It was cabled that the veteran Felice Nazzaro carried off his classic on a Fiat with a speed average of 80 miles per hour. Details to hand show that it was a thrilling race.
Out of 18 starters only four finished — one driver, Biagio Nazzaro, a nephew of the winner, being killed in the last lap when, laying in third position, his car overturned on a corner. Four cars ran off the course and crashed. Early in the race it was apparent that the Fiat team were intent on setting a very fast pace, the ultimate winner being in the lead. Early in the contest the Sunbeams (England) showed high speed, but broken inlet valves soon put Chassague and K. Lee Guinness out of the event.
Bordino (Fiat) was now in the lead. The Fiats, Ballots and the remaining Sunbeam, driven by Segrave, were travelling on the straight stretches at 110 miles per hour. At 160 miles three Fiats led with the Sunbeam fourth, but it shortly dropped out with the same trouble as the others — broken valves.
With victory in sight Bordino ran off the course and crashed, leaving Nazzaro to finish an easy winner. His time for the 500 miles was 6hrs 17mins 17sec.
Three Bugattis came home second, third, and fourth. The winning car had a small 6-cylinder engine set in a low hung chasis. It was fitted with four-wheel brakes.
A thrashing and no movies
A short sitting of the Juvenile Court was held by Mr H.W. Bundle SM on Saturday, when two boys aged 14 pleaded guilty to the theft of two bicycles which they had taken away from outside buildings.
The magistrate, having admonished the boys, said he did not want to enter a conviction against them, as they both came from respectable homes. He adjourned the matter for 12 months, at the end of which time, if the boys have behaved, no more will be heard of it.
The boys were also ordered a thrashing, and were placed under the control of the juvenile probation officer (Mr Lock) with a condition that they should not visit vaudeville or pictures during their probation.
Indigenous tribes’ fish extract
It is not generally known that the Indians of British Columbia and Alaska obtain their butter from a fish known to scientists us the oolichan. It is from six to eight inches long and very fat. Every summer this fish comes from the ocean up the rivers to spawn like salmon. Millions are taken in nets.
First they are thrown into rough bins made of cedar logs, where they lie for a few days to soften in the sun. Then they are placed in great cedar vats of boiling water, the latter being heated by hot stones which are dropped into them.
This primitive method of heating has been found to produce better butter than when the fish are boiled in the more orthodox fashion. As the oil rises to the top it is skimmed off. It hardens quickly, and has the appearance of lard. Beautifully white, it is not easy to detect it from butter, there being not the slightest odour of fish about it.
The Indians pack it in watertight cedar boxes, making enough of this fish butter during the summer months to last them throughout the year.
— ODT, 25.9.1922
