CORONER DEFERRED TO DRIVER'S SUPERSTITION

Coroner Claude Koons did not attend the race which cost Joe Cooper his life yesterday afternoon.

Koons remained away because of the superstition of most of the drivers, which he had learned when he attended the elimination trials a week before.

Before the races on that occasion Koons walked to the little group of drivers at the track and greeted one of them whom he knows.

"Here's the coroner," exclaimed his racing aquaintance. Koons saw a change come in the attitude of the men who gamble with death. Another driver took him aside and explained that the presence of the coroner was taken as an ill omen. Koons left the track to ease the minds of the racers.

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