Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-08 | Page 50 | Speed Demons will Woo Death at Fair

SPEED DEMONS ILL WOO DEATH AT Fill! Masters of the Steering Wheel to Pilot Cars on Dirt Track PLAN OTHER EVENTS Auto Races Are Featured at September Event, Wonder Week for Utah When Johnny Ka me short d stance track champion of tl e wo 11 Lew s D s brow holder of more off cial worl 1 s records than anv othr rae ng dare devil in America and Eddie Heme for mer speedway champ on of the world trj for off cial track records at the automobiles races nh ch w 11 be the b g feature of the Utah state fa r on Sep tember " '8 and 29 thev will add an other chapter of dar ng to the history of speed "Wh le these three drivers w 11 onlv be a small part of the eotn ng an torn o biJe contests and record trials yet the r efforts maj result in another catas trophe such as marks the battle wh ch has boen -waging ever s nee the motor driven veh cle invaded the realm of Father Time Accidents Decreasing Back n the dawn of a tomob le h s tory -when the gasol ne n oto was yet in its exper mental tage, race n eet after race meet n vh ch the most dar ing dr vers of the world competed de veloped accidents which robbed the gas ohne sport of many of its most celebrat ed characters But as mpro ements grew out ot ace dents and the modern speed creat on was developed the death toll grew smaller and smaller unt 1 to day scarcelv an acc dent is reported where entries ire 1 m ted to prof es onal drivers who make a spec alty of d rt tracl racing With the increased effic ency n the racing car and the decrease in the number of acc dents happen ng the speed pilot s u 11 no to tal e more chances than ever to better the marks hung up b) h s predecessor The won derful exh b t ons of D sbrow Ea mey and Herne n the r attempts to lower track records have made them the b g gest attraction the great state and d s , trict fairs have ever known The chances these men take today would have spelled sure death a few years ago and the records they have hung up on the various d rt courses or America would have been 1 ttle dreamed df in the pioneer days of gasoline sport j Claimed Many Lives 'Were all the racing cars bur ed end 3 to end along the fair ground s race track that have been wrecked in the ef f forts of speed mad dr vers jto lower the .recognized marks there would be a 8L cham of gravestones that would cover J the entire course. Year after year dar in drivers whose names have been synonyms for nerve have attempted to beat the records of the men who - lave- gone before In many of these k attempts success has crowned their ef t 'forts and the gasoline h stor an has Tr tteu the r names oa the tablet of Jarne but there are also manv who lave failed not because they lacked the nerve of the victor but because their judgment was bad or the r ma ch ne failed to stand up under the ter nfic stra n and the resulting smash up eliminated the amb tious driver and Ti s space destroying -juggernaut from ine ueia oi gasol ne eompet t on Veterans to Race Louis D sbrow Johnny Ea mey and Edd e Herne have not reached their pinnacle of success without exper enc ing the usual accidents that mark the eareer of a successful dirt track racing driver Five d fferent times Disbrow has gone through the fence and smashed nis speed creat on beyond repair Only duroiR the past spring the famous 1 1 tie French daredevil plunged through the fence at Columbus Oh o when try WR J ?reak the world s d rt track mart His famous Simplex Z p was al most totally destroyed and D sbrow was first reported dead but after re gaining consciousness he was carr ed down the home stretch of the race track before the 19 000 people who attended the race meet D sbrow may forget the accident but he will never forget the maddenuig cheers of the thousands who extended him the r congratulations on h s narrow escape from death A whole chapter of the history of speed will have to be given to D sbrow if ever an attempt is made to chronicle h s mis naps on the d rt tracks of Amer ca These men will all be seen n the ter rific speed events of the automob le races announced for the f rst three days of the state fa r September 7 28 and Other Plans Under Way Meanwhile the off cers and d rectors of the State lair assoc at on are get t ng nto the harness and prepa at ons are go ng rapidly ahead in each d v s on for the best Utah state fa r ever held The Hnbbard Gillham Advert s ne serv ce of this c ty w II aga n ha e charge of the pnbl c ty and ad ert s ne plans for the com ng state fa r