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Friday, September 1,1989 The Battalion Page 3B Soap boxers carry on traditions Derby drivers from around the world compete in All-American ASSOCIATED PRESS Boys who raced in the first Soap Box Derby are old enough to be grandfathers now, but the competi- ion is as keen today as it was when it tegan more than a half-century ago. This year, some 5,000 boys and girls at 90 sites attempted to qualify For the right to race at Derby Downs on Aug. 12. Some 175 youngsters from 32 states and five foreign coun tries made it. The race began in Dayton in 1933 Jfor local kids, with cars made of ■ orange crates, sheet tin and baby |buggy wheels. Now the All-Ameri- IcanSoap Box Derby is run in two di- |visions in cars made from kits or I from scratch — but all with regula tion wheels. Ster Competitors aged 9 to 16 can en- r the kit car division in which they I buy designs and components for a 1 derby car and buy wood or fiberglass for the body, Jeff lula, derby man ager, said. “With the kit car, they have to build the kit,” lula said. “It’s a sit-up car. There are different body de signs, but they are all pretty similar. For $73, you get everything but the wood and the wheels — brakes, a Jeff lula, manager of the All-American Soap Box Derby, stands with the winning car from steering wheel, stabilizer bars, a tion, lula said. bracket — you used to have to drive Some of the luckier contestants all over town to find the compo- get sponsorship from local busi- nents.” nesses to help defray building costs, The master’s division for ages 12 and local derby sponsors pay trans- to 16 also offers kits, but more than portation to Akron for qualifying half of the competitors build their cars and drivers. Cars must arrive in own designs — for somewhere Akron in time to pass muster before around $350 — and 95 percent of the race. those put the driver in a prone posi- “They are inspected for safety AP Photo 1933 (left) and the 1988 Master’s World Champion car. and to make sure no one gets an un fair advantage,” lula said. Race officials supply fiberglass wheels to ensure quality of competi tion. This year, competitors from Can ada, Guam, the Philippines, Ireland and West Germany are' entered, and lula said there could be other last- minute entries. Oceanography * Space Science Electron Microscopy ♦ Ecoloqv < Trigonometry - Earth Sole Pharmacy * Robotics * G Quantum Mechanics * Ek- Physics * Behavioral Sole Soil Science * Bioenginec Aerospace Engineering • CeHular Biology * Biostatr Chemical Engineering»A Environmental and Indus!) 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