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WWW I I I K---, fll THE OGDEN STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION I Pi OGDEN CITY. UTAH, SATURDAY, LAY 30, 1914. MASTER MIND MECHANICS-SPEED I jJI Automobile Racers Use I With the coming of summer the speed kinff again comes into his own. and men of all nations will vie with each other for the championship of the world with a benzine horse under them- Automobile racing: has outdistanced all others as far as speed is concerned. In horse racing a driver must know his horse.

He must know how fast his horse can go, how much hi horse can stand, and he must depend on his own driving of the horse to win the race. In automobile racing there are many points that help in the victories. In the first 500-mlle Memorial Day race ever run at the Indianapolis Speedway In 1511, the winner, Ray Harroun in a Marmon, won be- His car started off just as he ex- SKfcw pected it to start. He raced just mjttBEBEpBBsB 38 ne expected it to run, and al- Mg though other6 beat him in the lead Goux came in at the head at the fin- ish, talking in French to his benzine cause he wa coached to victory. Victory was won in the pits, automobile bugs put it.

He did not drive the machine himself except technically. The brains of the race he run were on the side lines. Harroun was the driver and could respond to the demands of his coaches without mistake As he sped over the track, going 74 miles an hour, he wanted to go faster. "You're going fast enough." came the word from the side lines. Harroun kept the pace and won.

The next year Joe Dawson won III in a National car, going almost 71 miles an hour. Ralph DePalma. the champion hard-luck driver of the ti orld. was In that race. He drove in a Mercedes.

It broke down alter everybody else thought the race wan won by him. DePalma and his a mechanician got out and pushed the car around the track in hopes of fretting In on time to still win. aa they were so far ahead of all the rest. Joe Dawson saw his opportunity. Dawson had been drlinir steadily and using his head.

He did jp not push his car faster than it rould ko, and he seemed to know just about what his car rould stand. I When he saw DePalma break down he kept on driving and came into the last lp, winner of the race. Other drivers win because they watch the road and take every possible advantage of It. They hug the inside of the track on a speedway so as to make the distance as short as possible. Hughes Is one of the men who has won races by his speed in I changing tires.

Hughes Is the fastest tire changer in the world. He has never won at the Indianapolis Speedway, which Is the greatest I i long race of America, but he ha 1 won in other races of almost equal importance In one of his races he changed tires In twenty-one seconds As he was racing at Indianapolis one year, he realised one of his tires was Kettlnsr weak He got everything 1n readiness and then stopped the car. jumped out, changed the tires and had his machine running again. FRENCHMAN KNOWS INSIDE OF CAR. Last year the winner at the Indianapolis speedway was Goux.

Goux won because he knew the inside of hi car. He had seen every part of his car put together. All of the greatest racers of Europe are noted for their familiarity with their cars. Goux drove a Peugeot, which he had built himself or had hatched the building. He prac-1 tlced with the machine for months before the race.

When he was rc-afly to start he thought he knew juxt what his machine would do. His race showed he thought right, horse. Bob Burman is a peculiar racer. He holds the world's record for short dafhes. Burman is a dasher and not considered a distance racer.

In foot raclns there are different styles of racers. There are the men for the dashes, the men for the long distance races and the middle distance runners. The dashers usually do not do so very well on distance. They lose because they are so constructed physically that they cannot undergo the long gruelling grind of a Marathon. They haven't ll Burman jroes into the race with speed.

He cannot drive slow. He wants to get over the ground in a hurry. His dash wins the short races. In the long races he often ids a his: lead on the start and his machine will not stand the gruelling grind. This year he entered in the Indianapolis race with a car of his own construction He had worked A and a half miles in circumference.

In Europe the long races are road races over the wonderful roads of France. There is a great advantage in a road race- ovtr a speedway race. The road racer does not have to keep going over the same track and making the same turns with his steering gear in the same position almost all the time. Tire troubles result from the continuous racing or getting In the first part of the race. The race is purely a professional one because of the money prize attached Yet there are some amateurs who enter the races without any hopes of reward They enter for the sport and because they like to show how fast they can go.

Two famous American racers are Spencer Wlshart and Caleb Bragg They are both millionaires and enter the his races just for fun. Wlshart drives h's own car and doesn't caro thing about the maKer ot the car. He races for himself. Bragg won the Vanderbllt prize In Milwaukee one year. He didn't know what to do with it as he had millions of his own and was con- on the speedways.

The 500-mile race takes six and a half hours to run It is a gruelling ride and men of high nervous tension are wrecked sometimes as the result of the speed The races are not limited to automobile owners advertising their cars. It is true that automobile owners have entered cars in the races to show them off for the advertising to be gained from winning siderably surprised at winning. He gave the money to Charity. There are men in the races who are youngsters. There are men who become great racers starting from their own shops.

One of these is Pullen. Pullen is 22 ears old He already has won the Vanderbllt race. He began working for himself early in life as a mechanic. He worked hard and long in the shop nnd how he did like to speed. He entered all the little club race In his own community and then went In for the Vanderbllt race at Los Angeles, winning it.

He drives a mt KM the wind. Why a racer should be fine on short sprints in his automobile and not so fine on long distance races is hard to determine. Hi6 physical makeup has nothing to do with it. It is his mental makeup that takes him to victory In ono and not In the other. If he can change his mental makeup there is no reason ho should not win in both.

Men who back Bob Burman have thought year after year that he would chae his mental makeup. long over It and his hopes for victory with that car were good. The coming of European road racers to race at the Indianapolis Speedway this year makes It the greatest racing track in the world. It Is the grand prize event of them all. The prize this year was raised to $50,000 to be divided among the ten winners In the 500-mllo race.

A prize for the winner of first place was placed at $20,000 The Indianapolis Speedway was built in 1509 at cost of $5,000,000. It Is two Mercer. This year sees a new speed king In Klein who drives a King car. KlMn was a mechanic until I short time ago. His knowledge of the Inside of the car makes him a valuable man.

Klein was almost unknown until he registered for the Indianapolis speedway ra-c. Then In looking up his record they find he is a good driver. There are some racers who arc natural favorites of the crowds. One of these is Ralph Mulford who K'jf' made the Lozier car famous. An- -'j other is Barney Oldfleld who always ifc-; smokes a wooden cigar which some VJ''-' folks think is a real cigar.

Then rr' there is Hairy Grant who drives an p- English Sunbeam, which Guyot formerly drove Grant has won three Vanderbllt races, Oldfleld used to be considered a reckless driver. He won all kinda of races big and little. He Is now mfc I considered one of the most cool- headed racers In the country. He says others may risk their lives if ft they will but he is going to play the I game safe. The foreign racers who have In- 1 vaded America are nearly all Strang- A top, from left to right I A Albert Duray, Chris- tiaens, Earl Cooper, Boillot I and Ernst Friedrich.

Second I row Barney Oldfleld, I Ralph De Palma and Teddy I Tetzlaff. Lower left Jules I Goux (above) and Guyot. I Lower center Bob Bur- man. Lower right Louis Disbrow (above) and Chas- sagne. ers.

Last rear Goux and Guyot en- 1 tered the Indianapolis race When I Goux won other foreigners saw they too might have a chance and came over this year numbers. One of the foreigners is Duray. who drives a Peugeot. He i. an American born Frenchman but cannot speak Eng- I llsh he went to France with his parents when a boy.

Other for- I elgners are Friedrich, a German, in a Bugattl, Thomas. French, a 1 Delage; Chrlstlaens. a Belgian. In an I Excelsior; Chaasagne French, in a Sunbeam. Boillot.

French In a Peu- geot. These men all entered for the 1 Indianapolis with Goux and Guyot. jj Racers fear Ray Gilhooley when I he enters a race. He 16 an Irishman and a foarless driver. This Is the pilot whom De Palma once acclaimed the only man he ever feared, statins he could never tell what he was going to do next.

On two different occasions, says Ralph, he saw the mad Celt tear through a wooden fence at full tilt. If taking the chance of getting killed Just for the joy of passing him at a 1 risky curve- Nor do tits smashups seem to have affected bis speed lust. as his hankering for the steering i wheel anil throttle today Is greater than ever. Racing drivers, when they ses Gilhooley coming, usually get out from under, for fear that in his eagerness to get ahead he will drive right over them Step on it is all he they say. Ordinarily he jl punishes his mount to the limit.

Succcsa of foreigners In winning in my races Is credited -to the fact that they know their cars thorough- ly. Some Americans do the same but In Europe there are no excej I tlons, they say. II Terminology. "She's the limit!" "Your finish, eh?" Judgo..