The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15


 sick typewriter and seek to tell you ' noon and how they done it. To begin they stage auto races on Saturday aft, a feller can crawl into ye tub and ge' it has several days to settle into the to the red corpuscles, where his blood
 The Promo car, which is published right here in Birmingham and probably knows the lay of the land better than its com psttors walked away with tirss honors out at the fairgrounds Saturday and Preston Motors can stick whole henfuli of feathers in it's cap as result of the results. Ernie Fosnaugh, driving the Premocar, won the first f1ve-nile event in minutes 50 1-5 seconds. While Ernie was stepping on the gas about 2,ooO people were stepping on my toes trying to see him come down the home stretch.
 PRFMOCAR WINS ANOTHER
 Then the Alabama sweepstakes, which went for 10 miles, Ernie stepped on the gas some more, and came homo with the streak of lean and streak of fat. That give the local talent car the two biggest events of the afternoon, and George Biggers, the Premo advertising manager, what drove me out to the fair gr ounds in the official car, had a smile on his face as broad as the Boston A in bath, when all events was over and it was found that the Preston entry had outdstanced the other gas gluttons.
 JOHN HALLS STUNT
 During the afternoon John Hall was riding around the track in a Premocar, and John took a sudden notion that he wanted to. do a probosSls dive in a aero plane, so with the Premocar running about 6O John stands up on the back of her and grabs & rope ladder what is dangling from plane and steps as non chalantly to the plane as Nat Goodwin used to step to the marriage altar John hasn't got no more nerves than fl1vVer has fourth speed, and he was as calm and cool as a cucumber when he rode back to Terry Firmer and received the plaudits of the multitude and his fee Tor doing the hair-raisin stunt.
 Johns mother was in the stands, and naturally she was nervous when he made the leap, but she had gone out to the fairgrounds to prove that she was game, and she witnessed the exhibition without going out for the swoon endurance rec ord. It was a great act, but John IS welcome to the job. Anyway, feller would have to be awful eccentric to de- eide that he wasn't satisfied with riding in a auto and want to step off to aero plane in everyday life.
 NOBODY HURT
 Tho races wasn't q huge success, 1T you look at 1t one way, because nobody was killed CT hurt, or maimed for life, or anything. Oddly enough. nobody got . stone br,lise like Larry Stone done over in Atlanta . week or so ago, and check-up at the wind-up showed that the fences was intact even down to the small est splinter.
 Only one time did 1t look Ike . car might turn tarrapin. This was when Bob Robinson. driving his Peugeot, was run ming against time. It looked like Old Daddy Time might win when Bob skid ded on the southeast turn and almost turned completely around. like he thought he was running at Belmont The right rear wheel picked some daisies out of . fence corner and the tire blew out, but otherwise nothing happened to the car. Bob had just made the mile in :54 2-5, and was out to try and break the track record. After changing tire and praying in two or three different lan- guages he got back in the boat but the best he could do was :66 2-5.
 After the races had all been run and the dust precipitation had been pro- nounced about two inches by the weather man, the Otto polo boys got out thelr , cars and thrilled the crowds some more. It was thought that Birmingham's censor wouldn't permit their lenders on, but the censor passed up good bet. and the polo games continued to the bitter end.
 With my mouth having taste In 1t like a brickyard, I wended my way homeward about half-past dusk, but was glad had went out, as the races had proved interesting, and Billy Breiten- stein had pointed out some scenery that might of overlooked otherwise.
 NO LUCK, PICK Ralph Hankinson was the orficlai starter and stopper, and Bill helped keep the track clear. There was young 1e.- Ter named Short with long face. be- cause he couldn't get no bets down on the Premocar. They gave him stop watch to keep the time with, and as he was leaving for Memphis Saturday night. don't know whether they ever got the watch back or not. It was really a Magic City day as the Premocar won the races and the Pre- mocar was used as the vehicle for John Hall to step into the plane which sam !H