New-York tribune., 1911-09-10

nuvs, rh.re IL no demand and niue
80 ,or ,ur,her development a'ons 'pe'u
-. Ea., racing has ceased 10 oe e'e'
s-.o, ., n.r,ect cars. The same car SCI
80. u,p. ,wic. In succession. IL is .o"
49,. now of drivers. tires and luck ra'".'
80. 70. -, machines The manufacturer mas
found that he no sooner WIS wav
,ome other manufacturer taxes
from him. .,oss.
two-dollnr-a day workman
Mass IN the manufacture OF ure "''
a speed event as surely as Iaui''
nor engine All the skill In the ~o''"
lii mn, save a good driver wheh to"e
duh who has crept into the race Wy 80
~, weak head and a two-dollar license
card from the sanction 2ovefhins
.hoves a machine across his road y SUI =
spot in the track. piece OF broken me-"
an innnitesmai speck OF dirt IN an oii-iee'
-these things, and not engines. experience
determination or skill are what WIN ino'o'
races now.
poon,e sav that speed madness IL the
,hins which draws great crowds to motor
races don't think so Speed madness IL
one thing: blood madness is another. for
the wireless telegraph: yet it Is unlikely
,la, tic seventy-seven thousand persons
ubo attended the recent race at Injianapo-
lis would hnd much interest In wireies'
t.l.craob contest II is not sufficiently
spectscular The element OF human danger
is not present II motor racing couid DE
developed to a point Of perfect SAFETY no"
much Of a crowd do you think race 80
arranged would attract, even though the
cars made Ave hundred, or, for that mat
ter. Ave thousand miles an hour?
Americans will not tolerate bullhghting'
because II IL considered inhumane and un-
sportsmanlike. II Is certain that the
Nexicans would not continue their national
pastime II II involved so tremendous sac
rfce Of human l.fe as motor racing WIN
all the supposed danger OF bullhghtihg'
there have not been Ave deaths among the
fighters in as many years. There were
twenty-nine fatal race accidents In the
United States last year. This year. Win
the season less than half over, eighteen
lives have been sacrificed to the speed idol.
Incidental to a speed carnival at Brlgn-
ron New York. July and 4. three drivers
were killed The American grows senti-
prefers cattle to human beings 1t is mere
ly matter Of taste.
Since 1904 more than two hundred drivers
and mechanics have been killed In racing
accidents
Al tho Nav indianapolis race the worst
accident aside from those In Which death
resulted was directly due 10 the admission
of an inexperienced driver TO the track
Lost in the hurricane OF speed. ne oiun-
dared into collision which might nave
resulted I'm death 10 a dozen men. Of the
rortv nartIcipants in the race Ii may De
safely said that not more than half pos
sessed other qualifications for adm''tahce
than a 81 license from the association
10 show the immense dihculty "hich
attends the acquisition OF one OF tnese
ucenses crowd Of Los Angeles auto
mobilIsts easily procured one for an arm
loss cripple. who didn't know steering
c.baeI from q carburetor While they had
ne intention Of entering him IN race 'he
fac, remains that ne would have been just a.
soccessful as and a good deal less DANGER
o,s than many of the enthusiastic though
ignorant entrants In the lndianapoiis
svsepstakes and. for that matter. In
nearly every other recent race Some OF
these ambitious young license holders han
never been in a track race before "hlch
fact initiated against them not I'D '"s
least a. no examination whatever i re-
auired by the association.
They are the terror Of the eNperiehceu
drivers There is never any telling "ha'
they will do Many Of them nave the Ihost