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Show RALPH WORE) 10 EfiTERJIL CLIMB Famous Speed Pilot Sends in Blank With Those to Compete. RACE WILL BE UNIQUE Highway Will Take Racers Up to Crest of Pike's Peak. The latest among the early eastern entries in the forthcoming Pike's Peak hill climb events to bo held over America's Amer-ica's most famous mountain course, the new Pike 's Peak auto highway, August Au-gust 10, 11 and 12, is Ralph Mulford, who has just handed his entry to M. Y. Col well, who has been in Detroit tho past week in the interest of the meet. Mulford is well known throughout tho country as an automobile racing pilot of much daring and has had mauv years of driving experience over all sorts of race courses in various parts of the country. Mulford has alwavs been strong for the, strenuous long-distance races, and was a participant in several twenty-four-hour contents on the old Brighton Beach track. His first real step on the ladder of motoring fame . was made when he won tho stock car championship for the Lozicr at Elgin in 1010. Then came his winning of the Vanderbilt cup race at Savannah and several short-distance contests at the Atlanta speedway. His star eon- (Continued on Page Three.) RALPH MULFDRD TO ENTER HILL CLIMB (Continued from Page One.) tinned to ascend, and in 1911, in the 500-mile race at Indianapolis, the first event of this character held, Mulford forced Ray Harroun to extend himself to win, finishing in second place; less than two minutes behind the winner. During his racing career Mulford has participated in and won many hill-climbing hill-climbing contests in which the star drivers driv-ers of the country were entered. Although Al-though he has never driven in a hill climb in the far west, it is a safe bet that Mulford will net a pace for some of the stars entered in tne Pike's Peak eventB that will make them extend themselves to follow him. The success of the Pike 's Peak meeting is now practically assured. In addition to a large list of famous western racing rac-ing pilots, Mr. Colwell has the tentative entries of the best the east and thf; middle west can produce. During the past week more than twenty or the world's greatest drivers have promised to enter and a number of manufacturers manufactur-ers have interested themselves to the extent of negotiating with well-known drivers to handle the wheels of their products in what promises to be the trreatest hill-climbing events in history. These events are to be real tests of reliability re-liability and endurance, not mere mile dashes. Both drivers end cars will be subjected to the severest tests of skill, sustained speed, power and endurance ever given anywhere in this country or abroad. World's Highest Highway. The Pike's Peak auto highway, over part of which the contests are to hs? run next month, is the world's highest highway, reaching an altitude of 14,109 feet. It's starting point is at the Cascade Cas-cade canj'on, ten miles west of Colorado Springs. The highway is an 18-mile double-track boulevard, ranging from twenty to fifty feet id width all the way, with an average grade of 7 per cent and a maximum of 10.5 per cent. Jt is so smooth and even that motoring motor-ing over it can be done with comfort and delight. The contestants will start five miles from the base, making the course thirteen miles to the top. That many people expect to visit the west and also wish to taue in the Pike's Peak races, is evidenced by the numerous numer-ous inquiries being received daily by E. A. Sunderlin. president of the Pike's Peak auto highway. Mr. Sunderlin, with the assistance of N. L. Drew, traffic traf-fic manager, is preparing much data relative to routes and general particulars partic-ulars that should prove interesting. No course in the world offers the visitors vis-itors such remarkable features in the way of scenery. Many points of interest in-terest are to be seen en route from Colorado Colo-rado Springs to the mountain highwav, among the most prominent being tne high mesa drive, the romantic Garden of the Gods, the historic balanced rock, mushroom rock, Manitou and Soda Springs, historic I'te pass, Cripple Creek mining district, Cascade canyon, where the Pi Ice 's Peak highway begins, Pike national forest of 1,250,000 acres, 300 miles of the mighty Rockies in plain view, the billowy ocean of plain rolling roll-ing far into Kansas, Wyoming and New Mexico, together with ninny lakes, huge cliffs, tumbling waterfalls' and numerous numer-ous other wonders of interest. At one point the visitor may look straight, down a distance of 8109 feet a depth ! half a mile greater than the Grand can-I yon of Arizona. |