Evening star., 1939-07-09

! TWO COMPLETE PAGES OF pic
lures of events during the running
of the 1889 Derby.
Pages AS and Al
MOTHER OF SOAP BOX DERBY
winner gets news of sons victory
while confined to her bed.
Page 40
PRIZES FOR SOAP BOX DERBY
winners to be awarded at Central
High on Wednesday. Page AS
COMPLETE RESULTS of both
eliminating and final heats of the
Soap Box Derby. Page AS
Twelve-year-old Carl Ceder-
strand. jr, small, blond and as
/ lively as any American boy you
might meet. zoomed down the paved
stretch late yesterday in white,
slim racer to win the 1899 Soap
box Derby, bringing to a climax an
event that thrilled nearly 400 young
sters throughout the day-long heats
and brought yells of suspense from
big crowd of spectators.
Carl. who lives at 7l9 Appleton
street NV, and goes to Ben Murch
School, vanquished by a shade his
sole opponent in the final race,
Clark B. Stewart, IA, of 312 Elm
street, Chevy Chase, Md. The finish
was so close that many onlookers
thought it was dead heat, but the
! judges decided Carl was the winner
| by an eyelash.
In order to determine scientifically
| the time of the winning car, a beam
Of light stretched across the track
and recorded automatically the
| speed with the accuracy of mathe
matical formula The device, used
at the Indianapolis Speedway and
many other tracks. was installed
for the Derby by Washington l.
Cleveland, local manager of the
American Automobile Association.
and operated by Steve Crick of
/ the contest division of the A. A. A.
The winning boys time over the
| l.250-foot course down the Massa-
chusetts avenue hill below Ward
Circle was 1851 seconds. Just before
that, in taking the final heats in
/ their respective divisions-Ceder-
| strand was in the young boys divi-
sion, ages 10 to IL; Stewart in the
/ Older boys, 13 to 15-they had made
the Identical time of 35 As seconds
| the fastest heats run the entire day
1t was small wonder that when they
faced each other they whizzed down
/ tho fror
To Go to Akron.
Carl Cederstrand thus takes the M
E. Coyle Trophy as the city cham
pion and will go to Akron, Ohio, as
the guest of The Star to compete in
the National Soap Box Derby. And
was the delegation of his school
mates proud of him!
During day packed with the ex-
citement of skillful racing and hair
breadth finishes a number of minor
accidents occurred. Several were
taken to hospitals for examination,
but inquiry last night failed to dis
close any serious injuries. Most of
the mishaps, in the opinion of Derby
officials, were due to the inability of
some of the boys to control their
cars.
The timers figured that the lads
averaged "a miles an hour over the
course, most of them reaching the
finish lines at faster speed. Some
made it considerably faster
Clark Stewart got a bicycle and
a medal for taking second place in
the grand finals. So did Carl Ceder-
strand in addition to his other emol-
uments.
The heats which put these two
into competition for the big prize
eliminated five others who had sur
vived the numerous preceding heats
and were fighting hard for the
championship.
Competing against Stewart were,
in the order they finished, Paul B.
Cramer, jr., 13, of 726 Somerset
place NV; Paul Gottwals. IS. Of
614 Quackenbos street NV. and
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