Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-05
DRYERS CLIP OFF
NINETY-FIYE MILE
GAIT AT SPEEDWAY
Eddie 0'DOnnell, Tom Alley and
Billy Chandler of Deusenberg
Team Pilot Mounts at
Terrific Speed,
TRACK TOO FAST FOR CARS
Deusenberg Team Finds it Hard to
Cling to Stseple-Pitched Turns
Despite High Speed.
KENNERDE1L GOES AROUND

kENNERUEllL CUES AhUUND
Eddie O'Donnell, Tom Alley and
Billy Chandler, winners of second.
third and fourth places at Sioux city
Saturday, we're the first three drivers
TO try out the new Omaha board
speedway. All three of these pilots
sent their Deusenberg machines over
the boards al over ninety-five miles
an hour Sunday afternoon.
Chandler was the fffst man to so on
the track Chandler arrived shortly
after o'clock and made severRl-laDs
around the track. one lap he turned at
ninety-two miles an hour, bat for all
this speed found himself Unable 10 hang
on TO the pitched walls at the turns.
After making several futile attempts to
so into the curves without hugsing tho
safety apron, Chandler decided that his
car was not fast enough and he hurried
10 the downtown garage where some
more work was nut In on the engine.
At o'clock Billy again. appeared. and
this time clipped off ninety-five miles an
hour He was able to take the curves
full and on several occasions ran clear
to the top OF the forty-two-degree bank
much to the delight Of the large gathering
! of spectators. A car riding the top OF
one of the turns here Is one OF the most
spectacular sights speed enthusiast can
hope to see.
Following Chandler, Tom Alley took the
! track, but before he left he was able to
| 49,. hanA Of
steam and spin around without side
slipping. Eddie o'Donnell was the third
Deusenberg driver to appear and had no
trouble after a few preliminary laps.
! Alley and oDonnell both turned laps at
ninety-six and ninety-seven miles an
| hour.
| Eddie Rickenbacher and Tom Orr. the
| Maxwell drivers, did not go out on tho
track. as they kept working on their
motors In the garage all afternoon.
That the Omaha track is year ahead
OF the motors Is the assertion OF race
experts who are in attendance, Few of
| the racing cars of the country are fast
enough to hold the steeply-pitched walls
at the turns and even the Deusenbers
drivers. with cars that are capable OF
over 100 miles an hour, found II hard to
hang on. II Is also a difficult track to
! drive. and the pilots would do much
better work with several days of prac-
! tice.
The Dausenberg drivers pronounced the
track the fastest In the world and Fred
Wagner, starter. declared that probably
I no track could hold any faster time than
4 can Omaha. The ordinary racing car Is
not fast enough for the bowl end only the
cream Of the land win be able to COM
pete here.
Mechanicians will have 20 be unusually
alert as a car which blows tire or suf-
fers a sligt mechanical mishap will have
i to literally drop from the track to the
safety apron and the meohanician will
have to keep his eyes and ears open every
minute or serious accident may occur
Kennerdeu Takes Trip.
Richard KennerdeI, chairman OF the
contest board OF the American Automo-
bile association, rode thre laeps with
Billy Chandler when Billy was clipping
Of ninety-five. Kennerdell declared upor
his arrival at the pits that the track wa
great. the only trouble being the chance
that Il 10 too fast Tor the carssN That ths
riding was easy and that the swing into
the curves with the quick banking wa
perfectly natural was his declaration.
Roy Shaw. Berg Bruggemsa and Dutef
Meyers OF the stable OF motorcycles riderI
at the Stadium made few laps arouni
the track on their pop-pop machines fol-
the benefit OF the large crowd. The
stands were woll filled at . o'clock. but
none OF the drivers was able to get oul
due TO the dalay in expressing the ma
chimes from Sioux City and m unloading
them this morning. Many repairs als.
must be made because the machines suf
fered comiderabiy from the ordeal al
Sioux City Saturday.