The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-20
SATURDAY RACES
Raimey Set New Record and
Won Big Event.
Local Sports Think Speedway
Would Pay Here.

The speedway program of the free
fair closed Saturday afternoon with a
card of auto races, the principal fea-
ture of which was the 25-nile sweep
stakes won by Johnny Raimey in a
Briscoe in the remarkable time of 80
miles, A II seconds
More than 1000 people filled the
grandstand and bleachers to watch
the events and fully an additional
thousand were scattered about in
grounds
Raimey took the lead in the 25-nile
race and held it throughout, although
Kizer. in a Scat, pushed him all the
way. Raimey's time and the spec
tacular race he drove were all the
more remarkable because he was
handicapped with radiator too small
for his engine and finished with his
cylinders almost at the burning point
EndicOtt Blew Tire.
wild Bill Endicott, the most ia
nous driver at the track, got away last
in his Case Comet but soon pushed his
way into third place and looked like a
sure winner But on the fourteenth
lap he blew tire and lost four laps in
making the change owever, by daring
driving and using the "old beam
to best advantage he gained one
of the lost laps and undoubtedly
would have been in the money if the
distance had been longer.
Kizer trailed Raimey all the way
and was never more than three
lengths behind him. On the final
stretch he made a desperate effort to
forge ahead but failed by half the
length of Raimey's car.
Raimey also got into the 1imelight
in the mile track record trial when
he went the distance in 1:1O, lowering
the previous record of Ill made by
Fitzpatrick on Friday.
In the three-mile match race Gun
a finished n
with Kestla a close second.
The five-mile handicap pursuit race
was won by Endicott with Cunning
second and Kizer third Time, $3.50
Special Eevent Put On.
In order to give the crowd it's
moneys worth in full measure the
management put on an extra event
and repeated the three-mile even
which had been the closest finish of
the afternoon. The same cars again
matched speed and finished in the
same order. but in slower time than
previously. Cunning won easily, but
Hoffman and Kestla were so close to-
gether as they came under the wire
battling for second place that the
judges themselves had an argument
about However, Kestla was given the
decision.
The consolation handicap at three
miles was won by KestIa in 3:50k.
The races proved so popular with
the fair visitors that they are assured
place on next years program, and
many Topekans became SO en-
thusiastic over them that they think
a speedway here would be a paying
venture.
Mile Speedway Talk.
Those who have become en-
thusiastic over a mile speedway argue
that it could be made on the fair
grounds around the present half-mile
track, and if the ground at the rear
of the track could not be utilized, then
it could be circled behind the grand
stand and passage ways could be con-
structed under it in such a way that
it would in no way make the grounds
less Serviceable than they are now.
1t is also the opinion of some that if
the fair association does not care to
take up the proposition other individ-
uals might construct a speedway in
some other part of the city.
One argument in favor of the fair
grounds is that with a larger track,
the horse races would be much better
events and a better class of horses
could be brought here if the associa-
ton could advertise a mile track