Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-12
ROUGH RIDING FOR TRAINING
Disbrow Advises Strenuous Exercises
for Drivers.
10 WORK OUT" MECHANICS, TOO
Pope-Hartford Pilot Proposes 20 Put
His whole Crew Into Tone for
the Hardships Of Com
petition.


INDIANAPOLIS. Ind March n.-Many
methods Of physical training for automo-
bile race drivers have been tried, but the
most novel suggested for some time r.
the plan which Louis Disbrow driver OF
the Hartford car entered IN the 100
mile international sweepstakes race at
the indianapolis Motor speedway, next
Memorial day, May 30 viii use Disbrow
recently visited indianapolis to make ar
ransements for the workouts Of his big
epecial car now being built at the Disbrow
garage at jamaica. l.. l.. and told his ioea
OF keeping in good physical condition
Gymnastics won't do a race driver
much good" said the Pope-Hartford pilot,
neither will any specified course OF eX-
ercises. There Is one thing alone which
viii make a man tit to SIT behind the wheel
through a strain OF seven hours such as
the 5OO-nnile race will mean. That Is TAX
ing a daily course OF hard knocks over the
country roads in a racing car at fairly
good rate OF speed. I have made plans
10 do this for at least thirty days before
the race and will be in Indianapolis witt
my racing car and two practice cars b.
May /.
To work out Cars.
but the big car will be tried enough to
mt e. into perfect tune. In the practice
cars shah take cross-country trips to the
cities Of the middle west such as st.
Louis. Chicago, Omaha, Kansas city and
others. shall drive 200 or 800 miles daily
for several days at a stretch and In that
manner harden myself so that the 800
mile drive will be nothing unusual for me
ct is my plan now to drive my practice
cars through from New York TO Indian
apons, and this will give me fair star
in training My mechanics will be carried
along at all times so that they viii be n
ss COED physical condition as am. be
ileve that every driver in the long race
should carry a mechanic. as the course
will have thirty-five or forty cars COINS
AT once and the mechanic will be forceC
TO keep his eye 70 the rear watching fOi
cars that will want to pass"
The speedway management will reuuir
every driver in the long grind to carry
mechanic. and will arrange platforms a
mile intervals around the track so tina
cars may run upon them and get off IN
track to make repairs or change tires whe
they find It necessary to do so at point
other than at the pits II is uprobabl
that all Of the cars will carry a spar
tire or two curing the race 80 bhal u
drivers may avail themselves Of the use 0
the repair platforms.
Third of Entries In.
one-third Of the required number Of en-
tries is nov It, the last and tenth beln
the stutz car with GIL Anderson named a
pilot This car Is made by the Stutz Aut
Parts company OF indianapolis and is
special racing type constructed to make
demonstration Of the stutz transmissio
and rear systems. Both the designer an
driver were formerly connected with tn
Marion company as manager, designe
and driver Of Marion racing cars.
The other entries now in are Levi
strang, Louis Larsonneur and Joe Jager'
burger in Case cars; c. p. Baldwin in a
Interstate so; Johnny Aitken in Ns
tional go; Louis Disbrow and Frank
Fox In Pope-H artfords; Harry Knight in
Westcott, and a Simplex, which probabl
will be driven by either Ralph DePalm
or Joe Matson Assurance that thirty
forty cars will start has been received B
the speedway management and among u
drivers will be five or six from Europ
These viii be Victor Hemery in a Ben
Felice Navarro and Louis Wagner in Fla
and Lancia IN a Lancia car.