a legal sport in the United States:

|What a fight it was! One worthy of Mars himself! The|
|stage setting was complete to the minutest detail. |
|There had been quite enough smashed noses in the |
|preliminaries to whet the appetite for action to its|
|keenest edge. And the main event was put on so |
|quickly after the semi-final that this lust for |
|battle had no chance to cool. Moran led with a |
|snappy left hook that drew blood from Coffey's nose.|
|With this first faint scarlet trickle the gallery |
|gods went wild. A second quick jab gashed an old |
|scar above Jim's left cheekbone and covered his face|
|with blood, to the delight of Frank's friends in the|
|center box. |

=246. Automobile Races.=--Stories of automobile races follow closely the
types of sporting news stories already examined. The following may be
taken as an illustration:

| =NEW WORLD'S RECORD BY RESTA= |
| |
| +-------------------------------+ |
| | =The Results= | |
| | Driver Time Average | |
| | Resta 58:54 102.85 | |
| | Cooper 59:39 101.41 | |
| | Burman 61:22 98.63 | |
| | Oldfield Flagged | |
| +-------------------------------+ |
| |
|Speedway Park, Aug. 7.--(Special).--The world's |
|100-mile speed championship was won by a hood this |
|afternoon--the hood of Dario Resta's wonderful |
|Peugeot. |
| |
|Cheers from 15,000 throats drowned the roar of the |
|engines as the Resta Peugeot and Earl Cooper's Stutz|
|wound up a race unparalleled for thrills and dashed |
|side by side up the home stretch and over the finish|
|line. Resta won $20,000. |
| |
|Resta smashed Porporato's record of 99.05 miles an |
|hour on the Chicago speedway by driving the 100 |
|miles at an average speed of 102.85 miles an hour. |
|