Evening star., 1915-07-25
CASH PRIZES
FOR AMERICA CUP RACE
Distance to Be $50 Miles Over New
Sheepshead Bay
Speedway.

With the great two-mile motor-rac-
ing track now assured of completion,
not only in time for the elimination
trials, but also for fully fortnight of
practice preliminary to them. the entry
blanks for the opening race at the
s:heepshead Bay speedway Saturday,
October 2. have just been issued.
Racing experience this season has
still further convinced the Sheepshead
Bay Speedway Corporation manage
ment of the wisdom of a race that can
be started at IL o'clock and entirely
completed in less than four hours, Civ
ing suburban and distant race-goers
ample time to catch outgoing afternoon
trains after having seen a thrilling
hundred-mile-an-h battle from start
to finish. So 1t is that there has been
no change made in the 350-mile dis
tance for the race tentatively an
nounced earlier in the season.
$4,000 in Cash Prizes.
The race will be for the America cup
and prizes aggregating $4,000 in cash.
To give a wide distribution of money
and insure a big field continuing in the
race to the end, the purse has been
split as follows: First, $4,000; second,
$4,000: third. $4,000; fourth, $4,000:
fifth, $4,000; sixth. $4,000: seventh.
s1.4o0: eighth, $1,000: ninth, s1.1O0:
tenth. $1,000; eleventh, $500; twelfth.
$500
In view of the magnitude and width
of the Sheepshead Bay and other new
speedways the racing rules have been
changed SO that thirty-two cars will
be eligible to start October 2. Elimi
nation trials will be run Friday and
Saturday, September "a and 25, and
Monday. September 27. Each car must
show at least eighty-fve miles an
hour on one-lap test, and make one
trial each day. Additional cars to the
thirty-two starters. that have made
positioned on the starting list in the
order of their speed and will move up
into the starting list in case of any
of the original thirty-two eligibles
being withdrawn.
Insures a Full Field.
This will not only insure full field
up to the limit, but will give recog-
milton on the program of the official
speed records they have made in the
elimination trials.
The colors of the cars will be accord
ing to international usage, i. e., Ger
many, white: Belgium, yellow; France,
blue: England. green: Italy, red; Amer
ica, red and white. The make Of car
not the nationality of the driver will
be the deciding factor.
Rapid progress continues in the con-
struction Of the Sheepshead Bay speed
way. All the steel framework and con-
crete supports for the track are up.
Two million feet of wood surface has
been laid. constituting fully one-haif
of the area of the course. In fact, it
is now possible to drive around the
entire circuit in an automobile
The gYandstand has already been
begun. $50 of the 1000 feet being up.
Monday carpenters start work in prep
aration for the installation of the
chairs. which will take place at the
rate of 1000 per day Work on the
big bleachers, which will extend for
three-eighths of a mile along the back
stretch, is under way. The track will
be entirely completed by September
l. and the srandstand will be ready
by September 10 for spectators Of the
practice tryouts preliminary to the
elimination trials.