Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1909 — New Speedway is America’s Fastest. [ARTICLE]

New Speedway is America’s Fastest.

The Indiana Cobe cup races for autos on June 18 and 19, to be run on the new Crown Point-Lowell speedway, is attracting the attention of autoists the country over and it is safe to predict that the largest crowd ever assembled in Indiana will surround the course on the-days of the race. Special trains from all the large cities of the country will be run to the course, and the Chicago roads will furnish half hour schedules from that city. Lewis Strang, the famous autoist, who won the Savannah, Briarcliff and Lowell road races, in writing of the Cobe race says: “One trip over the Crown PointLowell course now in preparation for the Indiana and Cobe cup races on June 18 and 19, has convinced me that the speedway will develope much faster time than was made in the Vanderbilt course last fall. I don’t anticipate a reduction of the grand prize record established on the Savannah course, however, as Chicago will not have the large racing cars such as competed on the Georgia roads. “The course appears to be much easier to travel than any I have encountered in this country. Starting from the grand stand a competitor has a perfectly straight, undulating stretch of road where it will be possible to drive a car to its highest speed. Then on the outskirts of Crown Point comes the first and one of the cross road skirting Crown Point and finally runs into one of the streets almost before you have attained full speed. "The Cobe race is going to be a hard-fought event. Twenty times around that circuit means a severe strain on any physical make-up, and the man who wins the trophy won’t get out of his bed the next day, for he will be completely exhausted. "There are eleven bad turns to be negotiated twenty times, making 220 trips around the sharp corners. And qp each of these 220 times the driver has to hold -his breath, apply all his strength in stopping his car, operate the brakes, change gears and then accelerate again. There’s where all the danger lurks—on the curves. “The course, although not half as difficult to drive as the Briarcliff, with ‘ its seventy-odd treacherous bends, will put every contestant to a terrific test. It will also try the real worth of every car, as the fine, straight stretches will permit of great speed. I look for a higher average speech than has yet been attained in any American stock car contest.” Adrian C. Honors, brother of Mrs. Potter Palmer, and himself a prominent society man, is made defendant* in a suit for 150,000 damages, filed in Chicago by James H. LaPear 1, who charges alienation of his wife’s affections. Mrs. Patsy Jackson, the oldest living pioneer In the vicinity of Bedford, who a few weeks ago celebrated her 100 birthday, died Friday night. The Republican is headquarters for line job printing.