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17,0130 IN PRIZES
FOR GRAND PRIX
AT
Automobile Club of America in
Receipt of Entry Blanks.
Over Chatham Roads.
NEW YORK, May'3.—Tlie Automo
bile Club of America Is in receipt ot
the Entry Blanks for the Grand Frix,
to be run in Savannah, November 27,
1913, for the G. C. $5,000 gold cup.
Total prizes this year amoun^ to $7,-
000, divided as follows?: First prize,
$3,500; second price, $2,000; third
price, $1,000, and fourth prize, $500.
The length of the course to be run
over the famous Chatham County
roads will be approximately 11.44
miles, which must be covered thirty-
five tim«s, making the total distance
of the race about 400.4 miles. Should
the number of cars entered be exces
sive, taking into account the length
of the course, the contest committee
of the Automobile Club of America
will run eliminations. The race is to
be run under the racing rules of the
Automobile Club and such additional
rules for the race as may be adopted
by the contest committee.
Entrance Fees.
Entrance fees are as follows: One
car. $1,000; two cars, $1,500, three cars
of the same manufacture, $1,760.
American entries should be made di
rect to Harvey Granger, care of the
Savannah Automobile Club. American
and foreign cars shall be eligible to
compete; but no more than three cars
of one make may be entered. Foreign
entries should be made through tne
recognized Automobile Club in the
country in which the car is manufac
tured.
Miscellaneous rules governing the
race are as follows:
The committee in charge of the race
reserves the right to restrict any en
try or entries, and to make such
changes in the rules of the race as
In its judgment are necessary.
Each car must carry two persons
seated side by side.
All cars taking port in the race
must have: 1—a reverse gear driv
en by the motor. 2—an exhaust
that Is not directed toward the
ground. 3—the over-all width of the
car must not exceed 6 feet and 2
Inches.
Positon of Camps.
The position of competing cars at
the starting line will be according
to receipt of entry. If two or more
cars of one manufacture are entered
at the same time, they will occupy
dtlie same relative position after each
single entry has been given its posi
tion.
This will be the fifth Grand Prize
Race to be run for the Automobile
Club of America Grand Prix Cup,
which was donated with a view of
stimulating interest in international
automobile road races, to be htld in
America. There have been two Grand
Prix Races held over the Savannah
Course, those of 1910 and 191 It the
late David Bruce-Brown winning
both races.
Nineteen Cars Entered A. A. A. PLANS FOR
for big Indianapolis Race BIG RELIABILITY
TOUR THIS YEAR
Automobiles at Cut Prices are Costly
Two French and One English Car to
Compete With American Machines
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. May 3.—
With the third annual 600-mlle Inter
national Sweepstake race, whloh will
be held at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway. May 30. holding the at
tention of motor enthusiasts the
world over, the event of this year
promises to surpass any singular con
test In the history of American rac
ing. interest at this time is at
fever heat, and the management of
the Indianapolis Speedway Is prepar
ing to take care of a record-breaking
crowd. The French Grand Prix and
the Brooklands races have gradually
given place to the speed contests
which during the past four years have
been staged at Indianapolis, and the
big American track now stands su
preme In the motor world.
Interesting Departure,
A departure this year has aroused
the keen interest of manufacturers In
the 500-miie race. Heretofore the
race has been open to cars (having a
piston displacement of 600 cubic
Inches or less, but this year the an
nouncement Is made that In order to
qualify for entrance cars must have
a piston displacement of not more
than 450 cubic inches. This gives
the manufacturers the chance to en
ter cars of the regular stock class,
and It also prevents the big, power
fully built racers from running away
from the cars of more ordinary size.
While the new ruling will not inter
fere In any way with the making of
sensational records, it Is an establish
ed fact that It will make the race
more closely contested, thus adding
to the excitement of the sport. The
ruling has met with the marked ap
proval of manufacturers and other
entrants, and the wisdom of the move
has been recognized to such an ex
tent that <it is believed that here
after practically every race staged In
this country will adopt the same rule
Thirty curs will be allowed to start
in the coming race, and it Is believed
that the list will be filled, besides al
lowing for some entries which may
fail to pass the preliminary speed
trials which will be held before the
race. In order to qualify a car must
be able to show an average speed ot
seventy-flve miles an hour, and in the
event that more than thirty cars re
main In the field following these pre
liminaries, some of the three-car
teams may be reduced to two cars.
The lineup of drivers discloses the
names of many veterans—men who
have helped to make racing history
and who are noted for their skill and
daring. In fact, with the exception
of one or two men, there is not a
driver entered so far who is not wide
ly known throughout the racing fra
ternity.
To Start From Minneapolis on!
July 11 and Finish at Glacier
Park, Montana.
Jap Billiardist to
Play Hoppe for Title
Kojl Vamada Will Try for 18.2
Honors Here on
May 27.
NEW YORK, May 3—Koji Yama-
da, the billiard expert from Japan,
has challenged William F. Hoppe for
the 18.2 balkline billiard champion
ship. The challenge was issued last
week and the game involved will be
played in this city on May 27.
Under the rules governing the
championship, the holder of it must
play within sixty days from the date
on which a challenge becomes effec
tive, but cannot compel the cLalien
to play in less than forty days. Hoppe
agreed to promptly accept the deli,
exercising his prerogative and name
the shorter limit as the time for the
match.
Yamada wished more time in which
to prepare, but had to abide by the
champion’s decision.
The prospective contest promises to
be unusually attractive. Both of the
principals are fine exponents of the
intricacies and beauties of balkline
billiards. Hoppe is the most resource
ful. Yamada the more spectacular.
While the champion gathers carroms
all over the table, the Oriental con
fines ihis operations as far as possible
to the ends of the table, where he
executes draws and masse shots with
either hand with equal facility.
Splitdorf Branch
For Sou. Territory
Is Soon to Open
,:c Selected and W. H. Girdlestone
Wiii Be Manager, With S. Katz,
Assistant.
O, I. Rohde. Treasurer and Mana
ger of the Splitdorf Electrical Com
pany of New York, was in Atlanta
recently selecting a store to open a
branch and service station, which will
carry a large stock of magnetos,
coils, spark plugs, lightning genera
tors. and parts of the entire line
which the company manufactures.
The opening of this branch is in
response to a demand of many cus
tomers.
W. H. Girdlestone will have charge
of the branch, assisted by S. Katz.
Both of them have long been con
nected with the company and are well
identified with its management.
Henderson Says Wire
Wheels Are Popular
Early in November “The Hender
sons of Indianapolis” announced
through the columns of the daily,
newspapers that they were then of
fering to the automobile buying pub
lic regular models of Henderson cars
equipped with wire wheels.
The first of January found their
factory filled with orders for wire
wheel cars, and the demand has ex
ceeded the supply. Since the first of
the year more than lifty per cent, of
the shipments of Henderson cars
have been wire wheel models.
The Henderson Motor Car Company
of Indianapolis has the distinction of
being the first among American man
ufacturers to list wire wheels as reg
ular equipment.
CHICAGO AUTO I STS PLAN TOUR.
CHICAGO, May 3.—Fort Wayne,
Ind., will be the turning point in the
two days’ run that will mark the
sixth annual motoring match between
the Chicago Automobile Club and the
Chicago Athletic Association. The
run will start June 12. The exact
route has not been picked.
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CASES, WEAR AS WELL AS FIRSTS. In our
estimation, the only difference between one of
these tires and a first is the guarantee. AND YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT IS WORTH.
WHILE THIS SHIPMENT LASTS
20x3 $ 7.43
32x31-2 11.66
34x31-2 12.68
?2x4 16-09
-33x4 16-67
Other sizes in proportion.
GOODS SHIPPED C. 0. D., WITH PRIVI-
LEGE OF EXAMINATION. Money refunded on
all goods returned intact within a week.
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THE WORLD’S GREATEST TIRE JOBBERS
234 Peachtree. Ivy 4580. Atlanta, Ga.
34x4 $17.22
36x4 18.34
34x41-2 21.81
35x41-2 22.50
36x41-2 23.13
BabcoxNewFirestone
Advertising Manager
Edward S. Babcox, formerly adver
tising manager of the Yawman &
Erbe Manufacturing Company world’s
largest makers of filing system, Ro
chester, N. Y., is now advertising
manager of the Firestone Tire and
Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio.
Mr. Babcox is well known in ad
vertising circles, having done very ef
fective work for the “Y. & E.” Com
pany and having addressed many
publicity and business organizations
during the past few years.
I. S. Sleeper, former advertising
manager of the Firestone Company,
Is now general sales manager of th&-
Colonial Printing Company, of Cleve-
.nd, Ohio.
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PENANGWANTSAUT0M08ILES
Penang, In the Federated Malay
States, it is said, is In the market for
a number of motor vehicles for con
servancy purposes.
Last year the A. A. A. Reliability,
or so-called Glidden Tour from De
troit to New Orleans, was abandoned
for lack of entries. This year the
A. A. A. has made arrangemunts with
the Minnesota State Automobile As
sociation and the Automobile Club
of Minneapolis to run the tour from
the Twin Cities, to Glacier Park,
starting from Minneapolis on July 11.
The route leaves the Twin Cities,
following the Northwest Trail to Far
go, N. D., where a northward tour is
made to Grand Forks, and then west
following the general line of the
Great Northern Railway through
North Dakota and Montana to
Havre. So far It follows the St.
Paul-Helena run of the .Minnesota
State Association of two years ago.
From Havre a new line will be sur
veyed nearly directly across western
Montana to Glacier National Park,
which will be the formal end of the
tour. After running through the
Park, a rendezvous has been arrang
ed at Kalispell. Mont., coincident with
the Good Roads meeting of the Mon
tana Good Roads Congress, which
has already been arranged.
A large number of entries have al
ready been made, particularly from
St. Paul and Minneapolis and it is
expected that the list of participants
will be as large as in any one of
the former tours, irrespective of tile
fact that the tours have been made
in more populous territory.
Glacier Park is a terminus of un
usual importance from the fact that
automobiles are allowed on the Gov
ernment roads there, as is not the
case as yet with Yellowstone Na
tional Park. Participants will be en
couraged to return over the roads
through Missoula and Butte (or He
lena) to Livingston and Gardiner,
'where they may leave their cars and
make stage trips in Yellowstone Na
tional Park.
Entry blanks are now ready and
can be had from Dr. E. C. Dutton,
Pillsbury Building, Mineapolis, Minn.,
or from the A. A. A. Touring Bureau,
437 Fifth Avenue. New York City.
President Laurens Enos of the A. A.
A., has named as Chairman Dutton’s
associations on the National Tour
Committee, the following well-known
Western motorists: Asa Paine, W. .1.
Clark, Minneapolis: W. W. Smith,
North Dako; A. J. Davis, Montana;
James T. Drought. Wisconsin; N. H.
Van Sicklen Illinois: and E. W. Ba-
zille, St. Paul.
Motor Cars Should
Have Birthday Tag
Would Greatly Add to the Value of
Used Cars and Benefit Both the
Maker and the User.
That automobile manufacturers
shoudl (late thei:- cars is the convic
tion of President Morris Froehlich, of
the Times Square Auto Company,
New York City, the world’s largest
dealers in new and used automobiles.
Relative to this innovation Mr. Froeh-
lich declared : “The used car problem
would be greatly simplified and ben
efited if car manufacturers, in addi
tion to placing a serial number on
cars, would also place the date when
sold to the first buyer. If this could
be placed in th * same position on
every make of car, it would be an in
fallible method of judging the time
that the car had been in use, and
materially aid in fixing a standard
of value for '*ars of different ages.
“Naturally thore are other fea
tures which affect the value of a car
besides the length of time in service,
but the time is the essential item
which chiefly enters into the value of
a used car and is always open to
much misrepresentation under exist
ing conditions.
“More used cars can be sold by
methods, which increase public con
fidence in them. If every possible
means is adopted to prevent misrep
resentation increased confidence will
inevitably result.
“The serial number on the car at
present enables the manufacturer to
tell when that car was made, but few
purchasers of used cars ever go to
the trouble of writing the manufac
turer relative to the age of any car
offered.”
Our National Sport
Popular in France
Paris Has Two Baseball Teams That
Are Capable of Putting Up Good
Game.
PARIS, May 3.—Evei*y Sunday, all
summer long, at CoiomDiS, will be
heard those cries so familiar to the
American fan. “Comprising rumpire!”
and “Glissez, Kelle-e-e, Glissez!”
shrilly shrieked by the boulevardiers
and the street gamins of Paris as
they watch the teams of the All-
Paris League in affrays more bloody
than the aVerage French duel.
The preparations for the Paris
baseball season have been thoroughly
made and already play has begun.
The chief teams are those of the
Paris Baseball Club and the Racing
Club of France, and the rivalry is in
tense. Ali garner are played on Sun
days, as the players are amateurs.
The French spectators are quick
to seize upon the fine points of t'he
game and the players themselves dis
play a wonderful aptitude for it.
Guy Vaughn Returns
To Be With Stearns
Winner of 42-Hour Race in 1910 Will
Inspect Care at Well-Known
Factory.
A recent move in the automobile
field that will be of much Interest
to motorists is the return of Guy
Vaughn, the well-known racing driv
er, to the Stearns organization.
Mr. Vaughn is known from coast
to coast as one of the fastest racing
men of his day. One of his achieve
ments was the winning of the twen
ty-four hour race in New York City
in the fall of 1910. where he hung up
a record that still stands. This rec
ord was made with a Stearns 30-60
standard stock touring car, in which
he averaged approximately 63 miles
an hour for twenty-four hours.
Mr. Vaughn will occupy the posi
tion of chief of the Experimental De
partment at the Stearns factory. His
duties will also include chief inspec
tion of every new car leaving the
Stearns factory.
NOVEL FARMING IMPLEMENT
When a roller was needed to com
plete the practice diamond for the
Studebaker team 'in the Detroit Man
ufacturers’ League, the factory’s Ex
perimental Department deviled an ag
ricultural implement, the like of
which was never before seen. An
axle, slipped through a row of twen
ty, flywheels, each weighing seventy
pounds, was the solution. The re
sults was amazingly effective.
CENTRAL A. A. U. MEET JUNE 21.
CHICAGO, May 3.—North western
University Field and not Marshal!
Field will be the scene of the Cen
tral A. A. IJ. field and track events
on June 21. The change was an
nounced yesterday.
The World’s Largest Builders of Six-Cylinder Automobiles
“54” Phaeton
Electric Self-Cranking and
Electrically Lighted
Being € ©everted
to a Six
Ride in a good Six and it instantly becomes
your choice of a motor car.
It gives the sensation to the driver and
passenger of ease, safety, comfort, luxury and
stability impossible in any other type of car.
Sixes have been in use for many years.
Thousands are in service. Ask anyone who
ever owned or drove a Six, what he thinks of
it as compared to any Four. Everyone will
say, no other type of car gives the satisfaction
and pleasure in driving and riding that is ex
perienced with a good Six.
Why a HUDSON
Motorists who know see in it the qualities which only
Howard E. Coffin and his associates—48 all told -were
able to build into it.
They have not produced a Six by merely adding two
cylinders to a good Four. A good Six can’t be built
that way.
These 48 specialists, experienced in all the details of
motor car building, trained in 97 European and
American factories, started out to build a Six without
being hampered by old manufacturing equipment and
old ideals.
They had a new conception, the result of a combined
wider knowledge than was perhaps ever before centered
upon the designing of a motor car.
You naturally have more confidence in the diagnosis
of a skilled physician than you would in the conjectures
of a hundred laymen. Put equal reliance in these 48
motor experts.
Their reputation is staked on the “54” HUDSON.
That is a sufficient guarantee for most buyers.
HUDSONS don’t disappoint.
The “54” HUDSON has electric lights. It is
electrically self-cranked. The famous Delco system,
patented, is used. Every motor car luxury is included,
speedometer, clock, top, curtains, rain-vision windshield,
demountable rims, ^welvc-inch upholstery, etc.
Equipped v. ith a five-passenger Phaeton body at $2450.
At $1875 you can obtain the HUDSON “37”—
designed by the same engineers that built the “54”—
and pointed to as the “Four-cylinder masterpiece.”
FULTON AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY
DISTRIBUTORS
46 E. North Avenue : : J. W. Goldsmith, Jr., Pres.
ROAD WORK IN DOMINICA
The 1)ulkMnf of a wagon load from
Sanliajro to Monte Crlstl, and another
from Moca to Santiago, it Is said, will
shortly open up a market for automo
biles In the Dominican republic.
Kissel Does Not
Believe in Shows
NEW YORK, April 26.—W. L. Kis-
sell, secretary of the Kissel Motor
Car Company’s one of the outspoken
manufacturers who believes that the
annual national automobile shows,
held in New York and Chicago, ought
to be abandoned. Mr. Kissel believes
that such exhibitions, If held at all,
should be under the auspices and
management of local deal©™, thus re
lieving the makers of the trouble of
carrying on this work at a period
when all their time and attention is
demanded in taking care of factory
affairs.
“It is all wrong,” declares Mr. Kis
sel. “If the shows were htld in the
summer, when the new models are
first announced, there might be some
excuse for them, but as a matter of
fact, they come so late that very
little is shown that the public has not
already become perfectly familiar
with. Of course, there Is a great
deal of business transacted at these
annual 'round ups,’ but when you
come to analyze It, it appears very
doubtful whether much of it is busi
ness that was not headed your way,
regardless of the shows.”
NO BERLIN AUTO SHOW
A. M. Thackara. of Berlin, writes
that there will be no automobile show'
held in that city this year, but it is
probable that one will take place in
1914.
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