Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-06
SAN DIEGO RACERS ARE TURNING UP AT
 TERRIFIC SPEED
Crowds Watch Preparations
 for Next Saturdays Event and Monster Tahis Creates Sensation by Hitting Pace

SAN DIEGO, an 5-In a pande- monium Of speed and thrills occom- panied by the road of motors and plaudits ia big crowd. practice trials for the San Diego Exposition road race of Jan. are under way The drivers found the Point Loma course In fairly good shape but it will be vorked into much better condition by race time
 With Assistant Starter Frank Low rv handling the flags the drivers speeded their cars over the spectacu- lar course at death inviting pace. However they played safe on the hair pin turns and when they would come | into these brakes would be applied and a cloud of dust would roll up as the fast machines skidded and side stepped.
 Practice had not been under way more than ten minutes before a keen rivalry sprang up between Jack Cal. laghan and Arthur Klein. Callaghan | took his Duesenberg racer over the course at a sixty-five miles an hour average This was a teaser for Klein | and he went out in his King and ! turned lap at a speed of siXty-seven i miles. Then Callaghan came back lnd jumped his speed well over the seventy mark and the speed probably would have been increased to a high fgure had not the end of the practice period arrived
 While Callaghan and Klein were fighting for pre-race attention other drivers of the sixteen entered to date N ere mastering the contourneatec roads of the course There is a purse of $lO,0O0 at the end of the race of l 3O5 S2 miles but to get some part ot | this the speed demons declare they must be well acquainted with tho course and that their cars must have the speed.
 Earl Cooper, who will drive tn, fastest Stutz ever made. was 8 spec itator of the speed trials today. Cooper will have his car in the trials Thurs day For the first time on a westen course the celebrated Tahis car made its appearance and as Jack Gable. 1t. driver. hurled it over the two mil, straiphtaway. the monster race stirred mp enough noise to drown tn, detonation of battery of seize guns The Tahis looks the part. Cominl head-on is has the appearance of 99n locomotive Gable got lO3 mile with the car on the straightaway. Eddie ODonneu, in a Dusenberl turned several fast laps and shove slightly over 100 miles on th straightaway. He declares his ca is ft Tom Allen, who will drive tn , third Dusenberg, will have his ca ! ready for Mondays practice 1 As there will be several days e I practice only the most anxious dri' l CTS were out for the inaugural spir | From present indications an or | slaught will be directed against tn II two French Peugeot cars which vi i be driven by Eddie Rickenbacher an
 Fred Mccarthy The drivers of tn American cars would be pleased
 humble the records of the great Pc,
 peots and win send their mounts afte
 the two French racers. But in Kicker
 bacher and Mccarthy the best cal
 France has yet produced will be we
 handled Rickenbachs car holds tl
 record of turning the fastest lap
 Indianapolis last year. Rickenbach'
 and Mccarthy will be ready for pra
 tice tomorrow as will all of q
 others.
 Several belated entries are e
 pected and there is no doubt but thu more than twenty cars will be
 when Starter Fred Wagner sent
 them away next Saturday morning
 Arrangements for excursions to q
 race from many California cities ! dicate an enormous crowd will be ] hand Grandstand seats are beh [. eagerly purchased and work on t
 grandstand is well advanced T
 stand is located on the fastest part
 the course and is opposite the pi
 where the work of the mechanic
 crews will furnish another attractiC