Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-02-04 | Page 10 | Driver Dies When Racing Car Clash

t mE DIES R WHEN UEN RACING GARS GlA H Jimmy Craft Is Instantly Killed During Speed P Event on Ascot Track a at L. L A. A Others Injured LOS A ANGELES GELES- GELES Feb 4 Jimmy Jimmy Craft t automobile racing driver o of Detroit was killed and Norris Shears hears Los Angeles driver seriously seriously seri seri- Injured when Shears' Shears car crashed rashed Into Crafts Craft's machine on a turn turn during the feature speed event of r a dirt track racing program at scot speedway here yesterday The accident occurred while Craft land and Shears were make the second secom jap ap of a a. scheduled lap fifteen-lap nine find and five-eighths five miles mUes race Crafts Craft's car slued around on the i urn and hit the fence Shears immediately Im- Im mediately behind him traveling at approximately sixty miles an hour was helpless to avert the collision fand and his machine plunged headon nto the other Craft Crat was dead when help reached him ilm Shears was taken to a hospItal hospital hos- hos pItal where surgeons said he was but not fatally hurt In two other accidents one ono be before be- be fore ore and one after the fatal crash loyd oyd Roberts and Frank Wheeler respectively were slightly Injured and their cars were wrecked by kiddIng skidding into the fence on a a. turn Ralph De Palma veteran dirt and oard track pilot starred in the af afternoon afternoon aft aft- t- t automobile events taking three firsts and breaking his own ecord for the fastest qualifying lap lapon lapon on the Ascot track made by him wo vo weeks ago He toured the f five ive- eIghths oval In 31 2 5 seconds He won the nine and three- three mlle mile contest In which Craft vas as killed In 8 5 2 seconds the one Tap ap p Ascot helmet dash in 32 seconds flat and the twenty lap een and mile five Ascot sweepstakes which terminated the he program In 14 minutes 7 1 5 1 sec sec- Fred of Dayton ran him m a a. close second in all aU events event I