Show VANDERBILT CUP CONTEST TODAY Seventeen High Power Auto Automobiles Automobiles Automobiles mobiles Will Start at 6 This Morning Mineola N T Y Oct 5 Seventeen high jower ower automobiles racing machines m will start tart tomorrow morning beginning at 6 ClOCk in the third International race or the cup The course which begins at a point near West bury buryan an n the Jericho turnpike leads leas over some som f the best roads of Long Island and is a rectangle measuring 2921 I miles along the outer lines The course coure will m be traversed ten times makin the of or the race 2921 miles There is isi isa i q great dip about the center cent r of the north lOrn rn boundary and this leads down to the hairpin turn This is re regarded retarded regarded as one of the danger dan er points but here imre are a number of other especially short hort turns at any of which a driver drive may come to grief Lately Latel the American andi andl nd foreign drivers have been taking lese rhese t turns at a speed of less than t miles an hour and there is a gen genral ral rai ra belief that they will not hazard their lives or those of ot the spectators by bya bya a greater eater speed tomorrow High Speed on Stretches There are numerous long straight and brOad br ad stretches where the speed speedo of the ther oars cars r Is expected to reach a maximum of f hh miles mites an hour or more Originally eighteen cars ears were scheduled lo to start five live representing America five France a similar number from Italy and three from Germany One of the Ger German German Gernian man nian cars entered by Foxhall P Keene was as officially declared out of the contest today when Mr Keene did not weigh n TI Several Se eral days ago a pair of cylinders ers in Mr Keenes car cracked and he was unable to replace them in this country The cars will be sent away at one min minute minute mm ute Intervals Their time will wiIl be taken From the minute assigned to them whether er pr they the are able to start or not The or order der dr the name of the driver and the team to which he belongs follow tollow Numbers and Drivers No o 1 driver Leblon American hp lip Xo No 2 driver Heath French hp lip No Xo 3 driver German hp lip Xo No 4 driver Lancia Italian hp lip Xo No o 5 driver Lawwell American hp lip Xo No o 6 G driver river Shepard French hp lip No 7 driver German hp lip No 9 driver Tracy American 90 hp lip No Xo 10 driver Wagner French hp I Xo No 11 driver Keene German hp Will not start No 12 driver Cagno Italian hp Xo No 14 driver Harding American 50 hp No Xo 15 driver Clement French hp lip Xo No o 16 driver Italian 20 hp Xo No 17 driver Christie American 50 hp lip No Xo 18 driver Duray French 20 hp lip No 19 driver Fabry Italian hp lip Thousands Assembled In anticipation of or the race thousands i automobiles came into Long Lon Island 1 the roads leading from the Brooklyn BrookI n and Long Island City terminals being choked with nith the whirring cars until late tonight In pI It Garden City where the Vanderbilt cup Commission r makes Its headquarters more than 2000 automobiles are packed in front of the hotel Their throbbing ma machinery chinery and horns made sleep impossible nen en to those who could secure hotel ac Tents have been pitched at ar various points along the cup course and In these scores are sleeping sl ping tonight Others less fortunate are resting on lawns ns or spending the night in their au automobiles automobiles heavily wrapped in fur coats The course Itself is lined with sleep irs All will be astir by 4 1 a n m how however ever r when the pilgrimage to vantage points will begin Watchers Will Be Kept Posted Many thousands will be in the immense grand cand stand erected at the start and finish line A number of unique devices have been arranged here to keep the watchers posted on the race A huge time board and a map of the course will win be utilized in showing which driver Is in the lead kad Some 2 OOOO persons are expected to witness the race Fifty or more special fains will be run down from New York ity beginning shortly after midnight The Tho late comers corners will make no effort to secure accommodations other than room enough along the road to catch an occa occasional occasional occasional glimpse of one ona of or the flying ma machines machines chines hines The weather today was showery but the course was In fairly f irly good condition the tho roads being black in oil Rain tomor tom tomorrOw or orx rOw x w will not Dot interfere with the race al although altHough although though It will make high speed impossible impossible sible |