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Show FASTER SPEED IN 1917 BOAST OF SPEEDER ) Johnny Aitken Declares Racing Cars Will Do 105 Miles an Hour. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 17. That racing rac-ing ears will attain a speed better than 105 miles an hour this rear was the prediction of Johnny Aitken, the American speedway champion. During the Chicago show many motor officials paused long enough to see Aitken awarded that title and the big- cash prize that went with it. In speaking of his record of 105 miles an hour, Aitken said, " Record-breaking as that speed was, it will not stand long. True, I cannot tell today just what car or driver can better it, 'but I am positive posi-tive it will be broken next summer. It will be my natural ambition to beat myself. "Since 190-1 I have been driving in races, the first being stock car twentv-four-hour events when I was on the job with a National on the Indiana state fair grounds in a round-the-clock exhibition; exhibi-tion; hill climbs, road races, speedway contests. "I can remember when we thought at the National factories that we had reached the peak of speed. Then the foreigners came along and showed us i their dust, so we kept on studving and working until we in turn showed our dust to the foreigners, one notable occasion oc-casion being when Joe Dawson piloted the famous National car (which was I practically stock) to victorv in the In-i In-i dianapolis speedway 500-mile race." |