Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 30 | Speed Kings Win Homage of Industry

SPEED rEED KINGS KINUS WIN HOMAGE By AL G G. G WADDELL Former Member Contest Board A. A A. A AIts AIts A. A Its It's 3 a a. far cry from the trim racing car carot carof Kit ot of today with Its tiny cubic Inch motor motor-c motO Rotor cirque le of r a speed In excess of ot 26 5 miles nInes an hour or on the speedway speedway back back ck I Ito to the tho i parts throwing tuf of t t. t t-n t n years tars ago Its It's also a far fary cry cr y from fIm the 1923 1 l' l 23 models on display at ato atthe the tho o annual auto show back to the s t tire re chewing hard riding p passenger cars ars of ot those das da's before Loard speedways peed cars ways were bunt built The de- de of the motorcar for service on speedway a md lid highway has been won owes won won- ul ami debth he the automobile Industry and owes a a. great debt to the racing sport and to towo those wo champions ch of the roaring road ho have y ld with life and limb the theM price of progress It M was racing that gave Henry Ford rord his fals his start m to the manufacture of the automobile now recognized as the the ersal car and It was racing rang that so som Materially m aided W V C C. C. C Du Durant In the development o of the Buick Bulck In the days when the famous manufacturer was laying lay lay- Mo- Mo log ing the tho foundation for the tho General Mo- Mo corporation which he developed R from a single motor In the back yard rard of David Buick's home in Flint ditch AUCh to toSho Sho ho he great motorcar syndicate that its it Is s today The Franklin was perfected e through racing The Peerless Winton Old Oldsmobile mobile Cadillac Maxwell National Stutz I Marmon ax Apperson Pp l and many others owe great d debts to the l ce tr track ick road race course or speed- speed way aY SPORT PORT RECOGNIZED Hit It Is only natural then that men of the motorcar profession great engineers Isales 5 safes les managers manufacturers should recognize the Important part that that- that the the peed peed sport sported still stUl plays in the motorcar assured industry An And l it tt is practically assured that automobile racing the speedway sport aport will retain its present high place Ita in the motorcar Industry through the years rears to comeR come R Henry Ford often laughingly remarks that Barney Oldfield made him Barney Barney Bar- Bar ney Ol Oldfield on the other h hand says that Henry ry Ford made him when she he Irav eve him the chance e to drive the h old iFord J. J Ford s mat after h he had se searched rc Jeth the world o lover over for a 0 man roan who would take a chance behind the wheel of the car that would be called today too slow to attract attention attention at- at Oldfield also claims that he did a better e Job ob t than Henry when It same frame t to making reputations ut W i but teI Ford o insists that Barney did pretty well for himself It was racing that gave the BuIck Bulck Its start and W W. C. C Durant was one of thereal the thereal real Teal pioneers In automobile racing when Its he sponsored the Buick Bulck team and had th the late Wild Bob Burman breaking breaking- records all allover over the country The Apperson driven by Harris Hanahue Han- Han hue ahue two years after that well known Pacific coast motorcar man had retired from the ranks of Up Hurry Yosts Yost's Michigan varsity won the first Santa Monica road race and the Apperson was wasa fa a contender In every big big- California speed event up to the time the board speedways took the place of ot the highways highways high high- ways for speed contests The Stutz was vas called the car that made good in a a. aday day Where did It make good On the speedway and on the Santa Monica road race course The Stutz did not win n Its first events but It made a a. wonderful record for consistency In competition competition com- com petition petition with the Imported forel foreign n racers and that was enough to start the Stutz on the road to success DEBT OWED RACERS Th The same ame debt that we owe to those pioneers who came across the continent in n their prairie schooners many of ot them paying the price of empire en route we owe to those men of the racing sport who have given their lives as a a. sacrifice to the science of ot automotive engineering Such men as David Bruce Brown Bob Burman Billy Carlson HughIe Hughes Hughes Eddie ODonnel Gaston Chevrolet Spencer Spencer Spen Spen- Spencer Wishart Harry Grant Earl Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son on Jack Callahan and Roscoe Sarles the last of the speed kings to go over the top too and never come back have have- all won places on the tablets of fame chronicling the development of the automobile from the earliest days to the present and there Is a certain amount of ot sentiment back of ot the development of ot the racing car r of today by such men as B R. R C C. Cliff Cliff Durant Fred Duesenberg Harry AMiller A A. Miller Colonel Vincent and others I