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Show GOOD OUTLOOK FOR AUTO RACING Competitive Tours Not Likely to Supplant the Great Speed Events. TOURING, HOWEVER, IS GAINING IN POPULARITY Expert Assert That Racing Is Necessary to Show Possible Improvements. Tribune .Sperlal Sportlna gSTVicS NEW YORK, Nov. .-n spite of the recent agitation in favor of supplanting automobile rating with competitive touts a elose observer of the sport and Industry faJIs to find anv signs of a dec lease of interest among American SUtOniOblllStS In motor car racing, although It must he acknowledged that touring Is enjoying Increased In-creased popularity On the other hand, everything seenn to Indicate that the a.son of 1W6 win see more automobile races in America, contested hv larger i elds and producing better sport, than ever bCfOn Probable Entries at Ormonde. The probable entries for the Florida tournament to be held at Ormonde. In January, kIvo an idea of the number of racing cars thai win be seen In competition compe-tition diulnc; the next BOBBOn. Colonel K. ii H Green if Texas hs said that he Would have l lire, new rating cars In bis stable and this will Increase his string to fix. Including the famous old "'(rev Wolf Barnej Oldfleld, with the help of Tom Cooper. I de-Inning a new spei i creation to lnar the name ' Orcen I'rag-on" I'rag-on" and the;.- promise to have it ready for Ihe Florida tournament (il.KMd holds all tin worlds Hack i . cords up to fifty miles, ami Is very anjcloua to attach the vtralghluwav re, only as well Working on New Cm Waiter Christie is already at work on a new racing OSI which will have two motors, each developing sixty-five hois, power, one driving dlreoi on the front BXll and the other driving direct on Hi. rent- axle. With this machine -liisiie hopes to accomplish the mile In thirty seconds or the two mllsaminuts mark Which Is now the (foul of several score of w ell-know n autOmoblllstX. Oideis a New Racer Harry K. linupt has ordsred a new six-cyllnder six-cyllnder Thomas racot which win make Its debUt I" Florida with Mortimer Roberta Rob-erta at the Wheel It has been uhotTb g 1 1 ar.noiinied that the Packard company has built two powerful speed machines and that if thev come up to expect. 1 1 hm s they Will be seen lu all the bK events of the coming season The Stanley i pis have already entered two new Steam racing rac-ing ars for the Florida tournament nnd judging from the nasi performances of the SWift little steamers which the Veteran Vete-ran St. inh v has Inilll ii gri .it deal is .. peCted from Ills n. VV n i ll iTeiltlor.S Mrs. Cuneao a Likely Participant. Al least ono White steam racer will make us appearance In Florida, and it ic quite likely that Mis John Newton Cuneao of Richmond mils win drive this car In one or two events . tteinpts have been made to get Miss Dorothy Leavltt of England, who has driven S sixty horse- powii Napier, a kilometer in twenty-seven twenty-seven seconds, to come over nnd meet Mrs Cuneao In a series of match races for the women's t hampmnship ,.f the WOrid. So far these attempts have met with failure. .Little Heard of Ross. Little bas bOSn heard from Louis Ro, Of New (on villi-. Mass. who designed and built the "Lightning Hug. the steam racing car which he piloted tp victory In the mile and kilometer races at Florida last winter beating a large Meld of American Amer-ican and foreign racing machines. Mr Ross Is working on a new and faster stea mi r and ma again pro . to be th.-dark th.-dark lens. Foreign Cms Will Be Seen. Several new foreign built rating cars will be sen in i ompei in,, i, I,, this country coun-try during the coming season The Its horse-power Fiats, driven bj Lancia and Naaarro In the Vanderblll cup race ari f"i- sale and ii is reported that Harry Payne Whltnej has purchased one and Will enter th,. t;,riks of uoliik BUtoUtl w Qould Brohaw Is stin in the Held foi a fast racing cat and mas secure tin- Renault which S.lsz drove In the Vundei bilt rai e. The two Darrajtos are also for sale and several parties are negotiating for them. with the earl announcement of such a large number of racing can COtnpetfl n the numerous event! Of the next sear the outlook for aulomobile racing in this countrj is very encouraging n Would be unfortunate, according in th. experts, if automobile racing should be discontinued, for it is extremely nscessar f"r i in development de-velopment of the motor propelled vehicle vehi-cle Touring merely shows what the automobile au-tomobile at Its present stagi ol development develop-ment Ih capable of doing, and only In small measure brings OUl the faults" nnd possible Improvements. Racing, on Knottier Kn-ottier hantl. Is a nuch severer test, showing show-ing up all the faults and Suggesting numerous nu-merous Improvements. The superior DOSl tlon of the French automobiles ll l redltl 'I by French manufacturers to the lessons they have learned from nearly a doson years of participation in automobile racing! |