Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-28
D0INGS IN THE AUTO WORLD
Bob Buran Speed King, Worlds Fastest Motor Driver Army Appropriation Bill Will Contain Item of $5O- 900 for Arnored Motor Cars-Results Obtained From These Cars in Europe Have Impressed U s. Army Of hcers.

Bob 6urnan is the worlds fastest motor driver, the Speed King" of them all because he had confidence in himself to drive his great automobile tona beach. Fla April g. 1911. Bur man travCIed faster than any human being who ever lived. He drove the 00-horse- power German racer, the car with the most powerful motor ever built, at the rate of l41.87 miles an hour. His record for the mile is 25.F0 seconds. BGrmau traVeled two miles in 5I.2S seconds and drove the kiio- meter in lass seconds.
 IL was Burmau's one ambition to break Barney Olddeld's speed record and to do jt he had to throw the auto mobile wide open. The great speed performance was not the work of day. Many weeks were spent in prcpara ton for the crowping achieve meut of the speed kings career The meteric drive occurred on Burman's 2Tth birthday. He Delived that fate had much to do with the weird flash through space faster than q man would travel. falling 1000 feet through the air That's why he had the nerve which he calls mere confidence in his own ability as a driver and the me chaniCaI combination of the German speed creation.
 4 horCscopic expert read Burman's horoscope He told the driver that his 27th birthday was to be the great est day of his life. This was forgot ten. For two months Burman waited for the tides to put the beach course ia condition. There is but one time each wear when the tides wash the beach smooth and when the tide is out the course is the best. Always aadPr a severe storm. the Ormond -DaytOna beach is excellent for speed purposes.
 A freak storm put the beach in eX- CelleUt condition. PrcpaTa atiOns were completed. The amateur athletic as sociatiOn sanction was secured. The amateur athletic association officials were wired for. On April T there was d 60-mile-an-hour wind blowing down the beach and with that behind him BuIman was certain of q fast pertOr- nance The officials did not arrive On the following day, when the official timers and judges arrived Hurman tried to break the record and failed utterly. That night the idea of a strange inhumdU face seemed to Hash through the minds of BUrmau, T.. A. AIuross. his manager. and Billy We'll man, his travelling companion. It was <he night before his 27th birthday. Be fore gOipg rO sleep BUTman remem- sered that the norCsc0pic expert wired to his mother To find out the hour of tLc Ias- at which ne was born. Then ne went Jo sleep confident. The next day he seemed unnatural His man aeer talked tO him and he seemed to aa thinking of other things than the great record breaking performance.
 The electric timing device was in stalled with wires across the course at every mile. Fred ) Wagner was the starter. The driver had constructed a special brace tG hold his head against the wind. The vibration wore into his brain. He then made a wild-looking face mask and lowered his seat until ouly his eyes appeared above the covI. aud he held n;s head forward and down to break inc wind.
 The first mile was to get up speed. The second and third were timed and # took almost two miles 10 stop the car When he passed the finish there were hundreds of spectators cheering him BGrmau saw nothing Every thing Wa olure from the end of the first half mile It was only drive and