| Show j ABI AB T I DELAYS IG TES PILOT AWAITS WAITS A FOR IMPROVED TRACK SURFACE L Jenkins Tops ops 12 Miles an au Hour in Test Over Salt Beds Late Sunday By The Sports Editor Perhaps theres there's something to thai that old belief that a bunny would be easy to catch if you could sprinkle salt salton on his hL tail Never having 1 been n able to get close enough to season Mister Bunny properly prop prop- erly with the salt saIl we couldn't vouch for tor its slowing qualities on bit and his relatives A lot of salt was showered over Ab Jenkins' Jenkins 12 Pierce Arrow near Wendover during the week end though and the roaring machine was tamed down to a mere miles an hou hour As a result Abs Ab's hour 24 test run was p postponed until Sunday August 6 3 when he hopes everything will be beIn bein bein in readiness for him to make a new assault a. on two worlds world's records He hopes to beat belt his mark of ot 2710 miles set last September in a similar run and md to average a miles an hour forthe for tor forthe the fir first t miles The salt snIt all over the car blinding bUnding as it was to the daring pilot wasn't nearly nearh as great a handicap as the sticky sUcky surface o of the track was H. H D. D 1 superintendent o of the racing rac rae ing committee and the half haU dozen mechanics were of the opinion that the he sticky course slowed the car down almost 10 miles an hour RAIN WIND COME Ab finished his test run tun Sunday In Ina a spitting rain and a strong crosswInd cross crosswind crosswind wind which whipped low hanging clouds out over the beds and almost blotted out the surrounding moun loins He roared around the first lap in for an average o of 1228 miles an hour and was a tenth of a mile raster foster on the se second ond lap That was his best time ime of three days das In which the mechanics mechanics me me- had toiled tolled almost night and da day in an effort to tune the motor up to o the desired pitch The cal cac turned up a fraction faction over 19 miles an hour Saturday and Ab was willing to start as scheduled Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day morning mornin at 5 The mechanics me insisted however that he deay delay de de- lay ay the start starl until later in the day so the they could make further urther tests OPERATE ON CAR CARIn CARIn CARIn In the meanwhile they took the car to a roadside garage at Wendover and transferred the drive shaft and differential gears from a Pierce Ar row sedan to Abs Ab's convertible coupe that hat has been stripped down for the tests ests Shortly after midnight they de de- of their task and brought about a postponement until Monday irs in n th the th hope that the track would become be come harder as they finished tuning up the motor Further tests Sunday morning were s still iU disappointing and the machine went vent back to the garage this time to transfer the motor heads from the sedan to Abs Ab's machine A shift in the winds followed a brief brIeC shower and hardened the course con con- Hastily the car was prepared pre pared for the mile mlle test INCREASES SPEED The motor immediately sped up revolutions a minute The mechanics said the new cylinder heads and the larder harder track which would not hold holdback holdback holdback back on the wheels were jointly responsible responsible re reo re- re for the increase Ab said he could shatter last years year's average of miles an hour with ease case with the car performing in that manner manneX- and the other officiaLs officials of of- however insisted that he wouldn't be able to raise the aver average Je past miles mUes an hour and that he should wait until conditions justified a speed of 12 miles an hour Q or better beUer |
