Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-23 | Page 50 | Organized Motor Racing Has Fans

ONIZED MOTOR RAH FANS Promises to Rival Great National Na-tional Game in This I Respect. Organized motor racing, like organized baseball, Is bound to build up a fandom which will rival the loyalty of tho followers fol-lowers of tho national game. Not only will cars swinging around the national circuit rccelvo hearty welcome when they approach their home districts, but the drivers will find their homo folks turning out enthusiastically for them. Imagine, for Instance, Johnny Aitken or Joe Dawson and tho wny the crowds will root for them at Indianapolis when tho 500-mllc race starts the national motor mo-tor contest circuit. When a man and his car aro known ln a. locality where motor fans have had an opportunity to seo thorn practico and to get to know tho man's personality, the chances are strong they will turn out to whoop her up for that man and that machine race day. Over in New England, to take another example, they'll mako things hum for Harry Grant, for ho's a Now Bnglander. You may bc sure they'lTkcop tho dope on his performances and they'll know his raolng averages as well as a baseball fan keeps the figures on tho hits his particular par-ticular pride makes- Won't the New Yorkers who like auto racing know what Dlsbrow, Bruce-Brown and Ralph De Palma are doing? To bo sure they will, because they havo a prido ln theso local stai's. There's Wlshart, too, who Is a Now Yorker, so this city has a strong representation rep-resentation on the circuit list. There will be rooters a plenty ior the coylsh, smiling Mulford; and as for that other driver, TctzlalT, the. Pacific coast will feel bound to exult If he cleans up the eastern stars on the track and speedway. speed-way. Not only will tho drivers got great receptions re-ceptions when they draw near homo, hut because of the system upon which tho circuit Is organized and maintained, their dally activities will be watched by the folks back tholr own way when the circuit cir-cuit has moved on. Tho whole result of tho circuit will be to stlmulato a genuine Interest In racing, rac-ing, by means of greater personal attraction at-traction to drivers und cars. The interest inter-est will bo solid because there will bo some progress to watch. Each circuit meet will have a bearing on tho season's results and because tho circuit will be handled by tho same men throughout tha results will ho coherently kept and so made public that no misrepresentation misrepresenta-tion will be possible.