The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-03
BIG EVENTOCCURS
ON MAY 1O-11-12
Seventy-five Cars Already Entered In
the Contest-Strict Rules and
Regulations to Govern the Contest
ants Are Announced


a possibility of reaching the hundred
mark. The rules governing entries and
the run as well as the route and time
schedule are given herewith:
No. General Plan of Contest
Contestants in the publicity run of
the Motor Club of Harrisburg, on May
10, IL, IL, 1915, will be required to
cover the route on limited time
schedule.
No. 2-Ehgible Competitors
Members of the Motor Club of Har-
risburg only shall he eligible-except
in the special classes for out-of- town
clubs where an entry of three or more
ears from any club affiliated with the
Pennsylvania Motor Federation will
be accepted.
No. 3-Running Schedule
The contesting cars will be COM
PEELED to make an average speed of 20
miles an hour. There will be time al
lowed at the various controls, the time
to be added to the official checking
time of each car. Contestants are re-
quested to watch the drivers schedule
and checking cards carefully for these
stops and to have cards checked in ac-
cordance.
No. Entries
Entries will be received by Secre-
tary j. Clyde Myton of the Motor
Club of Harrisburg, until Saturday,
May s, at 6 p. M, and must be accom-
panied with the entrance fee of S..
The money derived from entrance fee
will be used to defray all tolls and
ferriage and to pay for nights storage
at garages in Atlantic City and Will
mington.
No. 5-Pacemaker
The contestants will be preceded by
pacemaker, and any entrant or rep
resentative thereof who passes the
pacemaker shall he disqualified. If the
pacemaker g car breaks down or is
compelled to travel at a rate of speed
so slow as to impede the progress of
the tour, his flag shall be transferred
to the first suitable car overtaking
him, which car shall thereafter become
the pacemakers ear, subject to the
same conditions until such time as the
official. paeemaking car can again per-
form the duties.
Contesting cars shall not pass the
pacemaking car unless it is running
behind the schedule. The pacemaking
car shall precede the contestants far
enough ahead so as not to infringe
upon the time of the first contesting
car. Cars Intentionally leaving the
course will be disqualified.
Cars unintentionally leaving the
course must return to it at the point
whence they left, under penalty of dis
qualification.
No. 6-Road Regulations
Entrants and representatives thereof
shall conform to all laws ordinances
and rules of the road, and any entrant
or representative thereof violating any
of the provisions of these rules, or who
fail to show due consideration to the
officials or other participants in the
tour, or other users of the highway,
may be disqualified or penalized at the
discretion of the referee.
Any car whose owner or driver shall
be arrested for a violation of speed
laws, or any law or ordinance, may be
disqualified or penalized at the discre-
tion of the referee.
When road conditions are so bad that
a car cannot get sufficient traction to
move, or is ditched, and reasonable eff
fort has been made to extricate it,
towing or other external means may be
used to relieve the immediate distress
only, but under no circumstances shall
a car enter control except under its
own power. When towing is necessary
the owner or driver shall make re-
port to the referee giving time, place,
conditions, distance of tow and any
other details. The sense of this rule is
not to permit towing of a car for any
considerable distance.
No. Thine Penalizations
Contestants delayed by traffic for a
period over three minutes will be al
lowed time, if needed, upon receipt by
referee of statement from driver and
signed by all passengers and verified in
writing by at least the entrant of one
contesting car, stating cause of delay
and length of time.
Lateness at noon and night controls
will be penaliZed at the rate of one
point per minute for each minute con-
testing car is behind its official time.
No 8-Checkers
Official checkers will be stationed
at every control where stops are to be
made. Each contestant will have the
time due at controls and the time of
lay-over and the time to leave marked
upon his running schedule card, and
these must be checked with the official
checker and marked by him at each
control.
The ruling will work in this way:
If car is due at the Reading con
troll at $40 and is required to make a
ten-minute stop it shall not leave until
the official time or $50. When the car
arrives, say at 9.32, the official checker
will make that notation on his card as
we'll as upon the drivers card and the
car will have the extra time to spend in
the control, not leaving under any cir
cumstances before the official time of
$50.
No. 9-Prizes
Trophies will be awarded IN the fol.
lowing manner:
The entrant of each car finishing
with clean scores will be. entitled to
participate in the drawing for the tro.
phies and cups which have been offered
by business firms and individuals.
No. 1O-General Conditions
The Rudolf hotel is the official head.
quarters in Atlantic City and the Hotel
in Wilmington. Special rates