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Show death and disaster. If anything goes wrong" Kerdcber's Darracq and Oldfield's Knox were unloaded Tuesday afternoon after-noon along with the Benz, and the machines ma-chines are at tho Randall-Dodd gar-Age. gar-Age. The Bueua Vista track is being prepared pre-pared for tac races and experts freely free-ly predict that Oldlleld will get the records he goes for. The entries for the local races close tomorrow night. Both the Utah Automobile Dealers' association arid tho Utah Automobile club are chaperoning the contest end of the meet and. there Is much enthusiasm enthu-siasm over the affair. Comparison of Sped. 131. "fi miles per bour. 64.4 yards per second. At this rate Oldfleld could encircl" the globe in 187.5 hours, or 7.R days. He eould travel from Chicago ,10 New York in S J 2 hours, as compared com-pared with 18 hours, train time. He eould leave Chicago nt midnight and be In New York by 9.30 In the morning, or be could leave New York at midnight and reach Chicago by 7:30 a. m He could cover 31 04.6 miles in 21 hours, as compared with S. F- Klge'a world s 24 hour record drive of InSt miles, 1310 yards In a Napier, or tho 1136 miles made by the Lozier in fle-lual fle-lual competition. . He could leave New York at 6 o clock one night nnd be in San Fran cisco, 3250 miles away, the next afternoon aft-ernoon at 3 o'clock, after difference in time was deducted. The estimated distance from the earth to the moon Is 23R.840 miles. O'dfleld could reach tho moon m 75 1-2 days if he had a beach course or plank track to travel on. Oldfleld traveled a kilometer (which Is five-eights of a mile lat a speed of 1 12 miles an hour, but the above is based on his speed for a full mile, 131.7G mIK's per hour. Breathing Problem. "I wired to Now York for new goggles, gog-gles, ones with a frame and mask, ihut covered my whole face. Then came the problem of breathing. I would attain a speed of about 120 miles an hour and suddenly I would find that I was losing my grip on the steering wheel and that I was becoming becom-ing dazed l would shut down tho ear, and for three days I tried to determine de-termine the trouble. A doctor examined exam-ined my heart and found It all right. "Tlu u an old Harvard professor who knew much of science discussed the problem with me, and I was tin-ally tin-ally convinced that I would have to i train day by day. to become accustomed accus-tomed to the effect of speed and wind resistance on the lungs. "A week put me so I was all right for the mile, but when I trl-d for the two-mile record and made the wonderful won-derful time of 55 seconds for the two miles. I do not believe I could have youe another half mile. I was losing consciousness when 1 shut off as I passed 'tho finishing flag. 1 was all in at the fluinh "I am through with such high speed, forever I hope,, and nothing con tempt me to take the chance fgpin unless fome other fellow gets near my records, an'! I don t believe that Is possible. At the mile track game I know all the tricks death might try to spring on mo In such a : record trial or coutest. On tracks I j hae a chance when a tire bursts from terrific friction or a vital part f the I r.:achine breaks, but with that dead-j dead-j ly straightaway high speed record I work there is no skill in the whole i world tbt cau be used to prevent |