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Winn, Hannon .and Sail are scheduled to appear this week end at Reading, Pa., in the last champion-Bhip meet before Altamont. They will ride tomorrow night under lights and Sunday afternoon in a unique racing carnival, combining the thrills and chills of night racing. The speed festival, incidentally, is being staged by the Hankinson Speedways, promotors of the Altamont race.Regardles of how he fares this week end, Johnny Hannon, erstwhile prize fighter, will come to Altamont, holding the lead in points for the Eastern championship. The Consho-hocken, Pa., youth, who forsook puglism for the thrills, chills and the spills of auto racing, roared, off to a flying start in the mad scramble for points by winning the. only two- .■ championship events staged thus far.Hannon, who really made his bow in automobile racing last year, already has made himself a dominating factor in racing. He lost out by a scant thirty-five point to Sail for the title last season, and Sail had the advantage of riding in seven more meets than the ex-puglist.A mild-mannered chap but a terror in a race oar, Hannon is out to step so far out in the lead early in the season that it will be impossible for the rest of the pack to narrow the breach and overhaul him. He will come to Altamont* with his Miller Special, one of the best cars in theracing game today.Winn, who has scored more victories than any other driver on the local track, lias entered his amazing Prontenac, which has an astounding reputation. This, car, tagged a Fron-tenac, as are all Fords in the racing game, is in reality a Ford, year of 1926. And yet the eight-year-old machine holds more records for half-mile tracks, such as the local course, than any Other racing machine in thecountry.It not only holds the record tor the local track, blit many national records. In the course of a single afternoon at Richmond, Va., late last season, with “Blond Billy” Winn at , the wheel the car established four new national records for the half-mile, mile, five miles and ten milesdistances.Plenty burned up, because he lags
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Altamont Enterprise
Altamont, New York, US
Fri, May 18, 1934
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