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Show RESTA WHS WORLD'S AUTO CHAMPIONSHIP Earl Cooper Gives Speed King Hard Fight, New Records Established By Internat onal News Service CHICAGO Aug 7 Eesta dr ng a Peugeot won $10 000 and a speed duel v th Earl Cooper on the Ch cago speed way today for the world s champ on sh p, n Wh ch Bob Burman and Barney Oldf eld also were entered Eesta d d the 100 m les n 08 oi and h s off cial average of 104 3o m les per hou ex ceeded by sea ly f ve m les the record pace set by Poporato on the same track Cooper f n shed second in a Stutz Bob Burman in h s French Peugeot was th rd and Barney Oldf eld n a Delage fin shed" 66 eral n les n the rear Cooper s t me was an average of 101 41 males an hour also exceed ng the former record The race was between Besta and Cooper almost fron the outset Throughout the American ne er trailed more than forty 3 ards beh nd the speed king and often led h n Burman vho drew the pole place clashed into the runn ng with a sput but could not stand the pace, wh le Oldf eld, out classed and outdistanced was st 11 tarn penng with h s car when the yellow flag waved h m off the course Burman was eliminated from f rst honors when at the s xty mile lap he was sent to the p t with an exploded tire Besta was a car s length ahead of Earl and h s speed was 104 3d m les per hour For six miles Cooper s ra d ator threatened to smash into the leader s rear and then he fell three lengths behind Just as the cars sped nto the home stretch one of Besta s t res blew out In the twenty seven seconds that Bes ta spent m the p ts Cooper shot far ahead Eesta started in a gruelling f ght to regain h s lead when Cooper ret red to his p t to increase h s tire strength for the stra n As he shot around on the seventy eighth mile the Stutz lost jboth front tires and came rolling to the pits It teok th rty seven seconds to make the change and Besta hurled h s car around the oval to make op the distance But at the end of the e ghty mile 1 ne Cooper st 11 hed the lead Besta took the lead shortly and Barman taking advantage of Cooper b trouble, took second place At ninety miles Besta was forty two seconds ahead of Cooper who aga n had nosed Burman out of second place and was mak ng a game f ght to overcome the Ital an 3 advantage The speed kn ghts clamped the r feet upon the accelerators and drove their mach nes into the finish of the tour nev At ninety e ght m les the Italian held a si ght lead and was never headed Besta broke the world s record for fifty miles making the half century in 28 06 |