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Show SENSATIONAL SPEED IS 1 MADE WITH AUTOMOBILE I Careful analysis of the wonderful' speed records niade "by liarncy Oldfield and Calob Bragg at "Los Angeles and Dnytona shows tho superiority of tho motor car as a spoe1 a'cent "over all other tnodes of travel. Motorcycles, fl.v-ing fl.v-ing mahincs and steam locomotives are! notexcepted. j Not content with Betting a world) record of 27:3:1 seconds for the mile, on a straightaway, Oldfield turned a milo on a board circular track in 36.22 I seconds at the Los Angeles Motordrome, j beating all other existing marks for the distance. The straiwhtaway record means a ' speod of 131 .t-4 'miles un hour, or I I9:t I -a feet- a eecond. The tires Old- ; field used wero whirled around at K10G I revolutions to tho minute. They sus-' tamed a weight ot 2o00 pounds of! machine, and mado it move taster thau J human boine? ever trayeJeJ before. Had Oldfield traveTel nt this speed from 7ew York to Chieayo he would ; havo covered the distance in seven Lours. j |