OLDFIELD INDORSES PRINCE SPEEDWAYS

Promises Fast Time for Events to Be Held Here Next Month.

GREAT THRILL PROVIDER

Says Board Track Will Enable Drivers to Make 100 Miles an Hour.

Barney Oldfield has indorsed speedways of the Prince construction, such as the one now being built here.

The same company is building a speedway at Cincinnati, and the Enquirer of that city inquired of Oldfield what he thought of the Prince ideas. This is what the Enquirer got from Oldfield, and printed:

Speedways may come and speedways may go, but the board speedway will go on forever.

"From the time I was a kid and first got into the racing game as a bicycle rider, I have watched Jack Prince, the pioneer among speedway builders erect board tracks, each one a marvel to racers."

Comes Back With Another.

"And now the dean of track builders is back with another for the autos that, in my judgment, will make all other tracks look sick."

"When he built the first really big speedway of boards out at Playa Del Ray, near Los Angeles, the wise ones gave it the 'up and down' and declared it out of the running. 'It won't stand much real speed,' they declared, and it looked to them as though Prince had shot a bloomer."

"The first meet at this track was held and the whole world sat up to take a look at the records established. Ray Harroun, the winner, averaged eighty-five miles an hour for 100 miles. Driving my big Blitzen Benz, I did a mile in :35 1-5."

"Still the meet did not demonstrate the durability of the track, but three years later, Prince's reputation was vindicated. Over the same track which had been exposed top the elements and to the salt spray from the Pacific ocean and given a minimum of attention, I drove my 300 horsepower Christie racer a mile in :36. If anything, the track was better than the day it opened."

Makes Fastest Speedway.

"This last design of Prince's with the triple radius for the Cincinnati track, calls for the fastest speedway ever dreamed of, a track where 100 miles an hour can be maintained for 100 miles."

Perhaps the speed will not touch the these figures, but it will be far better than 90 miles an hour for any distance up to 500 miles. Imagine this average as compared with the record averages over dirt or brick speedways."

"With the completion of his track at Des Moines which is a duplicate of the track planned for Cincinnati I am promising a speed of 100 miles an hour in the preliminaries on July 25 and I expect to see a track record of a mile in :30 flat established at the big races July 31."

"The board speedway will always be the big thrill provider. The speed is terrific and every second every driver is in front of the spectators. They do not go out of sight behind trees or buildings. There are no distances so great as to dwarf cars and drivers below the power of vision to distinguish between them, there is no blinding dust to hamper drivers and obscure them from the spectators. Every second the battle between nerve, wits, mechanical genius is in plain view. The very shape of the track is for speed. The 40 percent bank in the turns acts as a propeller which will force cars to exceed their engine capacity."

"This and more too is the promise held out to motor racing by the new Prince track."

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