Evening star., 1940-06-09
Soap Box Radio Quiz
Will Be Over WMAL
Next Saturday
Eight Boys to Compete
With Set of Wheels
And Gosh as Prizes

The Soap Box Derby radio quiz
program on the 1910 Derby rules will
be broadcast over Station WMAL
next Saturday from $50 to 10 am.
On the half hour program eight
boys. who survived two tough elm
ination contests, will compete for
four prizes-a set of Sc wheels for
first award, and cash prizes of 81,
50 and 81 for second, third and
fourth places, respectively.
Bill Coyle, radio director of The
Star, and a member of the Soap
Box Derby General Committee, will
conduct the questions and answers
program. The broadcast will be
held in the large studio room and
Derby entrants and fans who want
to see the program are welcome.
Don Irwin, smashing fullback of
the Washington Redskins, has prom
ised to be on hand to greet Wash
ington's coaster racer drivers, and
there will be plenty of other guests
who will help make this program
fun both for contestants and spec
tators.
Finalists in Broadcast.
The flnaliSts for the quiz broad
cast are Leo Coratolo, 13; Raymond
Deaner, IA; John Donohoe. IA; Will
liam H. Hall, IA; Stanley K. Peter
son. Is; Norman Right, IA; Edward
Howard, IA, and Philip Jordan, 13.
These boys really know all the an
swers and to stump them will be
difficult, One of them, however
after 10 am Saturday, will have
won set of Derby racer wheels,
and three others will have some
hard cash to help buy flexible steer
ing cable. hardware and other
racer necessities.
Listen in at $50 am. Saturday,
over Station WMAL, for fun and in
formation about Washington's ma
jor amateur sporting event for boys
Racer at Leland School.
Catching up the loose ends Of the
Derby racer exhibition tour of
schools. the championship racer of
Carl Cederstrand. jr, will be shown
at Leland Junior High School. in
Chevy Chase, Md, on the recreation
field from II o'clock until Ills pm.
Tuesday. the car will stop at Banne-
ker Junior High, Ninth and Euclid
streets N. W., and will be exhibited
to Derby entrants and other inter-
ested youngsters in the recreation
room from 1890 to pm.
Hundreds of youngsters in the
Silver Spring. Md, area saw the
speedy white car last Friday, when
stops we're made at Montgomery
Hills Junior High. Takoma- Silver
Spring Junior High and Takoma
Park Junior High.
Meanwhile, Derby Director Zeb T.
Hamilton announced that several
American Legion posts are anxious
to help boys get into the 1910 race
by furnishing wheel sets, lumber,
hardware, steering cables and the
other racer materials.
Let Wants Be Known.
Boys who need help to get wheels
and other equipment should not
hesitate to let their wants be known
at Derby headquarters. or at Amer
lean Legion Post. Last years en-
trants who may still have the wheels
from the 1899 racers and who do not
plan to race this year may call
Derby headquarters if they would
like to give their wheels to some
needy boy for the 1910 Derby, Mr.
Hamilton said.
The names of nine more boys from
metropolitan Washington have been
added to the 1910 Derby roster, A
new territory was heard from with
the receipt of the application blank
of Bo Lamar, jr, IL, of Manassas,
Va. Other entrants are:
Herrold E. Brooks, jr. Is, 2426
South Dakota avenue NE; Robert
E. Brooks, IL. 2426 South Dakota
avenue NE; Scott P. Ewing, jr., IL