Honolulu star-bulletin., 1916-01-11
RACING CRACKS
TO BE BROUGHT
FORCARN|VAL
Automobile Speed Kings to Try
Skill at kapiotani During
Big February Event

Hawaii and Alaska are the 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. 'nless the unforeseen
happens, Barney Oldfield and two
other professional drivers. at the
wheels Of cars just rs fast. will be
seen tearing around Kapiolaui 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 a time they seemed insurmounta-
BILE, but E. S. Waterman, professional
racing driver, promoter and owner Of
garage in Fresno, Cal, proved the
man to solve them. ..<">
First Of all was the element Of
danger II is no part Of 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 its own and the Kapio-
lani track can be made as safe and
as fast for professionals, with a 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. I'll" Il. =.e ~ :>,... (.
Dirt Tracks Draw Crowds.
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, a
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 speed OF
better than 100 miles an hour.
Il believe he could have done 1t II
be had been asleep" said Mr.. Water
man today. THE course is so per-
IeClig DduhSu lndl tIO Soi WI NuoitJ
steers itself. ..: ..:.r
"Kapiolani track is as good as doz.
sns that have driven on.
I'VE can turn it in safety in 30
or less. That's considerably |
better than a mile minute and on
he straightaway stretches we SHALL |
II course, be travelling much faster.
The cars that / shall bring down |
ire Duisenbergs, any of them capable
If turning up between 110 and 1l5 |
niles an hour The company special.
zes on racing motors. 1t builds moth. |
ng else, in fact, so there need be no
jealousy between the
agents here. "@.<..:. f..
Racing Cracks Ready to Come.
Barney Oldfield and the other rae
ng cracks are all on the Pacific coast
low. They knew the mission came !
iown here on, and they are in touch
With me. I can have the pick Of them
t a moments notice.
$50 much for the speed stuff.
Ion't want local amateurs in the fast
aces. 1t isn't safe. But long expert
nee at the county fairs has shown me
hat a very interesting card can be
made up of obstacle races in which
he amateur and his friends have just
Is much fun.
There are a hundred varieties OF
uch freak races, all of them good.
)ne of the most popular is what you
night call tortoise race. There can
e as many entries as you. choose and
he winner is the man who drives a
lille on high in the slowest time.
Then there is the barrel race. You
ct up a number Of barrels along the
curse and the drivers have to weave
D and out among them without knock.
lg them down. Like hurdle race,
ach driver is allowed to strike two
bstacles, and the man with the best
core and the best time wins II
Permission for the use of the track
es in the hands of the supervisors
nd the Hawaiian Polo and Racing
lub, to both which bodies applica- +:
ION was made today. =