Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-28

with the big stock Knox. I think as
much of the Knox as any car l ever
owned. II is, i'm my judgment, the best
and fastest stock car in the United
States, and If Ascot park is put In the
shape I suggest. / will race the Knox
against any stock car in the state of
California and can beat IL.
Such, Mr.. Hempei, are the words OF
the greatest circular race track driver
in the United states today. The Her
aid Is aware that you are making ar
rangements to make not only the I'M
proVements suggested by Oldheld, but
to a greater extent, and If you do carry
ont those plans, you will have the fast
est track on the face of the earth,
where all events of the past will be
made insignificant; for. as Oldheld fur
ther says, Ascot Is the fastest place
in the country to race. Los Angeles is
specially conducive to speed with auto
mobiles, on account OF the perfect at
mospheric pressure and most perfect
carburation. so that any car is enabled
to travel faster on Los Angeles
speedway than any place on the Amer
lean continent.
Your meets so far have been OF a
high order, but The Herald again re-
minds you that year after year the
public has been invited to witness
speed events OF locomotives, and it has
been the same old story of 1:10 to 1:19.
and sometimes mile or so at 1;0S, LOG
and with a mighty effort a fraction
over a minute at times. That day has
gone by, The world is awake to new
figures. Let us have them here.
Why should Los Angeles draw about
her the cloak of isolation and shut her
self out from the glory that should
and would be hers with wide open
II, NJ
great eastern drivers and their cars
and hermit them TO show the people
what real racing means. The greatest
authority on automobile racing In the
world says "I4os Angeles is the fastest
racing atmosphere in the world" He
agrees to make the circle OF Ascot
mark in less than forty seconds and
that he can guarantee stock cars will
trundle around the oval in forty-five.
That is what the public wants. That
will bring the people to Ascot park by
the thousand. because the sport we
might call it is clean, open and above
board. There is no jockeying with the
automobile racing. There shall be
none here and you are to be COM
mended that your events have been
clean. wholesome and we'll conducted.
In fact the most successful ever car
ried off In this section. Faster time is
demanded, however, and this may be
obtained only by making the track
safe for any speed.
Imagine If you can stock car race
between such men as Oldfeld, De
Palma, George Robertson. Lytle, Chew
rolet with our own Frank Free, Har-
ris Hanshue, AL Livingston. the Mix
rent brothers, Frank Siefert and si-
lent number The Herald has up its
sIeeve for one of these days as soon
as all arrangements are completed, and
imagine the crowd that would be pres
ent to witness such an event running
against records or in competition.
The Herald submits these suggestions
to you, Manager Hempel, for the ex
cellent reason that you have endeav-
ored to give the public all that you
could. and for a little outlay you will
be still further reimbursed by an in
creased attendance to witness better
speed, better races. better showing of
the valuable cars entered to partici-
pate in the competition which such
events invite