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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1914, Page 4

■referable to concluding the ' Melbourne at Easfer time, there are no attractions like 3up Cdrnival to add to the urea oi'"visitor's who take part e-Interstate to*ur. The sug)ns piit forward are worth the (leration of the sports comes of the tfco automobile mentioned. • - • • The Blue Riband moTcfr car track rnce of the,.world Will be decided on May. 30th at the Indianlack, Indianapolis, U.S.A. sat annual 500 miles speed this year provide a keen ;i(mal struggle for the wiorth of prizes, the winiving £4,000 in cash and trophy, besides rich bonn car, tyre arid Accessories Every car taking part sVent has to show a speed T5 miles an hour on the polis speedway before it illo'wed tb tike part, in the A very hot team of Euroivers and cars will comthis year's event, the concomprising J. Coux (PeuSt year's winner; G. Boilgeot) winner of the last ach Grand Prix road cofi- . Cassaigne (6-cylinder a), holder of most of the track records up to 12 ifcsides A. Guyot (Delage) ms (6-cylinder Excelsior) uray (Peugeot coiturette). easily the finest team of n drivers that has yet conay American e'vent. Cons' interest will centre ill e'arance of the English cylinder Sunbeam, which ftany wonderful its credit at Brboklands England). smallest peting will be' the little (3.7 in bore r 6.14]fl str6ke) considered to be the iiiost racing car- efer built, revolutions it develops In the last race it comon 'French roads this car : 63.2 milep an hour, over edingly hilly 400 miles' without once stopping the When the last Amerileft there were then some !S, including all the crack n drivers. When'Goux, er Httle^Fjet^iman, wop/ contestcnia last vear 'fid the 500 miles' 37secs, equal to an arei*;d of 77 miles per hour, rage could have been conr increased had Goux so or he led for "the last 400 the contest and won easis year's event will be the •f the series, It. Harran in 1911 on a "Harmon" being 6hrs 42mins Bsdos. J. Wawson won on a Eil," his time being* 6hra Igecs—record for the race, lianapolis race is the irne Cup" event of Amerover 100,0.00 people last d high prices of admisritness the great sporting The Speedway, at which t is held, ia the finest of in the world; the grandl- - having seating: acition.for . 40,000, whilst mds hold a further 160>he track itself" it miles inference, the surface, deposed of petrified bricks, Ist not, as; fast as BrookEngland, it afforsd atiie for such a sporting the Indianapolis ''500."