Evening star., 1939-07-05
Derby Car Numbers
Go In Today's Mail
To 655 Entrants
Minimum of 400
Expected to Compete
For City Title Saturday

Tune tn on Station WMAL this
afternoon at AS o'clock for an
other Soap Bon Derby Parade.
Derby Director o. C. Holleran
tDtH eiue final instructions to the
contestants.
Mailmen in Washington and
suburban Maryland and Virginia
were carrying today letters contain
ing final instructions and car num-
bers for 655 boys who signed up for
the second annual Washington area
Soap Box Derby. The letters were
mailed yesterday.
Read these instructions carefully
and follow them to the letter"
Derby Director o. c. Holleran ad-
vised the boys.
At least 400 of them, probably
more, will compete in the Derby
which will be run Saturday over a
downhill course westward from
Ward Circle on Massachusetts ave-
nue NV.
Those who have finished work
on their coaster cars must turn the
finished product in to the Chevrolet
dealer with whom they registered
not later than pm. tomorrow.
The cars will be inspected and then
will be taken to American Univer-
ssity gymnasium for weighing in and
final checkup tomorrow night and
Friday.
Final Tuneups Today.
Today, therefore, is the last day
for boys to tune up their jaloppies
and put on the finishing touches
that will get them in shape for a
crack at the Washington champion
ship and trip to Akron, Ohio, to
race for the national and interna-
tional Soap Box Derby titles.
:. Against the worries of annual in
spection, the Derby boys can apply
the lure of prizes as an Offset.
There are lot Of fine prizes await
ing winners of the Derby here and
they are all ready
Boys who win their first heats
will receive bronze medals. Second
heat winners will get silver cups and
third-heat winners will receive port
able radios-the kind that can be
carried about and played anywhere.
Winners of the fourth heats will
be champions of Class A and Glass
B, and their prizes will be new bicy-
cles and gold medals. Boys finish
ing second and third in the class
races will get silver and bronze med
ais, respectively.
Many Prizes for Champion.
To the city champion, the winner
of the final heat between class
titlistS, goes the lions share. His
prizes will be the M. E. Coyle
Trophy, the trip to Akron with his
father. mother or other escort, all
expenses paid by The Star, and a
gold wrist watch with Derby emblem
which will be awarded in Akron at
@the annual All-American Soap Box
Derby banquet.
There will be gold wrist watches
rs prizes for the boys with the best
designed car and the racer showing
the best workmanship. The watches
are being donated by Sidney Sc
linger, jeweler, of 818 F street NV
Cups will be given to boys running
the first, second and third fastest
heats of the Derby.
= = Last but far from least, every boy
racer will report to the Quartermas-
ter Committee tent on the race
course Saturday at $50 am. to be
issued helmet and sweatshirt to
wear in the race and then keep
for his own.
Two Soap Box racer exhibitions
are scheduled before the Derby.
They are at the Nicholson
Motor Co. in Hyattsville, Md, to-
night at o'clock, and at the Owens
Motor Co., 6323 Georgia avenue
NV, tomorrow at the same hour.
(Wdtch The Star for DerbU NeDs. J