BOLD MOTORIST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 9

BOLD MOTORIST

WILL TACKLE RECORD KAYE DON’S CHALLENGE Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Undeterred by the Daytona tragedy, the famous racing driver Kaye Don will tackle Major H. O. D. Segrave’s record in 1930, in a specially-designed car capable of 260 miles an hour. The Prince of Wales, speaking at the Institute of Transport, described Major Segrave’s effort in regaining the world’s land speed record for Britain as one of the bravest sporting efforts ever made.

His Royal Highness said Major Segrave went to the United States knowing what motor racing meant. He had carried out his run with a car which he had not been able to give a preliminary test in England.

HE GOT HIS PICTURE!

DEAD PHOTOGRAPHER FILM SAVED FROM WRECK (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Thursday. The valedictory to the photographer, Charles Traub, who was killed in the motor crash at Daytona, will be world-wide through the screening of the news-reel pictures he was taking when he was crushed to death. These pictures were saved from the wreckage of Traub’s camera to which ho attended to the end, following out the photographer’s commandment: “Secure your picture.” Mr. Ray Hall, editor of Pathe News, speaking of similar incidents, said the photographers were the bravest men he knew. He recalled the escape of one photographer last year when the car in which Frank Lockhart was killed turned a somersault over the head of the man with the camera.

SEGRAVE RETIRES

NO MORE LAND RACING SEEKS MOTOR-BOAT RECORD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) NEW YORK, Thursday. A message from Daytona Beach, Florida, states that Major H. O. D. Segrave, holder of the world’s land speed record, announces his definite retirement from motor-car racing. His Golden Arrow is to be shipped to England, where it will be placed in a museum.

Nevertheless Major Segrave expects nothing to interfere with the execution of his plan to attack the motor-boat speed record in the contests shortly to be held off the coast at Miami. His boat. Miss England, will have as its principal rival Miss America IV., which belongs to a noted American boat racer, Mr. Gar Wood.

CAMPBELL DETERMINED

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.15 a.m. CAPETOWN, Friday.

Captain Malcolm Campbell says the. criticism of his efforts adds to his keenness to race at Verneuk Pan. “The best answer to criticism will be a new speed record. I still hope to make it."