Show Gasoline Consumption Tests Trouble Pilots at a t By CLAUDE 1 AS Associated oc Press Staff Writer INDIANAPOLIS May 15 Race 15 Race champions of the nation and their challengers stamped hard on accelerators accelerators ac ac- ac- ac today in for tor qualifying trials which begin to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow for the annual mile mlle automobile automobile au au- ton classic here May 30 Rex Hays California speed boy who won the pole polo position with an nn average of at miles per hour last year worried with his car unable unable unable un un- un- un able to get it just as he desired Lap after ter lap he drove with repeated re repeated repeated re- re stops for readjustments to carburetors spark plugs shock ab and other gadgets Gasoline consumption presented a real lem G Gasoline Problem What was true in Mays' Mays case was true with other famous pilots among them Louis Meyer twice winner of the race Red Shafer who has been trying to win here for 12 years Chet Gardner and Billy Winn William Shorty Cantlon Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- troit veteran whirled his flashy mount around the two and a half- half mile course at miles per hour with the motor apparently in race shape Gasoline tests were his greatest concern Tho The mile 25 qualifying trials must be run this year on 25 gallons of gasoline The ra rate race e itself must be completed on gallons a reduction reduction reduction I tion of five gallons from the 1935 allowance Some drivers believe the limited amount of fuel will keep spee speed down downin in the qualifying rounds Others are confident it will not Coast Ace Aco Confident Babe Stapp Los Angeles veteran and the first driver at the track this ye year r is not worried for he knows what his front drive mount will do He ran his gasoline tests testa weeks ago and expects to be among the first to qualify The Babe believes there Is a good chance the track records for one lap 10 miles and 25 miles mlles will be broken during the the- trials The greatest speed ever attained for one lap lap miles per hour was was made eight years ago by Leon Duray now retired He also set the mile 10 mark marls miles miles' miles r D hour hour in in the same car Ma MayS Marshal hot the official record for 25 miles w Vi Rl his average a year ago aeo The Tho time trials will begin at at o'clock C C. S. S T T. tomorrow more moral and continue until sundown |