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THE CHINA MAİL, SATURDAY,' JULY ⠀⠀ 28, · 1951.

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THIS YEAR'S SOAP BOX DERBY

By I. R. Hogel

UGUST 12 is the date.

A The event in the fou

teenth All-American St Box Derby to be held in Akron, Ohio.

Ench car entered in the derby must be boy-built and any boy, between the nges of 11 and 15 years. is eligible. The 1951 rules allow for much more sini- construction and plified they give contestants a fair equality. One of the that added is changes weight may now be built into the car to bring the driver and cur up to the

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Homewards

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End August

1st September

October

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Freight Service

FLOOR BOARD

BRACE

BRAKE SHOE

the electric eye also controls

photo-Onish camera directly above the finish line.

weight maximum, provides this aditional weight is anchored firmly to the ear.

Lightweight boys have like Jimmy Stewart, "Hopalong than it is, less than 10 percent at

special Cassidy," Bill Boyd, Jack Demp- the start, dropping to a six per- previously felt they were sey and Wilbur Shaw were in cent incline, mcers attaining a handicapped · because they Akron to assist and cheer the speed of over 30 miles an hour could not

materials contenders.

on the course. An electric tim- an The racers speed down a track ing device, controlled by heavy enough to give

re- which is 30 feet wide and, from electric eye, automatically 250-pound land. This year starting line to Bolsh, is 075,4 enrds the nose of the leading car 60-pound boys can

A and pilot feet. The grade looks steeper as it hits the finish line. The 190-pound torpedoes in the derby,'

use

J'

Fixie McSauce Went Visiting

-And He Came Home With a Dinner Menu-

By MAX TRELL

Weight has worked the other: way. In the 1950 contest, Ave

Weigh cars wore diverweight. can sometimes he stripped away. More often it cannot. Co- testant Jack Murs was six feel,, five inches tall. Hils weight combined with the weight of his

roots of the Old car put him 15 pounds over the

the back of hi liinit, Jack worked hard Dak, rubbed

head thoughtfully. "What shall reduce the excess but at race t

ne make for dinner tonight?" he

time the scales indientes Ave pound to mitch, inspectors finally got the ear down to the required weight, but stripping so weakened the construction that Jack's car cracked up as it was the chute. The coming out of best plan is to be sure of the proper weight.

This year the cast limitation has been increased to US$7.50 but it must cover everything wood, nails, hardware, steering wueel, shaft, cable drum, cables, tombuckles, steering bar and ather items many of which, to 1951, were not imluded.

No springs are in the struction for the first time in derby history.

PIXIE MESAUCE, who cookeil for the pixies living in O'Cheer

all in the

limesed to

himself

several

Each Llane he murmure: what shall I make for dinner tonight?" he walled for some-

one

answer him, But as ho one did (in fnet as no one even heard him since nil the other pixica had left early in the morning to go to work) Pixie IcSauce finally shook his head make anything for dinner and said: "1 don't night."

And

think 13

to-

This seemed like a very good et. So he promptly took off his litra the instant he thought of

con→

"What should I make for din

ner?" Pixis McSauce asked,

whe warned him! "You'd better make something!"

When the

race is over, the champs attend a banquet where ench contestant receives a weist watch for winning his own city race,

derby diploma. Then follows the awards for the best sportsman, the best design- ed car, the best paint job, the best upholstered car, the beat constructed car, the car with the. best brakes and the car which ran the fastest single heat. A prize is also given to the con- testant who had the hardest luck. A four-year US35,000 college scholarship Is the grand first prize. A new sedan equip- ped with power-glide automaile transmission is the runner-up!

D

URING their stay in Akron

champions

at atay the "Derby-town," a camp just out. aldo the city where boating, hunts, treasure swimming, campfire entertainment and fire works are enjoyed.

The boys

ate honoured guests of the city and are taken to the indus- trid firms, on planned tours and or outings. While the boys are having fun, parents have a whole set of activities, too.

Each year interest in

the

white apron and cap, pul on At that very Instant Pixie greatest amateur sporting event his green visiting-suit and set cut from O'Cheer Hall to visit. somebody.

daisies,

the

McSauce uttered

an exclama- in the world has increased. The lion. "I've got it! Look!" He skill it takes to build the cars was pointing at a clump of and the good sportsmanship the

"This is

buttercups and clover. boys show in facing them are a move to give the

The Tiny Path

Daisy dumplings! Buttercup two factors that will attract 50,- rave car construction back to

cakes! Clover salad!" He hastily 000 participants this year and the boys and to simplify their He wasn't quite sure who picked all he needed and rushed 15 local champions from work." Myron Scott, general | ke was going to visit. "I'l

from make

Canada, back to O'Cheer Hall. "I knew United States, up my

mind as I go manager of the derby, explatne. I ma

along," he said to himself.

little visit. would do me from Alaska and from Germany. So he went along

y balls good!" Knart and Hand heard Belgium will have a represent- the tiny path that wound its way across, the him saying. "1 was sure I'd alive there to study the Derby

good something

for in an attempt to introduce it int meadow toward the Pine Tree Visit Grove. By und by he met

dinner!"

that country. Knart and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about names, who happened to be on their way to visit the pond and see if any of the water-1lly blossoms were ready to open.

"Howdy," greeted Pixie Me-

*

SET of wheels can be pur-i

The steering wheel chased, -is-operated over the knees. the and pulleys anchored shaft firmly. Brake Construction less complicated than formerly, the brake being in the centre of the car with counter-sunk bolts

holding the facing. Door Sauce,

Bill

Pixie McSauce,” returned

MAKING HANK

by FRANCIS COUDRILL The man who makes him talk on TV

Now

springs, pulleys and hinge com- bine to make an easy workable Knarf, looking down carefully brake. If desired, the cable to make sure tha; it really was connecting the foot pedal and MeSauce. brake can be placed alongside "Why Pixie MeSauce Hand YOU'VE all had a week to make your model of exclaimed. "You're all dressed Hank the TV cowboy-there the body to prevent binding.

up."

he is in the picture. Last year pint-sized

"I'm all dressed up becaust: for the first words on how Boughton, the St. Louis cham-

I'm going visiting today, and to start being a ventriloquist. pion, carries a doctor's stetho I'm going visiting today because You must Arst learn to scope in his hip pocket, Much to I've decided to make nothing speak at the back of your

for dinner tonight." He was throat. about to tip his hat and keep Take a deep breath and going when Hanid reached ou make the sound E-R-R-R ns and cupped

her hand around far back in your throat us him, as though she were about possible until you can pro to catch a fly. “No dinner to- duce n steady note rathor night?" she said.

like the sound of an angry wasp.

the amusement of the other boys, Bill would put his stetho scope against the wheels of his soap uox before and after the heats.

"That's the way to tell if the bearings are in good working order," he expinined,

The champs are mighty parti- cular about their racers. An am- buinnee brought Jerry Overton's

"No," said Pixie McSauce. "Why not?" "Because I can't

anything to make."

think of

TALK

When you can do this try to alter the E-H-H-R sound into the lettera of the "But what are you all going alphabet. Practise away at How your liank should took it correct ueck, together with Jerry, alt to ent if you don't make any- this until the sounds

thing?"

the way from Atchinson, Kanaus,

come

clearly from the buck of your M, soft H for P and for V, and Pixte McSauce said he didn' throat.

the sound HUH for W. Keep to Akron. The idea for the am-know. That was a hard ques-

your face relaxed, ulance came because the pre- tton to answer-

Stand in front of a mirror. ceding champ had damaged bla soap box in shipping it.

Upholstering is another im- portant item. The best uphol- stered soap box wins a prize, even if the driver doesn't win a heat. The body is painted any colur, desised, though most of: the boys who construct soap boxes prefer black because the Winner's car has so often been that colour. At the last race, ne boy lamented that he spent five weeks painting and polish ing his car.

"Only to last 35 seconds on Derby Jul," he added.

But the mare)

When you have mastered tho he thought about it, the surer With your lips slightly apart alphabet try saying a few sim- he began to feel that probably your teeth lightly together, ple words.

YOIL

Hank's

mouth

none of the uthers would eat try to speak the alphabet at the The real art in ventriloquism back of your throat without is of course the way in which anything at all.

combine "They're certainly going to be moving your lips. surprised," Kaart said.

Remember that ..B. M. P. V. W. movement with your spoken That's right," agreed Pixie ore letters which need lip word. Open the mouth at the McSauce.

movement, 50 ventriloquists beginning of each word, and often exchange D for E, N for practise in front of the mirror.

Palm of Hand Hamid, said quite sternly as she lifted the pixle up in the pain of her hund and held him at the right height where she could talk to him without stoop- ing downt "Now that's very silly. You're the cook. You're supposed to make the dinners. All the

the other. pixies are out working."

"But how can I make dinner TIAT statement is not quite when I can't think of THAT

anything true. All cars are on dia- to make?!", said. Pixie McSauce.

"NOW play in the newly decorated

Just let's see," said building on the topside the pre-Hanid, trying to bo helpful. vious Friday night. Over 25,000 What about, what about... people vials the display. Trini deng me!" she said suddenly runs glown the tracks before the "What do pixies eat anyway?" race are made on Saturday. And Sunday is, of course, "Derby Day." The ovent is witnessed food?"

Including by over 60,000 people,

"Good fresh food that, tartes reporters, prta photographers, all right when you swallow it." moller pieture and television Pixie MeSauce didn't seem cameramen. The major not to be able to give Hanld any warks of radio are well repre- halp at all. So finally the bet Busted. Last year celebrities him down on the ground again,

"Food," old Pixie McBauce. "I know. But what kind of

་

Rupert and Simon-18

Rupert and Simon search through the wood, and for a long time cannot And what they want. Then they 189 am old tree that has fallen over, in the crank in a huge hole, and hair the hola „la a succing' curvedi brunch pointing upwardan * Than

into nice logs. I wonder if I could break it off. He pejs his full weight on the far and of it, and to His surprise it maps, suddenly and be topples over on to his back, **The branch must be decayed, too, Juss where it joins the trunker mYS

ie about the thirkosm we need." Rupert. *I hope it ham't hurt days Elimon. We could; saw that, you'

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