Show VE VETERAN TERAN DRIVER WINS Elgin IlL III Au Auf Aug 23 Tommy Tommy Milton a veteran driver won the tho seventh re renewal renewal re- re newal i al of the tho Elgin road rac raco at miles today toda co covering tho distance In 17 at nt a an era a average e speed of 7 5 miles mUcK per pcr hour For Por his victory Milton Inton received of the prize mone money Roscoe Sarles W was l second finishing nearly twenty five miles behind the victor Kurt Jurt who started his first Important race at the thc Indianapolis speedway this spring piloted his hla car into third place while Ralph Mulford who was forced to withdraw his hll own car in the mile pulled up In fourth place at the wheel of oC Ira Vall's Valls entry Trio Tho race was almost featureless and and time was considered extremely slow I Tho The however drew drow a 0 tremendous I crowd officials estimating that nearly tift fifty thousand thousand- were ere about the the Si Simile S1- S1 mile course tho the attendance being the tho largest larGe t In the history of or th the event Thirteen cars caia started sorted but six were ure withdrawn before the tho finish h. h Mulford tho the favorite tn started out like a a. winner winner win win- ner ner breaking the course speed record for tho the first triO ISO miles But his hll motor begin began acting ball badly I in tho the mile when he was forced to pull up at the pits pita After working frantically over finally withdrew tho the engine he 1 Only one ono accident m marked the tho da day when Cliff DUrant millionaire California Call Call- fornia sportsman had a narrow narrow escape from frona death Durant one of or tho the favorIte favorites favorites favor favor- ites Ite li la the race and winner of or tho the Santa anta Monica Cal Cat road race was wag at attempting at- at tempting to pass another car on the back stretch and just Juat as ns ho he pulled alongside a rear wheel picked up a astone stone struck Durant above the temple temporarily stunning him Durant lost control of ot the car which veered off ocr the tho road while speeding miles an hour hOUI turned completely over three times limes and knocked down four tour telegraph poles in Itt Its plunge It finally landed upside down Spectators were amazed to see ace Durant and his hb mech Fred Comer crawl from the damaged car uninjured except for tor minor bruises Durant the son of or Col W. W C. C Durant president of the General Motors corporation corporation corporation cor cor- had his hla bruises bruise treated tro at atA A hospital and left for tor Chicago so tonight Starting his career as aa an amateur I In Call California torn In Durant broke Into the professional pro pro- limelight this spring when ho hi won the Santa Santo Monica event |