Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1918 — MOTOR RACES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MOTOR RACES

Closing Day at Kankakee Fair, August 31 st. Spectacular, breathlessly exciting automobile races will be staged at the Kankakee Inter-State Fair on Saturday afternoon, August 31st. The afterhoon of auto racing will be not limited to one or two contests, but six distinct races will be driven at breakneck speed, in competition for the handsomely liberal purses and trophies that are offered. Officially Sanctioned. Already the Kankakee Inter-State Fair motor races have been sanctioned by the International Motor Contest Association, the big organization that

has jurisdiction of dirt track auto racing in the United States and Canada; and the Association has been fortunate indeed to again secure J. Alex Sloan, the nationally famous promoter, to promote the races and receive entries for the contests. Speed Demon Contests. Through Sloan, the Inter-State Fair has received assurances that some of the most reckless, nervy, space-eating speed demons that drive the gasoline engine will compete at Kankakee on the closing day. In six races they will thrill the spectators with their nerveracking tests of speed, and thus the week of the Inter-State Fair will close in a great, resplendent blaze of glory. Reasonable Prices. Following Its usual practice, the Inter-State Fair asks only reasonable prices of admission to the motor races, the admission to the ground being fifty cents and to the comfortable amphitheater twenty-five cents and fifty cents for reserved seats. The day is August 81st—the closing day of the Fair.