The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-07
FAST AUTO RACES
ON FAIR GROUNDS
BIG FIVE RACING TEAM OF WEB.
sTER CITY, IOWA, HOLDS RACE
MEET ON LOCAL TRACK
Vim D. WILCOX ADDS LOCAL COLOR
BY Driving Foreign Racing Cara
Near Acknowledgment Races
Best Event But Little Rivalry

The widely advertised auto races
were held on the local fair grounds
Monday afternoon and just about
enough people We're there so that the
managers could not call the events off.
The races were conducted by the So
called Big Five Racing Team of Web
ster City, Iowa, and in all the stripped
car events the three cars of the man.
ayers were all that appeared although
more were advertised to have sent in
their entries.
The men were unfortunate in select
ing this time of the year for their
races for this territory Is 90 busy to
give much time to C at present
and very few farmers were present.
This, more than anything else, kept
the attendance very low. Again the
weather was a little too warm for CON-
fort and as the managers had not ad-
vertised any prices many were afraid
they would get to the grounds and
then If they wished to go in they would
be held up. AS 1t was as large a
charge was made as is made for the
county fair days, when the local men
produce horse races, a ball game, aero
batic stunts together with the large dis
play of farm produce which Is always
gathered together. But the auto men
were strangers and were after all they
could get. About the most reasonable
thing they did in the charge line was
twenty-one years and many young peo-
pie were surprised that they could get
into the grounds for twenty-five cents.
The first race was a ten mile motor
cycle race for one cylinder machines.
This was won by Sig HaugdahI with
an Indian in eight minutes and fifty
seconds. Haugdahl is a member Of the
travelling ace Second place was
taken by Ed. Paulson of Arlington with
an Indian and third place went to Mr..
Chichester of this place. He rode a
Reading Standard. There were only
three starters in the race.
The second event was a ten mile
f~ree-for-all motorcycle race and this
also was won by Hougdahl with his
single Indian; time 1855. Avery of
Bookings, secured second place with
a Harley Dawson twin. Andrew Paul
son got third with a Harley Dawson
twin.
The third event, the five mile strip
ped car race was won by No. 10 Colby
Red Devil, Buick second, and Fal
third. This was the most exciting
race of the entire meet and principally
because one of the cars, the Fal, was
driven by a local man, Vim Wilcox. The
driver of the winning car drives under
the name of Reckless Shep" but it
was the unanimous opinion of all spec.
tators that Wilcox was the only "reck-
less driver in the bunch. He had only
gone a short distance in the race when
he decided that the fair associations
fence was not of the proper fashion so
he headed his a directly for it, about
the same time the dust cleared away
sufficiently SC that he saw the serious
ness Of his position and swung his car
to the opposite direction. The car
skidded and gave the fence that much
admired split" effect. He vas lucky
that he got out of it as well as he did
for the two car ahead of him we're
tearing up great clouds of lust and it
was almost impossible for him to see
the track. Every few minutes the dust
clouds would become 80 thick that the
spectators were unable to e the
racers. The time Of the race was
seven minutes and Ave seconds.
More local color was added to the
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