Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-06-06

'Ths driver Anderson. would have
II IN seav before the hind wheels
touched the ground, n n happened 10
BE- a hind tire and COINS shout nfty
miles On hour before hO rad zone 10
feet. etuts number clmc In third.
We saw him (Meta) CONT a down the
track on thu last Zap eth the Whole
front end OF the car IN flames The
men a. the pits alanallsi him 10 step
hut he dldnt a. u aGd made the ieft
lap while his car was m art. a afev-
Ger driven By Tiehar1 came in fec-
ond. There we're Three MERGERS IN the
race. one driven BY DO Palma. ere
by Bragg and the other BY tvinhn,d.
lie Palma was tue flrst ont out Of he
race. He sure had hari iuck With MS
car. BraRg hrJte Innenst3 shaft
during the frst part 81 tho rare IRA
was out an awful long ilne. Then he
and De Palma took turns driving Il
but II went bad before the race fn-
ished milford drove the Mercedes
that DE Palma had last year. You
know last year De Palma waa nc laps
ahead Of anybody when his car went
bad on the last lap within sight Of the
end. Hia average last year for his tss
miles was about SO miles per hour.
Some average isn't II. The average OF
the winner was az. Muifora got about
nth place this year. He wa RUNNING
IN third place near the cd but he
ran out Of gas on the other side OF
the track and his mechanic had to
run a mile for a s-gaiion can OF II.
An English car came In fourth,
think Il was called Sunbeam" and
was sure some car. He. the crivor,
made one stop during the race and
then only 10 change ono ure and get
oil and gas. Ill bet Goux stopped ~
least 10 times and scme OF them
stopped about every Attn lap. There
was somebody az tho pits Esarly sll
of the time. ] ihink the English
driver "a big fat mani was afraid To
Jet his car out. II looked like o piece
OF smoke stack On wheels. II had 4
round black body taperins to a point
al the back and looked like II had
been mashed n little al the front In
order 20 let air In. Uncle Roland sald
he didn't think that the fellow could
get into the hood with q cold chlsel.
lie didn't seem OF need "a. though.
His car Yves quiet and smooth running.
Most Of the cars made u noise like q
battery Of gntllng guns.
The rnces started az 10 o'clock.
We left here ~ 6 In the morning and
got % the speedway N about half past
nine. | never saw such a bunch al
autos before In ali my life and such
& crowd Of people either Il In estl-
mated that there were a little over
100000 people there. We didn't get
home until nearly 10 that night
~ didn't take your camera along
because they said would get vi
mashed sure and II was lucky I didn't
for ] would have. ia have had some
fine chances To take pictures though
because Harold and went away
M 20 one end Of the track and
watched them round the curves. An
ordinary camera won't take good
picture OF an auto going 50 miles an
hour though
You ought 10 see the cars throw
tires when they are going around q
curve, One fellow ,.threw. two aires
on the same side Of his ear and u
turned his car clear around. without
upset.lng and he didn't even SLOW
down. This all happened In front
Of grand stand but IL didn't happen
10 be ours so ! didn't see Il. saw
him coming to the pits though with
sparks flying from his rims.
Another ear skidded and upset /
near our stand and both driver ana |
mechanician were hurt bur this hap !
pened when Harold and ! were roam
ing around the field I.ast year Bur. !
mans car jumped the track and ran |
along the wall al the top for about a |
hundred feet and then dropped on the \
track again and went on. Later In the /
race though he upset and was hurt |
sometimes you could see car come |
a whizzing down the track aud you l
could smell the burning rubber. IN
about a minute there would be bana |
ana probably his casing would go sail |
ing over the fence and you could see
the inner tube or parts Of u TWISTING |
around In the track behind him. And !
sometimes YOU wouldn't see where his |
tire went 10 at all.
ne ear passed the repair pit a. /
belonged at when Il had something the |
matter Il had to go the rest OF the |
way around the track even II Il had |
10 be pushed. Before the race the /
fellows had TO Try out their brakes and ]
else We didn't get there
In time ia see much OF that though |
Uncle Roland said they did all kind 81
stunts. He's seen them coming down 1
the track about forty miles an hour l
and throw the car into reverse sud |
denly. And the car would keen on !
going frontwards with the hind wheels
spinning backwards. Nearly every |
time when the back end Of a ear was
lacked mp the driver would have 4
In gear before they let him down. AMI |
the hind wheels would Just spin before
they got a grip on the bricks.
The track was all scrubbed and |
white before the race began hut Il was
just black and slick with oil an1 |
grease after the fellows had run ~
while on II. u must take an awfu;
lot OF skill To Keep your ear right side |
M running az such a speed and on
such IA sllpDeFv ulacp