Show DE PALMA IN LEAD OF AUTO C RACE IN EAST Records Smashed on Indi Indianapolis anapolis Speedway in jn Mile Contest S SPEEDWAY A y Indiana Indianapolis ol May 30 Beating down dow worlds world's records with every ever mile mie Rlph Ralph De Dc De Palma driving a Mercedes Mer Ncr cedes cees cr ear car led leI the field feld by a a lap at the tho end endot of the first mU miles of ot the mile 60 race at th the Indianapolis speedway to today ay His time for tor the distance ce was wu 1902 as u against the record of ot let set net by y Bruce Brown Bruce Brwn In a a Flat Fat last lut year Worlds World's records went down throughout the first first mIles mile De Palma Palma leading set a new mark mak of or 1101 over s sold old record 1160 Joe Dawson In a National got rot Into nto second place and Wish Wish- Wishart Wishart art ar took third Br Bruc Bruce Brown Brow c-Brow Brown withdrew his National and H Harry rry Knight hl his Lexington because of ot engine trouble truble With an explosive roar of ot the enormous engines engine a and d e especially buit built for this ultimate ultimate ulti ulti- lt- lt mie mate t test st of ot speed poe and endurance endurance the cars came together at at the electric timing wire at at In a tumult of ot cheering Starter Wagner Vager let the cars car go 10 at 10 o'clock The cars can made mae one last lut parade lap and coming to the wire leaped pare the race pressing together in In Ina a blinding cloud of ot burned gas gu Teddy In his Flat t m made e the first round rund of o 2 miles mies In Then he lost the lead lud to Rlph Ralph De Do Palms Palma Palma At fifty mills miles mie De Do Palma Pama as was ivas ah ahead ad of ot the record Bruce Brown Bruce Brow came capie Into second see sec lec- lec ond place and Mulford Knox Kox caPe crept Into third The terrible pace began to tell tel on tires Ure Johnny Jenkins came Into the stretch with one tire tre of or his White whipping whipping whip whip- ping pinS the track like a flail fal The car swung perilously but Jenkins held It It tue true Stutz cast cat a tire high in tn the air but he hi too came safely latel to his De Palma held his lead at the Ue twenty miles which he covered fred CO In 1428 betterIng betterin bettering better better- in ing the old oIl record of ot 1529 set by MarQUIs Marquis Mar Mar- quis In an Isotta Iota at Los Angeles Spencer Wishart In a second Marcedes Mercedes Mer Mar cedes kept at Dc De Palmas Palma's rear wheels with Bruce Brown National third Ormsby's Orsby's Opel I broke Its ita 11 gasoline line lne and he drew out out Tire trouble overtook De Palmas Palma's Pama's Mercedes Mer Nor cedes in the eighteenth mile mUe and he cees stopped for tor a change but at the two hundredth mile mie he kept his lead and had hd netted nette a new record of ot 2446 The Former mark was wa made by Bruce- Bruce Brown Brow In a Flat Fiat last lut y year arTur ar Tur Turning In Into the stretch In the sixty sixty- third lap Marquette's McFarland skidded and plunged against the retaining wall alBoth al Both front wheels of ot the th car were broken off ort but Marquette and his hll were ere not Injured Prayer Frayer Fyer withdrew his hIl Fire Columbus Columbus Fre-Columbus because of ot gear trouble truble Andersons Anderson's Stutz blew a tire tre in his eightieth lap and the tha car switched completely completely com corn around arund Anderson Aderson and his mecha mecha- held their seats The car was M taken oft off the track Th The Case No cr 6 driven by Whallon Whalon relieving Herrick Henck broke roko a crank shaft and was WA withdrawn BuIck Bulck went out wh when n It broke a a cylinder head hea In Its ita It seventy-second seventy lap De Dc Palma continued to pull pun ahead at atte he the te mile O just mrk mark mark just Just half the distance His ils Hlf time was WR Ju Just t 11 minutes better than Bruce Browns time last year ear was second and Dawson third at 50 miles mies Do Palmas Palma's anI average a was miles mie an hour Hughes Hughes' ran out of ot fuel ruel In the tho sixth ninety lap and was wa pushed down to the pits Disbrow's car blew a rear left lef tire tn rl In n the s sixty sixty seventh lap Jap ap and quit Wishart's Mercedes also went out with wih a broken water pipe In th the second eighty lap De Palma made miles mile mies In beating beUng Harroun's time last year 1804 1604 His average a was wa miles mies an hour |