Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 2 | Auto Racer is Killed When out of Running by Car of Contender

Auto Racer Is Killed Whey When Out of f Running By Car of f Contender Hughie Hughes Is Struck k by Machine Traveling Miles an Hour f By United Pre Pren PmJ lo to Tb The Telegram UNIONTOWN Pa Dee Dec 2 Louis Louis Chevrolet this afternoon won the universal trophy race that f featured the opening of the new U. U S. S A A- speedway here Driving his Frontenac around abound the one and one-eighth one mile saucer at an average speed of ninety two ninety two miles an hour he carried off the gran grand f t prize and the lions lion's share of the purse His time for the miles was 1412 1 2 I Dave Lewis finished second and Ralph De Palma was a poor third Lewis drove the race in 1635 1 5 1 De Pa Palmas Palma's mas ma's time was 2 The race was marked by the passing of ot Hughie Hughes one of the country's most noted drivers He was killed when Frank Galvins Galvin's racing machine crashed into his own driving It through the press stand on the in inside inside in- in side of the safety apron at the finish in-I in line When the debris of the two big cars the stand and the fence in front of it was cleared away two lay dead two fatally injured and a score or more hurt many hurt many of the latter ser All of ot the injured were taken to the Uniontown hospital where it was said tonight that Galvin and Putnam probably would not survive the night Hughes who had led through a good I part of ot the race narrowly escaped I running over the top of the board saucer when his steering gear went wrong He coasted down into the I safety apron and brought up before the press stand The crowd of ot 20 OO or more was wasI I cheering his wor work with the balky machine machine ma ma- chine and he was waving and bowing bowing bow bow- ing toward the packed stands when Galvins Galvin's car traveling at better than thana a hundred miles an hour near ilea r t the lie rim darted downward and diagonally I across across eross the track a and d crashed Into int Hughes' Hughes machine Shortly after the dealers' dealers race race that followed the professional protes- protes race got under way ay a l Haynes aynes driven by G. G A. A Conway blew up throwing blazing gasoline over ove the track track- Before fireman could ex ex- i the blaze blaze a smail small section of the speedway burned out The race continued d the drivers h having several narrow escapes as they drove through the thick smoke