| Show Speed Demon Gives Pietro Pietr Waste Taste of Fast Life I 1 Jf D' D 1 t I f f w I picture shows Clair ClairS' ClairS S' S L J Dee Sprague daring local I speed d demon piloting his new racing car at a dizzy clip on ont I t S hr the fair grounds track with i s Peanut Pietro The car was I It F making seventy miles on hourS hour I S 1 when a camera e ee j d i sn snapped the picture pi ture Lower e r J picture is d up close of oft i R I t 55 4 V X Sprague Pietro and the miler d. d eating jugg S c. c r. r ii I CHALLENGE TO WORLD gilds Car in Local Plant Plan and and ls' Is Ready to Prove E Its Worth II IrL wearing the scars s ars of his D escape from death l wo years ago when Eris 1 s car ar- S turned over twice arid Crashed ash cr-ash rough a fence at the state faIr I Clair Dee Sprague prague local eed ced demon and conceded to be one I the nerviest young pilots ever ever-devel- ed in the West Vest has again stepped t on the speed line and is looking r choo choosers ers liven ven though he grove one of the races ever seen in the West Vest d was picked up on the deadly oval urso at the fair grounds a mangled bloody a-bloody after thrilling and with wilh fright a multitude of I eed ed fans Sprague conies comes back again th his same old nerve of Iron but butth butth th a new car SUES CHALLENGE After several trials on the state fair track and time tests on courses Sprague today sued med an open challenge through the editor of The Telegram to toy toy y stock car in the world for any stance tance It is claimed there is plenty money back of his new racing car card card d his prowess as a racing driver Spragues Sprague's mile eating juggernaut Is IsS S a produce of his own s. s on n after his recovery from injuries injuries- stained in his spectacular smashup a 0 years ears ago the plucky young speed peed mon mon began the construction of a s z t s L J J Y j J is isY n x Y T S r t Y i I 2 i f tit a t f J JC M J real car lie Is employed as aso a fal and technical ician n at the Otah com company any Packard and his car was wac b ii i by him in tho local shop BUILDS TH CAR Unable to secure a Liberty motor twelve when he began the construction of his racIng car e selected a 0 1912 Packard chassis and engine After careful study of the construction of the th fastest racing cars In America Sprague guc has produced what motor experts experts ex- ex believe belie to be the fastest stock racing craft ever built outside of a factory fac- fac tory With the exception of shortening shortening shorten shorten- ing the frame reducing the tho size of the wheels taking off every ounce of weight possible and changing the gear ratio the car Is in every sense a stock machine I The car has already attained a of ninety miles on an hour on the straightaway ad Sprague declares he can make a hundred or more under I. I safer road roa I conditions Numerous motor motor mo- mo tor fans and mechanical experts have ridden with Sprague recently and they I seem to unanimously acclaim his new I car a marvel for speed and power I HILL ILL CLIMBING TESTS I In a recent test Sprague drove his r racing car up Main Iain street to tho capitol capi- capi tol to In high h gear and never exceeded ten miles an hour Without a single adjustment he then attained a speed of more than fifty miles an hour at atthe atthe the crest of the steep B street hill The phEnomenal hill climbing ability couI coupled cou- cou pled with Its marvelous speed is proving proving I ing a puzzle to local motor experts Bru Brute te power and the employment of scientific methods of construction are the only elements assigned assign d by Sprague I for the cars phenomenal performance Although strictly a 0 home tirade home product product prod prod- the car resembles a special factory factory fac- fac tory built racer It required nine months to build the machine and no expense was spared In its tion The cat is s 's private property DANGEROUS RACE When prag e entered the race at atthe atthe the State fair two years ago with a down stock Packard with a wh wheelbase the team of professional professional I race drivers warned him piloting su sut h a craft over an mile half course Sprague however went Into the race and demonstrated his ability as a daring and expert driver Mile after mile he be skidded around the dangerous curves often remaining remaining re- re for several seconds on two wheels Lap after atter lap he thrilled the vast crowd of motor fans with a display of his nerve On the straightaways straightaways straight straight- he far exceeded the speed of gf his opponents but lost It all on the curves Six times he swerved and reeled In hair raising death spins when tires came off necessitating much delay delay de- de lay in making Changes hanges In a final efI effort ef- ef I fort to make up the lost time he took one of th curves too fast The car cars s un stood around Its nose turned two complete somersaults and crashed through the fence Sprague and Orson Orson Or- Or son Baraclough his were badly cut unconscious I In constructing his new machine Sprague bum built it especially for work on ona ona a circular track dropping his motor down to only six inches clearance and materially shortening the frame lIe declares that when the next speed contest contest con con- test Is put on he will be there with A Acar s scar car that will be more than hard to catch |
