The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-01-12
speed DEMONS entered
FOR The VANDERBILT CUP
Race VIII Be Run Over Novel Course
on Exposition Grounds at San Fran
cisco on Washington's Birthday
De Palma Has Twice Won Trophy

The Vanderbilt cup race on Wash
ington IS birthday starts the ten months
of thrills and of wonderful spectacles
in the sport world, scheduled in con
nection with the Panama-Pacifc Inter
national Exposition. The world 8 most
noted speed demons will cut lightning
like turns in and out among the Two
miles of vast exhibit palaces, gardens
and pavilions of the thirty eight par
ticipating nations and forty-one States
and territories, on the most remarkable
and spectacular course ever laid out for
such an event.
Most of the entrants, including Bar
ney Oldfeld, Earl Cooper, Eddie Rieken-
hacker, Gil Anderson and host of 9TH
er dare-devils will participate in the
Vanderbilt race and also III the Grand
Prix, which will be run off five days
later over the same course. Entries
made to date indicate the biggest field
of drivers ever seen at a cup race.
Two of the three long projectiles,
bearing the brand of Maxwell. will be
piloted by Barney Oldfeld and "Dare-
devil' Carson. The bhird man has not
yet been announced. Rickenbaeker will
guide one of the two famous Peugots,
entered from across the Atlantic, ac-
cording to telegram just received
from Fred j. Wagner, to Chairman W.
H. Hughson, of the exposition's s racing
committee. The Stutz Company has
entered three Stutz racing machines,
with the noted drivers, Gil Anderson
and Earl Cooper, at the wheel Among
other entries are two DuZenburgs and
three Sunbeams. Just how many Mer-
GERS will face the starters has not been
announced, although at least one is as
sured. And this is hut the beginning.
For the first time in their history
these two international races will be
held where hundreds of thousands will
be certain to witness every part of the
course. While the course is the finest
ever laid out, it will have features
which will furnish thrills every mo-
ment, with the minimum danger of ac-
cident. For example, the asphalt road
way throughout the exposition grounds,
which is 200 feet wide, will be so di-
vided that one-half of it will be given
over to the racers going east and the
other half to the speed-demons rushing
westward. The division line will be a
nine foot barricade of baled straw,
burlap and pads, all secured firmly by
anchored cables. The driver who may
skid into this barrier will run little
risk of capsizing. This barricade will
be erected all through the center of
the Plaze, at the " "Hairpin'' turn, and
at the two right angle turns. One full
lap of the course, which utlizes the
exposition IS mile race track, is a frac-
tion less than four miles.
The big Vanderbilt cup race COW
ers distance of approximately 800
miles, which means about seventy five
times around the novel course. The
Grand Prix is 100 miles longer. 1t
will cover 100 laps. Barney Oldfeld,
the first entrant in the race, went over
the course last week and pronounced
it the finest ever given over to these
two races. Excepting the graded dirt
track, every foot of it is asphalt.
lHoratio Anasagasti, the millionaire
commissioner-general from Argentina,
and himself an automobile manufac.
turer, will have racing entry, which
will be his country's first venture into
the dissipation, while Ralph de Palma
twice winner of the Vanderbilt cup. de-
clares that he will take part in the race
to take away the cup for the third and
final time