The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-03-13
Sport Slatlts ALAN J.0ouuD

Last year 1t was yhe Goilea Ar i3v This year t is the Silver E1llcs. Nineteen thirty-one may zee the Copper Cannonball fash ing down the sands of Daytona Beach at a speed anywhere from fovr to five miles a minute.
 The present straightaway worlds rocord is close to four miles a min ut--231 .3eG miles per hour, made lart year by Sir Henry o. D. Sea- grave in the famous Golden Ar row.
 Faye Dea, another noted British pilot, aims at somewhere around 250 m.p.h. with his Silver Bullet in the speed trials scheduled March 15-30 at Daytona. Theoretically his special Sunbeam creation, pow cred with a brace of 12-cylinder motors Of airplane type developing 1000 horsepower. is designed to reach a speed of 280 mp.h.
 Next Year, if J. M. White de- velop5 his plan for a 48 cylinder thundeTbolt for the purpose of bringing the record back to Amer ica, 300 m.ph may be attained. This, 1t seems to most experts, may be about the limit for ground speed if it is not more than the limit that can be accomplished under human control The element of chance. the risk of death, is high now Frank Lockhart, one of the most daring American pilots, was killed at Daytona. The relatively inexperienced Lee Bible met a sim liar fate. Dead also is Ray Keech, the last American to gain a niche in the limited list of those who have smashed the worlds straight away record. It was Keech's mark of POT. .552 that Seagrave shattered.
 Nowhere else in the world are conditions any better for this spec tacular sport than on these Florida sands" declared Val Haresnape, for rner secretary of the contest board of the American Automobile Asso- ciation, now director of the Day. tcna Beach speedway. They have tried and failed to construct any thing so adequate as the purely natural gift of sand and ocean here. Human ingenuity could not contrive to equal, much less better the conditions of sand so perfectly, smoothly packed by the tidal action, verneukpan, South Africa, and Pendine sands in Wales have been tried and found wanting. That is why you have the leading Brit ish designers, builders and racing pilots coming to American to have out their battle of speed"
 It seems that Leo Durocher, sold Inv the Yankees to the Reds, talked himself out of a contract with the fcrmer world champions for l93o' and as consequence, out Of the American league He may nair up with Ray Kolp as a jock evn in the National but the inn nortant talking for the Redlano cast will be done by Manager Dan Howley.
 If their pitching prospects bright en to the point of producing re- eu,ts Rob Shawkey thinks that his owns Yankees and the Detroit llg- CTS will be as dangerous as any lac- tors in the forthcoming American League penant race.
 I found Shawkey between foullus on inc links of the Miami Beach country club, prior to his departure to St. Petersburg to take command If the Yankees for the first time as snccessor to the late Miller Hug qins. Bob breaks 90 most every time out and is in position to chal- lenge Babe Ruth or possibly even Sam Byrd for the club golf cham pionship.
 pitching being at least 50 per oant of the success of any ballteam' we intend to devote a big part of GIT training work to development If the hoxmen," said Shawkey, at enc time himself among the great cst curve ball fingers in any league. We have the hitting. our