Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-20
POP-POP TRIALS THIS WEEK
Crack Motorcycle Racers to Try the
Omaha Stadium Tuesday.
TO STAGE AN AUTo-AERo RACE
Jack Prince Arranging for Novel
Competition Between Barney
OIdfieId in PeugOt, and Linz
coin Beachey in Airship,

Keenly interested in the Stadium speed
way down in East Omaha is Lawrence
F1eckenstein Of Denver holder of a string
Of motorcycle racing records that is as
long as a rope
"Speedways may come and speedways
may go, but the board speedway will go
on forever"
This is the way Fleckenstein writes to
Jack S. Prince, builder OF all the principal
racing stadiums in the United states, and
the man who is erecting the track in
Omaha that is calculated to make this
city the center of motorcycle racing for
the world
when the first really. plank speedway
was built out at Playa Del Rey. near
Los Angeles" Fleckenstein continues,
''the wise ones gave it up and down and
= promptly declared it out OF the running.
The first meet that was held at the Del
Rey motordrome, however, caused the
whole world to sit UP and take notice.
Ray Harroun, the winner Of the 1o-mile
event, averaged eighty-five miles an hour
for the entire century"
And this is just the sort Of a track
Prince is erecting here in Omaha It is
located on a large tract of ground just
north Of Locust street car line. at the
point where it branches toward the Car
ter Lake and Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION clubs 1t is, to be exact. at the
intersection Of Thirteenth street and
Avenue K.
PreIiminaries Tuesday.
When Prince started his big track he
promised to have it completed within
twelve days He expects to have the pre-
limlnary speed trials staged Tuesday
afternoon and they will be open to any
one who cares to witness them.
The riding surface Of the track meas
ures exactly a third of a mile from start
TO finish. Thus it will require three trips
around the track to complete a mile. A
competent surveyor has measured the
surface and has given certificate to the
effect that it is exact in all its measure
ments.
Officials of the street railway company
Z have promised no less than a three-minute
service to the doors of the stadium on any
day that an event is to be held there
This In itself means that you can leave
Sixteenth and Farnam and reach the
track within fifteen minutes.
John L. Donovan Of Chicago, chairman
of the American Federation officials, will
be on hand to start the first days events
September 26. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha
and Mayor Snyder Council Bluffs anc
Mayor Hector of South Omaha, will bt
asked to start the various sweepstak'
events.
old Field to Race.
One of the biggest sporting events Of
the season is being arranged between
Prince, Barney Oldfield and Lincoln
Beachy, the daring air pilot who is to Fly
in Omaha during Ak-Sar-Ben. 1t is pro
posed to have Oldfield, in a diminutiv'
Peugot, race against Beachy, in hi
aeroplane. on the stadium. Oldfield hal
agreed to the proposition. This event will
be staged some time after the Ak-Sar-BeI
festival.
Principal among the motorcyclists wh'
will be here this week, and who will sta!
for the season of racing will be Morton
Graves of Los Angeles, considered thu
worlds greatest motorcyclist; F1ecken
stein OF Denver: Joe Walters of Chicago
who won the 250-mile race at Sioux Cit!
recently and who is the worlds champion
five-mile rider, and Tex Richard OF Dial
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