Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-30 | Page 36 | Madeover Stage Defeats Racing "Bug" Goes 400,000 Miles before Contest Road Scarred Paige Victor at Elko

A i 1 r r c r v Ma eoy r Stag otage ue Defeats R ting J bug Bug x Goes Miles Before Contest Road T Scarred Paie Victor at Elko B UD D BODELL at af t the wheel just aft after r he returned ned from a 0 trip to to Elko Nev where he piloted an old Paige stage auto to victory over George Moodys Moody's racing Chevrolet s r 4 I jJ r I I I L s.- s. Y T 4 I pc L 4 v y S S 'S S After an Exciting and adventurous week in Nevada culminating In his winning a a special five twenty mile race against George Moody at Elko last Sunday Bud ud gud Bodell returned to Salt Lake In time to take part In some f feature races that will be scheduled between his Paige car and local racing rac rac- ing lag bugs S The feat of the P Paige ige at Elko is remarkable remarkable re re- re- re when you take into c consideration consideration con con- n- n that th the car car h had d traveled miles as M a st stage gc coach in southern Utah just before being ing turn turned d into an impromptu racing machine ma nia- nia chine But the engine of th the theold old car car 1 looked so good In ln spite of the hard liard usage it had been through that Manager Manager Manager Man Man- ager Don Shaw of of the Paige Sales Sale company decided i to enter it in the rac races s a at Elko during S the recent rodeo o S The special twenty mile raceS race on the Elko track last Sund Sunday y was against George Moody in a Chevrolet I racer It is fg said that something like I changed hands on the race the I admirers of both cars being free with their wagers Following is the interI interesting interesting inter inter- II esting account of the contest taken taleen I from the Elko Free Press The Tue twenty mile Ie race yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day afternoon o OP OIl the mile half-mile track tracIe of the rodeo grounds ground was won by Bud Bodell in his Paige car cart carf the same one ono driven In the Wells Wells road race beating his opponent George Moody in the Chevrolet by ten laps tin The rhe attendance was large both in inand inside in- in side and outside the fence and the therace I Irace I race was started promptly For ten laps laps' the race was a very pretty one j neither neither f-neither car being able to gain on all the other But in making the turn the II Chevrolet lost one of Its tires and when they got Into the track again the Paige had circled the course a I number of times Again a little later the Chevrolet I lost jost another tire in maki making g a turn and at the conclusion of the race was wasten wasten wasten ten laps behind This was the fourth raco race between these two cars the first and third be being being being be- be ing won by the Chevrolet and both cars have many admirers neither side at this time being willing to admit the superiority of the other and it is I probable that another road race will willbe willbe willbe be run a little later on Bud Bodell the driver of the Paige I has entered his car in an exhibition race at Salt Lake City the proceeds I to be donated to the Red Cross He also is entered in four auto races races- at atthe j the Salt Lake fair and will come in I competition with some of the fastest drivers on the tho coast He has every I confidence in his Paige car and at the conclusion of the races at Salt Lake I will return to Elko I Mr Moody in the Chevrolet is I confident that had the tires not been i torn off he would have won the race I and stands ready to drive his car against the Paige at any anytime time I