Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-27
SIX ENTER FOR
AUTO RACE THRU
CI1Y'S STREETS
Twenty Special Officers
Will Keep. Track Clear
for the Autols:.s.
MAYOR SAYS WILL
TAKE PRECAUTIONS
Street Car Traffic on Streets Used for
Speedway Will Cease During Tests.
Merchants Contribute t. FUND
for Prizes.

ANNOUNCEMENT is Iuauc ludl Mayor
Simon Bloom will select twenty extra
policemen to guard lntarsecting
streets, when the automobile race is
pulled off in Main ana State sire cts
Monday, July s., and that two Of the
busiest intersections will be closed
entirely during the tine the race is
run, these being Martin place and
Fifteenth avenue.
The plans of the promoters of the
affair have BEEN changed, INSOFAR as
the route is concerned, although the
same streets will be traversed by the
speeding cars. The race will start
at Sixth and Main, and the cars will
run south on Main street to Hardin,
thence east to State, and north on
State to Sixth avenue, thence 70 the
place OF beginning. Each car will
make he loop twice, thus covering a
distance of approximately three mites.
Already thera are six entries, these
being Toney Calabrecta in a Buick;
Will Vought in Studebaker; Will
Wolff in a Buick; J. c. Cone in a
Ford Homer Parker in FORD; and
Roy Senyard, who has not yat decided
what make of car. he. will drive.
Because the promoters are receiv-
ing many Anqdfres by mail, by tele-
phone and in person, it is expected
now there will be at least a dozen
cars entered for the race.
That the street. cars traversing the
,err; tory affected will cease entirely
while the race is on was announced
by the promoters. 1t is estimated
each pair of cars will need about
10 minutes to make the three mile
distance, and that with twelve cars
entered. q full hour will elapse in ac-
tual running time, not including the
final race for first and SECOND prize
between the two fast cars. the time
between the starting, of each pair of
cars, and the time taken in exhibit
lions by some driEars from Little
Rock who are expected to be here.
In al, it is estimated something like
one hour and thirty minuteS will be
consumed from start to finish of the
affair, during which time the streets
making the route will be kept bare
of street cars, other vehicles of what
soever kind and even pedestrians.
Mayor Lends Assistance.
Mayor Bloom stated last night the
I20 special policemen will be selected
from a list of prominent local men
which will be handed him by the pro-
motors of the affair.
"The city will be under no expense
whatever" said the mayor, 'aand 4
fave been assured there will be no
accidents
The mayor stated the affair will!
not be real race, because all OF
the drivers will be novices. in that
they never participated in profess
sional automobile races. There will
be no record breaking time made by
any of the cars, because excessive
speed will not be tolerated, he said,
owing to the danger of accident
The affair, said the mayor, was
arranged by the promoters to help
local business houses, by bringing
people here from Grant, Lincoln and
other adjacent counties. who are ex-
pected to come in large numbers for
the contest. The visitors are expect
ed to do their purchasing here, before
the races, the business men thus get
ting returns on the investment they
are making through subscriptions to
the fund being rasie6 to pay the
prizes to the winners Of the race, 500
10 the frs. $75 ito the second and $50
to the third.