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Show IIIIJ Cliff! TO INVESTIGATE DEATH Fatality on Hawthorne Track Will Be Occasion for Oilicial Inquiry. CHICAGO. Juno 12. With another accident at the fatal "death curve-" of the Hawthorne track, marking tho clos. ing of tho automobile races. Coroner lloft'mun last night announced thnt he would take- personal charge of tho investigation, in-vestigation, following tho dcatli of Marcel Bnslo at the track Saturday. When tho inquest over tho auroino-bilex auroino-bilex driver begins today Coroner Holt-man Holt-man will attempt to place tho blumo for tho failuro to have tho track banked in such a way as to make it safe. "J am in favor of good sport nt any time," said Mr. Hoffman, last night, "but killing men is not real Bporl. Three weeks ago a man was killed in Jt motorcyclo 'race at Hawthorne at practically prac-tically the same spot where Basle lost his life Saturday, and where another fatality wis narrowly averted yesterday. yester-day. - l' Although T have not investigated the matter yot, it would seem to me that more precaution should have been taken to make the track safe." |