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FATALITIES IN

IN MOTOR RACING

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During the current-season a num- émerge alive from a terrible fall. acclaiming & scientist who risked ber of mót have been killed in Hicks was already using every his life, and perhaps perished bor..! motor-race or during the preliminatom of his available speed and ribly, in experimenting with some nary price which precedes all power on the straight section of new ray which might furnish the great motor-races. Only one this very dangerous course, and remedy for cancer, But men like such fatality has occurred during could only gain additional speed by Segrave and Hicks have dled in the 1031 in à British event, when the freing extreme risks on the attempt to extend the data on Jate F. G. Hicks breke his neck in corners. He elected to face the which rapid transport is based. the course of the Senior Tourist risk, and was killed. In other And it is far more difficult to argue, Trophy race in the Isle of Man. words, he gambled his neck against, that an increase in the speed of Perhaps ten men have been killed perhaps, £1,000 in immediate cash transport, whether by air, water, in the earlier races of the same and the value to his career of the or road, is really vital to human series, and probably as many, at victory which he might have won; the human race has become the welfare. All we can say is that Brooklands track since it was first and he lost his gamble. These cir- victim of an Irresistible passion opened. These accidents are cumstances closely resemble', those for speed in its transport. Nothing paralleled by similar casualties under which several motor-racing but a radical revolution in human abroad, both in America and on the men annually sacrifice their lives, maining the victims of this passion

thought can prevent us from Continent of Europe. For every They are circumstances which until we have plumbed its absolute man who is killed outright in con- automatically raise the question limits. nection with motor-racing another whether motor racing is any longer dozen are more or less seriously justifiable... injured.

Many Accidents. At the end of the

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serious doubts as to whether motor- racing can be justified at such cost.

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Passion Shared. Since-all-civilised-races-share The Racing Factories.

this passion, it is hardly possible The answer in terms of pure and direct research work devoted to to condemn the men who inspire 1931 morality depends very much TT. races the Noble Hospital in! how the question is phrased. We hamper the experimenter in Berw on that end or to pass laws which will the Isle of Man was crowded with should all agree that no man has ing our common, if possibly illegiti accident cases resulting from the right to enlarge his business and

mato and absurd, passion. The in- racing. The mountain road is not probably involve the death of his racing driver or speedboat heims- fill his pockets by methods which dividual flying pilot or motor- ronds, and the main roads. are eniployees. But the racing fac- closed during the racing.

man may chance to be directed.) At the tories in actual practice are ex-very largely by the hope of per- end of the Senior race

tremely anxious that their drivers, sonal fame or the expectation of bulance brought-in-veral-per-aball-not-take-such-risks--the personal fortune, or may be execut sons, including competitors and racing managers are profoundly ing a job which falls to his lot spectators, who had only been able, moved when one of their men is without any mental exploration of to receive first aid by the roadside killed, and many factories have its

ruced for years without killing a morality. But the governing fact

precise until such time as the course was

signficance and reopened. Anybody, who is brought mas or even having one of their is that all civilised nations aro into close contact with an indivi. men seriously injured. The per entangled in a quest for high-speed dual eatastrophe of the kind very centage of serious accidents to the transport, which has momentarily pardonably begins cherish number of drivers is fractional. or permanently become vaatly im No factory and no manager in portant under the present condi- actual practice regard themselves tions of social organisation. It is as facing such risks: and there are as essential to national prosperity plenty of veteran racera and re- in peace as it is completely india- The late F. G. Hicks is

cord-breakers who have never been pensable in war. And it automa Case in point. He was a manager

burt. The problem might be tically claims a small but steady of the research department of A. J. phrased quite differently. We toll of human life amongst the Stevens and Co., Ltd., a famous might ask whether an individual is engineers who serve the various firm of motor-cycle manufacturers. justified in risking his neck for nations in their quest. Segrave and He had graduated to this position, money or fame. To this question Hicks are therefore in essence as from the status of an ordinary most people would probably reply much martyrs to the cause mechanic. He failed in the Junior that a man's neck belongs to him- science as if they had met their race on the previous Monday, when self, and that if he is single he deaths in laboratories consecrated a maladjustment of his carburet-may gamble in this way if he is

to research work in connection tor caused An exhaust valve to so inclined, but that if he is mar- with cancar or sleeping sickness. burn, He was thus doubly eager ried he should first obtain his to acquit himself well in the senior wife's consent to the gamble and race on the Friday. When he stop. see that full provision is made for ped at his, pit after several fast his dependants if he is unfortun- laps to replenish his tank he re-ate ceived information that he was running second behind two men who were a few seconds faster up to that point. The leader was several minutes ahead; but nobody expect ed the leader to last the course in fact, he crashed very shortly after Hicks and was lucky to

NEW

The Case of Hicks.

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No: Unanimity.

of

"Safety: Firet." · Psychologically there is no ques- tion that a certain percentage of

our younger and more adventurous men (and even women) are irked The problem has not yet been by the gospel of "Safety first." No phraacd in its most fundamental matter how carefully we might aspect-namely, whether a man is succeed in closing a number of justifled in risking his life in the roads which lead to audden death, interests of science. Even here no they would soon devise other unanimity can be obtained. The perliaus pastimes and professions. human race would be unanimous in G. B. in Manchester: Guardian.":{

ZEALAND GIRL intended to have a little awim SWIMMER.

Attempt on Channel This Month.

CANNOT FLOAT!

round while the ship was anchor- ed."

Then I asked her about her at: tempt on the Channel.

"Well," she said, "with us in New Zealand, the swimming of the Channel is the great achievement of a swimmer's life. So I am going to do some smaller swims like the

Firth of Forth and then go down and do my best in the Channel."

****I think," she said smilingly,

The following appeared in the Evening News in mail week, with

There is a curious gap in the reference to Miss Lily Copplestone, qualifications of this brilliant the New Zealand swimmer.

Mias Lily Copplestone, New swimmer. She cannot.flont! Zealand's champion long-distance "That is all there is to be sald swimmer, is making her attempt for forty hours in Sydney once, but about it," she told me. "I awam this month: there is no prettier or more attractive girl who has ever while others were floating I had to made an attempt on the ungallant swim about gently all the time, Channel-

There is quite a number of swim- She is slim and dainty and but mers who cannot font." for the look of athletic. fitness

I asked Miss Copplestone how which radiates from her, no one

she thought girls compared with would suspect for a moment she men as swimmers. could attempt such a treinendous physical feat as the conquering of that girls are nearly as good ag the Channel. When I saw her to- men because they can stand the day she told me laughingly that cold better and also because men she actually had to swim a part of are inclined to be alarmed by a the way from New Zealand, writes, pain that a woman would not an Evening News correspondent. notice. Just look at a man when Our ship called at Malte, she he has a cold in the head he looks Enid, "and a boy and I thought we and feels as if he is going to diel would go for a swim. We jumped Girls take a cold for granted. The over the side, but no sooner had I same thing happens in the water struck the water than I realised the when a bad attack of cramp comes ship was still moving. Then we on." Then she said good-bye. I realised that the only thing to do must go now," she said "and get a was to swim to the shorea mile swim in one of the London baths." For two away}}. Well, we got anhöre, ran through the dock; district in our bathing costumes, and then awan out to where the ship had stopped:

Ten golden years from 20210 80); form approximately the life span of the Wimbledon star We only too often, he or she passes "We climbed up a ladder on the altogether or declines" side of the ship and then had to

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