{"id":609,"date":"2022-12-14T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgschnur.com\/?page_id=609"},"modified":"2022-12-14T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:53:02","slug":"arkron2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sgschnur.com\/index.php\/arkron2\/","title":{"rendered":"Race in Arkron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Orlando’s Soap Box
\nEntry To Race in Akron Today<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\n(Special to The Sunday
\nSentinel-Star] AKRON, Ohio\u2014The lone entry in the All-American Soap Box
\nDerby from the State of Florida, Ralph Schnur of Orlando, will be at the
\nwheel in Racer 91 this Sun-day afternoon when he coasts down Derby Downs
\nin the world’s greatest amateur racing classic. Ralph is from the
\nfarthest point south in the United States.
\nThis 15.year-old Orlando champion arrived in Akron at 1:30 A.M.
\nAccompanied by his father Florenze Schnur. Upon arriving the judges
\ncalled for the inspection of his car. He was called and questioned
\nregarding the weight of racer. The young speedster reported that when
\nhis car was shipped to Akron the weight tags showed that his car weighed
\n114 pounds. When derby officials weighed the racer here it tipped the
\nscales at 126 pounds.
\nThe inspection committee apparently thot that Ralph had added weight to
\nthe car after win-ning The Chevrolet-Sentinel-Star’s Central Florida
\ncrown. After questioning Ralph, the committee approved the racer and
\nnotified the younger Floridian that his car was ready to roll down Derby
\nDowns.
\nSaturday afternoon Ralph rolled down the derby course with other
\nchampions in a trial run. The pairings for today’s heats were drawn
\nimmediately following the trials.<\/span>
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\u00a0After
\nlooking over the 130 cars which will be driven Sunday, Ralph admitted
\nthat many of the cars were better than his, and he said some of them
\nwill not be as fast as they look and that his car will be in the
\nrunning. He is determined to give his opponents some stiff opposition
\ntoday. He says his chief ambition at present is to take the All-American
\nchampionship back to Orlando.
\nThe seventh annual All-American Derby is scheduled to start at 1 o’clock
\nSunday afternoon with a parade of champions. The first race will begin
\nan hour later.
\nInformation received yesterday from Ralph Schnur, 15, winner of
\nOrlando’s Soap Box Derby and now in Akron to compete this afternoon in
\nthe national finals indicated that the youth is having the “time of his
\nlife.”
\nSchnur wrote that when he arrived in Akron a police escort met
\nhis train and bore him to his private hotel room \u201cright thru all the red
\nlights and as fast as we could go.” He said that his hotel room number
\nwas 711, about as lucky a number as he could find.
\nA special attendant looks after
\nhis sleek racer.<\/span>
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