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Show COMMENT ON APPEAL OF PREMIER COMW Hugh Chalmers Declares Court Action Is in Violation of Rules of Contest. By Associated Press. DETROIT. Mich. Aug. 0. Tho action of tho Premier Motor Car compnny In seeking an injunction to prevent tho A. A A. contest board from delivering Ihr Gllddcn trophy to tho Chalmers Motor compnny Is causing considerable comment In local automobllo circles. Hugh Chalmers, Chal-mers, president of tho Chalmers company, com-pany, exprcsHcd surprise that tho Indianapolis Indian-apolis concern should tako such a stand In view of their agreement upon entering the Glldden lour. "Tho entrant agrees to" abldo by the spirit as well as tho letter of tho rules governing tho contest. And In tho rules themselves Is one which slates that ai. entrants have no legal claims against tin American Automobllo association or Its ngOIltS tliromrh dlsRatinfnr-Hnii with rln- ctslons of tho officials or beoauso of dls-qualltlcatlon. dls-qualltlcatlon. This rulo Is Inserted be- , cause the entrant has already agreed to accept the decisions of tho contest boiu-u 03 lliial. "Tho hoarlng of the case bv the contest board was fair and impartial and centered cen-tered about an extremoly simple proposition. proposi-tion. V(f had entered a strictly siuc. car In Iho Gllddcn tour In full accordance with the rules of that event. Wo believed be-lieved that tho Premier cars were not stock cars. Under tho rules governing tho Gllddcn tour we ontered u protest to that crfcet. Through a. misunderstanding misunderstand-ing of the rules. Itcferco Whiting did not glvo us a hoarlng beforo tho contest board In Now York. At tho recent hearing hear-ing tho Premier company and tho Chalmers Chal-mers company submitted evidence on tho proposition as to whether the Premier airs In the Gllddcn tour were stock cars. "On tho other hand, tho Premier company com-pany failed to submit, as Chairman Butlers But-lers official statement of the hearing says, evidence sufficient to sustain the stock status of tho Premier Glldden tour cars In respect lo equipment of auxiliary oil tank and pump for injecting oil direct to the crank case. "Tho 1010 lour was a regular annual reliability tour of the A. A. A.: it was promoted and managed according- to the rules governing that event, and the contest con-test board, which is the court of last resort re-sort In Motordom, and so acknowledged by nil entrants In the Gllddcn tour, has ruled I hat Chalmers 7.0' No. 5 won the Gllddcn lour In strict accordance with ho rules and has regularly declarod this car tho winner. This is enough for us. Other people may run (he tour over In tho court as long as they plense." |