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Monday, July 12, 2021

Car Races, Ball Game and Barbecue at Fairgrounds, July 15, 1921

ESSEX RACE CARS ON DISPLAY, 1920 Friday to be a Big Day Here; Automobile Races, Barbecue and Ball Game on Program

Local speed fans, as well as those from Martin and surrounding counties, will have their inning on Friday, the 15th, when 10 professional auto race drivers, direct from their triumph in Norfolk, will pilot their gas chariots around the half mile oval at the Martin County Fair Grounds.

The most prominent drivers will be “Blutes” Edenblut, winner of the Norfolk races on July 4th, driving his Essex Special; Alf Cooper, the English dirt track champion, who was the contender at Norfolk until he lost a wheel that put him out of the race; Tommy Denota, driving a Fay-Tesur, the car in practice at Norfolk, lowered the world’s record from 30 seconds to 27 ½ seconds. George Gallagher, driving a Shamrock; D.D. Churchill, Ford Special; Lou Sahds, Alco Special; P.W. Balk, Opel Special; and last, but not least, Chas. G. Dailey of Wilson, N.C., driving his big Dailey Special.

Thrills will be counted by the thousands on Friday, as never in the history of the local fair grounds, has anything ever been attempted that will furnish more excitement and thrills than an “Honest to John” auto race with “Honest to John” drivers and cars. In addition to all that, there will be a real ball game between semi-professional teams, it is rumored that on account of the three-day layoff in the Eastern Carolina league, a number of players will appear on the lineup of the contending teams.

With 10 real racing cars and drivers to furnish the thrills, a ball game that will be real big league stuff, a barbecue and a dance, visitors to Williamston should have a very full and successful day.

Everything possible is being done to put the track in fast shape for the racing cars and with the arrival of the cars in Williamston on Wednesday, local people will have an opportunity of seeing the cars in action, at the grounds during the practice periods Thursday afternoon, free of charge.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, July 12, 1921

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