The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-25
RACERS GO AGAINST
TIME AT BAY TO-DAY
Drivers Must Speed Cars at 81
Miles an Hour in Order to
Get i'm Cup Event.
MANY ARE EXCEEDING 100

The Sheepshead Bay speedway was
full of buzzlng. roaring. racing utomo-
biles for an hour or so late in tn after
noon yesterday while about half the
thirty drivers whose cars are entered
FOR the Astor, cup race a week from to-
day did a lot OF tuning up work. The
formal elimination trials for the race
begin this afternoon, and nearly all the
drivers will be on hand for them. Those
who fail to show eighty-tve miles an
hour will get the gate. unless they pro-
duce that speed one OF the first three
days Of next week. 1t is A sure thing
that any one of the cars entered that
can run at all will do the trick, as
hardly anything slower than ninety
three miles AN hour was clocked yestcr-
day.
Earl Cooper. driving n Stutz. had the
longest trick OF the day. IL covered
nifty miles. ranging from a speed Of
II seconds for a two mile lap up to
about IS seconds. lie did the nifty miles
in approximately 80 minutes. which is
a 100 mile an hour average. Rick n
hacker. with his Maxwell. also drove
Tor a considerable stretch. slowing up
I now and again. He was averaging
about / :l5 10 the lap. in other words
around r~inety-five miles an hour. Harry
Grant. whose selection as a tcamma.e
of Rickenbacker was announced re-
Gently, had his noun on the track and
drove several laps, ronc OF them wide
open.
Resta with the Peug. OF had the fast
est lap Of the day, covering two niles
in ! ;0S 10, according to me electrical
timer operated by T.. +. Edwards This
Is At the rate Of loo miles an hour.
Barney Oldfeld. with the cigar as usual
| did the next fastest lap. 1t was an
nounced. / :O9. which IS pot So much
slower than los miles an hour. He
had his Dclage all gu; to De- this. he
said.
Barney's car belongs to Dave Joyce.
a millionaire lumbermlu OF Chicago.
who must h a real character" Joyce
paid big none for the car AID then
leased II TO Barney Tor a year AT a
cost Of 81. Barney pulled down $4,000
prize money AT Chicago, and pr, pared
TO turn it over to Joyce, but he said.
mo. what % wins your own. ! get
10 part Of it," At Minneapolis Barney
got $500. and as ~R!ckeubhcker had
driven "A part 81 the way ne started
TO give Rick $500. Joyce hard OF j.
and insisted on paying Rickenoa. hcr
himself. lie aid - barney Hes
driving for me, not FOR you, ard III
pay my own hired men
Gil Anderson drove a S;utz for s.vcrIl
laps under the watchful eye of Harry q.
Stutz ,who makes ihemI and BIZ Park
inson. who sells them locally. Three
Stu:zes are entered and the team =
.ryins to md out which two are the
fastest. There j. another driver. Ton
Roorey. who will act as relief for one OF
them when they get set ON whi'h ~ tho
two cars TO send to the post.
Pete Henderson and Eddie bnoUn'll
had the DueSenberEs out. driving laps
around ninety-hve miles an hour opon
nell's car has the exhaust direct from the
top OF the motor through A row Of pipes
such as are seen on speed boats. They
look like 4 set OF per scopes. The
Duescnbergs are nccoun& very fast
cars. Eddie pullen got out WIKI one of
the MERGERS and drove a short time
Their the gas line got '.Ogccd and one
rear tire picked up a nail, so he sled II
a day. The other Mercer b. s'ill under
COINS adjustment and won't be on hand
for a day or so. Hughie Hughes. the one
time Mercer racing driver. who - viii
inlay Il. Porter OF the +. L. T. cars
was in the pits. He said Il seemed N.
likely that the +. r. + cars would be
ready for the race, although one mig
be got through
Both Howard Wilcox and Johnny
Aiken did a little speed work with THEN
peugeot cars. They were caught in the
early part of the practice m laps at lO-
and lO3 miles an hour. Their leuEcotS
which are new to this country, appcd &
have lots OF speed In fact outside al
Rickenbacker's Maxwell ana the Suite,
the peugeots thus FAR have shown mort
than any Of the Others. lIckcuhtCkcc's
car is well thought OF.
Haibe In the Scbrine DID laps rduSlnl
from 10 to lis, his fastest being
about ninety-five miles an hour. BY 'h'
way, Haibe's FIRST name Is ora. not otto
AZ this paper enormously reported II
yesterday The otto particularly rifles
Haibe, because he is Of French descent
Earl Cooper. who has had plenty OF
experience on the Chicago speedway, Wa
asked what he thought Of the Chicago
and Sh%ccpshead ~speedways compared
He said he thought the New York speed
way was better constructed than chi
Cages and probably would prove to he
slightly faster in the long run tn,
extreme width of the ShecIShcad tranl
at the turns. making II necessary tt
drive away out in order TO climb M, Is
what in hiS opinion makes II unlikely
that any speed better at the most hN
more than a couple of miles An hour
than that ut Chicago viii h" shown her"
Johnny Aitken agreed with this aud said
he thought that Chicago was much faster
for "A single lap than ShrepSh"td Ray.
Ralph DE Palma and som" other noted
competitors viii be- added to the Inst to
day. when the trials begin.
Eurrrs Victor over NcIsUn.