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Ilie featuren of this raeeu, He nluo won the northweiiiani championahlr in t lie .16-mitc hum* Iti 12;J:3nmklng an average time of 74 mile* lit) hour. In tin* 6-mlle nidi car race the dirt track record foi the world wii* ivprouohrd with atime gf ;1 :t.I'Iib Harley Uavtdaou look away mottL of lb»- honor* of the meet bat Burnn on hi* Indian rode ina fare-the-wall. Ludlow an*! {Juris of the Hurley aquad were I he most not Able p»rform#ri of the tMMiJ.»* Pvtftra, pilot of an airplanethat roflo to Blmot noTlfflt of the r«»!«••, wdfl badly injured ^h»?n hi« plane rrunbrMi tn»j»r the IrAtk uhort ly after starting Tt»« plane lt;jjir-ricfl fue paaaeiifter*, Including the pilot unil IiIn uichanic. ami before it waa fairly atarted the motor went bud Not rmfflcJrnt headway to rontrol the machine had been attained, And It plunged to m* ground* arnaahtK the machine beyond hope of repair. Some doubt* of Peterx rteov^rjr are heidi, but injuries of ofhtr* wer»* pro* n notim^d nt*f to be ivcrtdU. |It had been planned to drop a rooett-r from the pi aria for a *rn eral acromblif the h»eU,y one wbui would catch H to rt lt;elve $ 1 fifl credit on a motorcycle But tb* breakdown put an end to lht*ne plana. I mn |Salem otaervoa took forward to nett year when the Smith Uroth' tirsr run again try out their lurk-They are aure that hard luc* cannot await the I **al otar* forever, and with u yejii #- jcd. the Strtfth*should be ikbb* to ©ut Up «onm per-formance.
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Salem Capital Journal

Salem, Oregon, US

Tue, May 31, 1921

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