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...grandstands were hot. The 2½-mile brick speedway was baking. The audience of 160,000 sweltered. But around and around the track droned 33 little automobiles, each driven by a man cool of nerve and body, competitor in the annual 500-mile Memorial Day motor race at Indianapolis-longest, most racking of U. S. motor contests...
...other problems. Spring makes the sap rise in human beings as well as in cherry trees and Col. Grant is the sworn foe of human sappiness in Washington's public parks. His was the campaign last year against "spooning, necking and petting" by night in automobiles along the Speedway and through Rock Creek Park. Now that the cherry trees are coming out, the motives of parking motorists may soon again disturb the peace of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital...
...clock (or at conclusion of game)--March out main gate, up Speedway, to Cambridge Street, thence to Beacon Park railroad yards...
Every year certain things happen in Indianapolis. Some of them happen at the same time. Automobiles race in the 500-mile sweepstakes out at the speedway. Lots of visitors come to town and after the race there is a dance at the Broadmoor Country Club...
Louis Chevrolet is the oldest of three brothers, motor musketeers. Arthur was the second brother. A woman cured him of racing. Death cured the third brother, Gaston, in a collision on the Los Angeles speedway in 1920. On the Memorial Day before his death he won his greatest race-the Indianapolis Sweepstakes...