THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1929.
DIRT TRACK DEPRAVITY.
[BY LAURENCE H. CADE.]
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What are we coming to? No, my lad, never conclude your sentence with a preposition. What I mean is, What next? That's right, now then: About a year ago the coun- try went to the dogs. The intellig- ent and thinking public, as it is. termed by the candidate for Muai- elpal election, was kidded into the belief that dog racing was ever ko much more exciting than horse ras ing. It really wan's, or isn't; bus you did not have to go so far to lose your money..
You could spend the evening in town and hand over the dough to the bookmakers without having to suffer the discomforts attendant upon a horse race meeting and that was a very great convenience. They tell me that the dogs are not was ging their tails ao vigorously just now and that Greyhound Racing shares are all right for the bears but no good for the bulls. I do not know much about this animal stuff, but I daresay it is right.. But hav ing gone to the dogs, we have now descended to the dirt. And very! nice ton, thank you..
The first cinder shifting business I saw made me a "fan" at once,
and all that. There is all the dif- ference between scratching your arm and tearing it, and I think that our motorcycling girls go quite far enough when, like Mrs. McLean, they beat the foreigners in un International Six Day's Trial.
Girls are fine for winder shifting in home hearths, but I do not think that we want to see the Einder- ellas on the speedways, though I did hear that International Speed- ways were putting up a Silver Slipper.
The
The Passing of Arthur. One of the most extraordinary pectacles I ever saw cecurred on The White City Speedway, hero of it was Frank. Arthur, An- other rider had bitten the dust in his immediate path, and it was all the World to a Chine Orange that Arthur would ride over the fallen man who, like an ostrich," had buried his face in the cinders so as not to see what was coming
him. Arthur did a doublé hair- pia turn, dodged the prostrate one and was shot off like a catapult into the fence, from which he re- bounded like a rubber unil.
I was introduced to the new game! The old lady in the bleachers by Mr. A. J. Hunting, who has pro- | hadn't finished gasping before ár- bably seen more of it than any manthur was away again with his front living, and wants to see a lot more. So do I. I want to see Billy Lamont do some more of his stunts on the curves, when he wraps the front wheel round his neck or knocks the paint off the safety fence with his handle bars.
wheel leaning over at one angle and his rear wheel at the other. The same afternoon Billy Lamont aed à back wheel and came home on the chain sprocket with a few bent and broken spokes digging into the cinders.
But you can get plenty of excite- I want to see Vic Huxley send fireworks out of his exhaust pipement from the cinder tracks with You should while his Douglas roars defiance out watching a race. nt the lesser stars...I want to see
Bee the sporty boys start up their machines after watching the racing. They are all bitten by the dirt bug. They open their throttles and get
DIFFICULT DECISIONS
By. GLUYAS WILLIAMS
ON THE DAY OF BUDDY BEMIS'S BIRTHDAY PARTY SOMEBODY GIVES YOU A FREE TICKET FOR
THE AIRPLANE SHOW, AND YOUR DAD CALLS UP TO SAY HE'S GOT AN EXTRA TICKET. FOR THE FOOTBALL GAME
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SMALL CARS AS TENDERS.
Signs are not wanting "that for the coming year many a large-car stable will have an addition in the shape of a small four-cylinder or six-cylinder light car. The scheme is appealing particularly to men
WHO ARE THOSE "PEDESTRIANS"?
Commenting on the formation of an organization entitled The Pedestrians' Association,” · Motor
GWYAS WILLIAMS
Frank Arthur taste the cinders and spit out those he does not need. taste for the dirt track. But the for being. so efficient, They slide ness journeys, from home to office/ wish to emphasize in the ridiculous with the same caution that has to You see I bare got. the depraved quite annoyed at their silencers who use their cars daily for busi. Cycling says:-"A point which we
big thrill is to see two of the broad- siders scrapping each other with their bandlebars locked and their back wheels skidding in unison.
The Girls.
round the corners and dig their fert into the ground.
They pivot on their footrests and raise merry Cain with the traffic outside. And sometimes they assist in the craner street movement of London by chewing a few odd stones and a peck or two of dust,
It's a gradely game is this dirt ling themselves all over the track. Į track business, but I wish my next
They told me a little while back that we were going to have dirt track girls. I hope not. I should hate to see the little darlings spil.
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or for station work, and who ap- preciate the fact that whereas a big seven-seater is ideal for week- end parties and so forth, the usa of the same car for a great many ourneys is slow, tedious and ex- pensive.
A big impetus to this tendency for the small car to create two- car owners, says The Light Car and Cycletar, would be given if the
I think girls look best on the flap-¡ door neighbour wouldn'e practise man who ran more than one car per bracket of a touring mount on his gravel path outside my bed-were given a concession in connee. with their dainty little frilleries room window. It is a rattention with the horse-power tax. Mr. blowing about in the breeze. They serenade in the early morning"" Be- would not look at all nice with sides. he sometimes skids into our goggles and face protectors and ¦ Dorothy Perkins roschush and we and steel boots and leather branches, want all our thorns.
Snowden's attention might well be called to the benefit which such a move would be to the unemploy: ment problem.
nature of this word 'pedestrian.' In an age when the entire popula tion travel, either by public means of transport or on their own vehi- cles, it is surely as useless to classify anyone as a predestrian as it is to term any member of the It is obvious public a motorist, that for the greater part of his
time the so-called motorist is walk- ing. We have come to the conclu- sion that the only useful purpose which the Pedestrians' Association could serve would be to educate us all when we travel on foot. It | could impress upon us that when we walk we should propel ourselves
be observed by drivers of vehicles. When everybody realizes that they must think before they move and then move with discretion, the root he removed. Drive yourself as you of the majority of accidents will
would drive a motor vehicle-with intelligence should be the slogan of the Pedestrians' Association."
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