Show SOMETHING FRESH IN THE AUTOMOBILE LINE FROM EAST EASTa Mr Ir E. E Rand Hand Hollander of ot the Fiat Automobile company is a firm believer i in n tho the Automobile Club of America Americas and Mr Ir Hollander believes belie that national racing affairs should be iu in tho the hands of the Automobile Club of or America This may bo ho a radical recommendation t to o the automobile fraternity and it is is quite likely likely- to arouse a storm torm either way it is looked at Mr r. r Hollander iRa is iR isa a firm rm believer belie in competition whether i it t be bo on the beach on the tho track tracIe on or tho the hill bill or on the tho roa road and the tho Fiat is is to bo be a competitor in all important events of the present year In a grit measure meas meas- ure nrc tho the support given Riven i Cn tho the Automobile I Club of or America in the tho promotion of the Ormond meet by the Fiat Automo bile company brou brought ht success to the meet med and preserved the meets for fos future futuro fu fu- fu- fu t ture turo uro years ear In a like way wa the tho Fiat will be entered for other contests of the season sea sea- son and the promoters of the Vander- Vander bilt cup up race ace may be li assured at t tho the outset out s set et of tho the entry of a Fiat racin racing team The Briarcliff race raco has haR been entered by t two wo Fiats and other events to follow followwill followwill will be patronized as liberally Mr R. R G. G Kelsey the young oun New Now York lork millionaire who lately attempted to brin bring to the front a l Philadelphia manufacturing concern did not hesitate t to o drive in n tho the Ormond and other e events I in n tho the south his horsepower 50 Haynes runabout Before entering the manufacturing man man- field said Mr Kelsey I Iwas Iwas 1 was satis satisfied ed to drive o my mv horsepower 50 Haynes lIanes and anti I am still satisfied of its itt I. I and general competitive Ion ciona cion I decided to enter the tho f southern fame game ame and did BO no with the old car and I I want to sa say that I think it the tho fastest fast fastest est car that was ever constructed ns RS a are re regular ular stock model mode I shall continue to drive it in road track and hill contests contesti until such time as we wo make n a car ear to t beat it and this roar nun be he man many years rears for the reason that Mr Haynes Hanes has had so many years of experience in this field neld Mr Ir I el Kelsey e gained fame in driving s in ing ag a prominent car and changed ed to the I on only I after liberal Hons by br Mr l C. C B. B Warren Vanen sales manager mann mana ger gee of tho Haynes who convinced him hiir I of tho the true speed of the Kokomo crea cren tion With a chip on his shou shoulder er the Jackson Jack son car is is ready to take on any car in ir I tho the country for a hill climb The Jackson Jack son eon Eon a car car made mado in Jackson Tacks on Mich 1 is it I reallY ready to enter an any r hill climbing CY event ut and aud on it its rank past record will rank as aa A L favorite Iu In the tho Fort Gor George a hill climb it won first honors honor and in Cleveland ii it t won five events in ono one day last Jast year rear J In Chicago the tho car won signal honors and owin owing to its great victories in th tho west Ralph Temple Templo of Chica Chicago o took a 1 five fic years years' contract to market the car cam r after makin making a hurried visit to the fac fC- tor tory As a n matter of oi fact no car has ham S been leen niece more prominent in hill climbing events than the tho Jackson a winner in ir I nearly every hill climbing event in it i which it has bas started Manager William B. B Hurlbut of the tIn t Garford rotor Motor Car company compan of Now No p. p York spoke in in enthusiastic terms torms of th the I performance of tho the Stu Studebaker car in it i the tho great run from Now No York to Fort L Leavenworth carrying a dispatch from fron I General Grant 41 Time The The Studebaker 2 said Mr l has a Garford chassis and I am sun quite naturally delighted with tho the performance of the Thirty Th Tho m reports give the tho car credit for an average average aver ayer age alte of twenty-one twenty miles mute to the hour hou r from Nc New York to Chicago and thu this S performance is so far ahead of any auy thing over ever attempted or anything done don 0 by bv the tho New York Paris cars that tha I am an d disposed to brag of it it Reports hay have haveit e it that the Garford gave uve e no trouble from Iron i the tho start sturt to the finish at Chicago am and 1 that it started the mornin morning following ini r for tho the west while all ull other cars wasted waste I time timo waiting to be bo overhauled Tb The Tho Studebaker with its ford Garford chassis chasi S started out according to schedule ant and I continued its splendid performance t to 0 Fort Port I Leavenworth I am rather proui proud f of ot tho the building ability of Mr Garford I and we of the Gar Garford ord company bra brag o or of the tho showing made b by the little litto car a as S compared to cars of or twice the horse m- m power In these days when entries for a all II events are made by men directly interested interested interested inter inter- ested in tho the automobile trade all of whom have o something to gain from a victory the sporting fraternity quite naturally pulls for the pure amateur who ho enters the field for the sport Harry Levey of Now York the tho cleanser and a aman aman man with no connections with ith automo- automo as a enter entered d a car for Ormon Ormond Or Or- mon mond aud and intends to enter the field of automobile sport during the entire vear year I Mr Ir Levy lately gave up about 1000 of his lila fortune to t the e game gamo amo and purchased pur put I chased chused three cars oars He is in the field for I others Mr Levey Lc-cy intends to purchase other cars and to enter every fill field 1 w with th e Cr every i idea ea of winning out tIe lie docs does not feel that success will bo ho his hiu in every branch of the tho game ame but will be he satis sati- nod fied with a fair measure of success 8 Had lEad the tho field more men of the tim stamp of Mr II Levey the tho contests would be far more interesting as Mr Lc e steps into the tho field formerly owned by br Mr Vanderbilt Mr Thomas and aud many others of great reat reputation It is reported but hut tn unofficially 0 daIly that Mr Levey be may an au entrant en on trant trauL in the thc Briarcliff raco race as is ke he e ious bus to en enter tor every field As drivers Mr Levey has engaged ed Mr Ryall well known owin owing to his success in in the automobile automobile auto RutO- mobile world and Mr who is his hill regular driver He has baa two hu huge o racing cars cara and several se tourin touring cars in in the stable and will add others from timo time to tim time c. c It li is seldom eldom that the name annie of a man ain gaim him an agency an and position in inthe rho time the automo automobile ile world worm world at the same time Mr George Jackson Scott of New Now York latel lately accepted the nency of tho the Jackson Jack Jack- son Eon car cur for tor a In largo large o slice of the eastern territory a arid d after taking the agency discovered that he lie was vas particularly fitted for the nJ agency nc inasmuch as the tho middle name of Mr or Scott is Jackson Goor George o Jackson Scott his great ancestor was WIlS no less than General son Jackson and his grandmother was Jackson before she eho was married The Tho middle of his mother was waa Jackson and aud his place of birth was as Jackson Mich Stich Taken all in in all the combination was far from tram too much Jackson for within a a. few days dave after ta taking u the n agency enc Mr Ir George o Jackson disposed of ot no less ices than three Jackson cars and ho is is now determined to push this one car owing to the thie ox ox- rot returns urn ho has found in in tho combination of circumstances at the tho present moment is iR quite quito different from fron tho the experienced ex cx- by the writer when tho the Great Arrow laid out tho the route of the A. A A. A A. A tour in the spring of last haRt year rear The New York to Paris tourists some Bome call them thC racers facers are aro finding tho the trip far snore difficult t than tho pathfinders of last in A 1 Pierce Great Grell Arrow found it Tho route today is a a. bed of snow sometimes twelve feet in depth Last year it t was as a mud bed and the Great Arrow forced its way ny through at twenty miles an hour Tho The Now lork tork ork to Pans Paris racers found the road alto altogether different and one half milo mHo an hour was sufficient to satisfy them The Great Arow Arrow Ar Ar- r row ow plowed through at railroad speed while whilo v hile tho the transcontinental tourists were cro c glad lad to travel at nt the speed peed of or a a. snail No N o trip ever evor engineered ever cr brought as ns sl slow Blow ow speed and the tho tho racers felt that a anything was good enough just i st so 60 they got g ot ahead even enn though it w was s slowly It is not improbable that It Th G. G Keloy Kel- Kel s BC sey oy of the Dragon Automobile comp company nr m may ay be soon seen in n the Jacksonville to Mi Minim Mi- Mi DIm nim a road rond raco race and also aleo in the Saran an n nah ab road rOM race driving his Raynes car M Mr r. r Kelsey prior to entering the hc manufacturing man nian- im field was Wa an enthusiastic h backer acker 0 of tho the eg for any contest a and nd now that ho has hag gono gona into the manufacturing man man- u of a car of hi hl own he be still s sticks ticks to his old love Jove Mr Kelsey entered en en- t ered for Ormond Ormonde and at once announced an an- ri his intention e on of entering the H aynes for the tho Jacksonville to Miami l ami r race ace and also ASO the Savannah races feeling feel feel- i in ing ng convinced that in his hi 50 horsepower m mount he ho had quite quito the fastest car ever cr p put ut up at the same power Mr rr Harr Harry J Leroy Levey ever wa was welcomed at Ormond O when he started in tho the great eat e events vents of the meet with his c car ar Mr Levey Le was welcomed for the r reason eason that he lie is a pure amateur if o ever ver there ther existed a pure amateur having hav bar i in ing ng little to gain ain anti and noth nothing n to lose hoSe except ex CX- c ept the man many thousands or of of dollars expended ex cx p ended for the cars entered under his i name ame n Mr Levy Levey enters his automobile I s table stable as a a. horseman enters his stable o of f horses but with ith Mr Leroy Levey there thero care can car L b be e no He HO enters for the sport port a and nd watches his nis cars with an eagle eagle- eye T The he great eat cleanser line has nothing at al alo aUto all aU i t to o gain ain from participation in the sport b but ut delights in forcin forcing through his cars cart carsto carsto I to t o victory just as aJ horsemen delight it in L w winning inning In In all an probability Mr Levey Levpy w will ill continue in the game entering in it I event ent of tho thu ever very every e importance during during- y year rear ear as his stable includes cars capable of entry catty in pretty nearly ever every event The automobile racing circuit is a fact f act and every ever importer of automobiles automobile i in n America mar may no now plan to maintain a racin racing team with mth a certainty that ho ht w will ill secure adequate returns from the 3 v In In th the old days of cycling n the thi i c circuits provided every err facility for advertising ad r n and today tho the makers and importers im p porters of automobiles may route their g great reat dr drivers for an t unbroken circuit A Among mong the tho importers few welcome t this thi S o opportunity more than the Fiat Automobile Automo Antomo b bile ile company Emanuel tb the tho B g great reat driver will be held field In read f for or anything and aDd events c of the tho year os on t track rack rood road or beach will not lack a 11 Fiat That entry Other Other importers will follow t tho he lead of the Fiat company and th the American A merican makers win Will not m miss miss s tho the opportunity opportunity op op- oi p to go JO against the greatest o ohe of t the he Italian ears cars and th tb the great eat cars o orance of F France rance and Germany German For the cornin coming s season eason of or competition there i is every opportunity op or p for advancement in the selling sell i m ing ng field a as it j is IP a matter of record that tha t tho those hose e cars which min mingle e in the field o of competition c are the ready sellers Bellere while t those hose which steadily keep koep from the fiel field 1 f force orce salesmen to work overtime To T 0 mix mix is is to sell seH goods nowadays and an d b buyers watch results with an eagle eye je I. I Entries for events e in the automobile 0 world must necessarily rily be late in arrival arriva n nowadays for things J are aro at sixes xe an and i s sevens evens in In the fin financial world The Tho promoters pro have e found that entries como come s slowly lowly but as IS competition Is tho life o of f trade trade tho the makers and md tho the importers f feel eel compelled to the field and anti decide d to do so 60 at tho final moment The Tho promoters of the Westchester c county raco race for th the Briarcliff trophy were no not slow to reco recognize ize that it mi might ht be a wise wise move to hold the entry list open to tho the last and Savannah Sayannah followed ollo ed s suit uit The rho result has been a record breaking entry list for both events Tho The Fiat Automobile company compan made one enry entry en en- t try ry for tho the Briarcliff Bm race but ut found t that hat a a. second entry was possible so entered en en- ered t two cars for this event Mr E. E Rand Rund Hollander feels foels that the Briarcliff r race ace will be quite as important as the Vanderbilt contest and so has selected but ono driver Tho rho second driver may tony be Parker but is likely to bo Nazzaro as every overture is bein being made to Nazzaro to come to America This great Italian won with the tho Fiat tho Tar largo o Florio the Grand Prix and nd tho the kaisers kaiser's cup race for Germany last year eur These Were wore the tho three great eat races of Europe and the cleanup of tho the great reat Italian was the greatest ever made mado by one driver in ono one year in Europe |