Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-24
Letters to the Editor

turning the dirty circle in 46 Sec
onds-and' scores of other underline
surface efforts which go to make up
the great pastime of auto racing.
And, furthermore, lot of the boys
and girls are throwing some con-
versational slush regarding the per-
formance of Jimmy Randolph and
his Douglas Special. That brings on
more argument.
How few people in that vast crowd
knew that Jimmy Randolph's mag
neto loaned gratis to John Mais,
was furnishing the juice which pro-
PEELED that No. 100 to victory? How
many people really appreciated the
fact that Jimmy Randolph's broken
left leg was aching almost to de-
gree of torture? How many people
really know just how good a sport
Jimmy Randolph is?
Well, Jimmy is the power behind
the popularity of the racing game in
these parts. Jimmy will loan any
man anything he has to make cars
faster so the races will be better.
Down at Phoenix, when Jimmy crash
ed into the pole and broke his leg,
Slim Harper, driving Ford Special,
broke all track records for 3S laps
and the "go fast" part of that Ford
was all loaned-free-to Slim by
Jimmy.
When an effort was made to bring
Lockhart and his worlds champion
dirt track Miller Special here for the
races, Jimmy Randolph was the only
driver and race car owner who said,
LET i'm come, I'll do my best to
keep him from tapping me more than
twice during the race Unfortun-
ately, Lockhart was prevented from
appearing here. One could enumer-
ate hundreds Of little things Jimmy
Randolph has done for the good of
the racing game in Arizona, and
then not do him justice in the mat
ter of praise.
Yet, there are those who throw
vocular hardware at Jimmy because
he didn't win Monday. Jimmy was
the first to congratulate Pete and
John Mais on their victory. This he
did with smile. And, he not at
tributed his defeat to a game" leg,
either. "Pete just outran me, thas-
SAL" is Jimmy's version of the re-
suit
Now, about the boys from Los An
6eles. They went to a lot of ex-
Dense to bring their car and selves
out here. Don't you think they lost
heavily by losing even the oppor-
tunity of starting? They had an ex-
cellent chance to cop first bananas,
as all the race drivers and car own
ers agreed pre-race.
Take it all-in-all, there wasn't
even lowly pit mechanic. who didn't t
lose more out there Monday than an
afternoon, with the exception of those
attending the two winning cars. La
/ France almost paid with his life in
! other losers paid heavily in time and
money spent in building up their
cars for the races
/ Whether or not citizen attends
the races, it's worth a buck, at
, least, to him, for the races to be
held. And when he gets two real
! first-class thrills for that same dol
lar, he's paying himself more divi-
dends than promised by Texas oil
stock promoter.
/ When the public lets this line of
thought soak in, therell not be a
soul who wouldn't be sorry they cast
asparagus anent the races Monday.
Surely, it's not the race commit
tees fault that axles break, connect
ing rods burn out, cars fail at the
! last gmoment. And, it's not the me-
I ehanic's fault either for anyone can
readily realize that it's worth more
to them than to anyone else, for
their car to perform at their best,