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Show RALPH DE PALMA IS RATHER OPTIMISTIC Believes There Will Ee More Racing Rac-ing Than Ever Next Year. Speedway King Has Made Most Wonderful Won-derful Record, Capturing Fourteen Four-teen Out of Sixteen Contests Didn't Change Tires. Though knlph (In Palma, who broke nil world's records for cars of .'100-ctiblc-lnch displacement., from 2 to 50 mile, believes there will he more lacing lac-ing than ever next season. I e I'uhmi has hiul 11 wonderful record. rec-ord. Thl.q yenr ho started In 10 contents con-tents and won 14 of them. Hi! won tint 100-mlle at New York, then the 100-mlle handicap at (Jlnclnnat I ; then the Chicago Chi-cago derby; returning to New York he captured the Srteepshead I!uy sweepstakes, sweep-stakes, and thiiH continued Ids record of victories. Besides the mileage records rec-ords he achieved, his racer also holds all records from one hour to nix hours. "I did almost OW miles at racing speed during the season ut un average of over 108 miles an liour, without making a single tire change during any contest," says De I'ulinu, "My two-mile two-mile record was made at a speed of over 118 mile) per hour, which Is certainly cer-tainly as severe a tire test as will soon he encountered by anyiracer. The ten-I ten-I mile record was made at 110 miles an ' - r:i!' -1 ' $ , :f Ralph de Palma. hour; the six-hour record at 105 miles an hour. My car is not only the fastest, fast-est, but the heaviest racer that I know of. When all ready for a 100-mlle race, with its gasoline and oil, driver and mechanician, It weighs 2,800 pounds." |