Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-03-16 | Page 9 | Severe Tests for Our Yankee Autos

SEVERE TESTS FOR OUR 'YANKEE AUTOS America will send no team to- Europe for the international cup race unless the automobile entered In the elimination elimina-tion trials In April show those qualities quali-ties which are necessary to successful competition against the cars of Europe. This has been practically agreed upon by the members of the A. C A. who have the cup trials In charge, and the race committee will give the cup racers a thorough try out of from 200 to 800 miles on either the Virginia Beach or Ormond Beach courses In April- - Providing" a car cannot stand the train of 200 or 300 miles on these level " courses the committee will reject It and ' the car will not be allowed to represent repre-sent America In Europe. The failure of last year's cars proved a distinct setback to American manu - facturlng- Interests, Injuring the exporting ex-porting business to a greater extent than was considered possible.