Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-11-28 | Page 7 | New Speedway Record Made at Los Angeles

NEW SPEEDWAY RECORD j fi MADE AT LOS ANGELES- l LOS ANGELES. Nov. 27. A new speedway record for automobiles of the Inj large, stock car class was set at the mo- tordrome today, when tho Giant Knox. W driven by Joe Nikrent. made five miles Hh in 3:50 2-5. The previous mark was H 3:52 1-5, made last year at tho same track Ht by Barney Oldfleld. 'Bf Nikrent piloted the big Knox car to ;KI victory In every ovent in which It was 'WM entered, forging to tho front from scratch kl In a flve-hrnlle free-for-all handicap. Kl through a field of eleven starters and making seventy-two miles In today's one- Id hour period of tho two-hour race, tho Kg event In which hc set a now world's ' H mark of seventy-four miles in the hour Kl yeotcrday. Winning the. two-hour race, with r total Ml of 146 miles gives Nikrent $400 cash and the Los Angeles-Pacific tronhy. A remarkable fenture of the two daye racing was that, without exception, tho SI curs went through the meet on the name tires with which they started. No tlmo was lost for punctures. The meet was jHI also unmarred by accidents. Summary: fll First race: five miW, big stock cars ' Knox, first, 3:50 2-5; Bulck. second; Cut- Ml tlmr. third. . .S Second race: stock cars; 301-405 class; five miles Bulck. Louis Nikrent, first, ma 4:18 3-5; Cutting, second; Franklin, third. WiJ Third nee: five-mile pursuit race: stock WjJ cars: 161-230 . class Stavcr, Chicago, KnI first. 3:34; Oakland, second: Ford, third. K Fourth race; handicap; flvo miles; free Kl for all Knox, first, 4:54 2-5; Staver-Chl- Kl earn, second; Duro. third. Mr.9 Fifth race: second hour of two-hour 41 froo-for-all Knox, first. 146 mllea; Cut- Kl ting, 127 miles, second Parry. 113 miles, HI