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Show , I TWELVE CABS TO m START 'IN RACE ' Elgin, Til., Aug 31. Twelve cars A were expected to start in tho two m races on the card for the second day m of the annual Elgin automobile meet .9 today. Of these eight were- scheduled m to go 306 miles around the eight and S rme-quarter mile road course for the m Mg event of the da the ?2,500 free- m lor-all The entries were. A Ralph Mulford, Knox; George Clark, 'M Mercedes; Ralph DePalma. Mercedes , Mr Teddy Tetzlafr, Fiat, Eddie AVhalon, W National, and Hughie Hughes, Mer- 'H cer. Sr Five of these eight, Mulford, Clark, V DePalma, Ttezlnff and Whalon also m weie entered in the 254 -mile Elgin r national trophy race, which was to be K run at the same time with the frec- w for-all. B In addition to the last five Omcd kW the following entries made up the (X field of ten In the Elgin national "M race: W? TTarry Endicott. Mason; Gill Ander- m son, Stutz; Charles Ilerz, winner of 1 yesterday's Illinois trophy race, ; StuU; Spencer Wlshart, .Mercer, and Hughie Hughes, Mercer. Fred Wagner, official startsr, was prepared to sond off the first car at J I o'clock this morning The others were to follow at half-minute inter-inls inter-inls With track lightning fast and indi- cations for good weather conditions it was expected that record3 for the Elgin El-gin course would go down before the big cars in the free-for-all event. |