Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-24
CHALLENGE FROM
ENGLISH WOMAN
r,orothy Levitt, Champion, Seeks
Race with CoIumbia's OAR
ing Daughters.
HAS A REMARKABLE CAREER.
NJ, Away From Home and In Five
v.o,s Was Making Her Way at
Rate of Ten Thousand Year.
ss.cIal correspondence,

snecial correspondence.
oNpoN, Nov l7--lf there is any
woman In the United states who
thinks che can equal or better
- the record Of nearly 100 miles an
,o,r in an automobile, she will now
N,y. chance TO win the title Of worlds
champion woman automobilist Miss
norothv Levitt OF London at present
ooIms the title and has many prizes
ron in various races. both IN cars on
l,na and IN motor boats on sea. only
hs other day she eclipsed all womens
,,cOrds at Blackpool by 'twice doing
me aylng kllometer In exactly the same
,ine-2t3-5 seconds, which nearly APP
,roaches 100 miles an hour.
~ want to arrange match Tor
The worlds championship with an
American woman automobllist, she
/ sa,d 10 me- Please Issue "A challenge
ia America through your paper. l am
willing to race either here or AT Or
mond Beach. Florida, or elsewhere IN
| NE United states The conditions need
! be OF the simplest. am wild to race
an American woman for the worlds
ehampionship. must look to Ameri-
"a for race. There Is no one left In
Europe with whom to compete. have
beaten them all, and badly, too. Ma
dame du Cast, the French motorist,
does not drive a high-power machine.
There are only two real racing cars
over hore-the 200 h. p Darracq, now
The property OF the Hon. d. Guinness,
and my 30 h. D. Napier. which has just
| ben sold to South American mil
| lbnaire. II goes to Brazil In few
ap But II my challenge is ac-
teved In America, / will 20 to work
NAp, for / think handle that the
hsts
HER OWN WORDS.
TO read Dorothy Levitt's own words
or V look at her records one would at
once picture an Amazon. But she is far
from that. She Is very womanly
vorAn--fairly tall with a willowy fig
", large and velvety brown eyes,
tnnr coored hair; well-shaped feat
ufS with large but laughter-lit
mouth Her muscles are like steel.
She is the picture OF health and per-
sect example Of the well-groomed fash
lonable Engishwoman.
Miss l.evltts Is romantic history.
IN Ave years she has reached the top
~ the tree In her unique profession
and makes an income Of $4,000 year.
While this girl OF twenty-five Is the
most daring and nerviest of women au-
lomobile drivers In the world, outside OF
her car she would scream at a mouse
ana Is nervous and afraid when trund-
ing around town in Il hanson cab.
OLD LONDON FAMILY.
The Levltts are an old London fami-
Y. Dorothy Mas corn mere. Her ia
'nef, who was in the government ser
VICE has retired OH pension to his
| country house, When Dorothy was
twenty. marriage was arranged for
ner' The man was nearly three times
her age, but unlike the novellst's usual
IVORY he was neither titled nor
wealthy Dorothy quarrelled with her
parents, and then on the eve of the
enasteful marriage ran away from
aohe' She went to a married relative
"a another part Of London, who kept
her secret well.
/ y was this friend who introduced
ael 10 :. f. Edge, the motor-boat racer
ga automobllist. Mr.. Edge was told
we little tale OF woe and suggested
az carve out career for herself. So
arranged her apprenticeship to a
nm OF French automobile makers on
NV outskirts Of Paris and there Doro-
ny Levitt went for six months.
LEARNED AuToMoBILING.
while her parents searched every
,a.'e Tor her. although they knew she
~ well and happy, Dorothy was
.plhs the automobile business. She
"" al the bottom as a wiper cor