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Who’s Who Along Automobile Row This is W. J. HOUPT, who puts Reo Speed Cars on the street and has a way of making many friends among the purchasers of Automo biles. AUTOMOBILE LETTER v By Barney Oldfield SOMETHING ABOUT DRIV ERS AND CARS OF THE 1923 RACING SEASON Racing this year is going to be a lot faster than it was last year. Records will go and we shall see some new drivers come to light. At present there are between 200 and 309 registered drivers in this country and of this number about 30 have gained some prominence on the speedways. It is the speed way racing that brings out the best there is in a driver because these races are generally for dis tances of 150 miles and more at high speed, while the dirt track races are short and at lower speeds. Dirt track racing though is very difficult and if a driver comes through a dirt track sea son with any glory and money he has done a big job. There are a great many good drivers throughout the country, whose names do not get on the front pages of the newspapers because they cannot get hold of a fast car and get into the big money races' on the speedways. These men, or I. should say, boys, since most of them are, eventually get to the top. Murphy, the present title holder was once a pit mechanic, then seat mechanic for Rickenbacker. Milton started from the ranks. De Palma is the real daddy of them all, having been engaged continuously in racing longer than any other driver. Most of the present crop pf drivers are young nfen who “love” the game. With little capital they go into dirt track work, because the cars do not have to be so fast and the races being short there is little chance of the car breaking down. The wrecking chance is high though. In some cases the driver owns his car outright, in some cases he leases it for the season and keeps the winnings and in other cases he drives for the owner of the car on ''a percentage basis. Few drivers own their own cars, be cause of the high cost of racing vehicles. A speedway racing car properly built may cost $20,000 with a -completement of spare parts. A car requires a driver, mechanic and in addition, a pit crew to help put the car in con dition before the race. Supplies such as tires, fuel, oil, etc., must be bought. 1922 Championship Standing Total Murphy . 3420 Milton ,. 1910 Hartz . 1788 Elliott . 875 Hill .'. 459 Hearne . 393 Wonderlich . 375 Sarles .. .. 280 Coopers . 260 Mulford . 255 Klein. 229 De Palma. 160 Thomas . 124 Haibe . 109 Fetterman . 108 Wilcox . 60 De Paolo. 43 Alley . 35 Miller . 26 Vail... 21 Koetzler .. 19 Shafer . 17 Morton . 15 - Melcher . 5 •inose drivers with few excep tions will be seen on the speed ways this year some driving brand new cars, others driving rebuilt cars of last season. The speedway races call for cars of certain piston displacements. So far the Indianapolis race is the only one that calls for cars of 122 cubic inches. This is very small. Some races are for 183 cubic inch cars. A Ford has a displacement of 176.7 cubic inches so you can see how small the 122-inch cars are. The speedier cars this year are going to be the eight-cylinder-in line. Such a car won the cham pionship last year and the fir&t race of the 1923 season was won at record-breaking speed in a straight eight. These engines have a bore of around. 3 inches and run at speeds of 4000 revolu tions per minute. In one case the engine is capable of running at 6000 revolutions per minute which is about the highest that has been attained in gas engines for com mercial work. Europe is sending over some 122 cars for the Indianapolis 500-mile race, but Miller and Duesenberg in this country have already shown the foreigners a new speed standard. Duesen berg sent Murphy to Europe in 1921 and the little Irishman won the French Grand Prix, the French almost refusing to give Mr. Duesenberg the medal. It took, a lot of correspondence and a lapse of more than a year for France to produce the medal. It was the first time an Ameri can had won the race. This year there are six speed ways at which important events will be held. They are as fol lows: 1923 SPEEDWAY RACES Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind., 2 1-2 mile brick track, 500 miles; Los An geles, Calif., Speedway, 1 1-4 mile board track, 250 miles; Fresno, Calif., Speedway, 1 mile board track, 150 miles; Tacoma, Wash., Speedway, (approx.) 2 mile bc»rd track, 250 miles; So noma County Fair, Cotati, Calif., (Santa Rosa), 1 1-4 mile board track, 60 and 100 miles heat; Kansas City, Mo., Speedway, 1 11-4 mile board track, 300 miles. Rim* - Fender* - Bendix Starter* Roller and Ball, Connecting Rod, Crank Shaft BEARINGS Engine Valve* for AH Make Car* COLUMBIA SALES CO. 2018 Atlantic Avenue Velocipedes - Bicycles A. E. BOYCE 2 South Indiana Avenue Just Around the Corner Marine 2276-J Parkway Garage WALTER T. BEW. Prop. Boston Ave. and Parkway Atlantic City, N. J. ATTRACTIVE MONTHLY RATES Sporting Reminiscences of William A. Brady As Told to George B. Underwood CHAPTER XIX—Continued The Men in the Corners ' Delaney, McVey, Jeffries and myself were in Corbett’s corner. Martin Julian, Fitzsimmons’ man ager and brother-in-law, Dan Hickey, who became boxing in structor at the New York A. C. upon the death of the late Mike Donovan, and Jack Stelzer, who gave up firing on a railroad in the East, and went West to become a fighter, handled Fitzsimmons. For six rounds Corbett, with masterly skill and science, made a chopping block out of the small er man. Bob that day only weighed 15714 pounds, ten pounds less than publicly was announced. Fitzsimmons could not evade Jim’s lightning left and his cross ing rights. Corbett baffled Bob with his dazzling footwork, his rapid feints, leads, blocks, ducks, and counters. The Cornishman landed himself occasionally, but never with much effect. By the sixth round, Fitzsim mons, who had been bleeding like a wounded boar, was redder than a Nevada suifset. His lips were bruised and bleeding, eyes puffed and swollen, and his face severely cut and lacerated. Midway of the round Corbett drove a right to the body in close, and Fitzsimmons sank to his knees. I watched, him closely. I saw him coolly clear his throat of the blood that he had swallowed and squint knowingly at his wife, who sat in an arena box. He stag •gered'to his feet at the count of nine. We shouted to Corbett that Fitzsimmons was feigning and to took out. A little later the gong rang. Bob’s knees knocked to gether and he staggered to his corner. The betting, which had opened with Corbett a 10 to 6 favorite, went up to 10 to 4 at the end of the sixth round. No man ever j appeared a surer winner than the j champion. But neither Delaney i nor I was fooled by the strategy j of the wily Fitzsimmons. Wej warned Corbett to keep on the i alert, for Fitzsimmons was strong j as a bull. Despite our warning, Corbett was little prepared for the Cor nishman’s opening rush in the seventh round. Jim scarcely had his hands up when the supposedly weakened Fitzsimmons, fresh as a daisy, was upon him with a hur ricane of blows. After an ex change, Corbett danced away, but a few seconds later, Fitzsimmons succeeded in sliding in close, and, working his famous shift, drove a left to the stomach. I saw Jim’s abdominal muscles contract spasmodically. His face grew ashen white. But by a su perb display of ring poker, Cor bett covered up his hurt and stalled and fiddled around until he got his wind back. Only a real champion could"- have turned off the effects of the blow as Jim did in the seventh round at Carson City. That blow in the seventh round, however, was the turning point of the fight. In ever increasing spurts, Fitzsimmons succeeded in tearing in close and reaching Cor bett with lefts and rights. Cor bett slowed down and weakened. The end came in' the fourteenth when Fitzsimmons laid Corbett low with the same kind oi a blow with which he so grievously had hurt him in the seventh round— the punch to the solar plexus. This time Corbett could not call enough stamina and reserve to gether to weather the blow and he sank to the canvas in agony. Game as a bulldog, Jim crawled to the ropes and tried desperately to pull himself up. The spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak, j The champion still was on the floor when Referee Siler’s hand! Exceptional Values In USED CARS 1921 Oakland Sedan, overhauled and repainted, ©7CA 1920 Hudson Speedster, overhauled and repainted, ©7Cfl beautiful car .., M> « Olf 1917 Packard, 7 passenger touring, all new cord 1921 Hudson Coupe, run only 8,000 miies, (PI 1 AA excellent condition .. Vi 1 ”V 1922 Essex Touring, used as demonstrator, per- ©QCA feet condition . . vOOv 1921 Ford Touring, good condition .. $200 1917 Hudson Sedan, good running order, three ©CCA new tires .. VvOU 1920 Hudson 7 Passenger Touring, 6 wire wheels, 4 new cord tires, 2 spare tires, overhauled and painted ... $800 ANTRIM MOTOR CO. 40 N. ALBANY AVENUE _ Hudson and Essex Distributors Radio and Automobile Supply Headquarters Scientific Experts BURT’S SUPPLY AGENCY 401-07 ATLANTIC AVENUE Phone—Marine 4234-W came down on the fatal ten that proclaimed Corbett champion no more, and crowned Fitzsimmons as his successor. In an endeavor to save the title I rushed into the ring and ques tioned the correctness of the count. Naturally it was without avail. Crazed with pain and dis appointment over the loss of the coveted championship, Corbett, as soon as he got to his feet, attacked Fitzsimmons. For a few seconds the place_was a bedlam. The men finally were pulled apart and we led Corbett from the ring. It was a gray day for Corbett and myself. The championship was gone. The receipts, forty-four thousand dollars, were disappoint ing, doubly so, considering our treatment by Dan Stewart over the moving picture privileges, of which by the original contract, Jim and I were given full con trol. I already haye told you how we finally dgreed to accept twenty-five per cent, of the pic tures, but never received the full amount due us. Every cloud has a silver lining. If Corbett never had fought Fitz simmons at Carson City I never would have discovered my second world’s champion, James J. Jeffries. SCREENS SUN PARLOR^ Uade and Completed Ask for Estimate Ventnor Woodworking Mill B. G. BROOKS. Prop. Phone—Neptune 8 Screens, Storm Saahea, Genera] Mil) Phone—Neptune 61-W How I discovered Jeffries in the Corbett training camp at Carson City and some interesting events which followed the Corbett-Fitz simmons’ fight, I will tell you of in the next chapter. 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