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Show AUTOMOBILE RACES HERE. Arranged so quietly and rapidly that not half a dozen car owners in town have learned of it, plans are almost completed for an automobile racing meet to be held in Salt Lake the latter part of October that will outclass any event of its kind held in the west this year. W. W. Finn, manger of the Utah Jockey Club, is promoting the meet, and the races will be held at the Buena Vista track, one of the safest and fastest mile tracks in the world. The meeting is to be held immediately after the close of the horse meet arranged by the Utah Jockey Club for September Sep-tember 18th. The Buena Vista track has been put in splendid shape, the turns are banked to an unusual un-usual height, the surface of the track is well adapted for automobile racing, and the track is of sufficient width to permit of a big field of fast cars. Under the arrangements now being consummated, some of the fastest cars racing on eastern tracks this year will be brought here for the meet, ana they will be piloted by such drivers as Barney Oldfleld, Strang, Burman, and others who have made records since the opening of the present season. sea-son. The announcement comes as the surprise of the year to the motoring public of Salt Lake and vicinity, and beyond a doubt the meet will draw an enormous crowd. The season has been the best in the history of the automobHe business in Utah. Wvery car dealers have been able to secure has been sold, and more carsyare in use in the state than even the most sanguine anticipated. All around us racing meets have been held with great success. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Boise, Butte, Denver, and Cheyenne Chey-enne have all had their track events this season The Cheyenne meet, which took place a week ago, was exceptionally successful, and three or four r new records were made. Mr. Finn believes that the time is ripe for a big meet in Salt Lake, and that such a meet will draw the motoring enthusiasts enthusi-asts from all points In the state, as well as from Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado. It is hardly probable that many of the local dealers will enter cars in the meet, as it is intended in-tended more as an exhibition meet of big eastern racing cars, though three or four races may be arranged open to entry for local cars, and if this is done, some hot contests may bo expected, as rivalry is running high and has been all season among several Salt Lake dealers. Ellis Freed made the statoment months ago that he could go faster in his six-cylinder Thomas Flyabout than any other car in town. W. F. Dodd, of the Ran-dall-Dodd company, has backed up this statement time and again, while Frank Botterill has declared he will be glad to enter one of his several lines of cars in any sort of a race against the Thomas. The Consolidated Wogon and Machine people claim their Franklins are faster than the Thomas cars, and the Rooklidge-Gilmer company are out with a statement now that they can take their four-cylinder American Travelers and go past any car in the city. Thorp nr one or two Stearns owners who are anxious conclusions with Ernest Wool- ley's Locon , and in this connection the match race held at Los Angeles the 1th of this month between be-tween the Locomobile and Stearns has drawn considerable con-siderable attention. For the second time the Stearns won a three-hundred-mile race against the Locomobile at Ascot Park, winning by one hundred hun-dred and forty-five miles. Charles Soles drove the Stearns and W. Orr the Locomobile. The Locomobile, Lo-comobile, however, broke a crank shaft, an accident acci-dent which cost Cooney Slaughter, the Los Angeles Locomobile agent, ten thousand dollars, as that was the amount he had posted on the race. |