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Show t ... .: .7. ' NIW YORK; Oct. 8. Whether or tot there wiull bt any further automobile iten ia this country for the Vanderbilt np wu an absorbing question of dis-enssion dis-enssion among the motor car enthusiasts Sunday. The majority expressed keen regret that there aboold be talk of abandoning aban-doning this fret sporting event, and - the hope was expressed that some sue-' gestion may be made toward safely po- licing the'road so that a race might take placa next vear, ' Jefferson Demont Thompson of the racing board of the American Automobile Automo-bile association said that no race would be held unless the road was policed by troops, as is done in France, or unless a private course was constructed. Mr. Thompson said: ' - "No one thinks of abandoning the only big automobile contest that we have in America, bnt if another is to bs held here, it will have to be conducted with absolute' assurances for perfect ; protection of the course or a satisfac- tery private' course - mast be secured over whieh the officials will h8ve complete com-plete control. . "We had from 70 to 80 flagmen and deputies distributed all over the course, but the crowd simply overwhelmed them. Unless w can et military protection, pro-tection, and by that I mean the use of Government troops, net the militia, it looks as though automobile read racing was a thing of the nast ia America. The only other alternative will be the building build-ing of a private course, and this solution solu-tion of. the ditticultr is now being seriously seri-ously considered. I thank' God, eon-: eon-: eluded Mr. Thompson, "that 100 perr sons were not killed, instead of one and ! two injured." George Heath,' the cup winnner in 1904 and second man last year, was sit-. ting with Mr. Thompson, and hi stated that neither he nor ao far as he knew, any of the other foreign drivers would ever care to come to America again to race under suck conditions as prevailed on Saturday. . . |