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Show Pet Superstitions of Famous Auto "Wizards" If your friends poke fun at the rabbit's rab-bit's foot you curry, and your dl3llke for broken mirrors and black, cats, do not feel nhnslied. Your pet super-stltion.s super-stltion.s are as nothing compared with those of the men who risk their lives as drivers Jn automobile races. In all the sport world they are the most superstitious, according to Alfred Al-fred Dayton of the New York Sun. Hardly one of them but has his pet ritual, or talisman. ' Barney Oldfleld's cigar la possibly the best known lucky piece In this domain, and there are other cases without number. Johnny ITannon, for example, always wears a black shirt when driving. Joe Russo swears by a red helmet. Eddie Pullen hung baby shoes on his front springs; Pete de Paola fastened them to his steering wheel. Ora Habey "was strong for green cars. Lie never finished out of the money" In one. Donn Ilerr, another . old-tliner, "always "al-ways went on the track with a worn- ' an's stocking tied around his neck." |