The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-04-13
Speedway Rises
In Jersey Pines
Modern Roman Coliseum at
Hammonton Will Attract
Motor Racing Cream
First Race will Be May |

Out OF lUp SCIuD pluC Woooo
near Hammonton, the great yell
low ellipse of the worlds largest
and fastest board motor speed
way now rises, marvel OF en-
cheering speed and builders
skill. 1t is the Atlantic City Mo-
tor Speedway. the modern equiv
alent of the Roman Coliseum, the
steeply beveled course where all
worlds records for motor racing
are destined soon to be broken.
Yesterday tractors chugged over
the wide floor of the great infield
where parking space for 10000
cars is being ironed out. Other
tractors worked stolidly outside
clearing a space for 10000 cars
Just outside the gates.
Gangs of carpenters worked
like colonies of busy ants along
the wide reaches of the gigantic
grandstand which is to seat
$4,000 Counting those who may
find place in the infield and those
who will be in the stand, the i'm
mense bowl will accommodate
100000 persons.
Jack Prince, master builder OF
board speedways was driving the
gangs working upon the slanted
board speedway at top speed. He
gave special heed to turns where
che grounds will relieve White
angle of 45 degrees shouldering
out of sight the dark trees in the
background.
"The daddy of all speedways,
that's what this will be-" said
Prince, former bicycle champion
of the world, later builder of BIZ
cycle speedways, now the only
man in the world building mons
ter motordromes for the greatest
thrills vouchsafed to earth-bound
man.
Speed, speed, speed" said
Prince, that's what they'll find
here. Think of it, mile and a
half track, the biggest in the
world. with homestretch and a
backstretch each Of 1920 feet.
Nothing like the length Of that
straightway has ever been given
to the speed kings who drive the
one-man bullet in which they ride
They'll come roaring down that
straightaway like meteors from
the sky. Wwhosh? and they'll
pass in a blur. It'll be like strad
ding comets or sitting inside a
hOwitzer shell. No living man has
ever seen the like of man-made
speed on the face Of the earth
such as will be shown here on the
first day of May. when the 300
mile inaugural international clas
sic will be raced by the fastest
and most daring drivers of two
hemispheres. Man alive, but it will
be wonderful sight! I'd trave
across continent to see it and
there are hundreds of thousands
like me-"
Arrangements for the race
which already is looked upon as
sure record-breaker. are being
rushed to completion. A new rail
way station has been established
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the
old name of Amotol giving way tC
Speedway.
A new road leading directly to
the rogunds will relieve White
Horse pike of some of the traffic
demands which will be made up
on it on the day of the race.
The starters gun will be fired
at p. m. eastern daylight saving
time. May l. The 300 miles will
be covered by the last man and
the thrilling battle for world SUI
premacy will have ended within
two and one-half hours later. II
will he 900 miles of death-defyine
speed. speed in which spectators
will burn and thrill quite as much
a. the drivers.
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