Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-10-05 | Page 49 | American-Built Cars Superior

tlie events, thus endangering' not only their own lives but those of the drivers, j and warns that, if racing is to continue, ; a greater effort must be made to control the eager crowds. The intermountain distributor of the Lexington Is the Western States company, com-pany, 128 Social Hall avenue, George Suprenant, manager. iKpmi Lexington Carries Off Race Honors at Big Meet in Sydney. Automobile racing is the latest Americanized Ameri-canized sport to gain popularity in Australia. Aus-tralia. Twenty thousand persons witnessed a race meet recently at Sydney, Aus., according ac-cording to newspaper reports from that city. The events were held over a new cinder oval measuring nine furlongs, or one and one-eighth miles. American -built cars won four of the six events in competition with several prominent European makes. A Lexington Minute-Man Six, manufac- ; tured by the Lexington Motor company i of Conner sville, Ind., U. S. A., carried away the honors in the principal stock events of the day. Driven by A. V. Turner Tur-ner of Sydney, the American entry cap- 1 tured the initial heat of a twenty-lap race. The winning margin, according to the Sydney Sunday Sun, was sixty yards, which evidently is the Australian way of figuring margins. In the final heat the Lexington obtained the lead at the start and held its position throughout, winning from its nearest competitor com-petitor by 200 yards. The time for the initial heat was 2S minutes 32 4-5 seconds; that for the final heat, 27 minutes 32 seconds. sec-onds. A second Lexington entered In the second heat of this event capturod third. The Sydney Sun lauds the driving of the various pilots, particularly that of A. V. Turner. It describes the racing as being be-ing "good" on the whole, particularly in view of the uncertain track. "The racing was carried out on a cinder cin-der track without any banking, and, consequently, con-sequently, it was loose going at the cor-"ners," cor-"ners," it states, adding: "That there were no accidents is a testimonial largely to good driving." The article upraids the management of the races, however, for permitting spectators spec-tators to encroach upon the track during