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Show NEW SPEED RECORD IS IDE Di IHE SILT BEDS Salt Lake. Aug 13 The world's j speed record for an automobile tfas Bhatterdd yesterday afternoon at the Saldino rac course b.v Teddy Teiz-laff Teiz-laff in a Blitzen Ben, racing car. Tefzlaff drove a half mile In 1 - ,; or ;it the rafo of a mile in -' -' The best previous world's record for one mile was made hv Boh Burmnn at Daj tona, Pis . on April J3. I91L Bur-man's Bur-man's time roT the mile was 2; 4. The announcement that Tetzlaff had made a new world's record, when megaphoned to the members of the Rotary and Commercial clubs who had gone to the course in a spe lal train to witness the speed trials yesterday; yes-terday; was the occasion for prolonged prolong-ed cheering. And among the mdsl e Ited of those who greeted Tets- . -- i i, clnrl. lail w lien tie nrove uhc r m uc ing point was (lovernor William Spry, j The executive declared thai he, too, j wished totake a joy ride. He did Tetzlaff changed to a Maxwell racing car and took the governor over the, course at the rate of ninety miles an hour. Later the governor was a passenger pas-senger with Tetzlaff when he won a ! three-cornered race from De Aiene I in a Marmon and Carlson in a Max-1 Max-1 well machine W. Di Ellshel, local representative I of the American Automobile associa-I associa-I tion. said last nigh! that TeUlaff's time over the course in the Ben j would stand as an official record of j the association The half mile course had been carefulh surveyed by an engineer and eight timers were j used, four at eac h end of the streich. ' Before going to the course yesterday Mr Rishel had received official sanc tion from the association for the, speed trials At the conclusion of the clay's per formancos Tetzlaff told the newspaper newspa-per men that he was satisfied that seconds instead of fractions of seconds sec-onds could be clipped from the Sal- J duro course record, provided that he j was given three weeks time in which to perfect and tune up his car He said that if such adjustments were made as to meet atmospheric condi tions. due to the altitude he could j drive the Benz at miles an hour a rate of about twenty-three seconds to the mile |
