Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-05 | Page 12 | Backseat Driving

g Hitch to FRANK K BAKER of North Summit who won the pole vault in the division track meet at Uth Stadium Friday hi his way to SnIt to take part in the meet SIx ago WUde won the pole ault in his division nt the Young relays in Provo 12 feet 5 inch to set a new record During the winter he was one of the hIgh school basketball players in the But y when the year old boy another to I gain glor for himself and renown for hb school that school refused to lend him to the meet Summit board or decided this week that school should not be used to transport to the In Something Something- was said about expenses an Indication was made that the order against using the s hool bus become perI per per- I It the Summit division North and South Summit Morgan and Heber is not hereafter to have a. a meet of own as In past Coach Silky Knudson packed seven boy Into hl auto and them to Salt for the meet but when be looked around for Wilde be mu not to be found I The was taking taking- no chancel lie beard the rule on the thebus bus early in the and he started out on his own at Splendid To Get With SaIt Beds Those salt near Utah seem destined to become 8 busy place this summer with the c to bring Sir MI I colm Campbell the auto hero tor an to bleak world record of miles an hour tor a measured mUe H Campbell does drive there thousands undo make his trial an to learn more about the salt beds nd welt they hould beds arc most interesting The un reflects off the salt in summer like a olf olfa a mIrror One hundred and twenty degrees is In the daytime and at night the temperature frequently falls as low n 60 Under the elrd Influence ot the atmosphere make racing camps to be around In as it they were on J. J malc carpet Rain squalls and ales are common In Bummer They com out of mountains and wIthout and arc rone as M they break When Ab Jenkins made his hour 21 run there I Jast year such n gale broke shortly after noon The swept across the flats at 45 miles an hour for 15 minutes Then It calmed rain wIth It and tho tInts stem d In thc sun like thc top ot an old cook Not Try Some Stock Car Races As Added Attractions Utah and Lake can fInd no better to publicize Ulan though run No single sports event attracts at- at tracts more The OlympIc are great to be but they primarily to the lover ot tics That b not at Campbells Campbell's run Its It's of interest to everybody The financier the allor the mer al-mer the the clerk and the forgotten man all have their by this spectacle I And when tb e people talk or race they talk about Utah Salt They want to know all the po Ible about this region about its 3 its its fruit and other ot cour c. c ils il's too fine an opportunity tor this community to let slip through Us Inasmuch as thc committee ill charge of arrangements is endeavoring to draw part of the revenue tram probable spectators I suggest it odd some iLs salt bed program as added inducement for spectators to buy tickets in advance When Campbell gets under vay wont won't be n whole lot to see see-if everything goe well A car traveling nearly mIles an is certainly a case ot Here comes there it goes ThOse familiar the monotony of the alt beds know the through n mechanical cven though the walt be only two or three is none too to the spectator who hns driven to set there reason I would like to see several stock c r races added to the program The could arrange a roUe lOO-roUe race a ten mile track a mile 50 test and several races of 10 to 25 mUes on tracks The extra races would not with Campbells Camp bells bell's track and at time they would spice p the program until Sir Mal olm ready for the climax I believe Salt Lakes Lake's auto dealers would cooperate The stock car races have been proving mighty popular on the coast and Im I'm sure utah d alers would tind such events a good method of demon demon- various qualities ot their product And the would certainly