~recently was married. did not want
to take part In the race except TO do
some relief driving. milford. being
available. was snapped up 10y the own
ers OF the Maxwells.
He went out and drove some thirty
or forty miles while learning the track
and the car and averaged about
ninety.ssven miles an hour. The add
! tion OF Milford and the fact that these
two Msxwells are running very smoothly
give this team an excellent chance for
a prominent place In the race. Although
perhaps not ,outed to win. the Maxwells
are conceded TO have a chance to finish
well up.
The Maxwells are working out under
. the eye OF Ray Harroun. chief engineer
for the Maxwell Motor Company. II
was part OF the terms of sal" of the four
Maxwell racers 10 J. NJ Allison OF In
. dianapolis that he should act AS adj
' yisprv engineer The DreSent STOCK
, Maxwell embodies many of the results
o. Harroun's experimentation In the
field OF racing. Asked whether the Max
! we'll company, now that II has stopped
. racing. would quit the making of racing
$ cars Harroun said LAS long as prl-
I waite individuals appear to he buying
racing cars I don see why We should
not keep on making them" He has the
, idea that the increasing number OF
. speedways will develop a greater mum
: Der OF racing owners,
= Harry :. Harkne>S, president Of the
. speedway. will he represented in the
=. race by two cars. carl I.!mberg will
drive the Delage that Mr.. Hardness was
to have driven and Huehie Hughes Is
\ 20 drive Mr.. Harkness's Baby Peugeot
y II that Peugeot entered by the Hanson
; Peacock Corporation attempts to qualify
? fl will have 10 go faster than one of the
. other Peugeots, because no more thar
4 FIVE of one make are allowed to start in
a the race. and the addition of Mr.. Hark.
Z ness Peugsot makes 1t Ave. not count.
. Ing the Hanson-PeacoCk car. which APP
. parently ss hardly in shape TO qualify.
Mr.. Hardness had another speed car
!, at the track yesterday. In a little
\ Bugatti he drove around the track At g
3 sixty mile an hour clip. The track is SC
fast and SO well adjusted to mucf
greater speeds that the Rugatti's per
Torrance looked like ohs,ructing traffic
Grover Bergdoll. with the Erw!i
Special, and Hugo Ogren, with an ogrer
car, were at the track. true to telegraphi'
promises, Ogren drove a long time aftei
Tom Alley had sent the car along a
: speed. II Jean Porporato can get III
y F. II. =. in shape for another trial thes'
!, three and Mr.. Harkness's entries viii
try out tomorrow morning and vii
= make a field Of AZ least twenty starter
~ for the Aston Cup.
Formal announcement was made b!
the Mercer Automobile Company O
l. Trenton that II has withdrawn the en-
tries of its two cars from the race. Tn
y cars have made as high as los mile
i an hour. hut Engineer Delling was con
WINGED that the fabrication would no
r work out properly at that speed for
sustained period. Rather than take
=. chance of running the motors the ear
were withdrawn, The Mercer compan
has built a special garage at the trac
and Will keep the ears there, experiment
ing with them until they are right"
The first OF the crowds OF visitor
began coming in yesterday. Trains fror
y the West brought racing enthusiast
., from the automobile centrs~, such a
o. Detroit. Cleveland. Indianapolis Toled'
r Chicago ard 81. Louis. The advanc
. sale OF seats for the race at the Speed
A. way Corporations office al 1896 Broat
10 way coz tiuues to he very large. TIL