Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-07-02 | Page 19 | Driving Champ Enters S. L. Auto Races

r r 4 l r v vt k f. f l t w r 1 b r S. S i 1 HERES HERE'S THE NATIONAL CHAMP Emor Emory Collins national dirt track auto racing champion who will appear p ar In the races at the state fairgrounds late this month Driving Champ Enters S. S SL S i L. L 1 Auto Races Emory Collins national dirt track king of 1946 has filed tiled his entry for the big car auto uLo race programs scheduled for the Utah Centennial exposition July 26 24 and Aug 1 The year old LeMars la In speedster a time four-time winner of or orthe the International Motor Contest national title tIlle nominated his own horse power machine for the Salt Lake con con- tests Record books of the I M C A credit Collins with more track state and national dirt track speed marks than an any living pilot according according ac DC ac- ac cording to Sheldon R. R Brewster manager of the Centennial event at the Utah state fairgrounds His lap of the Wisconsin state fair mile track in 37 seconds last year shattered Rex Mays' Mays former record for that distance and his best time for a mile half-mile oval 24 seconds is but a shade above the 2370 I M C A record Collins earned his fourth title in 1946 by rolling up championship championship cham cham- points at major state and district expositions from Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota to Florida He competed in nearly 30 meets A former farmer Canadian pro hockey star Collins built and raced his first car when he was 15 During the summer months he campaigned the dirt tracks near RegIna his home town At 17 he invaded the 1 states as a full fledged professional professIonal professional speedster