| Show AUTO RAGES RACES NOT FORMEN FOR FORMEN MEN OF WEAK V NERVES Tenth of a Seconds Second's Hesitation and You Are Lost Writing in the New York Times of ot his bis bl auto racing experiences Harry Harrr Cobe the well known driver er says The driver er of ot a racing automobile may have hn nerve ner and grit enough for forten forten forten ten men but he Is human all the same and subject to the thrills and starts and Hu suspended heart henrt beats that assail the rest of ot humanity in moments of ot exciting happenings And because a n 1 y Ili THE viz SWERVED IN OF Os' MX lay CAR CAK I COULD NOT HOT STOP man mau feels the hair ball on the back of ot his nis Lend bend stir and little chills chase up and down his spinal column it does not Dot follow that he is losing his nerve Those sensations are merely the signs of ot the play of human buman emotions I have ha felt them time and time again and so 80 has any ally driver who has competed in so 80 much as one race At those times a mans man's brain acts nets like I chain lightning He must see instantly instant instant- I ly Iy the way out By instinct he must do the right thing A tenth of ot a sec set seconds second's seconds second's ond's onda delay ma may spell ruin Of Ot Of course it is necessary to take chances A man cannot do anything but accept what comes his way and make the most mst of It Ill I'll give you an instance In the Indianapolis sweepstakes in 10 May lay 1011 lOll 1 I was forced to accept a chance that fairly ran over with pos pos- possibilities of ot dire results A car behind mine threw a tire which as tires always al ways tays do raced ahead of ot the car It also raced ahead of ot mine for tor the other other oth oth- er cr car was wal close up behind behind- The tire swerved swen-ed directly In front of ot my car I could not stop 1 could not turn aside I could not drive straight ahead The car went satel safely over o the tire but the Jolt was so terric terric terric ter ter- ric that it tossed Miller my mechanic out of ot his seat to the tank behind Fortunately for tor him he gripped gripped gripped grip grip- ped something and hung on until he could crawl rawl back into his place beside beside be be- I side me mc We got away with that chance be because ause both of ot us remained cool and collected Possibly the nan man who has never ne driven n It race cannot understand th the lust of speed the speed the d-the the nerve ner shredding impatience im im- impatience patience of ot the slightest delay at the pit which pit which lays laYR hold hoM of the driver with grips rips of ot steel In the same race the race the Sweepstake Sweepstakes we we had stopped for water Of Ot course I let the motor run and remained in my seat While Miller was struggling with tLc tl e radiator cap radiator cap radiator caps CalS are nha s 's stubborn anyhow I I let In Inthe Inthe inthe the c. c clutch i nd we were ort off Miller cool head bead that thit he was threw himself across the radiator Then he got hIstet his feet tet ou on the trout front axle and cUm climbed bed to the he hood There re 11 lie finished putting on the radiator ap und then climbed backover back backover over o the hood to his seat seM By that time we were going seventy five miles an hour Of or course we took a chance and and won v |
