| Show BY W D RISHEL Of all the schemes proposed p this spring for the benefit of automobilists and the boosting of the automobiles the one proposition of merit is the speedway to Saltair It is feasible le leand and when completed will be lasting It will be useful the day it is completed and for lor Or years ears to come will be as popular as the day da it is first used Such a speedway will afford a place where automobile owners may go and drive to their hearts content It will furnish a drive where a man may take his family for or a 3 pleasant after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon or evenings run And above all It will be a roadway where strangers in the city cit can be given ghen a quick trip to the lake through an open country where a clear view of the mountains ns and a clean sweep of the most fertile valley aile in the great west forms a pleasing picture This roadway should be built with witha a view of ot speed within the limits of safety sa fe U This IP Is possible because there will not be an any crossings and as it itis Itis itis is constructed upon a private right v of or way it will be bc closed to all other vehicles and pedestrians The idea of ot making a speedway where daredevil drivers will drive miles in next to nothing is not sane nOr n r safe Some suggest sl gest it as an ideal course for hold holding holdIng holdIng ing Automobile road races raes similar to tho the bicycle road races It is said an observation train can be run along alongside side ido the racers in which the public will be afforded a good view of the contestants This is clearly impracticable impracticable for the simple reason that the automobiles s in such a race would go goso goso goso so much faster than the railroad train that the best the observation crowd would get would be the smell of gaso gasoline gasoline gasoline line as the cars dashed past The committee now no at work solicit soliciting solicitIng solicitIng ing funds reports good success When a man pays pas from one to six thousand dollars d to buy bu a car ar he can well af afford afford ford tord to add a couple of ot hundred more to enjoy that car The speedway to will give this enjoyment and every ever owner of a machine in the city should get gd behind the movement and do esters who have seen and watched both men in action pick the Russian lion llon to defeat the American champion This match is bound to boom the wrestling game in America however It may come out It will be bean bean bean an uphill fight 19 tl t get the game aam where it should be and It Is doubtful if any anything an anything thing more than titan a spurt will result If a new ne crop of wrestlers were to spring up something might bo be done but nearly all the men now prominent prominently ly before the public are fakers pure and simple and should they try tr to break into the limelight there are sporting scribes who will not be backward backard in giving their past records |
