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Show DISPLAYS SKILL AS DRIVER Ralph Mulford Originally Sprang Into Fame as Winner of 1910 Road Racing Championship. Natural aptitude to understand an International combustion engine made a star racing driver of Ralph Mulford. lie originally sprang Into fame as the winner of the 1910 road racing championship, cham-pionship, and capturing the Vanderbllt cup race the following year. He was also runner-up In the first Indianapolis j ffx s t Ralph Mulford. riOO-mlle race, giving Ray Harroun, the winner, a real fight for the money. Mulford was forced to change a tire near the finish and probably he would have won had this not occurred. As the race driver, Mulford displayed dis-played most of his skill in the big road races when that form of automobile racing was popular in America. As a speedway driver he has had varying luck and during the contest for the American speedway championship in 1917. which was won by Dario Restn, with the late John Aiken second, and Edward Rickenbacker, third. Mulford failed to get among the leaders. |