| Show DANGER 8 OLD STUFF Indianapolis Speedway Attracts War Vets Vets- By WILLIAM TUCKER NEW EW YORK Sept 14 UP UP- UP The revived Indianapolis speedway speedway speed speed- way classic next Decoration day should prove prove the most spectacular lar Jar of the series because the lads who learned speed and danger the hard lard way of nf war are certain to tobe tobe be represented Like World War Ace Eddie the Pappy tons and Don Gentiles of the conflict con- con Just concluded are coming home with the sound of roaring motors Instilled forever fore In their hearts Like too many of them will turn to the auto tracks and emerge eventually as the wild Bill the Pete rete de and Lou Meyers of the future But they and the younger drivers drivers ers who Just were learning the Hazards of the tho hairpin corners when the war began wont won't have havethe havethe havethe the field to themselves At least two three times speedway winner Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose who helped Floyd Davis race to victory in the thelast thelast thelast last classic in 1911 already a are e tuning up their motors for tor the centMan event ent Man Many o of the old Dues Miller specials and Of- Of rs which have seen Been speedway speed- speed way service will r run again They rhey have ave been c carefully preserved in grease during the war years and wont won't be far enough advanced to build many new ones But at least a few experimental tal models of at the fabulous racing cars cars' of the future will be on hand Including n a propelled Jet-propelled Job The Allison Motor Co which had orders orders or orders or- or ders for the propelled Jet P 80 fighter Is situated right across the track hack from the Indianapolis r rectangle rectangle- w where ere the cars thunder down the asphalt The newcomers to the mile mlle speedway have a tradition of or great reat daring skill courage and sportsmanship sportsmanship sportsmanship sports sports- manship to uphold The drivers who raced for the pot of gold jold were mens men's men even when they lost There was was Norman Batten whose machine burst Into roaring flames during one of the late races His chances for victory victory- were gone but he could have ditched it and let the car run wild with wild with the chance that it would plunge into the packed grandstand Instead he climbed upon the cowling with hi his back to the front of at the car ear and with his feet steered It to a harmless halt at the cost coat of badly burned legs And later Cummings himself averted tragedy when he careened past a pile of at cars which h were wrecked on the north curve and the track warning system had not time to post the the flags As he passed the grandstand he waggled wag wag- Bled one hand in a stirring soup-stirring motion to denote trouble am and other racers not involved in the crash were we-rc able to slow up anc and avoid an even more disastrous pile Then there was L L. L L. L Corum who enlivened a race in the by calmly eating half halt a dozen bananas while roaring along at 14 miles mUes an hour The explanations He was hungry |
