Show V. o I Frank A Lockhart Meets Death in in Terrific Crash Speeds to Death I 5 v I V 2 S Frank Lockhart Lockhar f AM US RACING DRIVER DIES IN SPEED ATTEMPT Loses Control of Auto Going Going Going Go Go- GoI ing at Over Miles an Hour WIFE SEES TRAGEDY Car Leaps 30 Feet in Air at Daytona Beach DAYTONA BEACH Fla April 25 AP Frank AP-Frank Frank Lockhart pl plunged to his death here today in attempting attempt attempt- ing to break the worlds world's speed reCord record record rec rec- ord for straightaway mile set by Ray Keech last Sunday at mires miles an hour Lockhart had made three test runs and was five hundred yards from the beginning of the official mile start driving at more than two an hour when liTh ASiu tiIt Br k a Special ecial went went out out- of ot control turned sidewise and hurtled thirty feet the he air It trave traveled ed more th than n one hundred yards turned over and came down on the beach broken all to pi pieces s. s Lockhart was thrown clear of the machine Spectators found him breathing heavily and bleeding profusely profusely profusely pro pro- about the mouth and head He was placed In an automobile and rushed to the hospital but was d dead ad when he DIES QUICKLY He lIe was pronounced dead at a. a m. m fifteen minutes after atter the th thaC ac aC- ac- ac Mrs 1 Lockhart was one of the two hundred spectators In the stand who witnessed the accident She was among the first to reach her husbands husband's side She became hys hysterical as she was placed In Iq the same automobile which to took k k her husband to the hospital and became became became be be- came more hysterical when doctors pronounced him dead Lockhart had been coming out on the beach for the past several mornings In the early hours to tomake tomake tomake make test runs On his first test run this morning he had been clocked at miles and the return trial was made made- at a speed of miles William F. F Sturm Lockharts Lockhart's manager said before the tryout that Continued on page 5 I I I II FAMOUS RACING DRIVER DIES IN SPEED ATTEMPT Continued from page 1 1 he lie did not believe Lockhart would make the run or attempt a record today because of the unfavorable beach peach and because he ho did not be be- be lie lieve Lockhart had his m tor tuned up lip p properly The beach was said to have been In the worst condition of the past week Adverse winds had left ridges parallel to the course which looked like a washboard On its first test run this morning morning morn morn- ing Lockharts Lockhart's machine took one of these ridges and ran into the water but was not thrown out of line Coming b back ck north on the return as he was following the of the beach the car was seen to swerve at a 25 degree angle However he righted the car and continued on the tryout At this time he was traveling at a speed of miles milos an hour He spent thirty minutes at the north end making motor adjustments and then went wenton on the trial run south at miles an hour As he came caine back for tor the official run which was opposite the grandstand Lockhart wa was yards from the spot where his car went out of control INJURED FEB 22 Lockhart was driving the same car in which he had a narrow es escape escape escape es- es cape here on February 22 last while making an attempt to break the worlds world's speed record At that time his machine got out of control and dashed into the ocean lie was Seriously se seriously seriously se- se injured and nd spent some time in a hospital His car was a tiny little white enamel machine weighing less than three thousand pounds It had a sixteen cylinder motor which Lockhart Lockhart Lockhart Lock- Lock hart designed himself The car cost over Lickhart was said saM to have held every American record from one to toone toone toone one hundred miles on circular courses He lIe also held the worlds world's straightaway record for 91 2 1 cubic inch displacement motors which was set at the Dry Lake Lae Cal course in 1927 when he made miles per hour A number of photographers standing at a favorable place on the track were narrowly missed as Lockharts Lockhart's machine hurtled I through the air What looked like a windshield from one of the wheels of Lockharts Lockhart's car was torn loose and hit lilt Hans Orte a local photographer He was shocked and bruised METEORIC CAREER Lockharts Lockhart's career as a a a- arace race driver was among the most meteoric of any pilot in Ia the annals of Coming out of California after seVeral several sev seV- eral years' years training on dirt tracks of at the western vestern state he leaped to sudden fame when he ho won the 1926 Indianapolis speedway speed race which was cut down to miles that year instead of the customary miles due to rain Ho was noted on the speedways for the terrific pace which he al always always always al- al ways set Like several other stars of the Indianapolis classic Lockhart met methis methis methis his death in later speed attempts Dario Dana Resta was killed at Brooklands Brooklands Brooklands Brook- Brook lands speedway England in an ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort to set a new mark on the course Jimmy Murphy went to his death at N. N Y on the mile dirt track there while Gaston Chevrolet SL iL previous winner at In Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In met his death dearth deth in a speedway race Lockhart was almost an unknown when he won the Indianapolis race but had been considered since then along with the veteran Ralph de do dePalma dePalma Palma as the greatest of drawing cards on motor speed events |