Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-18 | Page 24 | Speeding Game with Automobiles

SPEEDING ME WITH AUTOMOBILES Automobile racing has grown to be an Interesting sport in America and large sums of money are being spent to carry this sport to its highest dc-groc. dc-groc. Auto racing is an exciting game In which the spirited drivers take much pleasure and pride in the events and to encourage the sport some very handsome prizes arc offered. Large ' crowds assemble to witness the races, most everybody dearly loving the thrills that are given upon those occasions, oc-casions, The International 500milc Liberty Sweepstakes race will be run May 31 over the Indianapolis motor speedway : for a series of cans prizes totaling $50,000. The foremost stars of Europe and America are entered for the fray, Hull an cuiumiaiiuu iu pi cuiuiuu ui uvei 100,000 based on the sale of seats to date. The track was built in 1900 by Carl G- Fisher, James A. Allison, A. C. Newbo and Frank II. Wheeler, four Indianapolis sportsmen who desired to place American automobile racing on the same high plane that it had already al-ready attained in Europe. How well they succeeded is attested by the fact that since the-foundation of the track six international championship events have been run upon it, with an average aver-age attendance between 90,000 and 100,000, causing the Indianapolis contests con-tests to rank with the greatest sporting sport-ing events of the world. The present investment In the traok Is estimated at approximately $750,-000. $750,-000. However, It has always been consistent con-sistent money maker, a tribute to the foresight and daring of the men who built it and have since distributed more than $275,000 In prize money to the victors in races hold upon it. This year's Liberty Sweepstakes race is expected ex-pected to prove the biggest event ever staged on the huge brick oval, Inaugurating Inaugu-rating a. revival of automobile racing following a1 two-year hiatusbecause of the war.