Show Drivers Again Cast Dice Against Death at Daytona By HENRY McLEMORE 1 United Press Sports SportsWriter Writer DAYTONA BEACH Fla March 4 They 4 They have hilve readied the highway of death again The hard hammer-hard sand of ot Daytona Beach which took the lives of Lee Bible Frank Lockhart and others once again is being traveled traveled trav tray by those men to whom death is more certain than taxes Sir Malcolm Campbell the last to I dice with eternity on th the shiny strip hard by the sea escaped with his life But Campbell Campbeli rodo rode the measured measured mea inca mile behind the wheel of a monster machine which a million dollars had made fit tit for such an ordeal ordeal ordeal or or- deal and he held that wheel with witha a hand which for lor 25 years of high high- speed driving had given supreme surety No Campbells Entered The men who are riding it now In preparation for the mile mlle beach and road race here hero next Sunday are not driving Bluebirds They're driving stock cars right out of at dealers' dealers windows cars whose factory tests included no such strains as they'll be subjected to toon toon toon on Sunda Sunday And the drivers are areno areno areno no Campbells Several of them notably Major Goldie Gardner of England Wild Bill BiU Cummings and Doc Mackenzie are crack pilots of racing machines but for the most mOlt part tho the field is composed of fellows whose recklessness recklessness recklessness reck reck- outweighs their skill While hUe the they wont won't travel with the speed of Campbell the race actually actually ac ae- ac- ac AY will wUl provide more moro hazards than Campbell faced in his straight rocket down the tho beach Tho The three and a mile half course equally divided between tho ho beach and a n narrow winding paved road necessitates two turns The first comes a mile and a half after the start and is a dead left turn from front the soft sand of oC the upper upper upper up up- per beach onto the pavement Already Already Al Al- I AI-I ready In the practice runs the cars have churned this turn into a adrift drift J of soft deep and treacherous sand It was at this turn yesterday that Bob Sail of New Jersey traveling at 85 miles an hour went into a aspin aspin aspin spin and turned over Thrown out when the car twisted in midair he escaped with bruises but the car was demolished With the turn already sliced and cut into deep ruts rut its it's easy to picture picture pic plc- ture the condition it will be In after 30 or 40 cars have whipped anc and skidded through it on race day Treacherous Turns Turn rn The south turn where the drivers leave the paving for the beach Is equally treacherous Asked after his accident if he thought the drivers driVers ers would attempt to come into the turns at speeds in excess of 60 miles an hour Sail said Well have to win Its It's going to be awful tough when theres there's a alot alot alot lot of traffic in em You know that deep sand is a a. lot more tricky than a a. dirt track And those dirt tracks are no jokes Doe Doc MacKenzie l champion and Wild Bill Cummings winner of the at Indianapolis two years ago both of whom will drive foresee foresee foresee fore fore- see plenty of crackups especially especial especial- ly by those drivers in sedan jobs That soft sand MacKenzie said is never twice the same One time it'll skid you just like glass and the next time It will grab your tires and hang on like glue The best besl way to do is just to go into those turns shut your our eyes say a prayer and give the bus the gun Those sedan jobs are gonna have to be mighty car careful tul else they'll be rolling rolling roll roU- ing around like balls |