Show ROAD OAD RACE RAC SET fOR MONDAY WILL TEST CARS AND AD DEI DRIVERS I Course Coarse Is From Los Angeles to Phoenix Over Heavy Grades and Deep Sand From all aU indications the car winning inning tho the big Los Angeles Angelos to Phoenix road raco race Monday will have to successfully combine the climbing ability of an aeroplane with the endurance of a western cow pony W. W J J. J LaCasse a racing driver who participated i in the 1911 and 1912 Phoenix races has returned to the east from a trip with a party of Los Angeles Angelea newspaper men in in a 8 Lo Lo- zier s six x says lays that hat th this s years year's course course presents more difficulties than ever eer and that careful driving on the I I part of ot contestants in the race will be I necessary sary if accidents arc are to bo be avoided I According to then the pathfinders the mountain route between San Ban Diego and aud I the Imperial valley in California calls for the tho limit of ot racing hardiness and and I immunity from fear Climbing tho the third mountain ran range rang e on this stretch an au altitude of ot feet is is reached Then cornea comes a remarkable drop to a aint point int six feet teet below sea level on mountain moun moan tain ain grades that test teat driver and machino machino machine ma ma- chino chine alike nUke The Th grade grado on this thia drop is fourt fourteen en miles mills in length h. h and some somo of ot the turns are so sharp that tho the driver cannot see Me five h-e h feet et ahead of ot his hia ear car car In a n score of places a slip sUp of ot throe feet teet would mean a drop of ot 1200 feet to tho the bottom of a ca canyon on For or twenty miles out of San Di Diego o othe the tho racin racing cars will be able to mie make makefast maKefast fast timo time over oer good roads Then begins begins be be- gins the long stretch of mountain work to be su succeeded in turn by bv the trip through the dc desert ert To pet get t through the deep sand it Is necessary to fo follow ow a n wind winding nt route The Tho tires must be wrap wrapped in canvas to secure t traction tion and the he wheels have to be kept in the beaten track as out of ot the deer deep ruts is next to impossible Theat The Tho at finding L astonished the natives na nay tives Ives in tho mountain range by b- averaging aver aver- averaging aging ariIt twenty miles mUes an hour through the entire stretch it retch Tho The party part found lounet that the sudden drops from high altitude to desert atmosphere at at- presented additional difficulties difficulties difficulties ties in tho the wa way of carburetor troubles This however will be a minor obstacle in comparison with the many emeren emergencies dies cies which the conte contestants tants will have havo to face Although h intimately acquainted with conditions en man many v of ot th the drivers ent entered rd in this years year's ears ear's ra raco race o are arc I predicting a new r record cor of or less than ei eighteen hours for the trip Moro More than thana a score of oC drivers and cars will ill make the tho start from Los Angeles in an effort to travel the mile course e in record tim time |