Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
RAGING RECORDS
ARE SHATTERED
So FAR THIS YEAR
Review Of important Speed
Events Shows fast Travel
.ng to Be the Rule on All
Tracks.

feyiew NJ she important outomo-
Hiir fs.-a 5s.sK 1910 to dete shows
LIGHTNING speeds o. have become me
fashion
tm March sth lt me Ascot speed
Nat Ia los Angeles Puien in Mef
Ger took the lNo-mile Hon0r7 at over
Us mllss tn hour over loose screen
'.4riaced macadam track which ~V's
uuuu8Hy hard on tires
% poaurll Ia Duesanbcrg 'Wo
weeks infer on me atne 'rAa H.. Won
81 miic race az over SO miles 800
hour
on April sth % Corona Calf
q ponnelI again plurked the highest
nonors In q 10i-wite race &C So ]. q
miles an hour without a. single stop
for tires The record for This course
- ss miles per hour waH made in
1914 BY Pullen in a Silvprton ured
Meteor Prior 10 the last race, how
ever six cars did better thHn Jog
miles per hour IN try0ut4
Again at the Ascot speedway on
April 18TH. O'Donnell took the I5o-
mile thriller 90 COS miles per hour
Hughes 10 hls omar special at
Bakersfield calf on May ith, tray
aied the century over a dirt track 10
the tune Of Gl g miles per hour with
aut q tire stop
Al eheebshead Ray New York. on
aap IAN, Aitken drove peuReot ~
miles a. over l0B miles an hour. with
tbree other drivers behind him e1r0
doing better than l04 miles Ia me
4H-mlle Milford in 4 peugeot made
nearly l0s miles an hour without tire
trouble. while Rlckenoasher 80 his
MaKwsu did the ls9-mlle event at ov
~ va miles per hopr without stop
ping
Indianapolis. or Decoration day
saw Hegta in a Peugeut cover 900
niles an q blick tract. az over So
atlea an hour while DAiene in al
IHlesenberK and Muhord Ia Peu-
ge0t followed hot az liA heels
i.ssta again. on iuns lltn. al Chr
cag0. took the 90O.miio event over q
s-ai,ia board track. al close 20 siI
m.icg pcr hour W,th but one stop
1ho next eight driver in This cla8s'r.
nsne = whom did un0fr 90 niles an
hour. an rbco silver,oWJs.
Al rles MONIES on June 2fth. DePal-
ma Ia his Mercedes. travelled q one
mile board track ! 90 times az nearly
"a miles an hour while Rlckenhach-
at over % miles per hour.
DePalma AZ Minneapolis drove his
Mercedes home the winner in the 1850
mile brush AZ 9 miles per hour
The latest races have been those az
Sioux C1ty. iowa on July SIN. where
IrAlena ia uueseuberR Earuerrd
the money in the t0-milo race In :
minutes 81 seconds. while Wilcox
rade a Premier 20 victory in " min
utaa seconds for 90 miles. and also
negotiated the half century IN the
space Of 81 minutes lacking one sec
oud and a. Omaha. July nth. where
five new gorlds records went on rec
ord on - mile and a quarter track
Reata driving "A PouEe0t, hung up
10 miles an hour for miles as tho
marx for others 90 aim at while RIO
kenhachNr made he MAXWELL hum
around the oval AZ = speed that shat
tered al previous 30 o.. 20 and ~.
mile records his average for the Dat
Ter being lu3 miles per hour silver
towns were TIE only tIres used by
any a. ne drivers
" IA interesting 10 observe that the
winners each time have been those
whose urea were sllvertowp cora.
which has indeed been the case .nDe
1914
AZ all racers are required 90 pay
cash for silvertowus. the obvious de
daCtl0n Is that no other tires possess
the same m1ying qualities or they
would be used. especially as they may
often Ae had free by racers