HIGH SPEED MOTORING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 7

HIGH SPEED MOTORING.

CAR BREAKS BOUNDS. ; , .QT TET'EGRArn—rRESS ASSOCIATION—COriBIGBf* '' ".'j New York, January 3. « ; A sixty horss-power Napier? motor-car, on ] ...the Bi;poklands coureo,attained a speed of 85 miles an hour. ' . , ; A tyre burst, and the motor jumped an . ■ i embankment.. Fron, the driver, ' wasj sev- . : orcly shaken. ' \ j .. ... "DARIjIDIiVIL EIDERS." ?.!/,. 1 : An idea of what high' speed motor racing : ; has developed, into .in America is afforded by i ' the New York correspondent of .tho "Daily • Telegraph," who. writes :— , ' ■ '• -.'.i : "The. public wore induced to throng."':the - ; . track 'Dj" hnnouncemerit that tho 'Most dare- « devil riders in the world would ripk • their- . j necks'' to win, and that anvbody who 'valnes ' j norye thrills' could not afford to be absent. i Tho result was a-. great . attendance; many:'! . "."i people, sitting np all night \in the liopo o'f , i seeing!something sensational. The.v got what: ' ' they cauie fo.', because at 3 a.m. vestordny ai | car running at :15 miles an hour lost a y.-h'eel, ' left the course, smashed through ■ the fence, and ran into" the spectators. Men and boys Vj were tossed, aside .like ninepins, and the car. - i catit'e to a : stop 'sixty feet away from the' •">') track. "Paying no attention to the injured pciw . ~i sons, tho driver 'and his mechanic set to work to repair the Qar, but the injured were ■ -i not ncglcctod. Tho management of tho rac'e- , 3 had.. foreseen such accidents, and had pre* . - 1 r.ared an emergency field hospital; which \ra» | kept busy throughout tho twenty-four hours. J There were several accidents, and several'' ' v machines.-wore smashed, hut nobody wa»' -! killed, and, fortunately, only a docoii won) i injured. * ' J ; "It was tho announcement on tho previouii ' evening'that a big car engaged in 'tuning ; up" on tho track for the great race had run i nmok, charged a " fence, arid i mutilated two . | occupants which first (iavo. sensation-lovins - people tho idea that 'thliSgreat Auto-Derby, ■ S as it was christened, "tho world's ■ greatest j congress'■ of untamed and' mitamcable chauf- M fours.''- might' bo wellworth seeing. Auto- ; i mobilmg is a great national industry, and i of growing importance, it is admitted, but 1 6ano Americans aro protesting against con> ; ! tests which may become aa degrading as bull- i fights, and not nearly so picturesque."- i