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Show MOTOR MOTIONS The projected automobile racing meet for Salt Lake this fall gives every indication of a successful success-ful materialization. The officials of the Utah Jockey club are backing the move and from the correspondence they have had this week with prominent eastern manufacturers and drivers it will be possible to secure for the event a splendid coterie of record-breaking cars and drivers. The horse meet "which opens today will put the Buena V Vista track In splendid shape and it is believed that the track will prove to be one of the fastest in t the country for the motor cars. It Is the opinion, of Manager Finn of the Jockey club and those associated with him that an automobile meet such as they propose to inaugurate will prove not only a big thing for the town rroni a. nnanclal standpoint, but will be of immense benefit to the automobile owners and dealers. The 1910 cars have practically all been received, and an unprecedented record has been madd in selling them. The new motors are beauties, and the general Impression among the buyers seems to be that, they are getting more for their money In the 1910 model cars than ever before. While the roads the past two weeks have been anything but suitable for demonstrating, they are getting back Into shape and tomorrow will see a score of cars up the canyons can-yons and south for the longer trips. The canyons are beautiful in their early fall foliage and it Is not yet so cold that these trips mean discomfort. In California autolsts are preparing for a big motor car display that is to be held in connection connec-tion with the Portola festival. Eighteen dealers representing twenay-one makes of cars have already al-ready applied for space, and from indications the show will be a success. Another Interesting event in the California au tomobile world will be the two days' racing in Santa Rosa on Saturday and Sunday, September 25th and 26th. There will be six exciting races each day, and the entries to date assure the hottest corapetitioni to land the valuable silver cup and trophies the Santa Rosa Automobile association, under whose auspices the automobile carnival is given, has hung up. The entries show the interest in-terest the dealers and drivers are taking in the racing In Santa Rosa over the fastest track in the state, particularly so now that the association associa-tion has Bpent $3,000 in banking the turns. t President Taft's special flyer and a Peerless motor car may be matched for a race from Los Angeles to Fresno after President Taft has been entertained in Los Angeles. H. O. Harrison, representative rep-resentative for Peerless cars in California, may drive the car. It is possible that Harrison may decide to enter his own roadster in the daring dash. He has had a six-cylinder Peerless tuned up to racing pitch for his own use, and this car will do close to eighty miles an hour. Autolsts who are anxious to see what a motor car can do in a race against the fastest and best railroad train made are anxious to arrange the match. The train would roll comfortably along a track, while Harrison would be obliged to send his car over rough roads at a speed that is dangerous. dan-gerous. In spite of these apparent obstacles the autolsts who are trying to promote the race are confident the Peerless will beat the train. Lewis Strang is never behind the time and usually manages to keep at least a few paces ahead of others who are following his profession. Strang has recently combined a monster Bulck racing car with eight cylinders, set V-shape in the motor, and has been figuring on an appropriate appro-priate name for the car. Going one better, the earth-destroying titles which have been applied M to certain racing cars, the daring youngster will d H call his space annihllator the Bulck Earthquake. f M "That ought to shake 'em up some," said Strang M on the Lowell road course a few days ago. 11 f H The Cincinnati Society of Physicians, embrac- iH ing practically all the medical men in the city, H are striving to have a special ordinance passed H giving them the right to drive their cars at a H high rate of speed when necessary. The ordi- '' nance will probably provide that all cars owned ;H by physicians will be obliged to carry a Red Cross H In a conspicuous place and under such conditions iH the cars would not be molested if they were bo- n ing driven at high speed. f j The agitation that has been revived hero for 1 a fine, wide highway from Salt Lake to.Ogden lH Is likely to receive the support of everybody in M town who owns a car or expects to. The road ! to and from Ogden is traveled more frequently jH than any other highway leading out of Salt Lake ! and improvements in the road are badly needed. A feature of automobile club work that could jM well be undertaken by the Salt Lake Automobile' 'H club Is the work recently completed by the Den- ;H ver Motor club, an Information bureau for the - benefit of both local and touring motorists which M has been established. The conditions of the roads H are recorded and printed guides are gladly sup- H plied to anyone on request. The guide contains H maps and gives distances to all points in Colorado M as well as grades and quality of the roads. They M also contain a list of all owners in the city of Denver and the laws and ordinances of all the 'sM principal towns and cities in the Etate. With this system anyono can tour about the state, even H though they are not familiar with the roads. In , M addition to tbe information bureai the club has. fl Bf a chauffeur's iegistr bureau that membeig may W obtain reliable, competent drh ers on . short no- H tibe'r There Is also a standing reward of ?100 Bl offered to the person causing the arrest and con- Hf viction of anyone stealing a member's car. H The local organization, has not, however, ishown K very much life since its meeting a month or H two ago. H H j i The two Traveler models of the American H car reached the Roolclidge-Gilmer Company Mon- 1 day. Lewis McCornick took immediate delivery of H one of thorn, a beautifully finished and well-equip- H" ped machine, undoubtedly one of the handsomest Hr of "the present season's cars. Work is being B' pushed as rapidly as possible on the Rooklidge- H' Gilmer Company's new building on south State. B H " The Studebaker Company delivered a seven H passenger touring Studebaker to the Utah Jock- H ev Club during the week, for the use of the H officials of the club during the race meet, 'which B opens today at the Buena Vista. ' The Randall-Dodd Company, now located in H: the new Holmes building on south State, has H i already found it necessary to provide for an addi- H tion to their garage and salesroom, so rapidly H has their business grown since occupying the B. new quarters. The company has taken the in- H, termountain agency for the Oldsmobile car and Hl for the line of Reliance commercial vehicles. Th's H gives the company the agency for the following H makes of cars, the Thomas Flyers, Buick, Olds- H mobile and Reliance vehicles. |