Show I British Speed King May Try for Record in Utah After A Daytona Failure Campbell Disappointed Disappoint Disappoint- ed by Experience nce in Florida By FRANK K IC BAKER Telegram Sports Editor Prospects that Sir Malcolm Campbell Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell will seek his long-cherished long automobile auto mobile speed record of miles an hour on the great salt flats o of western Utah were brighter Thursday as the British speed demon prepared to sail for home after a disappointing series o of trials at D Daytona Beach Fla Fin The hoped for arrangements to bring Campbell and his ton seven racing creation to Utah however hinge upon possible negotiations between be be- iween tween the intrepid pilot and representatives of or the Salt Lake City junior chamber of oC commerce Campbell has wired H. H E. E Sanders president of or the thc junior chamber of commerce asking f I the local organization organ is still interested in sponsoring sponsor sponsor- i lag ing g a run here as it sought to do last year At that time Campbell sent William F. F Sturm of Indianapolis here as his American representative and asked the local body to underwrite the venture venture ven yen ture to the extent o of The money Mr Sturm pointed out was to bear the expenses of o the racing party from New York City to the salt beds and return Local authorities subscribed approximately approximately ap ap- proximately of oC the before before before be be- fore Campbell decided to make one more attempt to reach his goal on the treacherously narrow strip of ocean I beach at Daytona Beach p pI I Y Yr r c cI I II I I I I Sir Malcolm Campbell Campbell- It is felt now that in vIew of his repeated failures on the ocean front Campbell is ready to talk on the basis of more re reasonable terms than he was wasa a year ago when he felt that the Daytona Daytona Daytona Day Day- tona course ourse would serve his purpose Campbell lias been tho convinced convinced con con- vinced this time however that the Continued on Pate Pace Six CAMPBELL MAY RAGE RACE IN UTAH I Continued from front Page pue One I Daytona course is entirely inadequate I ICor for Cor the speeds he hopes to obtain with I his giant ginni racer Bluebird Winds and andl tides have failed to make the course safe for speeds above 2 0 miles an hour Miraculously cheating death the 50 year old challenged its roughness once and set a new record of but the increase of about fo four miles mUes a a hour fell far short of h his s dream to go Jive five miles mUes a minute or a amile mile in 12 seconds flat Its no use the Associated Press quoted him as saying Thursday noon when he ordered the Bluebird crated for its trip back to England Were finished here for this year The Thc beach is in no shape for speed runs Theres There's nothing left leU to do but pack up and go home He will sail aboard the I from New York March 30 It is s possible that Campbell could be bo ready to come to Utah by July He plans a general overhauling of the Bluebird and will order a new consignment consign ment of the special racing tires needed needed need need- ed for his sp spectacular runs Some changes will undoubtedly be made in the construction of the tires for they were literally torn and cut to shreds during his mad dashes over the uneven ocean beach this year The Bonneville salt flats will wm be in good racing condition until early carly Sep Sep- After that they are likely to be too soft oft to support Campbells Campbell's car Ab Jenkins a native Utahn first attracted at worldwide attention to the salt beds beds fo for their race course possibilities He averaged miles an hour there in a 24 hour 24 hour solo run last summer driving over a mile 10 circular circular circular cir cir- cir cir- cular track Jenkins expects to make another run there this summer DAYTONA BEACH Fla March 21 21 The The formality of looking once more at t the sands ands of Da Dayton's tons beach shaking his head for the thelast thelast last st time was all that remained Thursday y of Sir Malcolm Campbells Campbell's Campbells Camp bells bell's seven weeks of discouraging efforts to lift lilt mans man's speed on land to miles an hour Campbell isn't ready to discuss the subject but it seems more than likely that he will not attempt another another another an an- other speed run here but Instead will go to the salt beds of Utah perhaps this July in his quest for forthe forthe forthe the mil miles s an hour he insists hell he'll drive before he hc retires Campbell could make only two or three test runs in all the time he was here and he set his record ecord March 7 breaking the old mark of on a beach far from tram per per- feet H He likes Daytona and everyone everyone every every- one here but hes he's beginning to feel that their beach be-ach just wont won't hold him at Bluebird has a blueprint blue print maximum of miles an hour The car will go back to England for or overhaul overhauling ng and fre fresh h tires the latt latter r having haying developed weaknesses at miles an hour that must be remedied Then Campbell will be beback beback back seeking his milts in 12 seconds sec sec- on the Utah beds where man and no makes the course Nature now is too patient too dilatory dilatory dila dUa tory too erratic for him and majestic majestic ma ma- jestic Bluebird |