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Show FIFTEEN CARS FOR I AUTOMOBILE MCE I Santa Monica New Course Is i; Fast and Road Records 1 1 May Be Broken. I. OS ANGELES, July 9,-Fiftcen can 1 I, had their final try-outs and finishing 4i V touches were put on the fast track for the T V greatest automobile race ever planned foi - B the west. K The race wllliegln ;it S a. m. loiuor- W row at Santa Monica, one of the ocean : B suburbs of Los Angeles, over S.t miles ot ' B oiled and packed roads which form l.ha B D, shaped course. The contest Is for 200 B miles and Is expected to result in tllf. ; B breaking of many road records. , B Single laps around the course already ' B have boon made during lh" preliminary B in slightly under seven minutes arid three B laps have been made in a toLal of 21 min- ' H utes. IBet.s are bMng made that I he av- erage of the winning cars for the entire B distance -will be fifty-five miles an hour ; I The Dick Ferris silver cup Is the trophy for which the cars will strive in B the main event. The mayor of Santa "Monica has do- dared a holiday for tomorrow. Tonight i all streels and roads along. the course will : H bo closed. H HEAVY CAR RACE TOR DICK FERRIS I CL'P. . ' The entries for both races, with namn of car. driver and horsepower respectively; No. 1, Apperson, sr hp. Ilaushiie. No. 2. Stoddard-Daylon. CO hp. SIofurL No. ?, Franklin. 12 hp. Hamlin. No. t, Chalmers-Detroit, 10 hp. Ding- .J : ley.. ' No. v. Studebaker. tn hp. Newcomb. ' No. f, Rambler, -lo hp. Harvey. No. 7. Premier, ?,0 hp. Bradber. , No. S. Losler. to hp. Tettsleff. No. , Columbia. '20 hp. Slone. ( ", No. 10. Pope-Hartford, 10 hp. Scott. J: No. II, Stearns, i0 hp. Free. m No. 12, Haynes, .H hp Shannon )S No. I t, Locomobile, pj hp. Page. ii No. 15, Thomas. 70 hp. Il'uber. Y No. JR. Chadwlek, GO hp. Solbel. j LIGHT CAR FOR RACE FOR SHL'T- 1 TJjER CUP. No. 1, Cadillac. '0 hp. Christopherson. i' No. 2, Stoddard-Dayton. 2:' hp. Sicfcrl. i No. ;i. Maxwell. .'50 hp. Smith. I No. 1, Chalmers-Detroit, 30 hp. Ding- J ley. 3' No. o, Studebaker, 30 hp. Lord. r No. (3, Regal. IJO hp. Rlgelow. j No. 7. Durocar, 20 hp. MrKeaguc. ;J No. 8, Mitchell, 20 hp. Gcer. ) No. 0. TJulck. 20 hp. -Nikrent. f |