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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1910)
HFC OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 28. 1010. S tii AUTO RACES NEXr WEEK Track i Ready for the Big Events to Be Scheduled. PROGRAM IS NOT MADE OUT oitinilttv Will Arrange Details This AVreks for Onnrri' Auto Barn mid fnr Motorcycle Kirn on th !'ciy rTruck. Willi tr,000 hung; up In prlim, tho first ntet of the Omaha Motor Spocdway com pany, which In scheduled for Keptemher 4 and 6, promlfrs to be a wonderful success. Saturday fcnlng the work of conrtructlng the track wan finished and work upon the section of the grandstand which Is to be constructed prtor to the meet has been b;un. The track should be one of the best In the west. Constructed as It ts with highly banked turns and ' with an especially oiled and otherwlK prepared surface some fast work may bo expected, even though the track Is a new one, for special effort has been made to pack the dirt solidly and give the track the firm condition which la often lacking; in new tracks. Although the work of construction Is finished, yet the track will be worked constantly until the days of the meet. Twe better days could not have been picked for the event than those which the Speedway people have selected. Te first day falls on Sunday and the second on Labor Day. Barring unfavorable weather conditions there should be a huge turnout at the races. And the crowds wilt all be accommodated. The handbills which the Speedway company has Issued claim that 60.00 'people can be accommodated and that seems easily possible for the track Is situ ated In a sort of a natural ampttheater and from the small hills which surround it an excellent dew can be gained. The grand stand will seat 2,5(0 people. , Owners' Races. Just what races will be run Is, as yet, undecided. If the track la In good condition within a reasonable time before the meet, the races will be of one sort, and if it Is In poor shape, they will be of different sort. It Is decided, however, that there will be races for privately owned cars and for the cars belonging to the local dealers, which will be stripped for racing. These will probably be run by classes, this classifica tion being made on the basts of cost. There will also be a series of motorcycle races and among devotees of this sort of machine, the announcement of these races Is creating a good deal of Interest as that line f sport Is comparatively new to Omaha. There will also probably be a race for women drivers, and this Is expected to bring out a number of the fair drivers, anxious to emulate the efforts of the sterner sex, along racing lines. The distances of the different races will, of course, depend upon the con dition of the track. The officials of the company have re ceived from Barney Oldfleld a statement of the dates which he can give them but, riaUt they have not notified him, which dates are wanted. Whatever date is se lected for Barney to be here will be the time for one of the biggest professional meets which the west has known and it Is expected to put Omaha more prominently upon the motor map than it has been in years past. The technical committee headed by Otto C. Nestman and comprising Albert Biehler, , Louis Schmltx, George Coe and Melcher did not get-to work on the cars until late Saturday morning. These men will make a minute examination of the machinea-and expect to finish work Saturday, but it will probably be Monday before the results are tabulated and announced. The cars received road penalties for any repairs which were found necessary, for ar riving late at the controls, or for taking on water or gasoline at any other point than the controls. To these road penalties will be added those given by the technical com mittee. In Judging all the points the rules of the American Automobile association will be followed. , Columbus. Kacine-Hattley'a car, which beat Harney Oldfielcl's National the last of July on the Columbus track. Is Here now and will be entered by Manager Coffeen. Otto Xestman, the racing man, will drive llonnc ton's biK Fix nisnliiKt time. Altogether hi gtimes nie ahead for auto mobile enthusiasts. Manager GouM said: "A tour of the stock room at any of the Ford branches Is an interesting study for the man who lias watched the evolution of the automobile. Here he will find parts of the old two-cylinder horizontally opposed type of eight horse-power, season of 1903 and 1934, the occasional demands for which from differ ent localities bears silent witness of their usefulness. Parts of the model F of 19"5, also for the two cylinder of the horizontal type, are carried In reasonable quantities. Another model of the vintage of 1!"5, the first of the Ford four-cylinder vertical type, Is well provided for, as Is also the model K, the slx-cyllnder car first placed on the market In 1IXJ6 and carried tfyrough 1907 and l'.MW. liut the greatest number of parts In stock are naturally for the four-cylinder car, which startled the industry at the auto mobile exhibition in 1906 and which has had its highest development in the present model T. This message was received last night by the oFrd Motor company of Omaha: "DETROIT. Mich., Aug. 26. Ford Motor Comany, Omaha: Ninth day Munsey tour; three Fords perfect over very rough, hilly roads, so bad that running time was In creased two miles per hour. "FOIID MOTOR COMPANY." Freeland Bros. & Ashley came through with flying colors, they think. Their Mason, Midland and Maytag did pretty work. The Moon, sold by Ernest Sweet, is doing some wonderful stunts over the country. It goes along without racket and keeps going. It Is the first car In this section to go twenty-four hours without touching a pin or bolt. The splendid condition of the roads has Induced a great many autoists to under take touring, Ous A Louie of Council Bluffs having Just returned from Cheyenne and the west in his Chalmers "30." Mr. Louie reports a very pleasant trip and states that the roads are vastly improved over what they were a year ago. During the last week two other parties have registered at the Fredrlckson garage, one of these being E. E. Hemphill fit Grand Kaplds, Mich., who is driving a Chalmers "30" roadster from Grand Rapids to Cali fornia: the other( Charles R. Klgas of Lin coln, Is driving a Chalmers "30" over prac tically the same route recently covered by Mr. Louie, Omaha to Cheyenne and return. W. D. east. Hosford is spending several weeks Mrs. Huff, wife of manager, Lee Huff of tho Nebraska Buick company is elated over the beautiful behavior of the Buick, entered In the endurance run last week. At every registering station the Buick was the first car on the ground. It ran like a scared rabbit and both the manager and his wife are expecting some perfect score work when the count Is known. Guy Smith drove that beautiful car and except a few broken pieces in the back made by the Buick in a collision, the car was not hurt, and looked precisely as new as when it was unloaded In Omaha. The Rambler Motor company has estab lished its own sales room in Omaha and will hereafter push the Rambler vigor ously. ,' C. E. Giltner has "come out from the factory to take charge and has opened n office In the Sweet-Edwards garage using the west section of this building. This is one of the handsomest automobile sales rooms in Omaha and will be an ideal home for the Rambler. Mr. Sweet will continue to occupy the garage wlth the Moon and the American and will push them more than ever this season. W. J. Urguhart, western representative of the White company spent the day here yesterday with Drummond. Manuger Coppeen said yesterday that he would exhibit the Fire Stone Columbus at the state fair at Lincoln and would enter one of the races here and there. Ills new models are arriving. automobile road racing campaign during the next few months. Of course. Grant will defend the Vanderhllt cup on October 1 for his employers. That entry was made a foitnlght ago. Recently, however, nn nouneemynt was mado that Grant will go to the post In three other big road races, namely the Grand Prize. October 15; Fair mont park, October 8. and ICIgln today. Grant's entry for the Grand Prize Is merely another to a great field. To date sixteen machines have been named. They will be piloted by the best America and Europe can recruit from the ranks of the speedmen. George H. Robertson, Harry Grant, Barney Oldfleld, Ray Harroun, Bob Burman. Victor Hemery, Louis Wagner, Felice Nazarro and Louis Chevrolet will be at the wheels of cars that will rumble around Long Island's cemented parkway and country roads In quest of the $r,CX) gold cup. Grant's decision to compete Is Interesting, for his admirers say that he is the equal of Robertson, America's best road driver. having teams In the league. Games will be played at home and abroad, the play ers making their trips just UUe the ball teams. The magnates of the billiard league who have originated this scheme lnclndo Johnny Kilns, who plays ball with the Chicago i league. nationals In the summer time and mrnages a pool and billiard parlor In Kansas City during the off season, besides a number of other owners of billiard rooms In the cities, which are to be represented In the of hading teams with twenty-five of best amateur three-cushion Millard play ers, and New York Is to have two teams in the league. The Key to the Situation lice Want Ads. GRANT A HARD WORKED DRIVER Hurry Grant Will Drive Hoeing Car In Campaign. NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Harry Grant, win ner of the 1909 Vanderbllt cup, will drive the big slx-cyllnder Alco through a hard TO FORM A BILLIARD LEAGUE Game with Ivories Will Receive Bl Dontt This Year. NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Billiards are to cut quite a figure In winter sports here after. The idea Is to have a National Amateur Billiard learcue, laid do.vn along the lines of league base ball. Those who are ut the back of the movement have formed their plans after the manner In which the nation's greatest game Is car ried on. A big league has already been formed, with magnates like thoso who run the affairs of the baseball world, at the head and with teams representing all the leading cities contesting for the t-ham-p'onshlp and pennant. Thus the billiard men are going to enter into a movement of that sort which carried the game of base ball along so successful!. The bil Hard fans believe that the sport in winter will act as the real substitute for base ball, and they predict a great season. Teams are to be formed representing Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, Philadel phia, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City and Pittsburg, to play in a series of games throughout the season, In a league known as the National Billiard league. Base ball men who take up the billiard game during the winter months, as a side line, have become Interested In this novel scheme. A big schedule of games will be mapped out before the season starts, bringing to gether the crack amateur bllliardlsts cf the country, representing the respective cities Along Auto Row Sealers Getting Busy. Bscs Wow and maces In the ruture. Hotas of the Auto World. urummond said that the adaptability to and usefulness of the Cadillac thirty In municipal service is becoming more widely recognized seems to bo evidenced by the recent Installation of two Cadil lacs in Harrlsburg, Pa.- One has been placed at the disposal of the head of the water department and the other is in the service of the highway department. Here as in New York, Brooklyn and Louisville, Ky., the Cadil lac was selected in competition with ou.er ears. New York probably ..olds the distinc tion of first seeing the usefulness of the automobile In municipal work; and stood by its convictions by the installation of fourteen Cadillac ambulances. Brooklyn was almost as early In the field of motor-using cities with three In its city departments. Following Its first experience with the Cadillac, Brooklyn recently added four more to its borough equipment; and New York bought ten additional Cadillacs. N Corkhtll returned from. Cheyenne yester day, bi.cglng back with him two Apper son victories. A Cheyenne paper has this to say: two Appersun Jack rabbit cars finished first and second in the. 200 mile race at the Cheyenne meet Tuesday. The winning car wan driven by Ball and averaged (7.S9 miles per hour. Ball was forced to stop more than two minutes to change tires. Corkhlh, driving the other Appersnn finished secod, average time 0 miles per hour. Both cars ended the race In fine shape. Among the cars defeated was a 120 horse power Thomas. American Rooster, National, Buick and others. Wonderful Buick Performance in orld-Herald Endurance Contest i The Omaha speedway Is about finished and there will be lively times out there next week. Already several noted cars are entered and many more are expected to come. The National, which has been doing a thrilling business east Is on Its way here. TTie two Jickrabbits two of Corkhlll's cars which have Just startled Cheyenne by winning first and second In the feJO-mlle race. Tuesday, will be here for the races which begin September i. The Firestone- BUICK checks first at Red Oak, la. BUICK checks first at Shenandoah, la. BUICK checks first at Neh. City, Neb. BUICK checks first at Lincoln, "Neh. BUICK checks first at Fairmont, Neb. BUICK checks first at Hastings, Neb. BUICK checks first at Kearney, "Nebraska. BUICK checks first at Grand Island, Nebraska. BUICK checks second at Columbus, Nebraska. BUICK checks third at Fremont, Nebraska, BUICK tied for first at with six-cylinder Franklin at Omaha, finish. Twelve Buick Cars Were Sold Thursday to the Following Parties, From the Omaha Buick Branch G. W. PETERSON, Essex, Iowa. ED. GOULD, Wolbach, Neb. F. S. WIDERGREN,- Newman Grove, Neb. PTRAUTNICHT, Byron, Neb. WILL JACKSON, Oakland, la. WILL SANDBERG, Newman Grove, Neb. OMAHA DAILY NEWS, Omaha, Neb. W. H. WEBSTER, Neligh, Neb. JNO. V. NELSON, Newman Grove, Neb. GARRETT COLLMAN, Byron, Neb. HERMAN MARQUART, Chester, Neb. C. D. PRITCHARD, Oakland, Neb. Twelve carloads more now on the road. Don't fail to see the BUICK. The right ear at the right price. Nebraska Buick Auto Co. LINCOLN, NEB. OMAHA, NEB. H. E. Sidles, Gen. Mgr. Lee Huff, Mgr. SI6UX CITY, IOWA. S. C. Douglas, Mgr. r '1 14 HE 53 era up Jin! o33 naf7rcrnn y "R RflfPIFR 'At " ttv 'JO - 1 d33a?.Z t iir?. Z . it ..... .- ,t -9 r w ..t. If In the famous 200-mile Automobilfe races Tuesday at Cheyenne, in which many of the fastest machines in United States competed. The Ap person won first and second. Time average: .67.39 miles an hour. ...... 4 We shall be glad to have you call and see , the 1911 Model APPERSOH AUTOCfldBILE CO. 1102 Farnam Street UUtl p 2) if Brand Opening Speedway Co.'s 4- 4th i i in 1. 1 .mm. in ini -ii lit mum --trir -t u vent of the Omaha Jew 1-Mile Track 00 in Purses Fast Drivers, Fast Oars, Fast Track The fast cars will be there and new records will be made. Six Big Events Each Day 50c Motorcyles . . 25c Children . . 25c Races Start Promptly at 2:30 Admission . . 50c Automobiles Grand Stand . . 25c Take the West Leavenworth Street Cars. 10.00 OMAHA, NEB 1910 I HEREBY subscribe and agree to pay Ten Dollars for one annual Member ship Pass to the grounds of the OMAHA SPEEDWAY CO., to be good for admission of myself, chauffeur and automobile, for one year from date of pass. Sign. Address. License No. of Automobile. Cut out the above and enclose your check for 10.00, and send to the OMAHA SPEEDWAY CO., 2025 Farnam St, None of the Passes will be sold after the first series of races. ii ,-i' HP" mm3 Jhmm