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Show up CARS 1 1IA1P0LIS RICE Grand Prize Winners Expected Ex-pected to Give Americans a Merry Chase. A cablegram from Turin, Italy, to the 1 n dinn h polis motor a peed way, assures T. K. Myers, general manager, that two brand new 1017 Fiats will be ot hand when the starting bomb of the May 30 500-milc race sounds. .Inst when the cars were shipped or will be shipped was not disclosed by the cablegram, due doubtless to submarine activity, but lacepoers are goinp to see those ears juirl Fagnuno and Scales, their drivers. p.ive the others in the big international race a contest. The cars, which are modified J9J4 French grand prize racers, have been in the process of design and construction for two years, for the great Turin faf-tory, faf-tory, the largest motor factory in all Kurope, now employing 17,000 men, believes be-lieves in racing and in racing at America Amer-ica at the greatest purse giver of them all, the Indianapolis motor speedway. These cars have been tested for speed on the road, they have been electrically timed and, accordiug to W. F. Bradley, the Kuropean representative of the speedway, "They are the classiest pair ever turned out of the Turin shops, and they certainly are fast.'' Fapnano, one of the drivers, had his first ch!U"e in big racing at the last J-'rcnci-v.,ii:and prix and finished elev-en'Jx.!"" elev-en'Jx.!"" Scales, the other driver, is an 'Englishman, who will make his debut jynf international racing at the coming jf?". Both of these drivers are free of mnary obligation at present and 7-iradA in his last letter wrote that a eailiTXschedule and route for . the men and ars had already been worked out. |