Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-20
STONE SEEKS
NEW RECORDS
WILL DRIVE AUTO ON MOTOR
CYCLE TRACK ~
SENSATIONAL DRIVING SCORED
AT COLISEUM
Merry Pilot of Little Moline to Show
Sunday Crowds New Stunt
on 1-2 Lap Course
in This City
BY ID. w. sENIPLE


One week from next Sunday the
people of Los Angeles are to be given
a sight such as they have never seen
! in the world before. For the first
time on any track the little Moline,
an automobile which has been doing
some extraordinary stunts of late, will
take her place on the Coliseum motor
cycle course, where heretofore none
but motorcycles have ever run, and
driven by Harold Stone, the nervy
young driver of this city, will un-
doubtedly make worlds record
against time. Anticipating this event,
the car was taken to the track yes
terday afternoon for her second speed
trial on the saucer oval, and when
the car is sent on her way on that
Sunday afternoon the public will see
one of the most sensational events
that has ever been attempted in this
or any other city on the face of the
globe.
None but those who have witnessed
the trial attempts at running on a
saucer track can possibly comprehend
what the driving of an automobile on
such course means, nor the danger
which lies in the work.
Harold Stone was the first man to
drive an automobile here-the first
automobile that was ever brought to
the city of Los Angeles--a three
wheeled Duryea-and when the car ar
rived here no person knew what to do
with it. None knew that it had to
be cranked, and they poured the gas
oline in the water tank and made
finally a speed of about seven miles
per hour. Now for the first time once
more this heady pilot of the wheel is
to take the Moline around the soucer
motorcycle track in the first world S
record ever made on such an oval.
Moline Run Sensational
Accompanied by The Herald auto
man, Al Livingstone and Manager
Kraemer the Moline made a ffve-mile
run on the boards at the Coliseum
yesterday, and if there is the slight
est desire to see something in the line
of the truly sensational, all one has
to do is watch this car tear around
the saucer at a mile a minute clip.
The track is three and q half laps
to the mile, md as a matter of fact
is not track at ALL, but rather a
perpendicular fence, and like a fly
on the wall the automobile hangs to
the boards, until the onlooker would
believe the car would overturn. On
the turns the car is shot along at
the full speed of the throttle, and these
stretches the heaviest kind of work
is necessary to steer the car and hold
her on the lines, the desire of the ma
chine being to head for the top of the
fence and take it's place in the grand
stands. The mind can conceive of
nothing more awe-inspiring than the
spouting little red automobile making
those circuits.
Manager Robinson of the Thomas
I ,,,I-
yesterday when the Moline was on
her practice stunt, and said, I'm all
my twelve years experience in the au-
tomoble business, from factory to
sales manager, have never seen any,
thing like that"
Harold Stone, who is to establish
the worlds record for the saucer
motorcycle track, comes from the car
dizzy from the circuits, but is certain
that he will make a worlds name
when he goes on the program for
which Manager Kraemer is arranging.
To add to the schedule, The Herald
hunted up Livingstone and he has
consented to make a mile run on this
track on the same Sunday afternoon
with his racing Corbin, now the fast
est car on the Pacific coast on the
racing track, and will attempt TO
make the time of Barney Oldfield of
So 3-5 seconds look like schedule for
a stage coach. The Corbin is now
the property of the Seeley High Igni-
ton company, and with that system
LIVINGSTONE made the Corbin travel
Ascot park in 58 2-5 seconds at the
last meet, and as the car has been
made still faster during the past week
it is safe to say that Livingstone viii
trim the time of Cldfield on Sunday,
January 80 on the Coliseum track. A
trial trip with the Corbin will be made
this morning, and as she is speedier
than the car has ever been, The Her
aid hopes to prove to the public OF
this city that not only in aviation mat
ters was Los Angeles the first city in
the United States to hold such meet
as that of the flying affairs of the
past ten days, when the records of the
world We're broken as china in the
shop where a bull has been turned
/ loose.
Again for the first time a local car,
driven by a Los Angeles boy in a
! stunt figured out by a Los Angeles
| newspaper, will once more add to Los
| Angeles fame by two records made on
a motorcycle board track and set the
mark where others must follow.
&%$-
RUBBER MAN RETURNS
q Leonard manager of the san