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Show CHEVROLET IS I MEjIOF RACE I Driving An American-Made H Car He "Cleans Up" Scads of Prize Money H INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. June 1. Gas; .ton Chevrolet, of Indianapolis, wlio won the eighth annual renewal of tb,e 500 mJ!o auto race at the Indianapolis motor sneedway yesterday in an In-'dlanapolis-built car will be awarded his many trophies at a- banquet to be I given all the drivers by the citizens oi Indianapolis tonight. , Chevrolet's time of 5: 10-15.14 is sec-I sec-I ond only to the record made for the 1 local ccrurse by Ralph de Palma In 1915. Chevrolet maintained au avet-'age avet-'age speed of 88.16 miles per hour. He will receive the speedway prize. iM 'of ?20.000; citizens' lap prize of ?1.30U, ' for leading the field during the las,t H .13 laps, at least $5,000 of the $15,000 , 'to be divided among the drivers usirg accessories of certain automobile man- H ufacturcrs. and tho Wheeler-Schebler I cup, the Prest-O-LIte trophy and the ' H Strauss silver tea set. Chevrolet, the winner never left H his wheel, went to the pits only once land that when he was In first plac ftl and only 15 miles from the finish. H3 11 stopped a few seconds for oil and mH gasoline. He used the same set of ' tires from start to finish. He was. never worse than fourth place in the Kl race and most of the time was second , or third. Three races hero have been won by IH American cars aud all were made In H 'Indianapolis. Each time tho carhop IjH I been piloted by an Indianapolis boy.- lIH 1 Ray Harroun won In 1911, Joe Dawson HH In 1912 and Chevrolet in 1920. Last K'fl year a fourth Indianapolis racer, How- ill dy Wilcox, drove a French car to first II place. Five times the purple ribbon K H has gone to cars made in France and HI the first victory of an American car (frtfl since 1912 was hailed with delight to- If H day by the motor inns of tho nation. fil |