Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 172, 30 April 1911 — Page 14
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM A3 D- 8UN-TEUEGILA3I, SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1911.
LYTLE IS DEAtl OF flriROII DRIVERS
Will Drive an Apperson Jack Rabbit at Indianapo- . ; lis in May.
Indianapolis, Aprl) 29.-Gathering la on by one the world's premier motor
racing pilots, the 600-ml.e Internation
al Sweepatakes race at the Indlanapo11 Motor 8peedway next Memorial day baa assumed greater proportions
'than any other race lo the history of automobile contests.. There is but one great driver left on American soil who Is not nominated to drive a car in this
long classic "Wild Bob" Burman, the
successor of Barney Oldfield. Bur
man will be la the race his word has
been given. .
Tbla wonderful condition Is made
possible by the entry of .Herb Lytle,
the daddy of them all, dean of Am
erlcan drivers. In an Apperson Jack
Rabbit. The entry was made by Ly tie himself as owner and the associa
tioa of bis name with the veteran racing car from Kokomo makes the roster of the great race look natural to the oldor fans of the motor racing
port.
Along with the entry of Lytle came the entry of two Fal cars from Chicago. J. F. Oelnow and V. H. Pearce
were nominated as wheelmen , for
these two. They are the 1910 team
drivers for the Fal. The former won
the classic Coco-Cola trophy at Atlanta last November and the latter
was the winner of the O A J trophy race at the Indianapolis brick track
last July. They bad great success
with the Fal cars In the past year and
are looking forward to the winning
of new laurels during 1911.
The driving history of veteran Herb Lytle reads like an Interesting account of the greatest events In the annals of tCbtordom. The story of his career starts way back in 1895, when he participated in. the Cosmopolitan race In New York city and later, In 1906, went to Europe In the London to Brighton race. Five of the great' Vanderbilt Cup races have seen Lytle In the running and he haa performed notably in moat of them. The Apperson Is Lytie's old love and his coming back to It Is one of the notable features of the season. In making hia entry, Herb said: "I've gone back to the car which I had the greatest success with, and I'm going to use parts of the old car la making this new one. I shall take the stock motor, which Is as fast as they are fcullt anywhere, and use parts of the old chassis which made the other Apperson Jack Rabbit famous. I
now now mai mv can- win iravei ow ter than 100-mlles an hour without . . a a . i ii a. r . . i -
irouDie, ana oeiieve ui i nave ieu thm hMf mount I eould hava for tha
race. ' "While I was In Europe I had the offer of four or five of the best foreign can, but I thing that the American cars can outrun the machines sent
from the other side, so I'll take the
AntMraon tbla time."
Lytle will have his car ready for
tuning within a few weeks. The mo
tor, which he will use Is the same one
whloh made the fastest lap in the
Lowell road race of 1909 and haa turn
ed off a mile on the road In :44 2-5. It
haa five and one-half Inches stroke and
five and three-quarters Inches bore,
with a piston displacement of 571, be
ing rated at fifty, horsepower.
The total liat of entries for the race
1 now stand at thirty-five, by far the . m i . a
, iMivn nuHiuvr ui saws tui vuvci gu iu
any race, and the Speedway manage
ment la confident that eight or ten
more will be named before the entries
close on May l.
TaxicabMagnateAmatemRacermi SYSTEM OF
AUTOMOBILE CLUB
Members of A. C. A.'s Get
More Than Usual Attention on Their Care.
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Frank P. Fox. of Indianapolis, owner of the Indianapolis taxicab line and one of the wealthy residents of the city, who drives Pope-Hartford racing cars more for the sport than for the money.
MARMON PERFORMS WELL ON HARD TEST
The Colorado Springs to Denver
record was taken by the Bpeedy Marmon car last week after a sensational performance by Paul Tobln, Denver agent for Nordyke and Marmon Company. The latest Marmon record was
made on (he winding torturous moun
tain road between Colorado Springs and Denver, covering 71 miles that tax every resource of the mortorist.
For two years, the Thomas "Six"
has held the coveted record; of 1 hour and 55 minutes for the distance. Thursday, March 30th, a Lozler facing car
with Fred Hal! at the wheel succeed
ed in lowering the record 14 minutes,
negotiating the route in 1:40:30.
On April 6, Tobln, In a Marmon "32"
stripped touring car equipped with
racing seats was checked out at the
Oazette office In Colorado Springs at 9:30:15,' and after a whirlwind burst
of speed during ' which itlue Marmon was hurled around the treacherous
mountain curves at 40 miles an hour and making better than 60 miles per hour against a piercing wind storm, he was checked in by E. W. Swanbrough and other members of the Denver Mo
tor club in the remarkable time of
1:34:15, clipping 6 minutes from the
record. ;
DURABILITY OF 1912 BUICKS DETERMINED The engineering department of the Buick Motor company already have three models of the 1912 line out on the road for the "breaking up" tests. They are daily in . the hands of the worst car killers in captivity.
Hints to 8wlmmsrs. An expert swimmer is authority for the assertion tbat a vast majority of the drowning casualties wblcb are attributed to cramps are In all probability the result of cardiac exhaustion. Nearly all experienced swimmers, be says, know tbat cramps when in the water are of comparatively infrequent occurrence. It Is commonly In the calf of tbe leg, and the swimmer by lying quietly upon his back without undue alarm and stretching out the leg 'may overcome tbla somewhat painful involuntary muscular contraction. The exertion of swimming, however. Is fully equal to tbe exertion of running, with tbe additional tax upon tbe system of a gradual lowering of tbe bodily temperature. It la one thing to know bow to swim and quite another to be In a physical condition to do tbe swimming. London Globe. , ,
New York, April 29. The Automo
bile Club of America has a garage side
to It which is rather complete. Auto
mobiles tbat are put in there receive
an amount of attention which is not
duplicated in the ordinary garage and
which in fact would be impossible un
der any other organization. When a man is elected a member of the club
and brings a car there for storage
purposes it is inspected first by
man who is superintendent of the re
ceiving floor. ' '
There a careful survey Is made of the automobile and the condition of every accessory and also of tbe body is looked at carefully. The condition
of the paint on the body and whether there are any scratches on the frame or fenders, also what kind of lamps
and how many and whether bent or untouched and every accessory there
.may be is carefully noted down on a
form Bheet used for tbe purpose.
When this inspection has been completed tbe car is allowed to ascend by the elevator and is put in its assigned
place.
Tbe equipment of the building for
the washing of cars is good and the automobiles are thoroughly washed ev
ery day. There is one man to do the washing, another one to do the drying and still another for polishing brass work and such like on the car, and so on through. . Every step as completed is recorded on a card which is countersigned again by the floor superintendent, who turns it into the general garage superintendent Here is a multiplicity of detail which naturally could, not. be attempted or attained In any other garage. In the matter of gasoline the fillers have been instructed to be rather more liberal than under it, so that the members get an extra good supply of gasoline for the gallon. Gasoline,' by the way, is the only thing on which the club attempts to make any money except of course in the case of Borne accessories of very low price which if sold at their cost would naturally result in a number of them being purchased by chaffeurs under one pretext or another and retailed outside. The aim of the Automobile club of America is to give supplies to its members at cost price, not making any money at all on them. In fact, when Charles E. Forsdick, secretary of the club notices that there has been a profit on the management of the garage for a month that is in excess of probably an extremely small per cent, he at once begins chopping prices on goods in order that the . garage surplus may be reduced. Careful watch of course is kept on the goings out and comings in of all cars. There are rooms for the chaffeurs where they -may eat and where
they may wait around for orders from
their employers. , C-'.vr"
The whole garage is on a very vaBt
scale. There being about seven hundred cars In it, it is easy to see bow completely the thing has to be done.
The feature involved in ' the ' garage system isvto give the members the best for the money that can be got and at the same time to make it less
expensive for them to keep up their cars. The rates charged for, storage are about the prices that would be
charged in a good garage anywhere in
the city, but the. accommodations returned therefor aVe far better. : In tbe case of an owner who might complain that his car had been scratched or damaged in a way that it was not when be brought it in the identification sheets which are filled when the car enters the building for the first time help to determine whether that is true. For Instance an owner might say that the car was freshly painted when it entered the place and that the paint bad been dulled through the washing processes. The Identifi
cation sheet helps to fix the respon&l-f
bllity for such a state of affairs if it really exists. ; The opening of the new annex of the A. C. A. has added to the garage space available and there are machine shops of a most elaborate sort, one for gen eral repairs and the other for leaa involved replacements on cars. Altogether it is a very fine and modern garage that the A. C. A. la running. .
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QUINCY GRAY, Conneraville, Indian.
00T OUT OF HIS LIME.
Anal Ha Fsll Tttat tha Punishment
. FfttotJ tha Crims.
Tsars ago Irrla 8. Cobb, the humor, ooa wrltsr, was a corrcspondsat for various out of town papers while working la Padacah, Ky. ' Not a great daal of geaoloa ntws for ont of town
consumption la manufactured at Pa
tfucah. As Mr. Cobb needed tbe mon
er there was a period during which
It appeared that Padueah'had become tha news center of the middle weat
Not a day passed tbat some astounding story waa not printed vader a Pa
dueah date. MWe stood for them,'
said the former telegraph editor or a
8t Louis paper, "because they were so good, even though we knew they were fakes. But one day the boss called me
la, 'Who Is this man Cobb at Padu
cahT be asked.
"When X had satlsQed his thirst for knowledge he told me to flro Cobb.
1 know all the stories he has written
are fakes.' said he. 'but I can't stand
for tbat one be sent us yesterday. I
Ilka soma sanity even In a fake story.
It must sound as though It might pos
slbly under certain conditions be partly
trae.'
"go," said the ex-telegraph editor, "I fired Cobb. I thought be would get
angry over this, but he didn't. lie seamed chastened ' In spirit, though, lie wrote ma a letter In which be
made no protest or complaint about getting fired. 'It served me right for aettlna out of my line,' said he. That
waa tbe only story I ever sent you
that was wholly true." Cincinnati
TUnee-8tar. aaaWnWaMamMBaWSB Dignifying Dad.
The wife of a wealthy business man of Chicago was the daughter of a po
liceman. Aa they grew rich both she
and her - husband concealed tha fact as much as possible for tbe aaka of their aortal prestige. At a luncheon
several society women of high posi
tion had beta talking about their faml-
tfhat waa your father's basi
lars. D.r waa Caally asked of
tha buatnasa man's wife. Mrs. D. wss not Cstvrbed. "XTr father waa In tbe
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