The Worcester Spy

AUTOISTS RACE FOR BENNETT CUP
Teams Representing America England, Germany and France Compete Today Over Course in Ireland
AMERICAN TEAM REGARDED AS DARK HORSES
Jarrott of the English, and Gabriel of the French Team Are Favorites Foxhall Keene Drives for Germany - Route Patroled by Police C
Kildare, Ireland, July 1.-Everything is now in readiness for the international automobile race for the James Gordon Bennett cup. which will start at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. All day long the counties of Carlow, Kildare and Queens. through which the course winds. have been overrun with numberless motors. At speeds varying from 15 to 60 miles an hour, cars of all sorts and descriptions have been flowing along the course, which is dotted with stands and warning flags and is lined at interesting points with spectators.
The weighing of the racing cars at Naas today resulted satisfactorily for the American competitors, but badly for two of the French automobiles, though the latter's oversight apparently was partly due to a defect in the weighing machinery and the lack of an official standard for reducing English measures to the metric system. It is announced that M. Gabriel will replace Henri Fournier in the French contingent and M. Genatzy will take the place of H. Braun in the German trio.
The four competing teams will therefore be as follows:
England-S. F. Edge, C. Jarrott and J. W. Stocks.
France-Chevalier R. De Knyff, M. Farman and M. Gabriel.
America-A. Winton, P. Owen and L. P. Moers.
Germany-Baron De Caters, Foxhall Keene and M. Genatzy.
All the cars are expected to start. They will leave the post in the following order: 1. Edge. 2. R. De Knyff: 3. Winton: 4. Baron De Caters: 5, Jarrott: 6. Farman; 7. Owen: 8. Foxhall Keene: 9, Stocks; 10, Gabriel; 11, Moers; 12, Genatzy.
The race should be over late tomorrow afternoon. but the result may be in doubt until Friday. The complicated system of stopping the cars at the controls at the entrances of the towns of Carlow, Castledermot, Athy, Kildare, Monasterevan and Stradbally and deducting the time taken in passing through the towns, the speed in which must not exceed about 14 miles an hour, was shown by experiments made today to result in great confusion. and unless the race tomorrow is better managed than today's rehearsal, the winner will not be known until Friday. and even then will be the subject of controversy. There was some talk tonight of abandoning at the last moment
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