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SEVENTEEN ENTERED IN LIGHT CAR EVENT

SEVENTEEN ENTERED IN LIGHT CAR EVENT

The Indianapolis Star
1 November 1908
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Smaller Machines Will Race at Savannah on Day Before Grand Prize Contest.

MUST SHOW LOTS OF SPEED

Foreign Craft Are Listed to Start Against American Autos and Drivers.

With seventeen entries in hand, the official closing of entries for the light car race, which will be held at Savannah on the day preceding the Grand Prize, will occur after the delivery of the morning mail on Monday. Withdrawals include three De Dions and two Gyroscopes whose entries were not completed with the contest committee of the Automobile Club of America.

Full teams of four cars each will represent both the Buick and the Maxwell factories, Olds Motor Works will have three cars and the Chalmers-Detroit two, while Europe will be represented by the Lancia and the baby Isotta-Fraschire. The latter is the smallest car so far entered. It has a little four-cylinder motor of 2 1-10 inch bore and 3 8-10 inch stroke. Its weight is 1,600 pounds and it has the distinction of having finished eighth in the Voiturette race at Dieppe, being the first four-cylinder to finish.

The Isotta will be driven by Lytte. A newcomer in the field of racing is the American Aristocrat, built by K. R. Manville. This car has a three-cycle engine of 3.65-inch bore and its performance will be closely watched, as it will be the first instance where a two-cycle engine has competed in a race. These little fellows will doubtless show much greater speed than is expected.

Must Show Speed.

It was necessary to maintain an average of fifty miles an hour for the Slzairenaudin to win the Voiturette race in France, while the Chalmers-Detroit averaged forty-six miles an hour in the recent parkway sweepstakes. Meanwhile the drivers and cars that will compete in the big race are arriving. Cugno and Pfarenna of the Itala team have already arrived, while Henri Fournier will land on Tuesday.

Hautvast and Rigal, the crack drivers of the Bayard Clemet, with Duray of the Lorraine Dietrich and Szisz, with his Renault racer, arrived on Saturday on the French liner La Lorraine.

The stars of the race, Hemery, Hanriot, Erie with the winning Benz cars, sailed on La Tourraine from Havre on Thursday and will report to the Automobile Club of America on arrival.

The list of entries in the light car race is as followsL

FOUR-CYLINDER CARS.

Chalmers-Detroit—Bore, 3¾ inches; stroke, 4½ inches; weight, 1,600; driver, L. J. Bergdoll. Chalmers-Detroit—Bore, 3¾ inches; stroke, 4½ inches; weight, 1,600; driver, W.F. Burns. Buick—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,560; driver, Jeffers. Buick—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,560; driver, E. A. Hearn. Buick—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,560; driver, R. Durman. Oldsmobile—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,700; driver, unknown. Oldsmobile—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,700; driver, unknown. Oldsmobile—Bore, 3¾; stroke, 3¾; weight, 1,700; driver, unknown. Lancia—Bore, 95 Mm.; stroke, 100 Mm.; weight, 1,100; driver, W. M. Hilliard. Isotta Frashire—Bore, 62 Mm.; stroke, 90 Mm.; weight, 1,600; driver, H. Lytte.

AIR COOLED.

Cameron—Bore, 3¾ inches; stroke, 4½ inches,; weight, 950; driver, F. F. Cameron.

THREE CYLINDER TWO CYCLE.

American Aristocrat—Bore, 3.65 inches; stroke, 3.5 inches; weight, 1,200; driver, K. R. Manville.