Show ST LOUIS IS TO Tn fH HAVE MOTOR TRACK L Million Club Takes Up lip Project II and Promises to Carry It ft I Through ugh FAVORS WOODEN SAUCER c SAYS SATS LOS ANGELES STRUCTURE IS rs PROFITABLE 1 Special to The Bt St Louis Louts May 21 St Louis now Deems seems destined to have a motor track without much further delay In the past several years the carrying out of ot such plans have lave been urged and sev several several several eral times it I has bas seemed that they theyo o would be realized od promptly but never before b tore has there been such a bright outlook as at the present time with a te tte Million club back hack of ot the move movement movement movement ment mentA A committee has been appointed by darles Carles P F president of ot the Million Hilton club and promptly it will win pre present present present sent an estimate of o the cost of ot a track for tor motor racing and report upon what has already been done else elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where That the track tr ck to be suggested by the committee will be of ot the new saucer type seems probable in view of ot the of ot John J Behen one of ot otUs Its Us prominent members who says The experiment of ot building two or three mile mlle tracks for motor racing has not been successful In any case that I know of 0 The tremendously expensive expensive sive two and mile track at Brooklands England has proved a white elephant on the hands of the public spirited d men who built It itT 7 T think It has never r proved a paying proposition as a and even now Is s used more for tor aviation than th n for tor motoring In Indianapolis I believe that no great success has attended the tha th motor events on the speedway which wass was s I completed there last year at a cost oost of ot about I 1 am inclined to be believe believe believe lieve that this type of ot will never pay anywhere and when you take Into consideration the conditions it Is not difficult to see why In the first tInt place the cost Is 18 too great for tor the results desired But what is more important the course Is Isso isso isso so long that details de taUs of ot track racing such as make It interesting to the public pub public public lic are lost to the spectators except when the cars aro are on the tho home homo stretch of ot the course It seems to me that the only kind of ot a track to build nowadays for mo motor motor motor tor racing Is the wooden saucer type The one recently Inaugurated at Los Angeles has already proved a success andI and I understand will soon pay for or Itself long long before this season is over The attraction of ot the sport provided by such a track Is tremendous On the tho big planked dish the cars may pass and repass one another In safety jockey for tor position and all the tho time keep up a tremendous pace Awhile while the spectators on account of ot their proximity proximity and the Inclined surface of ot the track are able to watch every detail T 1 believe the cost of ot erecting a wooden saucer track Is 18 about the cost of ot a satisfactory two or three threemile threemile mile mlle course Besides the saucer Is not an experiment |