Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-07
OMAHA TRACKHURT
BY TOO MANY RACES
With Sioux City Two Days Ahead
and Chicago a Week Ahead Cars
Entered Here Shot to Pieces.
OFFER REsTA $1,000 TO RACE

The failure of Dario Resta, Ralph
milford, Hughie Hughes, Edwin
Bergdoll and other racers who signed
to enter the race at the Omaha
Speedway Monday, to appear was
responsible for considerable disap
pointment on the part OF a large
number of the 10000 persons who
attended the event. OF nineteen
drivers who signed contracts. only
eight took part in the race
No matter that Eddie Rickenbacher
drove a great race and Eddie O'Donneu
almost as good one. and that Tom Orr
broke a worlds record, the crowd was
disappointed Resta was the big drawing
/ card. EvCrybo wanted to see the ia
NOUS Italian EnElishman. and they lost
their greatest interest in the event when
ne failed to appear
The Speedway association has issued n
statement deploring the condition OF az
fairs which existed Monday. we have
heard Of a good many complaints about
the race Monday" the statement reads.
and We greatly depiore the fact that
: hAAhS' WIN NNNtUNFu Nflf W dAN WY uls-
satisfied. We ourselves were in way
dissatisfied While the race furnished by
! Rickenhacher and ODonnell was a great
race and the competition during the first
100 miles was intense as long an Chandler
and Cooper were running, we realize that
the people wanted to see RestA.
Offered RcrtR Tbousan nd Dollars.
'Resta was in omaha and we tried to
get him to race lie informed us that II
would be impossible to put his car on
/ the track. as II was hopelessly wrecked
! by the bad track at Sioux city Satur-
! day. F. J. McShane. director OF contests,
went to Sioux City Sunday night and Of
| fered Darto 81 900 to merely take part in
| the race. lie had TO refuse because his
] car couldn't run.
Hughes, Devore and Keene the r r.
! y. entries. We never heard from We
thought. OF course, not hearing anything
! TO the contrary. that they would enter
as they had signed up to do so. We do
not know yet why they did not come.
! The same applies to the two Bergdoll
entries Ralph milford. the Mercer en-
! try, the Delage and others The ogren
WAS smashed up in the wreck at Sioux
I city when Driver Cox was killed
Too Many Races.
! The fact that the Chicago race was
| postponed a week and that Sioux City's
event was but two days ahead OF Omaha
| killed our chances to hold a race with
a full entry list. Three races in a week
II too much for the best OF cars and Il
! Is really remarkable that Rickenbac cher =
Maxwell stood the test as Il did. Third
In Chicago and first in both Sioux City
and Omaha Ia a remarkable record
Next year the situation will be a dit
! ferent one. We will not agree TO any
sanction that viii not allow us to have
the cars on the ground at least a week
before the race. so that people may go
out and see for themselves and know Just
who will race and who will not And
We ourselves will know who will be here
and who will not. And IL we do not have
a full field on the ground several days
before the date of the race there will DO
no race
B1ame 4. 4. 4.
Next year. we believe, will be a die.
ferent matter The American Automo-
bile association officials here declared our
track to be a year ahead OF the cars.
Next year cars will he fast enough to
race our track at over 100 miles an hour
and we will see to It that every car
which goes on the track can do speed
| OF over ninety miles an hour"
Ray Harroun. chief engineer OF the
Maxwell company, declares that the
American Automobile association is
more to blame for the condition OF ar
fairs existing than the management Of
the speedway. "They pay the American
Automobile association money for pro-
lection" said Harroun, "snd then the
don't get e."