Show I IJ J. J I FRANK K BAKER BAKER- While Ab Jenkins is building a new automobile t to break his hour 24 record of miles an hour on th the V T Ts salt flats of western Utah Wild Bill Cummings is figuring fig fig- tiring he can win the mile milc Memorial day race at Indianapolis Indianapolis In In- by driving no more than miles an hour Friends say Cummings is slowing down declaring the na national national na- na champion of the roaring road is becoming far more cautious cau cau- 1 than he was in the days when his yen to keep the throttle on the floorboards all the time won him his of Wile Wild Cummings won the Indianapolis feature last year setting a anew new flew record of miles per hour Mo That mark is much slower than what Jenkins did on Utah Utah's salt ali flats Of course Cummings had to dodge a dozen other roarIng roar roar- Ing machines while Ab had the course all to himself s- s Cummings drove on a two and a mile half-mile track whereas Ab had a n ten-mile ten playground Abs Ab's course was 1 absolutely flat and a perfect circle The curves were banked for Cummings and he had two short ways straight upon which he be had at least momentary relaxation from the thc tension of turning his car constantly Abs Ab's car was constantly constantly constantly con con- on a circle Had he eased his vigil for a second he ho would have been many feet off his course course and and he hc had to V keep up th the tremendous grind for 24 hours whereas Cummings Cummings Cum Cuni- sat behind the drivers driver's wheel less than five hours v L Cummings has set the mile top speed even speed even on oa the way straight-a-way this year in the belief that it will safeguard safeguard safe safe- g guard ard his hi mount from motor trouble He doesn't want his car to be forced out of the grind by overstrain Jenkins hopes to drive from 20 to 30 miles faster than that continually from dawn to dawn i. i L G. G E. E T. T E Eyston ston the English pilot has already filed api ap ap application application ap- ap i with the thc contest board of the thc American Automobile association at Washington D. D C. C for permission to make a arun run under its sanction on the salt beds Eyston's car now being completed in England has been r designed to go after the records Jenkins set here last sum sum- mer Altogether there are arc 77 11 world international and 1 I American records in Abs Ab's possession JoIn John Cobb Cobby another English ish driver and aid sportsman i h ij considering the possibility of a run in ill Utah this summer in the hopes bopes of adding some sonic American records to 10 his present pres pres- ent collection of European medals If Cobb docs does come cometo to Utah he will ivil drive a horsepower ower Napier car regarded re regarded re- re as a formidable con COil contender tender It i George Kinder Milwaukee set an endurance record b by bowling games in 50 hours bouls 28 23 minutes in consecutive order starting at 8 a. a m. m January 7 1930 Kinder had strikes 1201 spares splits and 1155 errors He lifted lUtc 53 tons pounds of bowling pellets and andin andin i I in the course of the contest walked more than 14 miles He lie t averaged against for Conrad of oC Beaver Dam Darn t r Wisconsin who finished second in the endurance tournament shooting games in 50 SO hours 14 minutes L The winner who was 43 years old lost 14 pounds starting at f 1 f Sixty five thousand s spectators saw sw the 1934 corn- corn r husking to tournament at Fairmont Minnesota k i. Carl Seiler Seller Knox count county Illinois holds the record for this event setting it in 1932 when he husked 3 bushels in 80 minutes He husked 2605 pounds of ac actual actual ac- ac thai corn |