Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-02
ART KLEIN ONE
OF BEST DRIVERS
A Sketch of Famous Racing
Driver; Has Been Hero
of Many Races.

When Art Klein. who made his first
start of the 1916 season in the Chica-
go motor derby two weeks ago, brings
home the bacon he does not partake
of It, He is the Charley IIerzog OF
the automobile racing game.
Finding that testing cars for the
Peerless company was not exciting
enough for him, Klein started In pur-
suit of fame and fortune as a race
driver In 1911 when he joined the
Stoddard Dayton team and learned
the rudiments of speehoIogy on dirt
tracks in county iair meets fl
teammates were 6ert Miller y
ClemmOnS and Tony DE Hymel
latter a fun FLOODED y s,9c whJ tur
over and suffered fa.al injuries thrc-
years ago.
In Difference to the wishes II his
mother Klein quit racing in 1912 and
for two Years worked in his trDtht r's
cigar store at Youngstown, Dhi1, but
in the winter of la.. he found the
call Of speed irresistible and at the
request of the King company de-
signed and built car for he Indian
apolis classic. In practice the King
showed a !ot Of speed and verified
the predictions of the doposIers that
it would be q dangerous contender at
| the outset of the race when 1t was
up fighting the leaders aud running
In fifth place. A broken valve at the
completion of 220 miles forced Klein
to dock the car permanently at the
pits. however.
| Klein and the King made q much
J. better showing In their next appear
ance. The car was second In the ZOO
mile Potlatch trophy event at Taco
ma, losing to Hughie Hughes Max
well by only four and two -;ifths sec
onds. In the feature event of the Ia
coma meet, the 260-mile Montamara-
thon. the King was third TO get the
checkered flag despite the fact that
| Klein changed a carburetor and eleV-
en- tires IN the last fifty miles Of the
race.
| In a dirt track meet at Seattle that
same season Klein captured II out of
1s races, defeating such an all-star
| cast as Earl Cooper, Hughie Hughe,,
Billy Carlson and Teddy Tetziaff. lie
also finished second to Coopers Stutz
| in the 100-mile dirt track race at
Phoenix and led the field pt Coror;,
for the first 100 miles, when his car
cracked Il cylinder
| Last season Klein and the King,
| " hiNi iIt lNbhiil anu l'Ntilfu Aai'
Kleinart, ran afoul Of a link. At san
Diego the car twisted off pnlon
shaft at the tape and did not start,
| in the Vanderbilt cup chase Klein was
in fourth place on the last lap. whei.
he ran out OF gasoline; at Venice "A
| broken crankshaft put hun among
| the also rams when he looked to have
third money clinched; and in the In
dianapolis classic mechanical troTbie
forced him to withdraw.
In hopes of shaking his ink, Klein
turned outlaw and joined Alex Sloan 5
transforming troupe. He broke rec
| ords on every track he was on with
the exception of Pittsburgh and won
over 30 per cent Of the races he en-
tered. This year. however he decid ed
to 20 after the rich purses that the
promoters of speedway events were
offering. and, asking the A. A. A.
contest board for reinstatement, re-
ceived an immunity bath so soon be-
fore the local classic that the white
wash was still wet when he started on
the 300-mile drive.--Chicasr Tribune