Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-26
NOTORDROME FOR NEW YORK.
Enthusiasts of Metropolis Now Plan.
ming for Biggest Course.
JOHN T, RAINIER LEADS MOVE
Followers Of Idea Point to Success Of
Brighton Beach Track and he
clare Gotham could
Oatstria All.

NEW YORK June iS.-Renewed interest
in the demand for a specially constructed
automobile racing track within the metro
politan district has been aroused because
OF the Unexpectedly great attendance at
and enthusiasm over the recent twenty
four-hour race at the Brighton Beach track.
The fact that modern automobile race
courses have been built and are being sup
ported at smaller cities. such as Indanapo-
lis. Atlanta and Los Angeles has started
the general query among motor car race
enthusiasts in this city to why New
York is being outstrpped in this particular.
This query has had added force lent 20 Il
by the news that big speedway Is to be
constructed on the route from Philadel-
phia to Atlantic City
While there seems to be general desire
on the part of the metropolitan tradesmen
to see movement started looking toward
the construction of an automobile speed
course in this vicinity that will be second TO
none in the world, the most insistent expon-
ent of the idea is probably john T. Rainier,
who has already expressed himself on the
subject. Mr.. Rainier, who has been one of
the most consistent supporters of automo-
bile racing on road and track, now declares
that great motordrome for New York
Is absolutely imperative. lie is ready 10
join movement for the construction of
such course and his only stipulation is
that it must be the finest, safest and fast
| est in the world
u see no reason" says Mr.. Rainier why
New York should not have absolutely the
fastest and best automobile speed course
in the world. There are more automobile
owners and enthusiasts within fifty miles
OF this city than in any other equal sized
district on earth. This is the greatest auto
mobile selling center on the continent it
is the greatest news disseminating center
and it is the logical point for the greatest
motor car speed battles in this country, if
not in the world. The attendance at the
| last twenty-four-hour race at Brighton
| Beach, which was held before the season
| had opened at that resort and with weather
| conditions that were none too good, is an
indication of the kind of support that this
| city will give to competition of this kind
when conducted as have been the Brighton
Beach races, on business lines.
| This city ought not to play second place
to London or any other foreign capital
much less to Philadelphia or Los Angeles.
| II Philadelphians could see their way clear
to spending a large sum of money in the
construction of a modern motordrome New
| 1Ofkers ought not 10 hesitate IN DONG ike
wise. l venture the prediction that though
the cost may be enormous a motordrome
! here will pay for itself within two years,
perhaps one year. The talk OF inability
to obtain a suitable site is all nonsense,
1t is not necessary to build such a course
in the center of some established resort or
of populous district.
| why, this motordrome project is big
| enough to be placed in a barren waste and
| 1t will quickly establish a resort around it.
Acquire a site in the Jersey meadows or on
the Palisades or in Westchester, or Long
island, and so long as it is within easy
riding distance and can be reached by train
or street car, it Will get the crowd. The
attendance at the Brighton Beach races
has not been a Coney island attendance,
but has been made up almost solely from
motor car enthusiasts who have gone direct
from New York or further for no other
purpose than to see the races. Just let
there be a few worlds records on such a
course and the crowd will flock to 1t SO
fast that there will be no further doubt
as to it's financial success L am ready
to join a movement to build a morton
drome here. but l stlpulate that it must be
the fastest and safest in the world.
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