Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-08-25
JOE GRAY TALKS ON
Ell PASO TO PHOENIX
AUTOMOBILE RACE
Believes, However, That County
Road Bond Issue Takes Prime
Importance; FavOrably Dis
posed towards Race.

10 the fact that the summer is speed |
ing away and autumn approaching
when they read i'm the Review the
article relative to a third El Paso to
Phoenix race over the Borderland
route. The fact that there was to be
no Los Angeles to Phoenix race caus-
ed considerable comment. The ques-
| tion appears to- be- "is the El Paso TO
/ Phoenix race a permanent fixture OF
| will it also be cast into the discard?'
/ When Power Conway, president of
! the State Auto Association, was In
/ Bisbee recently ne told Joe Gray. the
secretary of the association, that Los
/ Angeles had decided against putting
/ on a Phoenix race this year and the
/ phoenicians were ready TO donate
$500 for a race from El Paso. That
/ there will be no coast race has not
/ however, been definitely decided for
san Diego still has the matter under
/ consideration Gray had a little in-
formation from Conway for at the re-
quest of would-be entrant, he had
been sounding sentiment i'm FL Paso.
! Here in Bisbee the race project had
received but little attention.
Although the idea of an FL Paso
to Phoenix race originated in Bisbee
three years ago. it was not put
through until the following year and
then chiefly owing to the energetic eff
forts of John j. Bowen and Jos Gray
70 had to be almost forced upon Phoe-
mix and but for the efforts of Robert
|H Rinehart El Paso would have been
|lukewarm It was a Bisbee project
and from the the outset with Bowen
as it's first sponsor.
Las fall. after the race had been so
/ successfully conducted and brought
Ito a remarkable and record breaking
finish, Binehart wrote Gray that he
did not feel that he could give so
lnuch time and attention to the racing
game another year Later, the FL
Paso Auto Club. of which Rinehart
3 was the president. was taken over as
. bureau of the Chamber Of Com
5 .merce I'm the Pass City
b A short time since Gray wrote Rine-
hart to learn what the sentiment was
- III III Paso and whittier Bnehart was
. still firm I'm his determination TO let
. us others take the lead Riuehart
. replied that he would be ready TO
, again manage such "a race but that
D ne must have the assurance of better
i home support and assistance than in
e the past if he were 20 do so. that he
b. " ould not undertake to 20 it alone as
D he had in the past He added that
as yet little had been said i'm FL Pasc
}. as to race, that the Chamber OF
e Commerce heads felt that the greatest
b benefit went to Phoenix and that Ari
J. zona's capital should contribute more
J. funds That $500 instead Of $1,000
e should be the El Paso contribution
" was their idea.
e Last year the raising OF the BisbeC
- purse came after the partial closing
y Of mines 1t was paid but deficit
@ in It was met by the Auto Club. Sal
oons We're then still operating anC
T. contributed literally to the fund
d What amount Bisbee would undertake
n to raise and contribute has not M
s to this time. been discussed. It ap
n pears TO have been the theory tina
d Bisbee having yv,ice taken the initia
d tive could afford to let another cit
bear the main burden of effort at thi
time.
Tucson, through the Star, is adva
J. eating the engagement of publicit,
B man to devote his entire time to tn,
&: interests Of the Borderland Route a
good salary to be contributed by thu
various cities along IT, The Old Pue
bio has said nothing, as yet, to SHOW
interest in "a race this year Whethe
m is would again contribute $500 canno
e be stated It's race fans seem, lik
% Bisbee, to be pursuing "A watchfu
m waiting course. And that is the stat
% OF affairs at this time
Conway told Gray that IT was tn
- Phoenix idea TO make the race great
er than had ever been run into Phoe
nix in the past with a purse o 1910
600 al the very last Gray called tn
attention of Conway to the fact tina
last year unayailing efforts were mad
to get Phoenix to treat the two race
equally in the matter of Phoeni
purse money gave him the informa
tion which he had at hand and sul
gested that it was up to Phoenix I
declare what it was ready to do. Pas
, discrimination, still remembered, i
favor OF ihe Los Angeles race an
racers and the III Paso race and cor
testants, as well as the fact tina
Phoenix stood for a race over a norti
erly route last year had not been FOL
gotten. Gray's suggestion was tina
If Phoenix now really wanted th
race it should abandon its receptiv
mood and take a strong initiative 70
the race, that it was PhoeniX's frs
move. Conway stated that he woul
take the matter up when he returne
home
&. To Review representative Ora
30 stated that while he would like {
see another race, TO have the grea
classic made a fixture, he looked upo
W the county road bond issue as ia
~ more important and that il woul