Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1919 — AUTO SPEED EVENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AUTO SPEED EVENTS

Races at Kankakee Fair SATURDAY AUGUST 30TH One entire afternoon of the Kan kakee Inter-State Fair will be devoted to automobile racing. On Saturday afternoon, August 30th, the magnificent Inter-State exposition will be brought to a dlose by six marvelous 'speed events. Before the auto races on Saturday the management will on the closing exhibition of the circus acts. This will take until about 2:30 in the afternoon. Then J. Alex Sloan, the widely

known promoter of auto racing wilt call the first event of the high-speed contests. This will be a one-inile race with three entries. Only record hold ers will be permitted to enter this class, as it is the intention to hang up a new one-mile -time record for dir: tracks. The whirring ol the motors and the cyclonic speed of the ma chines will set the crowd afire with ex citement and enthusiasm.

Following this will be five other motor congests varying from three to twenty-five miles. In these events the starters will include America’s most famous record-breakers, whose keen rivalry for the track honors will result in spectacular races. For two hours these speedy contests will continue and with the last lap of the last rare rhe curtain will fall on the 1919 Kankakee Inter-State Fair. Only very reasonable admission charges will be made at the gate and grand stand. As in all other, matters the Kankakee Inter-State Fair gives n nmximum of entertainment at a mini mum of price. The races are Held only 1 one day. Saturday, August 30th.