Show eia FRANK K BAKER BAKER- One gathers by the he p ess dispatches from Daytona Beach that Sir Malcolm Campbell is already wishing he hc had brought his racing venture to Utah this year The intrepid British pilot who is awaiting a change in weather conditions in an effort to break his worlds world's record of miles an hour is becoming g more ore and more aware of the great hazards attached to making high speed runs along the narrow strip of ocean beach Impatient at the repeated delay he has time to dwell upon the dangers attached to his undertaking Expert engineers engineers en en- en- en and other capable drivers are agreed that man has about reached the maximum of automobile speed so far as the Daytona beach is concerned S These stars of the roaring road roul are looking for lor a better better bet bet- with envious enous ears cars ter playground and the they are arc listening to the thc stories of or the ideal race course on the Bonneville e salt flats here in the S S S The racing world already knows something about the possibilities of Utah's great natural speedway Ab Jenkins pointed them out with his three making history-making runs uns here herein in in the past three summers in which he finally covered miles in 24 hours of solo driving Daytona Beach would be all right if Mother lother Nature hadn't decided to make it her playground too Winds and tides must be exactly right before the narrow strip of sand is smooth enough for high speeds peeds Even then its it's a treacherous course at best On one side is the pounding surf lapping greedily toward the course Milton once drove a blazing motor into the ocean to put out the fire Under ordinary circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances though it is a constant menace a death trap ever waiting for the pilot who doesn't stay in the narrow course On the other side arc are the rolling sand dunes and soft terrain which are all too close with their obvious invitations of disaster Imagine then Sir Malcolms Malcolm's mental concern as he contemplates all these hazards and compares them with the tales of greater safet safety here in Utah He need but ask Louie Meyer A front tire went out on a stock car Meyer and a crew of other pilots were driving in a test on the salt flats last summer The flying casing broke the brake rods and the car was catapulted off the course at more than miles an hour without brakes i 1 r. r Careening wildly the machine plunged 1 1000 POO feet wide of its intended track before it ended its dizzy flight yet nobody was hurt because the wide expanse of I s salt lt made any direction as safe as another Meyer leyer could have go gone e several times as far as he did without immediate disaster from obstructions Campbell Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell cant can't go a tenth as far Should he lie veer a hundred i. i feet off his course hell he'll never have any further worries about horsepower or other mortal problems Hell He'll be as free of this world as Frank Lockhart who grew impatient at Waiting whiting for the sands to smooth out and drove too soon soon- hurtling himself to an untimely death almost at the feet of his wife S S S Bill BUI Sturm of Indianapolis made a trip to Salt Lake City last summer as Campbells Campbell's American representative in an effort to seek local financial aid to bring Campbell to Utah Falling Failing to raise sufficient money Sturm was instrumental In leading the Englishman to Daytona again If Campbell has to wait many weeks for the beach conditions to be right he would have been much better off by coming to Utah at athis athis athis his own expense There are no tides and winds to wait for on the salt beds An ordinary road drag can be used to scrape the small ridges off the salts salt's surface and after that the run can be made whenever the driver and machine are properly prepared The still hours of dawn or the lull of evening when no breezes are are blowing would probably offer Ideal con con- Certainly such conditions would remove a lot of of of- the mental and actual hazards which now confront the he daring Briton Strangler Lewis Lev is slid said to be the only wrestler to own an airplane pilots pilot's license Connie Conie Mack says the Japanese play class AA baseball and Babe Ruth is of the same opinion Mrs Jack Dempsey is racing a string of ponies at Hialeah with flame and white being her colors Wilkes Wilkes-Barro of the N. N j. j Y P. P lea league ue will serve as a farm for the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Giants this season Lionel Conacher Montreal Maroon hockey star probably boasts the oddest middle name in the game Its It's Pretoria conferred on him because h he he was born on the day the British captured the e South African cit city of that name during the Boer war |