Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-11
CRACKS
TO BE BROUGHT
FOR CARNIVAL
Automobile Speed Kings to Try
Skill at Kapiotani During
II Big February Event

HaWal1 and Alaska are ire only TWO
members Of the Union hat never have
seen a real automobile race, but after
Carnival week Alaska will be alone
in her glory Unless the unforeseen
happens, Barney Oldfeld ami two
other professional drivers, at the
wheels of cars just rs fast, will be
seen tearing around Kapiolani track
on the day Of the automobile parade.
The plan has the support of the
Carnival directors, the two big auto
mobile dealers and the Auto Club.
Difficulties have been numerous and
for time they seemed insurmounta-
BILE, but Z. S. Waterman, professional
racing driver, promoter and owner OF
a garage in Fresno, Cal, proved the
man to solve them. ..... -" -......
First of all was the element OF
danger. Ii is no part Of a Carnival
to slaughter two or three amateur
drivers. Mr.. Waterman proposes TO
eliminate that risk by opening his
speed contests to none but profession.
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Dirt track driving, he says, Is COM
ing back into It's own and the kapio-
lani track can be made as safe ana
as fast for professionals, with days
work, as any one OF so mainland
tracks used every month OF the racing
season. The banked speedway, such
as those at Chicago and Sheepshead
Bay, Long Island, has been made too
perfect. Contests have been narrowed
down to the mechanical perfection OF
the cars. ~. ....
Dirt Tracks Draw Crowds. H.. j.. 4
This the dirt track still can offer
and always will. The consequence is
that the professionals are flocking
back to the state fairs and the dirt
tracks, where they know they can
draw the crowds. On the Sheepshead
Bay speedway, the president OF one OF
the largest automobile companies,
man of ripe middle age, who never
drove a professional race in his life
and never could be induced to for any
sum of money, recently tore off time
trial in a stock car at a speed OF
better than 100 miles an hour.
Il believe he could have done it II
he had been asleep" said Mr.. Water.
man today. THE course is so per-
fectly banked that the car virtually
steers itself. i: 81. :.~.>. :. i.
"Kapiolani track is as good as doz'
ems that have driven on.
I'VE can turn it in safety in 90
seconds or less. That's considerably
better than a mile minute and on
the straightaway stretches we shall,
OF course, be travelling much faster.
The cars that | shall bring down !
are Duisenbergs, any Of them capable |
Of turning up between ITO and 1l5
miles an hour The company special |
ICES on racing motors. 1t builds moth |
ing else, in fact, so there need be no
advertising jealousy between the |
agents here. :. ..,.....
Racing Cracks Ready to Come.
Barney Oldfield and the other rae.
ing cracks are all on the Pacific coast
now. They knew the mission / came /
down here on, and they are in touch |
with me. can have the pick of them |
at a moments notice. II
$50 much for the speed stuff. / !
don't want local amateurs in the fast
races. It isn't safe But long expert
ence at the county fairs has shown me
that a very interesting card can be
made up of obstacle races in which
the amateur and his friends have just
rs much fun. @...".. - r.. -.
There are a hundred varieties or
such freak races, all of them good.
One of the most popular is what you
might call tortoise race. There can
be as many entries as you choose and
he winner is the man who drives
mile on high in the slowest time.
Then there is the barrel race. You
set up number of barrels along the
course and the drivers have to weave
n and out among them without knock
ng them down. Like a hurdle race,
Zach driver is allowed to strike two
and the man with the best
score and the best time wins
Permission for the use of the track
les in the hands of the supervisors
ind the Hawaiian Polo and Racing
Club, to both which bodies applica-
ion was made today. -. "=.