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Show Midget Racers In Grand Prix LOS ANGELES. Nov. 22 (P-Midget (P-Midget automobile racing, which has drawn more than 350.000 spectators spec-tators here in 33 weekly programs this year, will wind up the 1937 season sea-son Thanksgiving night with its fourth annual 150-lap grand prix. Twenty thousand fans, packing Gilmore stadium and overflowing into the end zones, are expected to watch 14 drivers whirl around the quarter mile, sharply banked oval for a purse of J35O0. The track, claimed as the birth-plac birth-plac of the midget auto sport is rated on of the fastest in th coun. try and holds every midget record from one to 150 laps. Around fiO drivers entered this year's grand prix, aptly dubbed "the Indianapolis of the midgets." but the field will be whittled down tomorrow to-morrow in qualifying tests. The late Curly Moore of Chicago won the first grand prix in Ted Sizemore of Long Beach. Cal., won the next, and Ronnie Householder House-holder of Santa Monica, just re turned from a campaign around midwesUrn and eastern tracks, was! the 193 champion. |