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Money Obtained at Box Office to Go to Red Cross Prizes to Be Given Winners of Contest for Fords, Albuquerque citizens will not want for amusement on the Fourth of July Not only are the preparations for the evening celebration to be held on the university campus well outlined, but =~ne rare of automobile races to be held on the afternoon of July 4 was a covuecea Yesterday. The races are to be held for the benefit of the Red Cross and total box receipts will be given to the society. General admis sion will be fifty cents. No charge will be made for grand stand seat. George Roslington, president of the ity Klecetrie company, has agreed to let the race commuter advertise the races with banners on the cars free of charge and to let the commuter have free use of Traction park. He will make a charge of twenty-five cents however, for each anto carrying persons into the grounds to set the races. The race committee which is back ing the program is composed of Clyde Tingley, B. A. Rowell, Col D. K. B Sellers, Cortez Quickel and Jay Rog ers. The city commissioners have al ready promised the committeemen that they will lend the city's equip ment to them for scraping, dragging and sprinkling the track, in order to put it in the best of condition for fast racing. Mr. Tingley will oversee the work and promises the drivers a fast track. Novelty Race to Be Feature: The first race will begin at 2 o'clock and will be between Wred Canfield, In an ¢rverland speedster and Jdimimie Allen in a Paige epeedater. The sec ond race will be between Jack’Con neil driving a Hudson Super Bix and Herbert Galles in a Cadillac Might help of these races will be one heat for a distance of three miles the third race will be the only prize contest of the day. It will be a free for all speed contest for Ford cars only and will also be a one heat three mile race. First prize will be $10 and second prize $5. A fourth race of one heat for three miles will be between the winner of the first race and the winner of the second. The fifth race will be known as the novelty race. It will be a handicap race between the winners of the first, second and third races. The handicap in starting the racers will be made according to the time made in the previous races. The judges for the races will be ©. M. Barber, Colonel Sellers and A. Lit tle, MR. Johnson will act as starter and Mr. Rowell Timekeeper J. E. Brasfield will wave the flag as a sig nal of the laps covered. Owners of ford cars, who want to try for the prize money are directed to register at the Quicker Auto and Supply com pany before noon of July 3.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jun 27, 1918
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