Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-27

Rockies, affording sublime views, par
ucularly at sunrise and sunset, from
its summit of 6,293 feet. The ascent is
made by cog rail, by automobile or on
foot from Breton Woods.
Discussing some of the lessons of
the war in regard to automobiles, H.
Massac BUST, the English motor ex-
pert, says in The London Morning
Post:
The second half of the motoring
year just completed has been one en-
tirely composed of surprises. What
may be styled the tailings of the COM
petition season had to be abandoned
a t the outbreak of the war at the
beginning of August. But such slight
loss of development as might be at
tr1buted to that fact has been more
than abundantly compensated for by
the sudden creation of more or less
novel fields of enterprise for the mo-
tor.
In South Africa we learned the
value of mounted infantry IA years
ago. AT the beginning of this war
Germany made an early demonstration
of the value of motor transport for
infantry in her invasion of Belgium
The time of the allies to utilize their
propOrtionately greater resources in
like manner is coming.
I'm the meanwhile Britain, France
and Russia are making enormous use
of motor transport for their ammu-
milton columns, their commisariat
services, for ambulance work, and for
offensive purposes by the employment
OF armored cars by reason of Ger
many choosing the period at which
war was to be waged, and the enor-
nous scale of the operations involved
there has as yet been practically no
time to design and build each class of
chassis solely for the sort of work it
is called on to do in active service.
Elimination trials for the next 500
mile race, designed to set aside eight
of the forty-one entrants in that con-
test on a speed basis, are now in full
swing, having started at 10 a. m.
Thursday, May 20.
Jimmy Hill, an Indianapolis driver,
was the first to face the music in his
special. He was followed in rapid
succession by the rest of the field in
the inverse order of entry. Three trials
will be allowed each contestant, on diff
ferent days, if he desires, so that the
final result of the tests will not be de-
termined until Saturday, when the last
count will be in.
The entries, it is generally figured,
who will survive the ordeal, are as fol-
lows: Carlson, Rickenbacher, R. De
Palma, Porporato, Graham. Grant, AL
ley, O'Donnel, De Alene, Chevrolet,
]. De Palma, Anderson, Cooper, Will
cox, Resta. Babcock, Bragg, Haupt, E.
Bergdoll, G. Bergdoll, Pullen, Ruck-
stell, Nikrent, Bugatti, Oldfeld,
Hughes, Keene, Whalen, Burman, Har-
roun, Mulford, Kleinart, Klein, Du
Chesneau, and Brown.
Every time Barney O1dfield turns
around he is driving a new car in the
next indianapolis 500 mile race.
According to the dope, Charles Full
Ter, Oldfeld's hacker, has by some hook
or crook smuggled one of the German
cars into this country, with the idea
of sending it against every existing
racing record There is also a story
that the machine was in England at
the outbreak of the war, and needed
only the ready cash to bring it over
To all inquiries, however, Oldf1eld and
Fuller turn a deaf ear, and smile a
mysterious smile that may mean some
thing or nothing.
Speedway officials state that if Old
field attempts to switch cars at this
time he will have to get the consent of
all the other drivers, his move being
a post-entry. There seems very little
chance, therefore, of the deal going
through. as Barney is feared enough
as it Is without giving him anyaddi-
tonal advantage. A few stars like
Resta, De Palma, etc, would not OBJ
ject, of course. but these are in the
minority.