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Show il WORLD AUTO RECORD 11 DROKEW DY TETZUIFF i "Daring Driver in Giant Fiat ! i; ife r; Smashes All Marks Set in l 1 1 . 120 MILES . ANk, HOUR M'ill MlIe? Eveiy s'xy MJnutes 'I 51 " ver Entrfi Course 'a J By International Newa Service. -fiiffS, ' . SAXTA MONICA RACE COURSE, Cal.. $ $ May 4' SmafihlnE b11 the rficords t0 'i '! fir,., ' smithereens. Teddy Tetrlaff, a native Bon, ij : "on the free for all road race In his li-wV giant Flat car this afternoon over the iV iHrtj Santa. Monica course. His time for tho 1 L If Si 303.012 mileo was 3 houra BO minutes and seconds, The world's record, made 4- b' Harvey Herrick laBt year' of 74.03 ; 4' : i ij:.; miles an hour was easily clipped. Tetz- Vi.' fi 'ijli' ,nrt's averago was approximately iSJ V: Tj - miles an hour. I'll1'! Caleb Bragg, driving a Flat, was see- )' ' ?,' , ond in 3:54:05. David Bruce Brown. ;. tiii:'"; racing for tho first tlmo on the coaat tl t! il'"- was third In a Bcnz. Brown'a time waB ii' 3:56:6. vS iU-fn Totzlaff sprang Into tho lead with a j . i "terrMc burst of speed In tho first lap. 1 'I.;.' !! and after trailing- Brown for a half lap. 1 'it r was novor headed. At some polnta of J ,j I ' the course Totzlaft's speed was ostl- ! mated at 120 milos an hour. Brown r i . crowded Tetzlaff hard to next to tho rK'!' 1 Anal laP but t,ro trouble spoiled what- 'j U;';;! ever chance ho had to win, ;': , ,3),:: TeUlaff's raco was remarkably free '. ; Sk from trouble of any kind, but in the last I, lap he met with a delay of more than , ;"''.-' ft' a minute when ho lost a tiro on Nevada : ' "1 -1 iivmiue. ,'J ,..:' The race was run without accident to 'J,1 i ' ; tho racers, although two spectators were- j;.. Injured by shoes thrown from cars when u " rounding curves. . f . Barney Oldfleld made a game attempt k ' ,.' ' to "come bad," but failed. His tno.- ? f 't'.'i chine failed to hold up under the ter- j ';i.;Yt rifle pace and after running in third ' '.;.' place for a quarter of tho distance, he f, '-, -i was forced to drop out. L" u':4 The three winors wore the only oues r4Hji; f to finish, tho other cars being flagged f several laps from the end. , IW ' ; Ralph De Paltna, driving a Mercer car, I' !: won the medium car event In 2 hours ', j';f '. 10 minutes, and 43 seconds, with Joo h' Ivi) NIkrent, in a Case car, second. Do Palma v, i clipped four soconds off the. trade rec- V t ' ord A ;!!' Joe Joemann, a ID-year-old boy. drlv- '."ftl!'.. ing a Maxwell, won the light car race t'l1- in 1 hour 37 mlnutos and 57 seconds, 'jj:'.' 1 Robert Evans, with a Flanders, was sec- ;:'i!:H ond- i |