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Show ! Programme Announced for State Fair Auto Races Promises Many Sensations and Thrills i . I; ' V The photograph shows Aviator Maxoney taking one of his dangerous dips. The inset photograph is Louis Disbrow, world-famous track champion, who is "burning up" the track in his 290-horsepower Jic, the world's largest and most powerful speed creation, to be seen at the state fair next week. The programme for the sensational automobile races at the Utah state fair Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week has been definitely settled. Trie officials of the fair aad J. Alex Sloan, the promoter of the meet, agreed on the final details yesterday and the racing programme for the r'irst three days of the fair is'set. forth just as Disbrow, Dis-brow, Gunning, Clarke, Milton, Hearne, Horey, Bianchi, and the other drivers will compete for "the $5000 in purses. Such cars as the Fiat, the famous Marmon, the Ohio, Milton's Mercer, the Simplex, Hearne 's great Case car and Disbrow 's Jic and Briscol cars aro among those entered for the meet. Seven events will comprise the automobile auto-mobile racing programme each afternoon after-noon of the first three days of the fair. Disbrow is, perhaps, the best known of all the drivers who are coming. His great 290-horsepower Jic holds records at Old Orchard, Me.; Jacksonville, Fla., and Galveston, Texas, some of the greatest great-est beach tracks in the world. It has made a straight-away mile, frpm a standing start, in thirty-one seconds. Disbrow has tamed it to circular tracks by means of 600 pounds of lead attached at-tached to the left side of the frame. Oldfield calls it the "mule," and insists in-sists that unless Disbrow stops driving it on circular dirt tracks it will be "curtains and flowers" for him eventually. even-tually. Joe Bianchi, the famous Italian driver, driv-er, will pilot the great Marmon racer in the state fair events. The Marmon was driven by Joe Daltou in Indianapolis Indian-apolis for the 500-mile race until he sustained his near-fatal accident. Up to that time he was upholding America 's honors against Peugeot, Sunbeam and other foreign chiefs. The surface of the track at the fair grounds has been made ready for the racers by a treatment of calcium chloride, chlor-ide, antf every possible precaution has been taken to void accidents. The announcement that automobilists may drive their cars through onto the j infield of the race track and watch the I sensational scoring of Disbrow and his associates, has met with universal approval. ap-proval. One of the biggest features of the first three or four days of the fair will be a match race between Maroney in his biplane and either Disbrow or Hearne, two of the automobile racers who are coming to Salt Lake. Maroney declares he can beat any car on earth around a mile dirt trackj and is prepared to prove it, he declares. Arrangements have been made at the fair grounds for erecting the ovens that will be necessary to form the gas for the inflation of Lucielle Belmont's gigantic balloon, in which she soars skyward each afternoon at the fair and returns to earth in three separate parachutes. Irwin brothers ' wild west show is nearing Salt Lake, and the special train in which the 250 head of stock and 150 performers travel will arrive tomorrow morning and will be parked near the fair grounds. |