New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-09
Twenty Drivers Wiz Line
Up at Noon To-day for
350-Mile Race.
MILFORD MAKES A
NEW COURSE RECORD
Shows Best Time OF All in Sup
Elementary Trials Over Great
Automobile Speedway.

II. Aston Cup race will BE held over
ne Shespshead BAY Motor Speedway
~ noon today. After week % in
dulginr his capricious spirit the
Weather man has promised smiling
skios and cool. brscinG weather Tn
Der these conditions it Is safe 20 pre-
dict that hundred thousand, and pos
.ibly more. worshippers st the altar OF
he speed gods vii. watch twenty driv-
ers hurl their carr over the 350-mile
course IN a mad dash for the cup Of
Tered by Vincent Aston, cash prizes
amounting 20 $4,000 and the glory that
attends victory.
This race was originally scheduled
FOR last Saturday. but rain prevented.
Indeed. week OF unsettled weather
caused many anxious moments, but The
lsin finally ceased. and all IS IN readi-
ness for the greatest event Of It's KIND
ever held m this section OF the coun-
Try anc over one Of the fast test race
courses in thc world to-day.
Half dozen drivers qualified their
cars in the supplementary speed triais
held over the course yesterday after
noon. bringing the total number OF
entries I'd 20 twenty. Jean Porporato
ATTEMPTED 20 get in with his F. K. p, but
he same hoodoo which camped close
on his trail all week pursued him yes
tcrday and he failed. Earl Devors
drove the Baby PeuQeot in the Quai1y.
ing rounds IN 1868, o. at rate OF
rinety-four miles an hour, but falied
20 win his place on The line. Under the
conditions Of tho race no more tnaN
five cars Of any individual make are
permitted 70 start, and since iVe othef
peugeots all qualified in faster time
Devorc will be forced 10 JON the IN
lucky Porporato IN the ranks OF we {
spectators.
Ralph milford. whose new Peugeo'
q rrived a. the course Yesterday morn I
ing suosbed an records for the track /
IN HE qualifying round. lie hurled .
his car around tho course in the phe- +
noneral time or 1:05.35. which is .
slightly faster than 40 miles an hour.
This was miles and miles faster man +
any Of the other cars which quaunea'
milford however. will start IN the rear .
ysnks. for under the conditions the men /
Who qualified in the supplementary T
TRIAL. cannot Dust the men who quail +
in the previous trials.
THE other men who qualified yesteI-
6sv we're Eddie Pulleu in a Maxwell .
who circled the track ia l;l5; OF I
,inetv-eight miles All hour; Carl Llm- .
nero. in p Delage. who made the circuit
IN f:1b.77. ats rate OF ninety-hye mics /
an hour: Pete Henderson, IN Deuseh'
berg. st ninety-three miles an houI'
Ralph De Palma. in a Stutz, at nlhetg- ,
one miles an hour. and lob Alley, VINO
cot his Orren mp 10 oighty-six miles an :
h our under the official timers.
The disappointment occasloned ol +
he nostponement Of the race from iast .
saturday and the worlds series mas .
~ det-acted whit from the interest,"
g., the r,ce. and the greatest crowd that .
Vas ever gathered together IN one IN /
closure in the East viii be IN attend
ance. The thrills afforded by twenty /
intrepid men flirting with death al ca,
ling. binding speed are not 70 he mao
.verv dav. And even greater interest
e added in that the men VINO VIII SPeeu
for gold and glory when the sun crosses
,hc meridian at noon to-day are amer
cams. with few exceptions. So,
IA rs. indeed. the frst timc in the M
tory Of race OF such importance tha'
American drivers may have the chance .
,o fqbt +, out among themselves.
pario Rcsta. who speaks with delight
mi English accent. is the only man VINO .
does not own his allegiance TO tne
stars and Stripes Gil Anderson VINO 7
0rst saw the light Some thirty-seyen
ear. ago, was born In the land OF inc .
Midnight Sun, but IS en- American py