Word: zeiters
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Well on his wav to becoming the dean of doodlebug promoters last week. Don Zeiter is a dour 41-year-old Ohioan so close-mouthed that he will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds...
...Indianapolis classic of U. S. auto racing was eight months away last week. But on a ramshackle half-mile dirt track on the outskirts of Detroit 33 chugging, sputtering little cars lined up before 10,000 spectators to run what the track's owner Don Zeiter, at least, regarded as Indianapolis in miniature. Its qualifying races had already been run off exactly like those at Indianapolis. Chief differences were the length of the race (150 miles instead of 500), the size of the track (½ mile instead of 2½), the size of the prizes ($5,000 instead...
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