Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-07-14
AUTOMOBILE RACERS
COMING TO DEBORAH
Greatest Professional Circular Dirt
Track Race o 7ers of America
Will Appe. Winneshiek
Com air.
BIGGEST ATTRAo%.
EVER \ 7ED HERE
Professional Auto Rao e erOplane
Flights, Daylight FL ks,
Stock and Agricuh
Exhibits Will be tn
Best Ever.

For the first time in the history
Of Decorah and the Winneshiek coun-
ty fair, professional automobile rae
ing will occupy place on the pro-
gram of sport this year, and through
the efforts of the management to in
augurate motor sport as part of the
fair program automobile fans in this
vicinity will have an opportunity Of
seeing the greatest circular dirt track
race drivers America ever produced
President E. j. Curtin of the Citi-
zens Savings Bank of Decorah is an
officer of the Iowa State Fair, as
we'll as the Winneshiek County Fair.
Mr.. Curtin was in Des Moines re-
Gently attending a directors meeting
While there he met Mr.. Alex Sloan,
the manager of these racers. While
Mr.. Sloan stated to Mr.. Curtin that
Decorah was a smaller town than
these racers ever appeared in he
would do what he could to get them
here. Before the races can be given
a sanction must be obtained from the
International Motor Contest Associ-
alton of Chicago, which controls all
recognized automobile racing over
dirt tracks. Steps were taken to Sc
cure the sanction, which was given.
To show the magnitude of the af-
fair the auto races were held in Des
Moines Monday July 5, and from
there they jumped to Winnipeg, Can
ada and gave races there last Fri
day and Saturday at the big cele-
bration given by the Commercial
Leagues of Winnepeg, the profits
cause of the English in the Euro
pean war
The Winneshiek county fair asso-
citation received a telegram from Mr..
Sloan from Winnipeg, saying he had
mailed contracts and would positive
ly be in Decorah fair week, with the
famous drivers and racing cars.
The event will take place Tuesday,
Aug. II, the first day of the fair.
be entered will be Lou Disbrow, of
New York, the worlds dirt track
champion for the past three years,
and present holder of more of the
worlds official dirt track records
than any driver in the world. The
Simplex Zip" driven by Lou Dis
brow is one of the three fastest cir
cular dirt track cars ever built and
more world marks have been broken
by this car on the circular courses
than all other cars put together in
the dangerous pastime today.
Disbrow dethroned Oldfield as
king of the dirt tracks with the Sim
plex Zip" and lowered all the
worlds marks from one to fifty
miles, all of which he held at one
time last season, until Oldfield re-
gained the five mile record and Bur-
man captured the fifteen and twenty
FIVE mile marks.
Johnny Raimey of Cincinnati, for
mer racing partner of Wild Bob Bur-
man, and for several years head of
the Ohio and Cino racing teams, viii
be here.
Raimey will drive the Case which
he sent to third money in the 200
( mile Southwestern sweepstakes at
Oklahoma City for a $4,000 purse,
and the same car with which he won
the hundred mile motor durby at De-
troit in June. He has been driving
professionally for the past eight
wears and first sprung into fame
when he piloted the Ohio 999 to vic
tory at San Antonio, Tex, in field
which included Bob Burman, Eddie
Hearne, Louis Chevrolet and Geo.
Clarke.
These races will be the greatest
attraction ever seen in the county.
The races are something every au-
tomobile owner in this vicinity will
want to see, as well as all who do
n not own cars. Among the great driv-
ers coming are Louie Disbrow, Eddie
Hearne, "Wild Bill'' Endicott, John
1 nv Raimey, Earl Kizer, La Coco, Mil
4 tom Johnny Clark, etc.
We take the following from the
n Register and Leader, telling about
4 these racers at Des Moines
johnny Raimey and Eddie Hearne