Show BOSS fiRED HIM h 0 Indianapolis May 23 When 23 When Earl Cooper pulled into the pits today after after after af af- ter tuning up his Studebaker Special for the international mile mlle race at atthe atthe the Speedway May he was Wal q questioned by his old friend frie d Mayor Lew Shank of Indianapolis who is a racing fan Listen Earl said his honor I got into politics by getting the ear of my neighbors as a successful auction auction- eer Now tell me how did you come coma cometo to get into this perilous game of playing playing play play- I ing peep bo-peep to a car that's leaping around a track at miles an hour Cooper sun painted veteran of the r. r trac tracks k S grinned He borrowed b a c cig- cig I g- g Ii aret from the mayor and said Mayor Ive I've made lots of money I out of ut my fourteen years' years racing racing- f f and I owe it all to my old employer in r I II I f the garage in San Jose California lIe He fired me under peculiar circumstances circum circum- stances stances and and that started me on my racing career Ys Ysee e I 1 was a young fellow working working work work- ing in the garage and salesroom of C. C H H. H Letcher Well one day I boasted I 1 was some pumpkins as a racer So my boss and I 1 agreed on a mile 25 race You know what funny old gas gondolas they had in those days Well I beat him him and and he fired me I was out of a job So I 1 thought Id I'd borrow a car and be become ome a racer I won the great Portola race at Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land and Ive I've been living on the tracks ever since ince Cooper who will wilI pilot the Studebaker Studebaker Stude- Stude baker Special in the coming gasoline derby has a record of SOO first on oa the dirt tracks as well welI as hundreds of firsts seconds thirds and fourths in ig the Ie greatest a r races races in tl the country fin |