Show I ROBERTSON R OBER LOWERS L 0 TEN MILE RACE RA CE RECORD I ILos Los Angeles April 9 One worlds worMs record and one new American speedway stock car mark were the extent of the record breaking on the Los Angeles today George Robertson in the Simplex and Caleb Bragg Braggin in jj the Pint Fiat 90 in the tenmile reeled off mile after mile under the forty second mark and completed the run in 6 the Simplex winning by feet I For seven miles mUes the cars c rs lapped It be being being being ing difficult to tell which led at the wire 1 for the first five miles mlles Time after time n Robertson bertson who was on the outside would I run high on the track In an effort to swoop down Into the lead but Bragg held heldon heldon on and refused to give an Inch In the seventh mile Robertson forged a a yard y r in in inthe inthe the lead This was increased to a length In n another half mile and at the end of gf the eighth circuit the gap was steadily widening Pieces of the tread were seen flying tl from the Fiats Flats tires and from then on it was easy for tile tHe Simplex In the record r ord trials not a broken Oldfield coming within of a second of beating De Do Palmas fivemile mark made yesterday esterday The Benz made five circuits in 3 Had Bad not a tire gone bad within a sixteenth of a mile mUe from rom the wire the record would surely have been broken This was ras second trial tria On the first he retired on account of tire trouble after making two tw miles in the sensational time of 1 13 72 A national speedway record was established established by Endicott in the Cole In the 50 60 mile race for stock chassis measuring cubic inches piston displacement The 50 miles were made In The fprmer ormer record made at Atlanta was G 36 The race was between the Cole Co e and the Buick Bulck all the way These cars alter alternated alternated alternated in n the lead until the last five miles when Endicott opened up a gap of or a hun hundred hundred hundred dred feet The fivemile class C 41 piston displacement was won by In fhe the Knox after Hanshue in the Apper Apperson son had held the lead for a mile The stock handicap was won by the theFord theFord theFord Ford with a handicap of with the second and the Knox third 1 Nothing resembling an accident aC marred the sport Summary Time trials one mila Flat De Palma Flat Fiat Bragg Five miles Simplex Robertson Benz Oldfield Five miles stock chassis ch 8 ls class C cubic Inches Oldfield won Apperson Hanshue second Isotta Mar Marquis Marquia quis quia third Time 36 Ten miles mUes stock chassis handicap Ford won Stoddard Dayton L Oi second Knox ld scratch third Time Ten miles free for all Simplex Rob Robertson ertson won Flat Bragg second Time Two finished Fifty miles stock st ck chassis cubic inches Cole Endicott won Buick second Mil Miler Miler er ar third Time |