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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1911.
OF LIVE SPORTING NEWS
You’ll Find a Batch of Automobile Doings
Not to Mention a Few Passing Motor “Views”
GAME
AA.C
; ve. Bunch Will Tackle
A. of Athens Satur-
sight at Local Gym.
LEONARD GRAVES.
JbU Athletic club on Au-
Znlay night the opening
. «uon will be played bo-
infabmen andthe festive
i representing the Y. M. C.
taJlestlone. this 8 am0 wtn
me For many weeks Joe
in rounding Into shape a
■rteen pliyers to represent
. duh and the men have
ihillr. Reports from Atli-
itmo effect about the
SSSi tvhy the game shouid
■'.that ex-Georgia men will
ill men and ex-Atlantans
iunt. The fur Is bound
then old college chums and
all mix It
id la expected and If root-
. anything the two teams
id to "go to It" good and
to witness the games are
lift year, 50 cents to club
ctnta to outsider*, who cun
only upon the request of n
the club, and 25 cents for
able line-up of the two
Atlanta.
Harrison, rf.
ibenateln, If.
Falvey or Forbes, If.
Vondereau, c. ..Griffith, c.
Eraklne or E. Carter, rg.
(avion, lg
C. Smith or Griffin, lg.
HERE IS THE WEEKLY AUTOMOBILE PICTURE GALLERY
TEAMS
L PERFORM
wear football game played
i leveral years and one of
plsytd here will be staged
itlege campus Saturday aft-
han been organized that
:helr membership English-
an, Scotchmen, Americans,
illana and a few other na
iad a corking contest la
It la expected that quite a
urn out to aee tho fun. The
irt at 1 o’clock and no ad-
vlll be charged,
ble line-up la:
While. Taam B, Blua.
k. .. .. A. P. Jettc. g. k.
f. .. .. Cyril Smith, r. f.
I. f. .. J. F. Chambers, 1. f.
h. .A. Shears, r. h.
at r. .. C. hi. IVnhoo, c. f.
nter, 1. h. .. C. Roper. 1. h.
w. f. .. R. Bryce, r. v
r. 1. f. . i
Pit llarland (capt), r. I. f.
If... E. Worrell, 1. I. t
(capt), 1. w. f. ..
. ..A. Strachan, 1. w. f.
Referee, Jim Grant, La-
llneimen, N. T. Jones and
MOTORISTS WILL MEET
TO ORGANIZE A CLUB
t
Atlanta Automobile and Accessory Association Has Called a
Meeting for the Purpose of Forming a State Organization
Having as Its Members Motor Car Owners.
^fHM i n h-h ii m
iNEY TO QUITI
'3 WHAT THEY SAY 4-
.{.
Dee. 9.—Ed Sweeney +
with the Yankees next 4*
m big catcher, accord-
u* cloae to him, rays •!•
doing such a nourishing 4-
™ a garage he Is run- , 4-
Jleago that he Intende to -'r
Gaaeball. Some say he -I-
>or an Increase In his 4-
+
w old trick of the play- 4-
Hre every winter, and 4*
In the game. But
* to be something to the 4*
umor. There wee eome +
Yankee camp last fall +
“5°lng In business, and 4*
*™ he would stop base- -k
"* *®l a boost in his -k
+
H-H-I'i III 11 HkH'kt
VEVOII
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111 s Restaurant
«to Piedmont
cycles and
y Carriages
Repaired
jBERTS
Whitehall St
A mass meeting of automoblllsts will
be held at the Transportation club at
4:30 p. m. on Monday, at which time
an effort will be made to organize a
state automobile association.
The need of some organized body of
motorists has been brought homo very
strongly to the automobile folks In tho
past six months, first by the fear of ad
verse .legislation at the hands of the
state legislature and second by the ap-
parent danger of the passage of antl-
autnmobllo ordinances In Atlanta that
would virtually legislate the buzz bug
gies from tho street.
Realizing all this, the Atlanta Auto
mobile nnd Accessory association, that
live-wire organization headed by
George W. Hanson, has called a meet
ing for Monday afternoon, and will see
to It that a good crowd turns out for
tho session.
This same organization has other
schemes stewing about. One Is
project for an automobile show,
committee has been appointed to look
Into this matter, and It seems pretty
certain that there will be a dealers'
show In Atlanta In January or Feb
ruary.
Thle Automobile and Accessory asso
ciation Is tho first automobile organi
zation that Atlanta has ever had which
seems destined to last permanently.
At a barbecue held at the Cold
Springs 'cue grounds on June 10, the
association was organised for the ad
vancement of automobile Interests In
the state.
The following are the officers of the
A, A. A. association:
George TV. Hanson, president; F. J.
Long, C. L. Elyea, vice presidents; E.
H. Ellcby, secretary and treasurer.
Semi-monthly meetings are held, and
anything pertaining to the welfare of
the automoblllsts in the state dis
cussed. When tho legislature was In
session In the summer, a bill nos In
troduced that 31 per homo power tax
be placed on all automobiles In the
state. The association members, as
well os Individual motorists, felt that
this tax was unjust, and Immediately
began to work on their representatives
to have tho bill voted down. Tho as
sociation employed a prominent attor
ney to look after the Interests of the
automobile owners, and also gave the
matter personal attention themselves.
The bill was defeated, and thousands
of dollars were saved to the Georgia
automobile owners.
The association recently appointed a
committee to Investigate the matter of
placing road signs throughout Fulton
county for the guidance of tourists, not
only giving direction and distance to
various cities, but marking dangerous
curves and railroad crossings. This
committee took the matter up with
tho county commissioners of Fulton
county, and this body has consented to
furnish these signs, and the associa
tion *111 see that they are put up when
they are ready for distribution.
The association appointed a recep'
tlon committee to work In conjunction
with tho Chamber of Commerce, to en
tertain the Gllddcn tourists while in
Atlanta on their Journey from New
York to Jacksonville, and practically
every member was out In his car to
give them a welcome.
OLDFIELD’S VIEWS
ABEL AND YOUNG JOE GRIMM -
MATCHED FOR BOUT FRIDAY
Clever Lightweights Will Go
Ten Rounds Before Staten’s
Club Next Week.
Jake Abel. Ilrttwelght, who hailed
originally from, Rusala, but who caUj
Chattanooga hla home now, had been
matched by Harry Staten to meet Young
Joe Grim In a bout at tho Staton club on
Ab#T la,** barring only Joe Mandot, the
leverest and beat lightweight In th#
1 I la rennr^ nt hUttlPfl hlUI
South ’Today.'* Hla record of battle* haa
b##n one of *
eon one ox contlnuoua aucceaa.
a Baltimore tad »"£*'»•£••
Grim is a uaiumorv mu
claity Is speedy boxing. Ha l" wejl known
in the queensbernr world and Staten was
ilellKhted to bo afcle to land him for his
^Staten's*new ".all will bo In shape for
tho bout on Friday night The new ea-
tranco has been Practically completed
and work Is progressing on tbs ring and
J SURE, ATLANTA NOW OWNS 4
+ MANAGER CHAS. HEMPHILL 4-
* A lot of papers, especially out- T
•k side Atlanta, have been much ex- +
4* erctsed over the red taps that had 4*
•k to be gone thru before the deal for
+ Hemphill between the New York
•k Americans and the Cracker club
4* could be completed. Rumors that +
4* Atlanta wasn’t going to get +
4- Hemphill were published In many +
•k papers.
+ in the meantime those who un- +
•k derstood merely chuckled. The ♦
•k deal was dosed when the first an- v
•k nouncement was made that Hemp- +
•k hill would come to Atlanta. All +
•k tho rest was merely tho unwind- t
•k Ing of tho beforementloned red +
4* tape. Now the last formality has 4-
4- been completed and Hemphill Is 4*
4* the property of the Atlanta club. 4*
4- *
Local Man Patents Handy Tool
(Copyright. 1911, by Barney Oldfield.)
Of all the nerve-tlngllng, spine-chilling, heartbreaking races I ever wit
nessed, tho Grand Prize speed battle from start to finish proved the most
thrilling. Never was such a long distance event run. There may have been
moments during a short finish of some great horse raoe, bicycle contest or
an automobile event that gave the spectators as great a thrill for a few sec
onds, but here was a great race which for more than flvo hours held a hun
dred thousand persons spellbound, and there was never a time up to tho
moment Bruce-Broton flashed across the lino at theflnlsh that It was pos
sible to pick three men between whom tho race lay.
It was a distinct triumph for American drivers. Of course, there were
but two great foreign pilots to oppose our home boys, but there was never a
second that showed either NVagner or Hemery as the equal of lleame,
Bruce-Brown, DePalma, Bragg or Mulford. Heamo was the surprise of tha
race. Blender as a grammar school boy, Heame sat at tho wheel of a
big car and mastered the monster at every corner of the course, displaying
' u skill and,reckless abandon that no foreign pilot ever showed In this coun
try, at least. «
Too much can not be said In praise of Bruce-Brown. There were other
drivers In the race who drove Just as game and heady a race as did Brown.
But Brown won, and that le (he answer.
The average piled up by the winners aurpaased tbit great record held
by Nazarro In tho Targa Florlo raoe In Italy a few year, ago. Tho dis
tances were about the same. Of course. It Is absurd to figure the Santa
. Monica average of 74.6 miles an hour In tHo same class as the average of
the Grand Prize. Tho Santa Munir., distance was Just half that nf the
big Savannah race. Tho 76.3 average which Hearne maintained past the
202-mlle mark of the Grand Prize Is the average which must be compared
with tho California record. At that. I believe the same cars that were in
■ the Grand Prize would have piled up nn average of 78 miles an hour over
the California course, even at the 416 miles distance. I would like to seo
the Grand Prize go to Santa Monica If It Is abandoned by Snvannnh. And
I have heard some rumors around tho Georgia city to the effect that there
would bo no racing carnival next year.
I have read quite a few articles to the effect that automobile rnclpg
Is gradually dying out. In fact, I have had many letters frotn my readers
asking my opinion on tho subject Many writers have pointed out tho condl-
tloll lit the racing sport in Europe as ;in Indication of a 1ml Is sure to follow
in America. Automobile racing Is not on tho decline—that Is, so far as the
public Is concerned. larger crowds are being attracted to each successive
road or track raco meet. The appetite of the speed fans seems to be Just
as keen for the sensational sport now os during any period slnco the In
ception of the sport. But motor racing Is dying out so far as tha manufac
turer Is concerned. The fact that only eight makers out of tho four hun
dred and odd In tho world ontered tho Grand Prize at Savannah Is proof con
clusive that the makers have decided they have enough of the expensive
game.
For every dollar that comei In the gate at an automobile raoe It
coats aomo one three dollar,. Tho coat must bo shouldered by the maker.
Promotera are responsible for the number of race meet, and road races
throughout the country, not the manufacturers. In the early days huge
profits end wide margins enabled the makers to plunge the limit at the
racing game. But with the advent of sane business methods, the makers be
gan to count tho cost of racing and tried to strike a balance by figuring up
the number of cars racing had sold tar them. ■ In many Instances the bene
fit was hard to locate. Racing mado possible the success of many con
cerns standing at the top today. But the sport has outlived lta usefulness.
There are not mors than holt a dosen events each year that can be need aa
good advertising or publicity material by the makers of the winning car.
Where do the makers of the hundred or so cars come In? Racing today Is
To my
solely a sport for the promoter and should bo figured on that
mind, the maker who abandons the racing game Is most wise.
The curtain has Just been rung down on tho final event of the racing
season. Hurry and set the stage for the opening event of next year. For
It will soon be time for a Florida beach meet at elthor Jacksonville or
Daytona. I believe the former city should he selected as tho scene of the
competition events and straightaway championships, on account of the lo
cation and the hotel fscIllUu afforded tha visitors. If It ha necessary to
use Daytona beach for some extrumo speed trials for a mile or so, an
extra few day* could be spent at Daytona by tho record smashers. But
Jacksonville should be the scene of the 1913 beach meet.
Altbo the recent grand prize race was not sanctioned by the American
Automobile association, there win not be any of tho drivers “outlawed" by
the Triple-A’s contest board. But few motorists know that the A. A. A.
has absolutely nothing to do with the running of tho grand prize event The
great race Is under the sole control and sanction of the Automobile Club of
America, which organization, by the way. Is the only body In America rec
ognized or affiliated with the International Federation of Automobile clubs.
The grand prize Is the spoils of war marking the victory of tha A. C. A.
over the A. A. A. in a bitter fight some threo years ago. When the smoke
cleared away, the A. A. A. was lying prostrate with the A. C. A. waving
Its war club, the grand prize gold cup. But as the Automobile Club of
America Is not a boastful organization, and as the A. A A. Is a bit sensi
tive about tho subject, the public Is seldom reminded of the fact that the
the grand prize Is run free from Three-A Interference.
COTTER PIN PULLER.
Clarence '/.. Smith, who has been
with the United Motor Atlanta Com
pany for the past few years, has Just
secured a patent on a device for remov
ing cotter pins from machinery*. Mr.
Smith has used one of the pin remov
ers In Ills work on autos for tho past
eight months and has demonstrated Its
usefulness.
This tool . .
mobile repairing, but It can be used to
as good advantage on any kind of ma
chinery where cotter pins are used,
and can be made strong enough to pull
any size pin.
The tool Is so constructed that It
will remove a cotter pin from almost
any conceivable place. It will pull at
right angles as well as on a straight
pull. It has also the advantage that
no cotter pins are dropped, to be re
covered often at great Inconvenience
afterward. When Mr. Smith's device
Is used tho pins are not dropped, but
are held and are left In shape to be
used again.
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER.
527 Austell Building.
MAJORS IS 8ELECTED.
Rip Major* was named Friday night
at a meeting of th*- Auburn football
player* a* < aptaln <>f th# team 1a 1A12.
“—and the only
life insurance I car
ried was to use
firestone
TIRES
ATLANTA BRANCH,
58 Aubnro Are.
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Ever since the Tledeman Trophy race, whloh opened Savannah’s
annual carnival of motor speed, men have been cudgeling their memories
and frisking the records to find an Instance of another event In which
three motor cars of tho same make, comprising a team, finished a big race In
first, second ondHhlrd positions at the finish. They have all given It up.
The performance of tho E-M-F “80’e," driven respectively by Witt, Evans
and Tower, Is absolutely unique In tha annals of road raolng and approach,
ed only by the grand prize performance of the Bens, which last year won
firet and second, tho falling to cop ths third position.
History does bring to mind a number of events In whloh three cars of
a certain type have found themselves in ths Uad e<t some stags of a big
race. Almost Invariably, however, they started to sacs each other and the
result was a catastrophe.
There was nothing of this sort In the B-M-F victory, however; the threo
members of this team had kept under a blanket thru ths early stages of
the race. As their opponents fell by the wayside, unable to hold together
tinder the terrific strain of racing at tha killing clip, ths B-M-F contingent
moved toward the fronL Whan they found themselves running one, two and
three, the pace slackened slightly, each driver oontent to hold his own. Witt
Had obviously bean Informed frlmhlsplt signals that his team mates were
right behind, while Evans and Tower, similarly acquainted with the situation,
were content to leave ths winning to their comrade.
Jack Handley, of New York, tho not a candidate for tha title 1 of world's
record-maker, Burtnan being still with us, admits in his quletaway that
his effort of tho past month deserves some notloe.
Handley, driving a Benz "60," turned up at Saa Francisco a day or two
ago, after a 25-day run from New York,, with the startling nsWs that his
entire trip had been made without even a puncture or a blowout to his Fire
stones. J ”*‘
When It Is considered that his trip took htra thru Koval OoMtt Rat toon
Pass, and the Glorietta Mountains, where roads were built for anything but
hla time and tire reosrd are little lass than
’ Nothing In Western Australia looks so good to tho settlers as tho Ford
modal T, because It carries their tatters to them. Tho Ford Is ths royal
mall train in many sections of the Antipodes. Peeked to the guards with
mail seeks, It goes out un a delivery covering such a wide range ot terri
tory that two weeks la the time necessary for ths trip.
The Cota Motor Car Company has adopted a now 19U vaster and It
Is announced that tho 1913 speedster for this company will also he Im
proved up from the original plana
J. J. Colo and A. E. Morrison, of ths Cota Motor Car Company, and K.
P. Henderson, of tha Henderson Motor Sales Company, are responsible for
the new style two-passenger cor that his been hit upon. Both Cota and
Henderson are former buggy builders.
Following ths 1913 Overland announcement In foreign countries, a
wonderful impetus was given to the Wlllye-Overlend Company's export,
business, with tho result that Overland cars are today being shipped to prac
tically every civilized country In ths world.
Not only did dealers of this country bit ths trail for Toledo when the
Overland 1912 line was announoed, but following the appearance of foreign
advertisements, which were printed In many languages, dealers of Europe,
Australia, Africa and other countries made strenuous efforts to secure the
Overland for their respective territory.
The Overland Is unusually well represented In England, ss agencies have
been established In London, Manchester. Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh and
other targe cities.
If the export business of the Mltchsll-Lswls Motor Company Is any
criterion of the general conditions governing the exportations of American
cars, tho United States Is not losing prestige In tho world-wide distribu
tion of automobiles. Over 11.000.000 In export orders have been taken, anti
there Is scarcely a civilized country that has not absorbed some Mitchell
cars. From the hot sands of ths Soudan In Africa to the frigid Alaska coun
try Mitchell motors ore performing.
Tha latest offorinr of the Hupp Motor Car Company—a 32-horse power
long-stroka, five-passenger touring car—embodies many features now to
this country, and Is also stamped unmistakably with the same Individuality
that has always characterized the HupmobUe.
The new model Is by B. A Nelson, tho creator of the original Hup-
mobile runabout, who has been responsible for the unique style and charac
ter of the Hupmoblle line from the outset
Body, cover and hood have the appoorance of an Integral piece, and show
the pronounced sweeping effects ot straight line construction.
Tha wheel base la 106 Inches and ths oenter of gravity Is exceptionally
low, thus making for steady balenoe and tire eoonomy.
Great pulling power at ell speeds, absence of noise and vibration,
economy of fuel and oil are some of the advantages claimed for. the email,
boro, long-stroke motor. This unique design U In high favor nn.orig the
foremost European engineers, but his nsvsr before been applied to an Amer
ican cor.
Tha motor Is four cylinder water cooled, three sod one-fourth Inch
bora by five and a half lnoh stroke. The cylinders are oast en bloo. Valvee
are all on one side. Their operating mechanism Is of the latest type;
quiet, accessible fur adjustment, yet compltely Inclosed by a preened eteel
cover, which keeps oil In and dirt out. Inlet and exhaust manifolds are
cast with the cylinder block. Connecting rods are high grads forgings
secured by four bolts. •
“The Cadillac Compaxiyjie* hadjrotne auooessful years In. tho past, 1 *
i to eclipse all previous
euld Sales .MHiiagur E. K. Betteon, “but 1913 promises {
record*. I.aut month wai one of th* aevereat Novembers w* have expe-
rlunced for aomo years. Yet Its unfavorable weather made no lmpreealon
oil our shipments. Tho total number of cars that tafl the factory during
the month was 1476; while on November 29—the lost working day of the
month—we sent away 106 can;
"Old England will know a K-r-l-t oar when she sees one before 1113 Is
over," mild General Manager Lawrence Moore, of the K-r-l-t Motor Car
Company, who haa Just returned from Europe, where he closed several
contracts of unusual magnitude.
One hundred K-r-l-ts will be shipped at once te the British agents of
the K-r-l-t Motor Car Company, and the exporting of these light weight cars
will be kept up steadily throughout the season.
"Wo sold more K-r-l-t-s for 1913 delivery In Great Britain then most
any British car manufacturer will turn out In a whole season,'’ sold Mr.
Moors on his return.
Fruits of a brilliant victory denied to the Ford Model T on aooount ot a
protest after that car had carried off the honors In ths roadster plaes In
the four-day reliability run from St Louis to Kansas City and return,
Inst August, havo Just been restored In a decision handed down by the con
test board of tho American Automobile association.
After completing that terrific run twice across ths state of Missouri,
the Ford car had a perfect rood score and also a perfect technical score—
the only car In the roadster division to show a clean state at ths finish.
The Ford was protested on the ground that It had no right to carry a
muffler cut-out nor to havo Its eteering gear wound with tape. The ref
eree allowed the protest and gave the prize to another car, which had been
penalized In tho technical examination. Thereupon tho entrant of the Ford
car carried the cose to the contest board of tho American Automobile asso
ciation, and that court has Just reversed tho decision of the referee which
reetores to tho Ford Model T the laurels of victory It earned in such spec
tacular fashion after one of the hardest reliability tests of tho year.
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