f02.13.09_BOA_TRK_LAU_1925S

Photo ID #	f02.13.09_BOA_TRK_LAU_1925S_1
Car #:	#Many
Driver (s) :	Many
Location:	Laurel, Md
Date:	1925
Photographer:	Unknown
Photo provided by:	Larry Jendras Jr.
Comments:	Senior Moment by Larry Jendras Jr.: Baltimore – Washington Speedway Located about 150 miles southwest of the Atlantic City board track was the Baltimore – Washington Speedway board track. It measured 1 1/8 mile with 48 degree banked turns. According to the first race program, it was built at a cost of $500,000. using 5,000,000. feet of Southern yellow pine. It was located off Route 1 in Laurel, Maryland, next to the B&O railroad line. The opening AAA National Championship event was held on July 11, 1925 with Peter DePaulo the winner. The second AAA race was a 250 miler held on October 24, 1925 and taken by Bob McDonough. There was also a motorcycle race held in 1925. In 1926, for some reason the three auto races were not AAA sanctioned, but by NMRA. The races were won by Jimmy Gleason, Fred Winnai and Ray Keech. The speedway closed shortly after the 1926 season and was dismantled with some of the wood used for the barns at the Laurel Race Course. Another of the short lived board tracks that dotted the country was gone and later the land was used for a country club. Today, Laurel is known for its 4 legged horsepower. Senior Moment by Larry Jendras Jr.

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05.07.09	Mark Makuch	If you go to Google Earth, find the horse track (Laurel, MD). Look directly east of the stables, you will see an oval outline in the overgrowth. Is this the board track?
05.24.09	Charles Carr	My name is Charles Carr and my family lived in Laurel since forever. My father and his brothers help build this track. My father would be 101 years old this year. The oval outline you see east of the stables is not the ghost of this track. That land along Whiskey Bottom Road has always been quite marshy and would flood often when I was a kid circa 1952....the wooden track was located on what now appears south east of the track. Along Rte 197. there is a golf course part of Laurel Pines Country Club and I was told some years ago that the track was located in that area. I welcome any other information on this track, which no one in Laurel seems to know about nor about the era of board track racing.
08.22.12	Jack Hovey	I've heard elsewhere that the track location was in the general area of the Laurel Pines golf course. Also, the ghost track seen along Whiskey Bottom in Google Earth does not measure out to 1 and 1/8 mile, if you use the distance scale in the lower left. That track measures out to approximately 3/4 mile, so it was most likely a practice track for horses.