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THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1908 5 Attention, Autoists! ^ We have some particularly attractive bargains to offer. We believe we can convince you which we offer for sale and recommend are the best that the same amount of money can buy. A\, A\ they are known wherever all-engrossing subject of that the machines They are standard; automobile excellence is appreciated. We claim to speak with authority on the AUTOMOBILES We have just received from Olds Motor Works: One X Touring Car, listed at $2,000; one of the Special Roadsters listed at $2,000; one of the Model D Touring Cars, listed at $3,600. These are all 1909 models, and we are personally guaranteeing them to be free of repairs for twelvemonths. We are now booking orders for the model 20 Olds Touring Car, listed at $1,200, which is the latest model -on the market. We will begirt to make delivery about the 1st of January. We have been allotted only a limited number of these cars, so place your order with us before it is too late. The Automobile & Machinery Company 321 Second Street, Macon, Ga. We have for sale one second-hand model R Ford, thoroughly overhauled. $500 will buy this Runabout; just repainted, equipped with two gas lights and generator and top. GREATEST AUTOMOBILE RACES, EVENT OF WORLD-WIDE INTEREST IN SAVANNAH NOVEMBER 25-26 Most Notable Sporting Brent the South Will Have Ever ‘Known—All Records for Speed Will be Broken— World’eMost Famous Racers Will Participate—Great Beyond Description.. DATA FOR GENERAL USE, By FRANC MANQUM. Special to The Telegraph. SAVANNAH, da., Nov. *1.—The greatest sporting event In the history «»f the south, and the most notable au tomobile race In the life of ttfese ma chines, will be held In Savannab, Ga„ next week. le a big thing—ao big In fact. to visitors. All possible accommoda tions are provided for him who c6mea to see. Everyone you rpeet wears a button—*! Live Here, Ask Me." And they like to talk to you; want to talk to you, and do talk to you whether or no you want to listen. And the automobile race le the sole theme of their conversation. Summary. The writer was a visitor, and he learned many, many things, marvelled winners of Vanderbilt cups, Heinery and Wagner. Fournier In tho first racer to make a mllo under a minute In America. Cara will be started one minute apart. By the time the last one Is lcavlnr the post, tho first will have completed the lap of 25 miles. Then on It will be a race almost neck and naek. _. The Light Car race Is for 200 trtlles K National ..Hugh Harding Itala Alexandre Cagno Clement-Bayard ....Luclen Hautvast FJat .Lout* Wagner Bens .Rene Hanrlot Renault Lewis Strang Itala Henry Fournier Flat Ralph DePalina Bens Frits Brio itala alnvannt Piacenza Light Car Race. No. Car. Driver. I w.' 'u. lim'Krfl I —Chalmera-Detrolt L. J. Bergdoll 4 —Amn-Artstocrat K. R. Manvllle 6 —Cameron F. C. Cameron • —Inotto ....Herbert Lytle 7 —(Iregolre George Robertson 8 — Htiick Robert Iturman f—Maxwell Arthur Bee 10—Chalmers-Detrolt L. B. Ixirlmoc .v.v.v.S- sst tSS Speed Table. These speed tables will be of much practical benefit: learned from personal observation, an. believes may be summed up thusly: It will bo the greatest race ever held In America or Europe. Drivers of International fame have pronounced the Savannah course the safest and greatest In the world. Great speed la possible because of physical condition of the that one can hardly grasp It all. ’ Its «««l * xp *f lt<ir * ; o n N .\oTr u n7,r.f*nT“ h wtof«U d ri of nrarly two hundred thousand dol-! C |, y |, ,tirred from top to bottom. !ar». There will be at least 100.000 ! All one sees are automobiles: hears persons In attendsnee from all parts of nothin* but the warnln* bonk! honk! the world. There will be special contln-1 and la told of nothin* sir. tho "Grand a*’nts from all of the northern states. Prise Race." The business men, the Every auto driver of note will partlcl- | merchant. rate. All American records and very, aroused ful preparation, perfect In every lm- a*lnable detail, that hie been made, and he *aaps again In astonishment. Not a thin* has been overlooked. No 0rcRl op ^j ls automobile race will ever have been the superior phyi run under such circumstances, with road, the many slmlghtawsy stretches, ■d many safeguards, so many arrange-1 the absence of hill* and the few turns, monta and devices to prevent, as far which are banked for safety and as possible, mishaps and aocldents, ‘-.peed. • and to insure the unqualified success [ Another feature that Is wholly of Of an event destined to he memore- 1 Savannah Initiation la the guarding of the- course by seven companies of Scene Along Automobile Route. probably the world', records_wM be thuslasm. tfry M. Uielr broken. It will ba the greatest dem- ( time and tbNr money and are n<-g. cnstratlon of the power of an onto-1 jaetln* >>«» awn igjtjjo aa^ajB; ri'm greasy. s? s-grg terrifying risk of human Ufa *>«*•\ST.’vw.'Slt^Cup^J££* jsfrsmvssr grzsxisvftsrzi. -a. tn facts, b» i i town Is opsn Vtate troops during tho progress of the race. At n<* time while the race Is In pro gross will any one be allowed to cross tho right of way. No railroad train or street car wQl cross any part of the track at any time during the race. The course Is 25.03 miles in length. The entire roadway has been oiled to keep down the dust and to hard en it. There Is a watchman, with a flag, at every eighth of a mile. It lg the Grand Prise race of the Automobile Club of America, with the co-operation of the Savannah club and the city of Savannah and tho county of Chatham. It corresponds, but surpasses, tbs Grand Prlx race of Prance. The race will comprise l« laps or 400.SI miles. A grandstand seating sixteen thous and and bleachers accommodating as many more are provided. 'The fastest racing machines In America and Europe will participate, as will ths most famous drivers of all countrlss. A telephone system will be operated, keep* * * The price will be a f .1.000 gold cup. and the winning drivers will receive nearly 125.600 In cssh prices. For weeks, some for months, have drivers been practtlcng on the course. Each automobile compnnv that has entered a car, has established a **camp^ somewhere along the course. There the machinery and extra ma chines art kept. There will be two races. Th* Light Csr race, over a ten miles quadnlate. ral course, will take place Wednesday. November 21. The Grand Prise race follows on Thahksglvtnf Day. There will be twenty-two cars In the Grand Prlzi race. Tare of them are Scene Along Automobile Route, and has 21 entries, Including Robert son, the last winner of the Vanderbilt cup. It will bs an example of daring, of recklessneaa and utter disregard 'of Impending death that has no anleco- and tbs time msds by tha drlv- «Hf to the grandstand. Street cars also reach to within essy walking dis tance of nearly evsry part of the course. The fast time will be made on Fer guson avenue, a part of which can be reached by street car. List of Drivers. The list of drivers is as follows: No. Car Driver. 1 —Clement-Bayard .Victor RlgaJ 3 —lister Harry Mlchener * - Pin J. Seymour 4 - Hu left ./t R. Berman 5 —Chiutwlck -JWhile floupt C — Piet Felloe Nssarro 7 Asme Len Zrngle t —B«nz ...Victor Hosiery • —J»-I>ie»ricn Arthur I>.ir.»v 10— Renault Fnu.vols Sties Shewing rate of speed la miles per hour of cars completing the 0:1 miles circuit In any gnren time, of half minutes inter vals from six to fifteen minutes: Time of lop. MUes per hour. • minutes r ‘ 44 minutes 1 J minutes r - - 4 minutes • minutes 14 minutes ....... f minutes , F«Tl!Ky..v.v:.v.v:::::::::::::P 104 minutes 54 11 minutes U:l 114 minutes 11*1 It minutes 41 a^SS&T;.*.:":/.-.:;*.*.*."'.:-.-.-.-.^, 114 minutes 41:4 14 minutes 41 _ 144 minutes ......40:5 It minutes St:S Speed Table for Orand Prize Race. iftes per hour miles circuit • iri ii- Ir.tvr id thirty TtmVof Miles per hour. 8 minutes 100:5 4 minutes «f;3 If, minutes .. minutes ■ nSEs sri Wi’SHi' .. 14 minutes .j minutes ., I»4 minutes 10 minutes • I04 minutes 1 minutes .. 114 minutes 11 minutes m 34 minutes 47 If minutes ft 134 mlnutss 4 minutes 144 minuter* * §1 ‘ minutes .. 4 minutes 1 minutes . 4 minutes 'minutes HI] ’’UBS*:II SO minutes 50:! Tho following are tho various officers for the race: Contest Committee of tho Automobile Club of Amerioa. Robert Lee Morrell, chairman; A. H. Whiting. Harris Houpt, H. II. Law, B. M. Butlor. E. R. Hollander, B. B. Htevens. II. C. Pearson. Mass- achupetts Automobile Club; M. T. Clinton, secretary. Referes. Robert Loo Morrell. Honorary Referees. Hon. Hoka Smith, governor of Geor gia. Hon. Joseph M. Brown, governor- sleet of Ooorgla. Hon. George W. Tiedemnn. mayor of Savannah. Mr. Frank C. Battey, president of the Savannah Automobile Club. Mr. Harvey Granger, chairman course committee. Bavanah Automo- bllo Club. Mr. It. J. Dovant. chairman execu tive committee. Savannah Automobile Clu*. Hon. E. H. Gary, president Auto mobile Club of America. Mr. Henry Bandereon. vice presi dent Automobile Club of America. Mr. Jefferson Thompson, chairman Racing Board, A. C. A. Judges. v Harlan W. Whipple, John E. Roosc- velt, B. H. Schwarzkopf. John Gerry, 15. H. Ilcame, Ruben -BUtier, K. V. Hartford, Guy Howard. Wilkin Brown, A. R. Partington. F. A. D. Parting ton. P. A. D. Hancock, Walter Al len. Peter Fogarty, Lee Butler. E. N. Cornwell, F. X. Courteney, George W. Allen, Herman Halstead and tho field officers and staff of the First Regiment of Ooorgla Volunteers, and the Savannah Volunteer Guards. Honorary Judges. non. Walter O. Chariton, judge of the superior court. Hon. Davis Freeman. Judge of the city court. Hon. Henry McAlpIn, Judge of the court of ordinary. Hon. Paul E. Seabrook. judge of tho Atlantic circuit. non. John K. Bchwarx, judge of the recorder's court. Military Commander. Major William B. Stephens, Bavin* nah Volunteer Guards. Engineer. W. F. Brown. Technical Committee ef ths Automo bile Club of America. Henry Souther, chairmen; If. A. Neeland, Allen MoMurtry. Henry Ford, and Charles O. Curtis. Inepoctere, Theodore E. Steinway, William It. Htelnway, H. R. Leldlng, James Rourkc, R. R. Oakman O-orge L. Kearns, Monroe R. Rotchchlld, Charles O. Wilkinson. H. H. Gaines and W. P. Berrien ■S :r.r' ll. fei»rl<’»Hiiess, mi-1 Lrii:' m. >. .'. I plllty to successfully compete In the Jom| hla norve. with lt vati daring, frarlossness, ft tiA^only been two years slnco Strang ns mechanlo for the famous Christ in, but In that brief time ho has madn him- self lnterna»|onn1ly known, and ban named the respect and udiulrntlnn of all other auto racers. And with the brlsht, alluring ‘ * id greeter glory to Hun of track s|wrd. “ alilo and alive bur ho STRANG IS LOSING HIS NERVE; THIS WILL BE HIS LAST RACE BRILLIANT YOUNQ AMERICAN 18 QRKATLY AFFECTED BY TERRIBLE DEATH OF Hit FRIEND AND PART NER, EMIL 8TRICKER—NEVER KNEW WHAT FEAR WAS UNTIL NO.W# By FRANC MANQUM. Hpeclal to The Telograph. SAVANNAH. Ua., Nov. 81.—U is prob- able that Lewis Puinam. Strang will ■Hy desert the death-defying game of automobile raring, inter the grand prize run* Nnun to i>r iirid In Savannah. He Is totally unnerved by the horrible death of hla friend and partnor, Mml| Strieker, Jl who wns to have had a car hi when a driver of tho Strang jiruHJiOI-tH j.f Ing, he*fi to quit, while able and 'alive. He Is not a coward—far from It—r haf, for the Aral time, realised nt miafy studied th# awful ohanos with fats, he. tlko all others of his kind, has barn taking and being a married man of only four weeks, with a bride who dally bo- aseohes him to "quit while he can,'* Htrang will probably never agnln he sesn In a rare other thin the Savannah grand He pmrtirally Admitted ns much to tha wilt<T, after liHvlug Ju-t romplctsd the 23-mlle course In Ires than 2:i minutes. "Oh. It Is a great, a furrinMlmr Ilf,*, this speed game, ho said* tli-n ndd<*d softly: "But took at poor Htrlckor." Ths tatter Surgical fttaff. Dr. Thomas G. Charlton, chief sur geon; Dr. LotBs K. LAnohart, Dr. Hatnuel Pork, and the surglml com- mltteo of the Havannah Automobile Club. Timtrs, Mr. 8. M. Butler, chairman A. C. of A. Ths New York Timers* Club, Lieut. Philip A. Sayles. George McGraham. W. J. Donlan. Charles B. Ferry, A. L. MoMurtry. W. F. Jotus. H. 1A. Theus, 8. A. C. Starter—F. J. Wagner. (C. A. C.). Clerk of the Courae—H. T. Clinton, A. C. of A. Assistants to Clerk of the Conns— E. C. J. McShnne. A. Howell. Press Committee—Thomas F. Moon*, chairman; W. J. Donlan. Announcers—John 8. Banks, R. C. Thompson. Military Quard. Savannah Volunteer Guard*, ffour ’oompunleH). Georgia Hussars. Ger man Volunteers. Chatham Artillery, First Cavalry, National Guard of Geor gia. Irieh Jasper Green*. Emmett Rifles. Republican Blues. Havannah Cadets, and the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, th* last five companies named comprising the five companies of the First Infan try of the National Guard of Georgia. I6.9B to Stvannah and return Nov. 21 to 25, inclusive, via Central of Georgia Railway, for Automobile Race.. Reserve sleeping cor berth in advance, at ticket office, 603 Cherry st. was B/rang'a closest and dearest friend. "If I keep It up,** he continued. ■ i .sup pose the newsboys will some day t ry ths story of my death, tint 1 don't like to think nhijiit such po-albllltlen, and never did until Htrlcker was killed, buppuss I brooded over tha possibilities of a fatal accident? I cotMd not drive! My very curffulness would resulf In my disaster when flying about a track, oven at night, when tree* and housr* and shouting iso- pis flash by as a blurred landscape, I never give danger a thought. I "It Is not because I am bold. It Isn’t because 1 do not knuw of my risks, ti ls because 1 am afraid to !••• afraid. When going ninety tulles and more aa hour, the chances uro that a good driver, whan a tire cxplodis, can stay on ths track. Your only other hope Is that ths car will nnt turn over or strlk* an object before being stopped. "While Strieker’* death Is deplorable, f nd has affected mo ni nothing «*l*e oould, cannot *«y truthfully Hint ! was sur prised. Hurh irngedlcs win happen at any moment. Wo rseognii* thl* fact Htrtok- er was so well aware of the chsnre h* ran, and was ao Inured to the ubiquitous and omnipresent danger, that be •-onsid- ered It almost a thing of commonplace Inature. All or t|« do for that Inaiter, and wo are compelled -o that attitude. "However. I must admit that now at times I begin to feel shaky and creepy. 1 suppose I am losing my nerve, sod when i do, completely, I will quit—that's I all." After a moment, he added* "Anyway, an auto racer Is a fool. He Is *lmr>fy crazy, he has the speed mania. But there are a lot of them." Strang Is one *of tho finest of fellows personally, and It Is both ple.is.mt and interesting to converse with him. He Is a good tnlker and readily answers ques tions. There la nothing that he doesn't know shout an automobile, being abso lute master of a machine. 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