Arizona republican., 1911-11-10
Speed Enthusiasts Showed the People of Phoenix a Thing or Two About How the Game Is Played at Its Best.
ENORMOUS CROWD
 SAW THE SIGHTS
One of the Fastest Miles Ever Negotiated in the West Was Made When Car Went Round Track in 51 Seconds.

No surprise will be elicited by the announcement that Automobile day at the fair brought together the largest crowd that ever assembled in Arizona, though an announcement to the con- trary would be most amazing. The first years automobile day was an experiment, the second one sue cess. So this year it has been looked forward to as a record breaker. and there was no disappointment, either in the attendance or in the program. The Arizona track record for a mile was lowered from 56 seconds to 5224 and it is said that has never been beaten but once on the coast; that was when Barney Oldfield, in a Benz car travelled a mile in 51 4-5. In other events world records were in jeopardy, and only for the accidents. which caused some of the drivers to slow down, new ones might have been made But if there was no disap- pointment in the day, there were re- grets. Fred Fuller smashed up a good Mercer car in hurdling the south fence and Harris Hanshue. whom ev erybody likes, suffered painful injury and narrow escape from death in an accident described elsewhere in this issue
 Aside from the automobile races. there were a number of entertaining features One was the second heat IL. T good and Sinard. It was a closer contest than the first one. and was won by Levengood, who had the pole in the start and kept it through two hard runs around the track. Time. 1:51. These men will run the third and final heat on Saturday.
 Another feature of the program was the soldiers rescue race. in which mounted men dash to the aid of com rades supposed to have lost their mounts in a skirmish with the en- emy. each rider bringing back d fel- low soldier behind him.
 The weather was fine and the track was in good condition for the auto mobile races. It was a little dusty, of course, and grew more so as the day wore on, but it was the opinion of track men, some of them, at least, that the soil is of such peculiar char actcriStics that the machine racing does not injUre it in the slightest so that with a little attention last night and this morning, it will be in fine condition for today's harness races.
 The first race was for d track rec ord. one mile in mile dash. for a $50 purse. with s25 added for every sec ond trimmed from the record of 56 seconds made a year ago. The win ner of this race was the Pope Hart ford car. driven by Bert Dingley, who found in the National, driven by Sci fert. a worthy rival The Pope placed the new mark at fifty-two and sev- enty-five one-hundredths seconds, which has never been bettered on the coast but once. The entries, in the order of their finish. were as follows: Pope Hartford, 52.75; National, 53.S1; Buick CNickrent', 57.35; Midland CPurdy), 1:05.56; Buick (Ferguson), 1:O5.67.
 The second event was a fifteen mile race for cars participating in the road race with a piston displace- ment of 301 inches and over, five mile laps This contest was a vic tory for the National, driven by Sic fert. who covered the laps as fol- lows: 4:5755. 9:43.22. 13:37.67 Nick rent pushed the National hard in the first lap. covering it in only hun dredth of a second more time. The Franklin. with Guy Irwin at the throttle. was third, and the Midland. driven by Tom Carrigan. finished a mile or two short
 The third race was a ten-mile event for S200, for cars participating in the road race. with a piston displacement under 3O1 inches This race was won by Hanshue in 10:34O5: Cadillac sec ond. F. M F. third, Case fourth and Cole fifth.
 The fourth number was the 25-mile race. regarded as the big event of the day The purse was s1.000, of which $500 went to the first man in and the rest to the second to finish. A piston displacement of 231 inches was necessary for entrance. The race proved another victory for Bert Ding lev in the Pope Hartford, and it is claimed that in it he made the one and the ten mile records for stock cars. The three cars to finish the 9 miles came in within a single min ute. the result being as follows: Pope Hartford. 23 5296; National. 24:3l-s5; Mercer (Hanshue). 24.S2.S5. Another National and Nickrent's Buick also finished. A second Mercer. driven by