Show Carey Carey Wins Auto Race R ce Driving Championship Of America for 1932 Indiana Youth Chalks Chalk Up Necessary Points by Placing Placing ing lug Second in iii Oakland Race Frame Franu Sec Second Second Sec Sec- ond oncI in Ii Nations Nation's Ratings OAKLAND Cal CaI Nov 14 Bob Bob Carey consistent young knight might of ot the roaring road from Anderson Ind md today wore the he crown emblematic of the 1932 National A. A A A. A U. U automobile automobile automo- automo bile jile race driving championship Although he finished only second second second- in n the mile classic at t Oakland speedway yesterday the final national notional na- na onal championship race of the year his lis previous point st standing was sufficient sufficient suf- suf to give him the title over Wi Wll- Wll Ham am Wild Bill Cummings of Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In who piloted his whining steel Thoroughbred to first place TRIPLETT IS THIRD Ernie TrIplett Los Angeles driving his usual steady race followed Carey across cross the finish finish line while Maurie Rose lose Dayton 0 O was fourth Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis fifth and Al Gordon Los An Angeles eles sixth None of ot these however figured in in the national championship their total points being belog be- be log ing ng insufficient to put them among the he leaders leader Fred Frame another los An Angeles eles pilot finished second in m the final inal capitulation although he did not f finish fin fin- in- in ish sh in yesterdays yesterday's race Frame winner win winner win win- ner nor of the mile SOD Memorial day classic lassie at Indianapolis this year had amassed a total of points previous to o the final race Howdy Wilcox also of ot lis is found himself in the same position position tion ion as Frame He did not finish yesterday yes- yes but his points garnered previously in various races throughout through- through out ut the country gave third place Russ of Philadelphia who vho did not drive here had a point total otal for the year of which gave him ilm fourth place while Cummings whose victory yesterday gave him points to add to his previous fInished fin- fin shed in fri fifth place in let the national standings landings with points But for tor a stroke of ill fortune Carey would have annexed the points that hat went with first place yesterday esterday toward oward his national point standing As it was ho he had to be satisfied with 35 points and second money when a n blowout sent him Into the pits on the lap of the one-mile one dirt track hack and let Wild Bill sneak to victory by yards ards VICTORY SLIPS AWAY Up to that fatal lap Carey had vie vie- tory ory stowed under the seat scat He led Cummings by nearl nearly three miles and md the he capacity crowd estimated by speedway officials at had settled set set- tied led back back- to watch him coast t to vie vic tory ory Then on the north turn a skid kid a cloud of dust and out of ot it emerged merged Carey Carcy his right rear tire lat flat Cummings sent his accelerator to the he floorboards While mechanics worked frantically over Careys Carey's machine machine ma- ma chine Wild Bill throwing caution to the winds careened around curves and nd md roared down the straightaways ys to o close dose up the gap and pass Carey just as the latter got started again A hundred yards apart the they tore around the track six times limes Carey putting put- put ting ling ing everything into a n vain attempt to get back the back the lead But Wild Bill and imd with black dust stayed in n fro front t. t I I Cummings in winning cracked an year old national record boosting Red Shafer's mile ISO dirt track mark set at Syracuse N. N Y from Irons 78 94 to I 10 miles per hour Cummings Cummings' time was vas 1 hour 39 minutes 29 5 5 4 I seconds Carey also shared in In the record breaking however shattering his own national mark for miles Leading the pack at the time he negotiated the distance in 1 hour 4 minutes 25 seconds against the old record of 1 hour 5 minutes 34 seconds The Thc six leaders were the only finishers finishers fin fin- of a 1 field of ot 15 who started the mile grind Mechanical difficulties ties tire troubles and md one bad accIdent ace ace- dent took a heavy toll SPANGLER'S CAR OVERTURNS S SLester Lester Spangler Los Angeles wen went into a bad spin on the south turn inthe inthe in m the twelfth lap careened along fo for about 50 yards and turned over SpongIer Spangler and h hi his mechanic Spider Matlock were thrown from the machine machine ma ma- chine the driver suffering a broken arm and a broken fin finger er Matlock was cut and bruised Louis Meyer of South Gate Cal spun into the fence directly in front fron of the grandstand in the twenty-sixth twenty lap but kept his machine aright alight He HeI was forced out of the race Louis Tomel Tomei of Turin Italy lasted only slightly more than half haIt the race He was nearly 25 laps behind th the leaders when he dropped out Bryan Saul paugh Rock Island Ill had trouble trouble trou trou- ble with his clutch and went out in inthe inthe inthe the fourth fifty lap Babe Stapp Los Angeles lasted only four miles mUes when c cracked Kelly Keny also of Los Angeles encountered mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- difficulty as did Chris Best of ot Hollywood L I AGE OF TRACKS I S J 1 I w t 5 r 5 Sf S- S f t BOB nOB CAREY |