| Show AUTOMOBILE STEEPLECDASE J J Van Alen Imports from Europe a New Diversion < Newport Fashionable Set t S Newport Aug 2SThe latest fad among those seeking distraction here I is the organizing of an automobile steeplechase into which all the excitement excite-ment Is to be crowded thai inventive minds can suggest Automobile steeplechases steeple-chases are a novelty here although in London they have already enjoyed a slight vogue Mr J J Alen is credited with haying hay-ing been the Importerof the fad from abroad and is to offer a cup for tho winner so I understand The opportunity which this novel scheme will give air Van AJen of reestablishing re-establishing himself with society la something which cannot be overestimated overesti-mated Society is always willing to condone faulto and indeed to overlook grave mistakes when the penitent one js willing to provide for Its amusement The excitement of golf which Is the most pronounced form of outdoor dissipation dis-sipation at present does not always fulfill ones desires In the way of sport and an automobile steeplechase planned upon entirely novel Hues pro vllcs possibilities of distraction which will be warmly welcomed I There is I 1 learn to bo nothing I omitted which will conduce to the bril liance of the event or add to the thrill Ing effect of the race and the Subur 1 ban or the Brooklyn Handicap are to be left far In the rear HO far as real excitement 1 ex-citement Is concerned i There are to be banks and ditches and hurdles paper screens through which the autos are to dash recklessly every opportunity being given their drivers to sustain broken necks and I bruises in the most profuse variety The course will be provided with all I kinds of obstacles which it Is possible to overcome and the Jumping capacities I 1 of the machines are now being tested and developed by their owners I Pastmnstcrs in coif have been engaged I en-gaged for a couple of weeks past In getting up such a combination of ob stacles as to test the most Joblike pa I tience and the skill of the most expert Jehu or course the dUIlcultles which the contestants will have to meet will be more fancied than real and nerve will be tho principal requisite to overcome I them What will appear to be a olld fence directly In the line of the coursiK willbe of doubtful solidity and despe ratelooking1 Jumps will resolve themselves them-selves Into grades which can be overcome over-come with the result of a fair amount bumping What will resemble a section of a Colorado canyon strewn wllh ugly I looking boulders will merely he a coun tuifelt preatMHment of rocks and the rushing l mountain torrent will be more wpray than actual l volume of water But the fun will be none the less genuine and the excitement will be ac tually intense perhaps more GO for the Occupants of the grand I stand than for those who participate In the race Among thoe Who are particularly In teresting themselves In the steeplechase are the Goolets Jerrys and Dyers The committee which has charge of the arrangements Is making an effort to get as many to enter the contest as I possible and scarcely any one of come fiuence who has a machine has not re I ceived an Invitation to take part In the L I I race I Of course the entire affair will take the form of a vast outdoor fete and It I I is Intended tomake It as near a re Hcmblancc to Epsom day from an aris I tocratic viewpoint as possible The collection of automobiles will In cluda alhtho latest l novelties such an i J I I dogcarts de dion volluroltcs and frcks of every kind It is rumored that some of the more enthusiastic of those who expect to lake part in the race will have cectaln attachments put onto their machines which will enable them to perform strange acrobatic feats and produce no end of fun for the spectators Whatever develops It Is certain that Mr Van Alen has hit upon a happy Idea l and can make sure that the frigid I atmosphere which was a little noticeable noticea-ble on his first return will give way ton I to-n more cordial tone and serve to make him feel a little more at case in his native na-tive land from which he BO uselessly I cspatrlaled himself some years ago |
