Show PHIL SHAFER TO RACE THIS YEAR freckle precide faced roly poly finishing two cars for indianapolis race chuckling phil sharer shafer red hatred freckle faced heavyweight champion of automobile racing Is building two cars tor for tho the international COO mlle mile contest to be held at the indianapolis motor speedway in way may shafer a jolly roly poly food container who holds lla his weight constant with three really important trips to the grocery store each day still laughs at the fates which prompted him to sell two raco race carsone cars one in 1027 1927 tile the other in 1023 1028 despite the fact that these selfsame self belt same cars were driven to victory in those years in 1017 1027 shafer sold a car out of its ills at stable able to nill bill white hollywood racing magnate who put george bonders an unknown quantity in the big long league ue circuit tn in the drivers sent seat and he brought the car home a victor just chuckled as aa nodded a an n assent to the checkered flag victory of which released approximately y ta mil bill whites eloquent ability to spend okeh iab with nic me laughed sharer shafer the car probably would have stumbled and fallen dead on the homo home stretch it if it was flying my colors chafers Sho Sha fers stable color Is s mischievous ch boy red to match hla his hair and freckles and demeanor the following year shafer had two more in n his at stable able louis weyer meyer a twenty three year acar old mechanic with driving aspe aspirations rations asked shafer it if ho he would sell bell one of the mounts sure beamed shafer but what alint are you going to use for money the quiet aby ihy meyers naked asked the price obtained it and took an option on the car this was less birss than two weeks before the day of the race meyer p persuaded alden aiden sampson a boyhood friend who waa vas running a garage in a small ohio town to become a n racing magnate sampson liked tile the idea hocked chocked tits his business and purchased the car from shafer meyer drove it to victory chafers Sha fers car even finish the meyer sampson combination collected approximately tor for the victory this Is getting to be more serious than a coincidence was till all shafer said bald but lie he kept on chuckling the best lie he had ever been able to do at indianapolis was third last may had a car in the race anee it finished twelfth nut but this year im going to race both of 0 roy my cars says sharer shafer and ran maybe abe ill have tho the thrill of watching my two drivers fighting it out at miles for the right to see which one comes in first that be a laugh and then ho he chuckled some moro more |