Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel], November 06, 1910, Image 13

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PART II |
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STRUNG TO DRIVE
MOTORDROME RACE
Winner of Lowell and Briarcliff
Meets Now Pilots a
Case Racer
KNOX IS FIRST LOCAL ENTRY
Entries for the Big Meeting for
This Month Close Nov
ember 15
Louis Strang, on? of the most famous
pilots of racing cars in the" world, has
Just sent in his entry for the coming
Motordrome meets. Manager Walter
Hempel is much gratified to bo assured
of the entry of this noted driver, as
Strang came into prominence several
years ago, when he drove the Christie
car in the great French Grand Prix
race. Although his front drive tMtt
did not win this speed classic, ho
showed the motor £ans the fastest lap
of the now famous Dippe course ever
made by an automobile.
On this side of the water Btrang is
best remembered a« tho victor of the
Brlardiff race. In this event he piloted
an Isotta and deleated his nearest
competitor by almost two hours, a feat
unprecedented In me annals of motor
racing. Tho following year Strang
won the great Lowell race, the Ameri
can stock classic of the .season. Last
year Strang was a member of the then
famous Buiek racing team and won
over fifty firsts in all manner of com
petition. Several months ago the Case
Threshing Machine company took over
the factory of the Pierce liaeine Motor
Car company, and after deciding to
enter vigorously into the racing game,
■•cured Louis Strang to head their
speed aggregation. lie will be seen
On the Motordrome at the wheel of the
Case racer. This car has a bore of,
41-4 and a stroke of 5 Inches, and
Btrang devoted the last two months to
equipping the curs of ills stable for the
coming speed events. He will also drive
in the twenty-four-hour race on Christ
mas day.
The flrat loral entry to be made for
the Motordrome meet was a six-cylin
der Knox, entered by the Duerr-Brown
Motor Car company. This car will be
driven by Nikront., and is an exact
duplicate of Barney Oldrield's»stock car.
.The Williams Auto company has also
entered a Potrol in the events for cart
of 'J3l-3CKI cubic inch displacement.
Kntries for the Motordrome meet close
November 15, and Manager Hempel
promises more entries from eastern
drivers, which, added to the local cars,
assures a real carnival of speed on
the 100-mile-an-hour Motordrome track.
AMERICAN CARS ABROAD
American made cars are rapidly tak
ing the place of the more expensive
foreign models in Australia. Ship
ments from this country to the antip
odes within the last few years have
been steadily increasing. New agents
have sprung up in all the principal
cities and the older firms in Sydney,
Melbourne and other large towns on
the continent are replacing French,
Uerman and Italian cars with those of
American make. The American cars
that have mot with the greatest suc
cess are those that have adopted the
popular long stroke type of engine.
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AUTOMOBILES
Chorus Girls of the Ferris Hartman
Company Christening the Pratt-Elkhart
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H. T. BROWN INSPECTS NEW
WILSHIRE ROAD TO BEACH
That the $3,500,000 which is being
spent on Los Angeles county highways
is appreciated, one need only go to thu
beaches on the ne\v Wilshire boule
vard.
H. T. Brown of Doerr-Brown com
pany, Knox agents, last Sunday, ac
companied by his ■vife, H. T. Brown.
Jr., and a party o{ friends, made the
trip to Santa Monica over this new
piece of the good reads. With-the ex
ception of a few miles, Wilshire boule
vard is completed to Beverly, where it
Joins the new hill r>ad to the Soldiers'
home. The road to Beverly, up through
the foothills by the New Los Angeles
Country club" house to the Soldiers'
home, is one of the prettiest drives
SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1910,
around Los Angoles. After reaching
the Soldiers' home Mr. Brown made a
complete circuit of the Santa Monica
road race course, tj see whether or not
it will be in shape for the coming race
on November 24. According to Brown,
the course is in fine condition at the
present time, and with a little work
done on upper Nevada avenue and on
Dead Man's curve it will be in ship
shape.
Mr. Brown tried out one of the 1911
forty-horsepower Knox tonneauettes on
the trip. He was .satisfied with the car
after letting her out a bit on the Pali
sades, obtaining a speed of sixty-seven
miles an hour, with five passengers
aboard:
Another Ohio racing car will soon
reach Los Angelos. It is being driven
overland from the factory in Cincin
nati, and will arrive here in time to
start In the Santa Monica race.
EDITED BY W. G. L. TUCKER
CHORUS GIRLS CHRISTEN
A NEW PRATT-ELKHART
Tom Carrigan Creates a Near
Riot—and Gets Subdued
They are telling a good story on
the "Auto Rlalto" as to how big Tom
Carrigan barely escaped being smoth
ered Thursday by nearly a score of
maidens. Carrlgan Bros, have just
taken the California agency for the
Pratt-Elkhart car, and when the first
shipment came in last week Tom de
cided that as the car was a. beauty It
would be most fitting to give a bunch
of handsome girls the first ride and
pose the car" for a picture. Theatrical
Press Agent Jay Barnes was asked to
secure the girls, so Jay just naturally
invited the entire chorus of the Ferris
Hartman opera company. When the
girls showed up at the appointed spot
for their ride and found only one car
and a big six-foot, 300-pound man in
waiting they Just naturally mobbed
Tom and took possession of the car,
but made the big fellow remain in the
driver's seat, and the reproduced photo
doesn't show a square inch of Tom.
With his innate gallantry, after the
photograph was taken squads of the
young ladies were taken for the prom
ised ride, and all have sent Carrigan
Bros, a signed testimonial that the
Pratt-Elkhart is the prettiest and best
new car in the city.
Though this handsome car is in the
$2000 class, it has every appointment
of equipment usually found in cars
that sell much higher. Carrigans
have placed ■ rders with the factory
for 500 cars for the season and will
have an agency in every good town in
Southern California.
BUICK FACTORIES ENLARGING
TO MEET BUSINESS DEMANDS
Indicative of the activity this sea
son in automobile manufacturing cir
cles, are the building projects of the
General Motors company of Flint,
Michigan, who in conjunction with the
Buick concern are rushing the new
structures that are to enlarge their
plant, to early completion. The force
of bricklayers and carpenters is being
increased daily. In fact workmen of
all kinds are being hired as soon as
they can be found. One hundred car
penters are now being employed on the
drop forge plant, alone. This plant
is situated to the rear of the Buick
factories, and will be one of the first
of the new buildings completed. In
equipment and size it will be the fin
est drop forge plant in America.
The Buick factories are also increas
ing their forces for Inside work, and
will shortly be employing more men
than any other automobile plant in the
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Manager F. O. Nelson of the Dia
mond Rubber company has received a
letter from T. .1. Baldwin of Portland.
Ore., in which. he states that after run
ning his Haynea car on Diamond tin's
for about £500 miles he drove from St.
Paul; to Portland, making over 6000
miles. . . . _- ..:. /T v
EXPERT CYCLISTS
AT COLISEUM
Match Between Whittler and Kit
tle Will Be Feature of
Today's Program
BIG CROWD IS EXPECTED
Trade Riders Will Make a Good
Showing on Powerful
Machines
The motorcycle races at the Coliseum
this afternoon promise to be something
beyond tho ordinary.
The most prominent of new riders is
T. M. Samuelson, the brother of Wil
liam Samuplson, who gave Whittler
such a close race in several of the
c.vents last Sunday. T. M. Samuelson
is well known in this city, as he has
ridden here in the past two seasons
and made some thrilling rides. One of
his best races was the ten-mile match
heat against De Rosier, which he won
at the opening of the Coliseum last
year. Samuelson has brought with him
onfl of the fastest Indian racing ma
chines, and should make the other pro
fessionals go some this afternoon.
The main feature of today's racing
card will bo a match race between the
local professional, Hubert Kittle, and
the champion, F. E. Whittler. Whit-,
tier has defeated all the fastest pro-*
fessionals of the world, and is still
looking for more worlds to conquer.
Hubert Kittle has defeated all the oth
er professionals, including T>e Rosier,
and should be the moat likely rider to
decrown tfce great Whittler. Kittle
says he Is sure his fast Indian will not
fail him today, and he will be able to
ride every mile in the match race un
der the track record; so if Whittler
should win he will have to break all
former records to do so. Kittle is one
of the most nervy and daring riders
who ever competed at the Coliseum.
He is a mo^t graceful rider, and al
ways has full control of his machine.
Whittler is known by every one to be
a perfect master of a motorcycle, and
when these two riders'meet this after
noon two of the most evenly matched
riders will fight for supremacy who
have ever ridden a match race in this
city. The winner of this match race
will meet allithe other professionals in
a handicap event, in which he will con
cede starts to T. M. Samuelson, 2!iO
yards; W. K. Samuelson, 375 yartfs;
Senhouse, 600 yards; McNeil, 1100
yards. This rare should prove to be a
thriller, as every rider will go from
the crack of the pistol as though hfs
very life depended upon it, and If the
scratch man overtakes them he will
certainly have to ride the race of his
life.
Another interesting professional race
will be the free-for-all professional. In
which all will start from scratch. The
entries in the professional races are F.
E. Whittler, J. A. McNeil, T. M. Sam
uelson, Steve Senhouse, Hubert Kittle
and W. E. Sarrfuelsoh.
The trade rider class will have an
eight-mile free-for-all, open to seven
horsepower machines, in which four of
the best trade riders are entered. The
champion M. J. Grave*. E. Verrill, Al
Ward and Ray Austin will ride. A six
mile handicap, in which both trade rid
ers and private owners will compete,
will be another event. Graves will ride
from scratch, conceding the other rid
ers from a half lap to two laps' start.
There will be a private owner single
cylinder race and a private owner han
dicap.
JFT^S"-^ America's Classy
The AMERICAN
"A Car for the Discriminating Few"
9 models for 1911—7 of which are designed with an
Underslung Frame
preventing skidding or turning over under any condition. Th« American has a
long string of race records—and can always be depended upon for
Speed—Comfort—Safety
The OHIO "40"
"Monarch of Long Distance Tours." consistent performer In IMC GLIDDEN
TOUR and MT7NSEY HISTORIC TOUR—finished in both events with original
axles, wheels and transmission intact.
WATCH THE OHIO'S PERFORMANCHJ
IN THE LOS ANGELES-PHOENIX RA.CBJ
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BLERIOT'S RELATIVE TO
FLY AT MOTORDROME
Makers of Cutting Car Also to
Make Aeroplanes
The Clarke-Carter Automobile com
pany, manufacturers of the Cutting
car, is thoroughly awake to the limit
less possibilities of aviation of the
future and is now actively engaged In
preparing an extensive campaign In
practical aeronautics.
Incorporated as a manufacturer of
automobiles and aeroplanes—one of the
few if not the only automobile com
pany to bo so designated—the Cutting
car people last July imported M.
Lacques, a French aeroplanist and a
relative of Louis Bleriot of monoplane
fame, and the foreigner has been quiet
ly at work in the company's experi
menting rooms at Jackson, Mich.
With the advent of cold weather
and snow In, the middle west, Mr. Mc-
Fadden of the local Cutting branch has
received assurances that M. Lacques
will come to Los Angeles, and with
both the Cutting cars and the Cutting
aeroplanes here that company is pre
pared to contribute Its share toward in
teresting competition on earth and air.
The Frenchman will be accompanied
by H. E. Carter, president of the
Clarke-Carter Automobile company,
and he will bring with him three dif
ferent types of biplanes of two, four
and eight cylinder construction, rang
ing from twelve to sixty horsepower.
He will conduct his winter trials at the
Los Angeles Motordrome, and will com
plete all detail of construction neces
sary before the company enters active
ly in aeroplane manufacture as a busi
ness rather than a feature investment.
M. Lacques met with singular success
abroad, being one of the first aero
planists who flew over Paris.
It probably will be some time yet
before the average Individual will shift
his allegiance from the auto to the
aeroplane. Neverthfless, the current
demand for aeroplanes, which are com
paratively safe, is much greater than
the supply, and the Cutting company
In combining the manufacture of auto
mobiles and aeroplanes is blazing a
trial which no doubt will some day be
popular with other automobile com
panies.
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BUFFALO SECURES WORLD
POWER BOAT RACE IN 1911
Great Lake Contest Will Be Held
for Silver Tankard
BUFFALO, N. T., Nov. s.—Following
the formation of tho Buffalo section
of the American Power Boat associa
tion comes the news that definite action
Is now being taken which assures for
Buffalo in 1911 one of the representa
tive power boat races of the world.
The new section means the addition
of another great national competition
for the waters of the Great Lakes.
This will probably be known aa the
race for Hie silver tankard or cup.
It is likely that the Great Lakes
race, under the sanction of the Amer
ican Power Boat association, will be
held under the auspices of the new
Buffalo section and will consist of a
long distance cruising race for cabin
power yachts over a triangular course,
with Buffalo as the apex of the tri
angle, the basic points of the triangle
being probably Cleveland, Ohio, and
Port Stanley, Ontario, or Toledo, Ohio,
and Rondeau, Ontario. The race wili
be a scratch event, free for all.
ATLANTA AUTO RACES
ARE DELAYED BY RAIN
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. s.—Today's
program of races at the speedway
track here was called off on account
of rain. There will be racing Monday,
weather permitting.
The 2r>o-mile race for the prize of
$5000 offered by the Atlanta Automo
bile association had been scheduled aa
the opening event of tho final racing
program at the motor speedway.
Twenty-six cars were entered.
The second event was to have been
the Australian pursuit race, in which
not more than six cars would have
been allowed to compete, and a twen
ty-mile free-for-all was to bring tho
meet to a close. These will be pulled
off Monday.