New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-30
y ENTRIES FOR
BAY AUTO RACES
Fastest of Foreign and
American Cars Named
for Metropolitan.
Nv JEROME T. SHAW.

With the running Of the race still
close TO two weeks of. sufficient entries
Of the highest calibrc have already
been nominated 10 make the Mctropoli-
tan Trophv and the three other speed
contests 10 be staged on the Sheopshead
Bay Speedway on Saturday, May IT,
motoring classic that VIII prove nara
10 surpass during the remainder OF the
long season. twenty-five OF the fastest
cars complying with the limited piston
displacement of 800 cubic inches avail
able IN this country or abroad nave
been entered iu the metropolitan
Tronbv. the piece dc resistance of the
coming spced fest. and 10 is likely that
before the entry list finally closes the
field Of probable starters viii be IN eX-
cess OF the limit of thirty-tWo cars.
A glance al the entry list as II stands
today disclOscs an interesting sltua-
ton to the dycd-in-the-wool motor race
fan. a situation which should add con
siderable 20 the interest IN the bay
races This is the transplanting TO an
American speedway of the great speed
and ownership contests when 'beicie
the war" thrilled thousands OF visitors
10 the famous French motor racing CIR
cults. For years there has been the
keenes. Of rivalry between the feugeot.
Delage and Sunbeam teams IN all OF
the leading European contests. the
drivers Of these cars knowing no unit
TO their daring in these battles Tor su-
promacy.
The racing circuits OF Amiens' lie
Mans and LYONS in France have IN
their turn been the scenes Of the speed
flights Of these machines, the ngnt DC
4 l.. lipIHUp
for leadership among cars of French
manufacture and the Sunbeam strlV-
ING to attain the laurels for Great
Britain. The duel between the Deiage
and Peugeot for the premiership OF
France has been Of a seesaw charac-
ter. though in the feature events ~
which they met prior TO the Grand
Prix of the Automobile Club of France
at LYONS. in July. 1914. the victories
of Georges Boillot and Jules GouN
placed the advantage with the latter
I'm the LYONS race. which was run about
a month before the breaking out o!
the war. GouXs Peugeot finished
fourth. back of the three Mercedes
which virtually swept the boards, WIN
ming first, second and third places. ne
Delages in this race. when are thc
machines recently imported TO TINS
country as the properly VI
Hardness. were not sufficiently broken
in and failed to make the showing tha'
was expected Of them.
II is true that the Delage, Peugeo'
and Sunbeam have met before IN con-
tests in this country, notably the l9l4
5OO-mile race at Indianapolis. but the
METROPOLITAN Trophy will afford the
American race enthusiast the first
opportunity Of watching three well
balanced teams Of these cars IN COM
petitlon. Heretofore. with the eNcep,
ton of the Hoosier race mentioned
above. there has been performance
of PeuCeots in the American contests
in which these three makes competed
t A, Sheepshead Bay, however. the
three Peugeots, driven respectively ny
Ralph milford. Johnny Aitken ana
Dario Resta. Will have pitted against
them three Sunbeams and four Deiages:
The Sunbeam drivers will include JOSEF
Christians. the Belgian speed piiot'
who arrived IN this country last week
with new siX-cylinder aviation mo-
tored racing car. which IS expected 10
develop surprising speed. Cnrlstiaens
* not a stranger TO race followers IN
this country. having driven a Belgian
Excelsior car into sixth place IN inc
1914 INDIANAPOLIS race. At present he
is on a leave of absence from military
duty in England. and It is ggested
that he was permitted 10 enter the
Sheepshead Bay race primarily to test
the aeroplane motor with which ms
Sunbeam is equipped. From present
indications the Delage team VIII be
manned by American drivers, Carl Llm-
berg. captain of the Hardness team,
and Jack Lecain being the only drivers
for these cars named 20 date.
The following are the entries made 20
date for the Metropolitan Trophy race: