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Show Motor Mention AMERICA'S great motor classics, the Vanderbllt cup and grand prize races, will be staged in ' the west for the first time the grand prize Is to be held on September 17th and the Vanderbllt cup on September 21st. Thus a new precedent will be established in making the grand prize race tho curtain raiser and the Vanderbllt Van-derbllt cup the windup. Bart J. Ruddle, who i3 managing the races for the Milwaukee Automobile Automo-bile Dealers' association, spent several sev-eral days in New York last week perfecting per-fecting tho preliminary details. With ' a fund of $20,000 at its disposal the racing committee is doing everything possible to make the course perfect. It has been decided to leave the turns flat, but in place3 where there is any danger of these becoming rutted or . torn up by the cars swinging aTound corners tho turns will be made of concrete. . j According to Mr. Ruddle, the big problem is the policing of the course. "We are figuring on policing the eight-mile course with 800 National ! Guardsmen, which. means about , twelve companies," said Mr. Ruddle. ' In addition we will have about 400 deputy sheriffs to protect the property j of tho residents along the course. We ; are preparing to seat 40,000 people on our grandstand." , More than 100 owners of E. M. F. "30" and Flanders "20" cars, recently completed a run of over 600 miles on . a tour from Phoenix, Ariz., to Grand Canyon. The tour was open to Stude-baker Stude-baker cars only, and had a Governor's Gover-nor's cup as the trophy. "Wherever one may travel he will find in increasing numbers women who are driving their own cars," Says John N. Willys, of the Willys-Over-land company. "The present day motor car ha3 become so simplified that a woman can manage It as read- ily as a man. The motor car has ac- J complished wonders for womankind. It has taken her out of doors and away from her household cares; it has afforded her and her children ex-erclso ex-erclso pure air and sunshine. Wo- I men are not speed fiends. They opeiy i ate a car with more care and wisdom than the majority of men. Women drive with safety and comfort, and u3o the same feminine discretion in : the driving of a car that is characteristic charac-teristic of them in everyday life. Thoy do not ill-treat a motor car, and because be-cause of their sensitive natures thoy care for a machine as they would for a pet." |