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Show THOUSANDS SPEED SALT LAKE. July 3 Ten thousand thou-sand speed-enthused fans swamped down on the motordrome at Wanda-mere Wanda-mere Saturday night and, after occupying occu-pying all the avallablo seats, surged into the three-lap arena, Iho overflow ! filling it so there was hardly breath-j breath-j Ing spacp. The occasion was the. opening open-ing of tho first exclusive motor and automobile racing track In Salt Lake City. The programme of events was of the classy variety and a number of new records were established, i Considering that It was a first night i programme, everything went off in a j highly creditable manner. About 8:45 o'clock the first event, the three-mile amateur, was started by Governor I William Spry, The other events of the programme followed Jn rapid-fire j order, and there was little waiting between be-tween the various races and exhibitions. exhibi-tions. Mitchell Beats De Rosier. The fifty mile open motorcycle race, professional, was easily won by Arthur Ar-thur Mitchell of New Orleans, who had a handicap of six miles. He beat Jake De Rosier by two laps. The latter lat-ter punctured a tire Jn the twenty-fifth twenty-fifth mile and was delayed for several laps, which prevented him from winning win-ning the race. Mitchell rode the only machine that remained on the track all the time. F. E. Whittier rode thirty thir-ty miles In the race and was about live miles in the lead of all the field when his machine broke down, putting put-ting him out of the race. He and De Rosier rode a hot race for the first twenty five miles, each alternating alterna-ting in first position, and both lapping all the rest almost at will. The big feature of the night's programme pro-gramme was Frank Irvine's record trial In his famous Vanderbllt cup-winning cup-winning Thomas. He circled tne track so fast that theie was scarcely a time, when there was more than one wheel on the track, and often he was going I with all four wheels off tho track. As I he started on his mile record trial the machine started to skid and kept on until he had flelshed, riding the fastest mile ever mado by an automobile automo-bile In Utah on anv kind of a track. He made the mile In fifty-three seconds. sec-onds. Barney Oldfield's best time on the Baena Vista niiie track was 54 4-5 seconds. To make tlili mile required superb handling of the ma- chine, and Irvine was equal to' the tnsk. At times it appeared that he would certainly vault tiio srardstaud I and at ether times it seemed that he would suiely dash thrMirh the inflold I or turn turtle. The Amerlcau Trav- eler, with Joy at the wheel, made a mile in the fast time of 1:01 3-5. The fastest mile ever traveled by a human being in this state was made by De Rosier Saturday night In his record trial. He made the mile in 43 1-5 seconds. Whittier could do no better than 47 2-5 seconds for ono mile. Real thrills were furnished the audience au-dience by Charles Balke of Los Angeles An-geles In the five-mile handicap for amateurs. He and Raymond Seymour of Los Angeles wrere riding neck and neck for three miles when Balke's motor mo-tor took fire. Balke was going at a rate of a mile in less than a minute when this happened, and he made tffu laps before he could stop the motor. The spectacular sight of a man riding a blazing motor around the track was thrilling enough for the most blase spectator. . Balke's clothing was burned through and his flesh scorched. His Injuries will not prove serious. . . The Courier-Journal thinks that although our government hasn't done much for aviation, we have, lot?, of statesmen who can go pretty far up in the "air. |