Arizona republican., 1916-09-15

The Arizona State Fair will remain a licensed association for the promo ton of automobile races
 After one of the sharpest little con tests ever staged between rival assSci- atiOns, the control of the local mile track remained in the hands of the American Automobile association, and the races of November IS next will be run under A. A. A. sanction.
 This was decided yesterday. when Secretary Tom Shaughnessy accepted the proposition of Dick Hollingsworth, prepared the applications for sanction and sent them on to Chairmen Kenner- dell of the competition committee.
 Two races will be staged in the mile enclosure on Saturday of fair week The first will be the novelty race for stripped Fords. There will be several heats to this race, with josh stunts at the end of each mile in each four mile race. The final heat of four miles will be for blood, and will be between the winners of the elimination trials.
 The second race, and the big one. is to be q 100-mile tri-state champion ship. Cars and drivers that belong to Arizona, New Mexico or Texas only. and in strictly bona fide manner will be permitted to contest.
 That there will be over twenty five entries is the opinion of Secretary Tom Shaughnessy. As the rules allow but thirteen cars on mile track. there will necessarily be some elimination trials. just prior to the big outburst of speed.
 Along with his announcement of the state fairs plans for automobile track racing. Shaughnessy gave out the in- teresting fact that sanction has been applied for to the A. A. A. for the Douglas Phoenix road race This con test will be run in one day. probably November l3. the opening day of the state fair. Drivers in the road race will probably be the nucleus of the en- tries for the track races on November IS. Local drivers will be interested in these plans. and will probably con tribute at least five cars to each race.
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 Originally, the local association had no quarrel with the A. A. A. and even after it's application for sanction for a long. speedway race for drivers of na tiOnal fame. had been overlooked by that organization, it bore no resent ment The A. A A. granted the sane tions for the Vanderbilt and Grand PriX races to Santa Monica for date. that put the possibility of having any of the big drivers here absolutely ou of the question.
 At first, the fair commission though to put on a race for Arizona driveri alone-as that sort of an event ha! been urged by the local boys. who hay, grown sick of competing vainly agains E. Oldfield and E. Cooper in the stat fair events. About that time, proposal were made to hold a meet under tn sanction of the International Motto Contests association, an organization which is controlling most of the mil track and state fair racing in tn United States today This association has registered and licensed man drivers on whom the A. A. A. frowns and is looked upon as an outlaw or ganization. Still it numbers among it drivers some who are just as famou as the majority of the A. A. A. mel
 The bare possibility of the commis sion's closing with the l. M. c. brought a wild howl from friends an representatives of the A. A. A., an HOllingsworth. who acted as starte last year and who is one of the bette known A A. A. officials of Souther