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S. W. Nath.Fords, and the both are tyftonym* Jokes are jokes and Fords are ous» But—we saw one Ford on the Marry Clay track Saturday afternoon during the racing meeting that was far removed from the jokcstcr class. Ami a little tragedy prevented that Ford from winning honors, possibly from Miller specials and Ira Vails and Xorman battens.Jack Foley, of Billerica, Mass., c drove that little baby blue wagon r Around the humpy dirt oval in | .30 1*5 seconds in the time trials :c and took third money with Ira Vail, f of (jlenurook, Conn., recognized half-mile dirt track champion of c the world, and Charles Gaming, of [c Katonuh, driving Vail’s discarded it Duesenberg .special straight eight, |t splitting first and second money at • ^ .30 3-5 seconds each. t. And went even faster than Norman Batten, ihe New York city gamester, who drove from the sixth lap on in the handicap with one segment of his steering wheel gone. Another gamesterJFoley’s right rear wheel crum- o pled at the first turn in the first lap of the first event, following the tl time trial. There might have been J? disaster had the front wheel gone. tl Foley had no other car and had to a retire. Under ordinary circum- a stance.1: a man in Batten’s place tl would have called (|uHs, but with. Chap] incsque mustache bristling,; tc ho entered the eight mile classic, jn stale the turn from Vail who had j L the pole, made him eat dust all thejn way and won as he pleased. |BIt was the biggest upset of tlioj1'year. And accomplished with oalyj0 two*i kin I? of a steering wheel, plusja redness driving around hazardous| turns. Kveu though the car was I lisle.) as Tummy Milton’s Miller I® special, which traveled a mile the rate lt;.f i.io miles an hour out in '*lCalifornia where- records me nsia| easy t.» make as it i? bard to soil the ilt;lea that Los Angelos will I make New York look sick as a!c*
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Middletown Daily Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Aug 24, 1925
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