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Big Outlay Made to Make Auto Classic A Great Radnor Event America and the American*' Th Hemorial Day race at Indianapolis to aa typical of the great country and lta great people aa anything that can be lfoagined, write* Walter C. Boynton in MoToR. ? Here are prodigal outlay of time and money, of genlua and energy, of devotion and death-daring?till to make a holiday tor a crowd and to show that the American la supreme In hit determination to be flrat In whatever he undertakea. Think of a 420-acrt field, cared for the year around bj a small army ofl men; a brick-pave* race track that Is two and a hal. miles long, with more than 8,000,00( bricks In It; a throng of 185,00( people, spectator a; and 6,000 people more to look after their comfori and safety. All this and much more? months of energetic work of prepar atlon. weeks of effort, days and days of teat and trial?have been devoted to a bttef space of a little more than five hours, In which the world'a beat racing cars and the world's beat drivers and mechanlca race around and around the track, for a gigantic prize in money and the In estimable glory of being first in the world's biggest sporting event. Tenderfoot Learns Much. A tenderfoot at the Speedv.-ay learns many things, If he is willing to. FlrSt of all. he learns that, as one mechanic puts It "Building more r. p. m. into your rear wheela," Is the end and aim of everything that la done to the cars before the race. That la the object of all the outlay of every kind that goea be fore the big ahow. Getting the extra r. p. m. out of the wheels while the race Is on is the Job of the driver ?and of his lndlapensable mechan ic. That is the object of the five tense hours at the track?the one duy In the year when the track is humanly alive. Speed, speed?more speed! That la the watchword and no trouble is too great to take, no rlak too great to run, If by taking It or running it a car may be made to go faster?and to keep on going. Every visible part of the car is planned and built and watched and tested with the care that lta responsi bility entitles It to. Two human Uvea?and possibly more?may be the penalty for overlooking a trifle. The moving parts are brought to gether with scrupulous care. They muat be cloae enough together to minimise vibration and far enough apart to minimise friction. Vibra tion and friction are the twin rata that gnaw at speed and safety. Every part that bears upon an other?and there are so many of them?la fitted to an unbelievable nicety. No man can say Just what the llmita shall be. Men working around a racing car, which is so largely hand-tooled, grow to have a sort of alxth sense that tells them when parts that bear upon one an other are properly adjusted. In the words of one expert: "You aee, It mustn't be too tight here, and at the as me time it can't be too loose. It hu to b? just right." Clear, crystal clear. Bearings Hand Scraped. Camshaft bearings are hand scraped with loving care. It is a sight to see the artistic devotion with which the scraping tool is handled. Repeated and Jellc-ar teats are made to see that the bear ing surfaces work Intimately, yet freely, and the connecting rods re ceive the same watchful care. Every part of the cylinders and pistons gets the same careful scrut iny. The car is gone over with elaborate care from end to end. Hide to side and through and hrough. When the driver and the mechanic unite in saying that a car?to which they are going to trust their lives?if fit. it is fit? as fit as they can make it. While the grooming of these steel greyhounds is going on, many representatives from the factories of specialised automotive parts are on the ground to provide such parts that need replacing with new ones. Anti-friction bearings of both the ball and roller type are employ ed in various positions In racing cars, and for example t\3 Bearing Service Company has for a num ber of years worked closely with racing mechanicians and drivers, so that the bearing equipment of every car is as near perfect as possible. Racing conditions are very well known to' the designers of racing cars, and every part is engineered to the greatest strength that Is compatible with lightness and ca I>acity for swift motion. When bear ings are properly installed they are not likely to give trouble?witness the 1922 race, during which not one of the twenty-nine cars entered developed any bearing trouble at all. While the race was on, the Bear ings Service men were In their pit flanking the track, ready to fur nish any bearing Instantly if such replacement were necessary. At last, the great hour comes. After days of trying and testing, changing and altering, tightening and loosening, the cars that have qualified are really washed and cleaned. Their identification num bers are painted on them?and they are ready to go. It is a tense moment when the big field of racers, lined up rank behind rank, according to the speed they have made in the qualifying runs, stand ready for the word. The big crowd holds its breath in suspense. An other second, and the crowd breathes again. They are off! You know how you "sort of" put your foot out, quickly, when you are driving along the city street in your own quiet car, and turn a corner a little bit too fast?Just to keep the car from turning over?and how your heart comes up in your thro?t a good deal faster than the outside edge of the car does! And how your heart goes back where it belongs when you straighten away after the turn and realize that you are not A nnouncing SDagmar * ?agmat BUILT BY THE CRAWFORD AUTOMOBILE CO. HAQERSTOWN, MARYLAND MAKERS OF CUSTOM BUILT AUTOMOBILES SINCE 1904 RINE MOTOR SALES CO. DISTRIBUTOR SALES AIMD SERVICE 1012 FOURTEENTH STREET N. W. NORTH 3698 going to tip ov?r that t4me. Well, that's the way you (eel when you see one of thoae racing cars hit the turn a great deal too faat and hang on ty the far edge of the tlrea like flies crawling on a aide wall. I worked so hard trying tor help keep those cars right side up that after a few aps I was as tired aa If I had been driving myaelf. Before very long the whole track was pretty llberallv .sprinkled with oil, and fairly slippery at the turns; and I felt that I must do all that I could to keep the sara going, right side up. Indifferent aa Time Goes. For the first half hour or so, while the boys are warming up the first fifty miles, everybody was Indent on the track, following the cars wltn turning heads and craned necks. But after that, until it began to come time for the finish, people were al most Indifferent. The cars were all well bunched, most of the time, so that there would be a perceptible ?u!l for a little while, then a drumming noise, steadily (Trowing louder ntvi louder. Then there was a concen trated roar as the oars swept by the presa pagoda and the drumming died away for a few seconds?to begin again. And so it went, lap after lap, hour after hour, with Jimmy Murphy out in front and the electrical tinting device clicking off the record of the world's most remarkable automobile race. When it comes to the matter of rendering service at the pits, every j man is a dynamo. Perhapj you; have "seen a skillful surgeon or two performing a very delicate opera tion, like grafting a new part on a patient. They work fast, you know, and the assistants and nursea stand at their elbows, keeping the sweat out of their eyes and handing them Just what they need at the very Instant they need it. If you can Imagine a moving picture of an operation, speeded up to the 4imlt of the camera, you will get aome Idea of what happens when service Is being given while a race is in progress. Every man concerned In > the Job knows exactly what to do j and how to do It While you are! getting ready to see what they are doing, and how. it la done and the car la on its rushing way again. But It's Not Monotonous. Don't let any man tell you that an automobile race la monotonous when no one Is hurt or killed, borne men will tell you so. but they are wrong. The cars keep going round and round, but there la something different every minute for every man in the race. You never know when a car la going to shed a tire, blow up, leap in the air, skid off the track or turn turtle. Once in a while you feel guilty for taking your mind off the cars at the turn, for you feel that If you don't work hard, they\are going to turn over and aomeorie ia going to be hurt. If you takp your eyea cM the track to reat them for a minute? Juat a Utt.e minute?the cars have gone more than a mile, and so many thlnga can happen in that distance. Tou could see the strain on the men?and on some thlnga about the cars. Before a lire let go it would be worn to a knife-edge and the pun ishment ahowed clearly on all of the discarded casings. But it was dreadful to think of the strain on the parts of the car that were standing their share of ftte brunt of it all?the frame and the moving parta, the engine and the bearings. The terrific speed made you ach<* for the engine, though the mechanic was pumping . the oil constantly to relieve the friction. And the bearings! Evet-y time a car went Into the 4urn. you could feel the thrust of that heavy mass of metal, multiplied by centrifugal force so that the average car was pushing with a weight of eight tons or more' right agalnat the bearings. It was as if the cars themselves felt a strong urge to get away from the track and the dust and the shouting and the strain, and the drivers and the bearings would not let them go. Is Just Like Play. . No one but a fool would trust his own life and risk those of his fel low creatures with any mechanism actually known to be weak or lm perfect In any part. No driver or mechanic deliberately take* fatal chancea; everything about their can that can be humanly foreseen la made safe and aa strong aa can be?always remembering that the crowd la there to see speed?and some of them (most of them, If the truth Is to be told)' to see spills. Some of the crowd coming away from the hpeed way that wonderful May day yawned and remarked that It bad been a dull race?nobody hurt. So might the crowd have come.from the amphitheater centuries ago, dis appointed that there were 3o few deatha! The crowd, the big crowd, saw the spectacle as a finished production? as a play that was put on with scenery, costumes, properties, all complete. And the actors In the swiftly moving drama?the men and the machines?were so carefully pre pared, so letter-perfect in their parts. They had all been coached and taught, groomed, refined, trained? nothing had been left undone to make them play their parts. It is anybody's race until that I , . - - checkered flR* drop*. The beat men and the beat cars may "blow up," any time. The human equation enters ao strongly into the race that it la hard to aay who will win, all other thing! being equal. Dare devila all are the drivers, each bound to puah hla car through ahead of the rest If it la humanly possible?and sometimes when it quite evidently is not. All that human Ingenuity can do to build an engine that will make a car go test and keep it going test has been done weeks before the race. A hundred generations have been born and have died, to produce the racing driver who combines rare skill with a rarer cool head, an ap parent contcmpt for death, an al most ?divine sense of direction and distance. During the school season 1*0,000 children are transported by motor bua every day in North Carolina. Ninety-three per cent of the chil dren carried to school at State ex- i .penlse are carried in motor vehicles ' Can ef Iener Trt* A good way to provent hardening pf Inner tubaa whlls they are stored away la to pUoe them In hot water once a month or eix wMu. After a few mlnutee' Immersion. they should be dried thoroughly and Inflated ?lightly before being hung up. ThM will keep the rubber aoft and pliable. An automobile achool for chauf feurs haa been opened in Constan tinople. The achool, which la the first of Its kind in the Near Baat, a operated by the Near East Relief. To successfully "maks" a man park I >if space In which tha car la to plucwi. Kirat steer tha car slightly Into It and than out asm In before backing In. Thla bring* the rear wheel* nearer the curb In pr.-j>Hmtion for thi backing process, and makes the work of parkin* easier. A new I par cent stamp luxury tax la Imposed on motor vehicles in Bel glum. Autofnoblles used exclusively for professional or commercial pur poses are excluded. REO * PRICES NOW IN EFFECT F. O. B. Delivered 2,500-lb. Speedwagon Chassis. .. .$1185 $1285 2,500-lb. Speedwagon with express body and full length canopy top 1375 1475 7-Pass. 6-Cylinder Touring Car... 1485 1595 New Phaeton 6-Cylinder . 1645 1765 4-Pass. 6-Cylinder Coupe (MMi m*r>. 1835 1965 5-Pass. 6-Cylinder Sedan (MmI m,, . 1885 2020 4-Pass. 6-Cy. Coupe <r?n m>). 2355 2495 5-Pass. 6-Cy. Sedan (fan Atoalna Mrl ? 2435 2580 THE TREW MOTOR COMPANY 14th Street at P Main 4173 a n n o u n c i n g Series 23 Models Roadster (2-passenger) $1695 Touring Gat (5-passenger) ? ?#?????> 169$' Touring can (7-passenger) ? 1795 Sport Model (5-passenger) ? 2045 California Top (5-passenger) 1995 California Top (7-passenger) 2t95 Royal Coach (5-passenger) - 2145 Coupe (4-passenger) 2345 Sedan (5-passenger with 2 taxi seats) 2545 Brougham (4-passenger) 2645 i SIM additional (<xt*p? on Sport kloM) Lower Prices?Higher Quality AFTER fifteen years of conscientious l. endeavor we unhesitatingly present our Program for 1923 as an achievement second only to the famous Ansted Engine HUMMER MOTOR SALES co. 1020 Connecticut Ave. N. W. Main 4750 Washington, D. C. Lexington motor company tt connersville Indiana usa BuhMisr f VmiUd Btmtm Offfttmi