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Show FRANK K. BAKER TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR (, fi Captain George Eyston, the new disciple of speed from England, and the University of Utah football team found themselves in much the same predicament Saturday, when both discovered that they needed something to transform their potential power into negotiable certificates at the cashier's window. For Captain Eyston, the inadequate item in his seven-ton "Thunderbolt" is a. gadget called the clutch. If the clutch on the Captain's big racing car measured up to the other parts of the mammoth machine, the captain would undoubtedly have set a new land speed record on the Bonneville salt flats Saturday morning. The "Thunderbolt" is the fastest craft ever built on wheels. Its two 12-cylinder motors, developing somewhere between 3000 and 3308-horsepower, endow it with the quickest acceleration ever built into a straightaway car. Its new type disc brakes of which there are only three fitted directly to the axles well within the shell of the streamlined auto instead of being placed directly upon any of the eight wheels are the most effective yet conceived for such a venture. This craft with its quick start, its unprecedented amount of horsepower, and its superior streamlining, has a potential speed of at least 350 miles an hour. It has already gone one direction through the mile at 309.6 miles per hour by actual timing on one occasion, and reached an estimated speed of somewhere between 310 and 315 miles per hour on another day. Because the clutch, which must transform all that motor power to the driving gears, has not been able to stand the gaff, though, the "Thunderbolt" has not been able to complete a round trip successfully through the mile within an hour and thereby take the record away from Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird. So today the "Blupbird," which was inferior in many ways to the "Thundctbolt," still holds the official record of 301.1292 miles per hour because its clutch could really transform its power to the driving wheels. While Captain Eyston was realizing that he must de-lign de-lign and build a stronger clutch if he ever hopes to make a (Continued on Following Page) |