The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-12

About o'clock Saturday afternoon I
 was standing on the field trying to watch three machines in the air and five on
 earth, and all of them doing stunts
 enough to make cold chills run down
 ones spinal column.
 The automobile race was in full swing
 when there was crash and the Ford
 team broke through the fence on the old familiar turn at the southwest cor
 ner of the race track, but Wild Red
 Fosser sat tight, and by an almost super
 human effort literally threw it back
 through the opening and saved himself, but along came Putty" Hoffman of the
 Case team at a teg-ific crack. He was driving so fast and was so close to Wild Red" that before he knew it he vas in the hole and his car turning som ersaults with him. It all happened so quick that hardly any one was aware that man had had an automobile to absolutely pass over his shoulders. Just bit lower and his spine would have
 been broken and he would have either been dead man or paralyzed for life POL OTEAM TO THE RESCUE Two ambulances were standing in the field, but before one got half way to the accident the auto polo team had shot
 across the rough ground like it was try ing to knock goal and had picked up Putty and was racing baek with him
 to their tent. It's no reflection on the ambulance that it was beaten in the race,
 for the auto Fords are built for rough
 work and ploughed earth could not stop
 them
 Roy Repp, the manager, tried to wave them down, but they either failed to see
 him or gave no heed to his signs. 1
 came up with him and he said; Gan you beat it: my boys playing like
 they were running a Red Cross outfit,
 and outchasing ambulances to pick up
 the wounded" He was proud of the way
 they had acted, but was afraid that the
 ambulance people might not like it. All
 they knew was that one of their bud dies was in need, and they flew So his rescue.
 followed Roy into the tent. and there stood Putty like a bull at bay with his face all srneared with dirt and his pants and underclothing were torn in
 shreds. He had the appearance of a man who had had bout with thrash ing machine and had got the hot end of it. We looked him over, and while one of his legs was badly bruised and in places torn, we felt from the nonchaant way in which he was taking the guying of his mates that he was all right. FIRST AID GIVEN The first aid man of the auto-polo team began to rummage through his chest for some iodine and some one ran for a pail Of fresh water and soon he was
 laughing and joking and wouldn't let anybody put any of what he called the
 liquid fire" in his bruises and cuts. | thought he was getting along fine and
 started over to the track, but when
 reached the judges stand, one of the
 boys ran up and asked me to get q
 doctor quick as Putty" had tumbled over
 I looked over the fence and spied my
 friend pr. William Bloomer of Bessemer and called to him and he readily re- sponded and we ran across to the tent and found Putty laid out on cot and his face was the color of his name Dr. Bloomer gave him hyperdermic in- jecton, and then as he was complaining of his back had me to help turn him lover, and while we found his shoulders
 badly bruised was unable to locate any
 broken ribs.
 PLEASURE TO NOTE Now comes a thing which gives ne