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Show CNE-CEILED .j : . ECG AUIO L,. 1.': ' ' i i ... i - J LI M L J-i. ' V. f m e - l -v' . il I W fc V . . .. .. ... . .. - Anylex,- ArCr C ! Driver. IV:c-j; I- - idan Licn WW !. ... --, kecili:::cia:i iz:..: Eay, Ilarrczn Lr- "j ! i t Face et r ! c! 1 : ?- - ' 4 - . i x BPEEDWAT, ir ' -' -: - - SO. At the and of t a t 1 i of the BOO-mlle aot s r r " today, one mediant - if'' and driver r" four of the f been wl1' and D was le- , it t ; t CO: . l ) O'l .1 terno-on. S. .P. Di. knon, merriAn;. ! : n f r thur Gremior of Ch. ', 1' " Amplex car, lot 1 1 1 e i t n 1 the back stretro 1-1 t e 1 -of the race. t-r. -r 9 broken rib. and x 1 -the brain, r- n at tal Woui'i not 1 eat tno prn.. e ' .xre i i It k i.l ' 1 e 1 eonipift 1, t. . Wilt . Bo f I '. Ik V .oa was th r n I b" iy waa t'f v 1 ni"r nI lurried to t e t llmie lirown '. time i r wa. 1:. i.l:12, whirh. II s n--4 r Old mark beir, 1:01:1.1, Chi at Atlanta laet .year. 1 ae r v .trung out behind fle 1 around the two and a bn f n e r The .curdling pe iuirr-i c r tires and moat of tue cm t 1 . 1 one or more times at trie r 1 - i changes, beveral of te o -r u sprArentlv preferred o k 1 a .te.y grind two or ttr-.e I hind the leaders. There were 1 er . 1-satinnel 1-satinnel bruvhea for h -r- n Iavld I,ewi., mei-ar 1, , - n 10 ' e To. xier ear driven by le.. v i .' . v injured when the car b.'-w at 11 1 a home stretch in the one i1'". e l seventieth mile end ran i 'o a 1 Hartford. Tetilaff w r- 1 a 1 the crew of tbe pope-iiin 1 .. la capsd. Louis DipVirow w. o iv. Pofe-Hart ford. 3 he Loi-r v . . turned end the rear truck was v ths Pope-Hartford in tie Both cars were tsksn from te ta Lewis' right leg was broeeu. X-. home is ia Loe Angeles. Hammn Take Iead. Ray Harrona, Marmon, had tnin tve lead from Iavid hruee-Brown at t e luo-mile mark. Harroun s t ire 1 r that dletance waa 1 hours 43 n n r 81 seeonda. Brown wa. "lua ili' Bslph Mulford, Loner, thu i. Kighty-five thousand pe" e tt.-. I about a two and one-hiOr ni..e ov.i on the grounds of the Ian an re -speedway today, rsn tne of emotion in response to tue 1 . f tests of the speed msd i'o r r.--ing fiv hundred nine for fsm snd gold. .' , , Trains last night bronrht in'i tbe el-ready el-ready crowded eity a.i.ied to.mi The hotele were inadequate and pjuv motor enthusiast spent tne Sjui ia the park!. . ' ' Many partle motored to the c 'v from nearbv town, and set in t' r cars all night or drov turotih tu boul.varda. Crowd Oathar Early. A cool breese overnight hud driven rT the Intense heat In wiurh me -"v t 1 weltered for two week, and ine v a hasy. The free eeets In toe -.t t. - era were filled st t o'clock anU toe 1 stand crowd began to arrive on The parking spaces were lined with luur. """"'"o'rlock the plte slon the tr- edge .warmed with meclianis and t, a men. All the drivers were hney '" their ears easmlnlng every pert for possible defect. Btarter Wagner waa t e Srsl of the course offlrlaba lu appear ai l he trlctly enforced the rule ti.el no rr hould be permuted on the coiiree b' re the race was called. Many of toe , p. "'. snd team manager had elept un uj The brick track .tretrhed away as clear a. a floor. At tbe tune It ha1 beit pread with elkall powder, to cm tr-e "d that would np from the care and oir-r-wlae make the curve, dajujeroualy aop ''carl O. fisher, millionaire snort. m. n. president of the speedway s-o i- uperlnteniled Ih poetlns of 1 ne n a snd the l't"C special polcenien er-. x-l to guard the crowd In ie of a p- " " the .tanda and to keep ti e prop e .t t -m path of tha racing cars At t i o tne car. were ready for the etert ol i-e race. Eager for Btart. ft wss armoure-ed that thev e sent swsy promptly at !ft o - chanlrs and dnv.n ne-o. ' about the pits eager for f . tarter, the aienal for tt.e t the greatest ra.e In te develop.-nent of the n..-" kill and an-luran-'e in v wonld win fe re ai f " nort:y h.(,.re t content brter,1 o' - ' tv . . ONE KILLED (fop tinned 1 mm -page 1.) bile association, on recommendation of th- manufacturers contest committee, ruled that tire changes during the race be testrlcted to replenishments at the pits. At Htarter Wagners' order at o'clock the car drivers and mechanics took their seats and the cars were lined tn the Held hark of the pits, ready for call to tlie track. A tumult of applause aroee when Bob Burma 11 lu the Uliise n Bens drove up tn for thf grand stand to be crowned Vpced king." At o'clock Htarter Wagner tailed the cars to the wire. They were ranged In ranka of five In the order In which they had flint their entries In the race. Hhsr.i'y at 10 o'Hock the cars gut away. Th- official start came after Fisher and Allison had ivd the cars around the two and a half mile course once and ; to the w Ire. x Raca Is On, At the rate of about forty miles an hour thy jockeyed for poaitlon. As they came slowly around to the judges' stand. Aitkin Ait-kin (National I led. He passed under th tliei 10 A3 and the race was on. In the rtrst lap the cars strung out all around the course. Altken (National) 1 held the lead, with De Pa I ma (Simplex) 1 second and Wlshart MercHlesi third. The leaders pressing the tall endera of the preceding lap. made the race right at Its beginning an enormous and desperate des-perate whiliglg. The thousands of spectators leaned Torwarif In their seats and yellMwlldTy ss their favorites paseed. The great bowl of the speedway was filled with the deafening deaf-ening roar of the explosions - of the forty motors as the hooded drivers, bending bend-ing low oer the steering wheels, pushed their engines to the farthest. The tlrst car to stop at the pit for re-nalra re-nalra waa Arthur Chevrolet In his Bulck. Ht had tire troubt and lost a few minutes min-utes msklng a change. At the end of twenty miles, when he waa In the lead. Wlshart Merredes blew a front tire and went to the pit. He waa off again in a minute. At the end of fifty miles John Altken (National) was leading. His time wss 41 minutes and 7 seconds. Bruce-Brown (Flat) was second; De Palma (Simplex) waa third. ( - First Accident Oeear Early. The first accident of the rare occurred en the back stretch of the track when an Ample car. driven by Arthur Ortener of Chicago, blew a tire, the car leaving the track, kilting 8. P. Dickson, the mechanician, mechan-ician, and perhaps fatally Injuring Orelnler. Orelnler had driven only thirty ml lea In the race when the accident occurred. He waa taken to the field hospital, where physician aay his injuries are fatal. CaJeb Bragg (Flat) broke a crank ahaft and withdrew from the race at the end of the seventy-eighth mile. Arthur Chevrolet, driving a Bulck, broke a crsnk shaft tn hla ninetieth mile and withdrew. Bruce Brown, driving a Flat, led at the end of the first loo miles. His time was 1.22:1ft. Ralph Mulford. Losler. was second, and Ted Tetslaff, Lester, third. Tim for First 100 Milea. The time for the first loo miles was wen oenind tne recora.'wmcn is i.i4:zs-s. set by Tat sis IT. driving; a Loalsr, at Loe Angeles last February. Harry Grant, twice winner of the Van-derbllt Van-derbllt trophy, waa forced to withdraw hie Aleo car at the end of 1M miles on account of a burned out gearing. D. Bruce-Brown continued to lead at the end of nfty laps, or 126 miles, but Spencer Wlshart. In a Mercedes, was pushing him hard for the first place, wlshart had moved up sevsral places after losing time by tire trouble. After the two hundredth mile several of the pilots dropped out to rest a few minutes and relief drivers took their pleoea In the cars. Patsche drove the Marmot, "wasps" for Harroun for several sev-eral laps and Lfndenstruth substituted for Heame In a Bene. In a mlxup of Lyt tie's Appereon, Knight s Westeott and Jagersburgere' Case directly in front of the grand stand, John Glover, Knight's mechanician, mechan-ician, suffered an Injury to the spins. 1 The others of the three crews escaped anything more serious than bruises by a wonderfully fortunate set of circum-sis circum-sis noes. -The Cese car broke Its steering gear and skidded from side to side of the track. larroan. the mechanician, fell out and the car passed over his leg. The care behind made desperate efforts to escape a oil la Ion and all of them swerved by safely except the Westeott and the Apperson. which ran Into the mud at the Inner boundary of the track and turned over. Ray Harroun (Marmon) led the field at the 260-mlle mark: Ralph De Palma (Simplex) was second and Ralph Mulford Mul-ford Ueosleri wss third. At Sou miles Ray Harroun continued to lead. His time was 4.03:34. Ralph Mulford wee second, Bruce-Brown third. Tbe crowd again waa brought to Its feet by the thrilling escape from Injury of Howard Pry. driving Mercer, as a substitute for Blgelow. Pry's car skidded and plunged toward the repair pita across" from the grand stand. He turned It back to the middle of the track, but the car waa too wild for him to handle and swerved toward the pits aJn. Pry then locked his brake and the car ewung fully around before It stopped. Amid a storm of cheers from the crowd Pry resumed the race. The throng- In the grand stand rose to Its feet when It appeared that the crews of the care must be crushed to death In the craah. A woman sit Una in a box dropped from her chair in a faint. Starter Wagner ricked hie life by running run-ning out on the track and directing the trailing drivers out of the wsy of the wrecked car. lUarsea lay daasd In the center of the track for a full minute, while cars darted by on either aide of him. Then he unsteadily arose to his feet and staggered blindly. The crowd screamed at him "took out." The man then steadied himself and limped to tbe atde ef the track. Waa-ner yelled to the men In the pit to take the car off the track and It waa cleared away before another squad of care came into the home stretch. Glover, when thrown from the Waet-cott. Waet-cott. struck on bis head in a pool of water. He waa covered with mud and boody from a scalp wound, but be pro-tested pro-tested that he waa not hurt. The; strata of the terrtble grind proved too great for Bob Evans, mechanician for Jack Tower, driving a Jackson, and be Jumped from the car on the back at retch. Rvans waa hurled heavily to the ground, but at the field hospital It was said he waa not seriously hurt. He waa apparently appar-ently suffering from dementia. Eleven cars had been withdrawn be-eauae be-eauae of arcldenta and breakdowns when the SM-mtle post waa reached. This left a field of twenty-nine care to finish the last half of the race. The entries withdrawn up to this point were: Louie Ptsbrow, Pope -Hartford. Harry K night, Westeott Joe Jag-r-burger. Case, Arthur Chevrolet, Bulck. Char lee Matte. Bulck, Harry Oram,' Aleo. Pred Ellis, Jackson. Ted Tetslaff, Loster. Herb Lyttle, Appereon. Caieb Bragg. Plat. Arthur Grainier, Ample. |
