San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-21
Of LIGHT
SCOOTER RACE
IS n { A R
Demon Speedsters Ready
for Pistol at 10 a. M,
on Saturday.

Minute by minute the hour ap-
proaches.
Exactly at 10 O'Clock Saturday
morning The Lights big scooterpush.
mobile race will be on.
Len Ormsby, famous racing pilot,
will warn the demon speedsters to be
ready, and San Antonio boys and girls
will speed away down the race track
at Lions Field, in Breckenridge park.
After the races are over and 80 boys
and girls have won handsome prizes.
there will be more fun on Lions Field.
Silt races for boys, and ball-rolling
contests and running races for girls
will round off the program. And there
will be prizes for the winners Of these
contests.
JUDGES OF RACE.
Judges at the big event will be Fire
and Police Commissioner Phil Wright,
County Collector X. Neill Campbell,
County Clerk Jack Burke, Chief of Po-
lice L. o. Miller and Chief of the Traf.
fid Squad Gus Klockenkemper.
All entrants are cautioned to be on
hand early and pay close attention to
Mr.. Ormsby. who will give the driver
their instructions.
The races will be run in the follow.
ing order: Glass / in scooters, class
1 in pushmobiles. class 2 in scooters,
class in pushmobiles. class 8 in
scooters, class in pushmobiles, judg-
ing of best homemade scooter, judy
ing of best homemade pushmobile.
SPEEDWAY ROPED OFF.
The prizes will be awarded in the
Lions Field clubhouse following the
program at the field. No automobiles
will be allowed along the first drive
way into the park where the races are
to be held.
The speedway in Breckenridge Park
is being ropcd off, flags wave over the
course, and preparations are being
made to accommodate at least thou
sand visitors. Wholesale and cnthus-
iastic response from San Antonio boys
and girls has assured the greatest
and biggest juvenile sport event ever
known in the Southwest.
City and county officials will be
there, and big, kindly policemen are
shining their brass buttons for the
event. The speedway will be lined
with blue-coated cops" ready to
help-there to sc. that everything goes
as it should.
ENTRIES STILL COMES.
Even at the last moment, entries
are coming in to The Light office,
and from all indications there will be
regular sea of racers at the track
Saturday morning. The lists will be
kept open for the benefit of those
who are late up to Saturday morning.
All the Regular Fellcrs are gath
cred in excited groups today, putting
the finishing touches on a racer or
planning what they're going to do with
the prizes they're going to win. And
say somebody is going to win heap
of pleasure out there on Lions Field
there are more than so handsome
prizes.
The grand priZe-and it is a grand
prize, too-is a spiffy racing automo-
bile given by Richard Dix, the actor.
MISUNDERSTANDING morning at 10
o'clock in Lions Field, Len Ormsby's
starting pistol will go bang" and a
flag will wave, aud the big race will
be on. Be there on time, with your
racer all ready to go.
The big times coming, boys-it's
almost here!
HERE ARE ENTRANTS.
Glass No. !, Scooter No. /. Wesley
Mabrito, 1888 West French; No. 2,
Eugene Haddon, 1906 Nolan; Royce
Wagner, 206 Avondalc; A. Cara,
$40 Lexington.