Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-05

of n given point of the mammoth
saucer, or bowl, which will seat at
least $4,000 spectators, while bleachers
will extend from either end of this
amphitheater, affording seating capaci
ty for additional thousands.
Construction of the new track will
begin, IL Is said, probably within the
next two weeks, and will be COM
pleted in three months. This will al
low ample time in order to put on the
first big carnival of racing which has
already been arranged for the motor
drome for the first days of April At
this carnival such riders as Leorge
Robertson in his Simplex; Herne, the
amateur champion, who ran fourth in
both the Cobe and the Vanderbilt
races the past season, and De Palma
in their Flat speed machines; Strang,
Burman or Chevrolet in their Bucks
Charley Soules in his Stearns, Barney
Oldheld in his flying Benz, Bert Ding
ley in his Chalmers-Detroit and
Miehener in his Lozier will compete.
contracts having been signed already
by nearly every racer named to be
present at the opening speedfest in
April.
A faint conception of the immensity
of the project may be CLEANED from the
fact that over three million feet of
lumber and heavy timbers will be re-
qured in the construction of the man.
moth saucer, together with fully sixty
five tons of spikes. The track prooer
will consist of 2X4 beams, laid on edge
on top of powerful timbers, well
propped from underneath, and will be
capable, il is said. of allowing loaded
freight train to pass over it with as
much impunity as it would over the
most powerful trestle.
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The track will be fifty feet in width,
or several feet wider than the Indian
apolis speedway. allowing cars to pass
each other at highest speed at any
point of the big saucer.
Immediately opposite from the am
phitheater, on the inside of the big
oval, the pits will be built for repairs
thus permitting the snorting racing
machines to be constantly under the
eyes of the spectators occupying this
portion of the track. Tunnels, one for
ingress and one for egress, will be built
underneath the track in order that
automobiles may pass into the oval
without interfering with the racing,
and parking space will be assigned
these machines as part of the landscape
effects which will be worked out by
the promoters.
While not numbered among the first
big cards to be placed on the motor
drome after its initial opening in April
it is a part of the plan of the promoters
to pull off spectacular 24-hour race
which will, it is said, result in the bot
tom being Knocked from under the
present figures for that distance. TO
permit of the holding of this kind of
race 100 flaming arc lights, or twenty
times more powerful each than an or
dinary arc lamp, will be strung around
the inside of the pole fence, transform
ing the immense saucer into flood of
light as bright as the MONDAY sun.
The location of the new motordrome
is being carefully guarded in order, II
is believed, to permit of other details
to be worked out before any real estate
manipulation may occur i'm the diree-
tion of the proposed speedway. 1t is
claimed, however. that the location will
permit of 10000 people being laid down
at the gate of the motordrome inside
of one hour. so perfect will be the
transportation facilities, while the dis
tance will be about twenty minutes by
electric line from the heart of the bust |
ness district.
Is Business Proposition
The motordrome is being erected |
purely as a business proposition and |
is free from all sporting considerat atoms. |
1t is felt by the promoters that the /
pleasure resort practically the year
around, combined with it's equable |
temperatures, are more capable of |
successful automobile racing during !
two separate and distinct seasons of |
the year than is any other city in the /
United States. 1t is not intended. it 7
is said, to hold continuous racing, but, |
rather. to have two immense carnivals. |
one in the spring and one in the late
fall or winter. both seasons falling at |
the time of year when the racing |
drivers of the world have no counter
to draw them from Los !
With the tourist season at |
it's best at these two periods of the |
year, it is believed that thousands. |
even tens of thousands, of people from
all portions OF this country. and even
from abroad. will come on to Los
Angeles to witness the character of !
races that will be possible at the
once it's great speed pos
have been demonstrated as
superior to those of any other track
of any country.
The immense advertising benefits
that will accrue to- Los Angeles will /
exceed the most sanguine computa-
tions. and it is only fair prediction
to say that before six months have
gone by practically every worlds
record will be known as
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