Show BY W D RISHEL That New ew automobile race has resolved itself Itsel into one hugs hug joke When hen it was first planned the automo automobilists automobilists of the country looked for a race which would be the talk of the world while it was going on and which would demonstrate that the auto as a means of travel was equal to any task that might be demanded of oC It Instead of a doing what was expected the first of the six cars reached Chicago In thir thirteen thirteen teen days da s after it left New York ork This is not much better time than Edward Weston eston the pedestrian pedestrIan pedestrian trian did over practically the same roads three months ago Twelve years ago bicycles covered the distance from froni San Francisco to New York in less hess time than the leader header of the automobiles t did from New York to Chicago The Tue racers used horses and in some places used a locomotive to help them along On top of this tills it Is announced that the therace therace therace race will only continue until March 5 when they the will take the train for the Pacific coast and finish the rest of the therace therace therace race In a Pullman car Could any per person person person son imagine a bigger farce than this event Mistakes Made by Promoters The race as planned would have been one of the big sporting events of the year and one of the greatest of possible possible possible ble boosts for the automobile if the pro promoters promoters motors had used the smallest frac fra fraction tion Uon of Judgment The route should have been through the southern part of the United States where it would have hae been possible to travel at this time of the year ar Then a route should have been named only after It had been gone over and selected by b persons competent to Judge jude roads The machines should have been compelled to travel their en entire entire entire tire distance by b their own motive mothe power The autos should go the entire distance by land with the exception of o the small neck of water from Alaska to Asia The Therace Therace Therace race should have been so scheduled that this part of the continent could have been reached In the summer months If this plan had been carried out it Jt t would have been a race worthy of the name and an am achievement that would have been wondered at in years to come The Time writer believes such a race can be pulled off and with success and it would be bc a great boost for automobiles Outlook for Horse Racing While there has been more or less les talk about horse racing around Salt Lake this spring the first real move moe toward that end was taken the past week and in all probability the game will be prosperous pro the coming season It will be hard to work up any great amount of interest in the sport In Salt Lake Lak also Ogden Ogdon but in the smaller towns It is something new nw and an will take well Salt Lake has bas had such indifferent ent racing in the past several years ears that it will be an uphill job to interest the public in the sport The game has been mismanaged and run down until now when one speaks of horse racing some som someone someone one Is 15 ready to take a fling at the sport ort as it has been conducted in the past These conditions also exist in Ogden There Is no reason why as good g od racing as the state has ever had should not be given this year and in all probability ity there will be In the past couple of years there have been many l fast horses horse Imported Into Utah and as the game has been quiet little Utile attention has been paid to them The promoters will in all probability succeed In getting these horses entered throughout the tile state and fast pacing and trotting miles are bound to result The scheme of a state mate circuit is a good one and one that should have hava been in practice for the past several years This circuit should sh uld to boost the sport in Salt Lake where it is i In the greatest need of a boost 0 |