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Show FLYING CIRCUS TO Bf FEATURE Gala Sport Card Arranged For Lagoon Boosters For July 24. Automobile races and a flying cir-cut cir-cut will feature the July 4th celebration celebra-tion at LAgoon Monday The niCOl are scheduled to ntart ut 2:30 p m., on the Lagoon speedway. Some airplane air-plane stunts will bf held in ennnee-j tlon with the races as well as after the races Several of the beat intcr-mountaln 1 .1.. i.lr-,. In Mi auto races, f'lairo Sprague. lntormoun-taln lntormoun-taln ehamplon. will drive a Packard pi cla entered by mi-s Virginia Smith if Los Angeles. Sprague is entered In ;the fiVe-mlle anil IB-mile event. Other1 j dirt track artists who will rontet ur-Bonny ur-Bonny Burrows In a Palgo 6-66. Harry Phillip in a. Hal 12. dubbed "Tho Rat," Harold Knight in a Flat special. J. E. Palsgrovo in h Chevolet special and Charles Yetf-rs in a Yetters spec-' spec-' (al U of these driven win participate partici-pate In tho two main events of the daj . a five-mile and lG-mlle open for the lnterniountaln i bamplonahlp. A five mile bug race Is expected to provide amusement for the afternoon Thro will also be a 10 mile motorcycle motor-cycle race between some of the fasU-.-U riders In the state. The Olson brothers, broth-ers, Falkenrath and Ray Peck are entered en-tered In this event. 11 L,. White, holder of the mlle-er-ord on a dirt track will probably attempt at-tempt to lowi r his record If conditions are favorable. His time Is 46 seconds flat In a stock car. which la one second sec-ond lowr than the record mad" by Q racing car driven hy Barney Oldfleld White also holds the record for h" ftv milo road race, his time being 3:26 2-6. Judges of races will be Meredith Mathews and Burt Smalllng. The starter will b 'Shorty" Griffith. One of the feature of the afternoon Will be a leap from a speeding auto roj , a rope ladder suspenu-u n oni an air- i plane driven by Captain Billy Morrle an ace In the late war. The leap will be made by Vance Breese, and .will be I timed to take place in front of the I i Rrnndstand. Later In the afternoon, about 6 3'J "Mocul' Mil neon will drop from a 'plane piloted by Andy Andrews, Pa- ciflc Coast landing champion, into tho water at Lagoon lake, without the aid of a parachute or any other attach-, ments It Is claimed that this Is thl second time that a -tunt of this nature has been attempted Considerable! speculation is going the rounds as to I whether or not Munadn will be ablo! to perform stunts successfully. There1 will be no admission charge for this' event it bring open to the general at-1 tendance at Lagoon. |