Show Vi- Vi US I 1 t A 1 hat at 0 Line ne Awful 1 Moment O r 0 9 9 R Career f x xH H ij i tj L j j j I J. J 1 0 1 Ralph Balph Do Falma j 1 arl arlt t. t a I Iro y r ro rr 1 w N Saturday October 2 New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's 0 ON Yorks York's new new motor speedway at Sheepshead Bay was 1 Inaugurated with the race for forthe the Astor Astor Astor As- As tor Cup presented by Vincent Astor A new classic of ot and the thelast z last word in racing tracks Niagara's Whirlpool speed and power not harnessed but let loose loose- man directed driven by demons demons arena arena gorge gorgo a scientifically banked nonskid non non- skid able roadway or vortex no let up for turns its whirling eddies the tl thir- thir two ty-two fastest racin racing cars ever built buil e the crest of each an a a. Do De DePalma Palma superhuman strength and nerve at breaking tension with one f I common urge urge urge-to to WIN Nothing else counts Identities es lost no no units here only streaks and blurs in the turbine turbIne around around the two-mile two track before before before be be- fore you can count the lap lap lap miles the goal but that's nothing at the pace pace r I A mile a a. minute would be a a going here here 85 miles an hour required merely to qualify as a start starter r 1 0 miles mUes an hour the average clip the bogie Sudden Death Is among the entries But this Is not the first time these two thirty-two drivers have have- encountered enco the grim c r and each ach and all calculate cal car calculate they can beat him again Half Halfa a dozen of the record men hay have have recalled recalled re- re re- re called what they co consider sid r th the s supreme thrills of their respective car careers careers' rs' rs to to W 1 date J DIY TT fY FIERY R FINISH F ISn t Charles By-Charles By y diaries Merz i YAt r Y rAt At the he age of seventeen years winner of tHe mile 1000 re record ALK about your your- collisions iO S and TALK skids skids we we all have those But when you have to race with your y ur car caron caron caron on fire are its it's some racing And that's what I had to do two years ago in in the Indianapolis contest of 1913 My illy car was going fine arid 1 II felt sure of landing in the money It was a t warm day and my and andI I both felt the heat but somehow It f felt i hotter to me me than it ought aught to with the breeze wo we wo were were geUng at our 80 SO- mile clip cUp afire yelled yelled the the cian clan above the din of tho the engine He didn't have to tell teU me for just b then the flame spouted right out of ot tho the bonnet almost in my face To To stop meant to lose ose to keep on meant well we didn't know Another burst of flame fiame licked the steering wheel and subsided It ItI I scorched the back of my hands There were two laps to go and we were in inthe inthe inthe the money yet yetI yetI I shouted to tomy tomy tomy I 1 guess we can do it my man 9 He nodded Then we both kept our our- heads as far back as possible for fear tear of another burst of ot flame worse than the last But it kept down dawn some andI and b I managed to keep her going by holding holding holding hold hold- ing one hand up in the air to cool it AWhile while the tho other olber was scorched onI on the Itne tho steering wheel You Yon can bet I I 5 J 1 a F AIMY 1 4 Charles f e z r n Dario Dado Resta R. R Caleb Bragg Dragg hands changed pretty of oUe often ten l. l r We took k third third place place- though w we fin fin- finished on on fire MY It VIS VISION ON o OF By Dario Darlo Resta England's around all d champion and nd winner winner of the Vanderbilt Cup and Intern International Grand Grand- Prize atthe at atthe the Exposition Expo Expo- the P Panama Pacific sWon 1915 I II HAD my vision of f sudden ri death on I May 31 last in the milo mile race at Indianapolis It was a gruelling con contest n j test amo among g the best men Wien that drive I and fina finally finally- lY it narrowed down to De DePal DePalma I Pal Palma ma and myself The supreme moment didn't arrive arrin until the mile mUe mark I was ahead but De Pal Palma ma was chasing me metor for tor all there thero was in him and his big car gar We had reached the upper turn on an the course courso and it was as neck and and andI I I neck leck with with my Peugeot a fraction in the the lead crash A-crash like the firing of a a. field piece my my tire ti e exploding With With a a scream and a scrunch my flying car skidded sharply and turned a complete circle circle on the track And as asI 7 11 I clung to the wheel it came upon me that De Palma alma was right 1 behind eh nd me Tha meant the game was as up with me f forever reTer But my rival rival was equal to the emergency He lIe gave one tug at t his J wheel turned aside and his formidable Mercedes Merced s roared r ared past about abou half naif an ani aninch aninch i inch clear i That si skid d coB cos io race I lost tithe tim cK tir tires l ad- ad idy fy Y rr front nt wheels were werth th thrown own out of alignment But I managed to take down second place at that besides being still s alive However I 1 had a glimpse of the pearly gates for a moment MY TOUGHEST RACE By Barney Oldfield 1 Americas America's oldest driver and winner of Angel Phoenix Angeles race raco miles in 22 hours hourn 59 minutes and 35 seconds AY races and contests on SPEEDWAY S regular courses picked for for their smoothness and safety safety easy They're nothing to what every one of or us got last jast November in the Los Angeles Angeles- Phoenix race cross country I No Easterner can realize what this race means There There-is no contest like it anywhere Threading over steep narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row mountain mountain- trails covered with sharp flint boulders along canYons canyons and precipices full of treacherous turns through barren deserts and q quicksand washes blinding powdery alkali dust which blows into you and chokes you you all all these perils and hardships hardships hardships hard hard- ships I encountered We had torrents of rain and we forded deep swollen streams we wo took bumps that strained us and our engines to the breaking point T e re tackled mud that racked th the cars almost to lia pieces and we negotiated negotiated prairie gr grass ls that slipped every time we put on speed and cactus that bit the tires to pieces No course cours ever had the t terrific obstacles that everybody everybody everybody every every- body met on that mile route Wily Why W y I X even cnn had to take a ferryboat to c oss ne stream But my my Stutz romped In first HI lY MOST HOST HEART BREAKING EXPERIENCE E E. E By Dr Ralph De Palms Palma time Two winner of the Vanderbilt Cup 1912 and 1914 and w winner of ot the tho Grand Prize Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Indian Indian- apolis 1915 Y Y closest call was my collision My with Bragg but my most heart-breaking heart experience was on the tho Indianapolis Speedway dway in the tho mile mlle r race ce of 1913 I was all to the good and leading by eight minutes at atthe the last lap but one Suddenly my motor went back on me A connecting rod came loose and made junk out of f some p of her innards I kept going to the tho very last Jast and then then the engine stalled completely The rho and I hopped out out out-It It was no use ewe we could see we wo weren't n going to make her work her work again for tor th that t rn race said tome Lets push her he to tome me Youre on said I and we actually pushed that car around for tor almost a alap alap alap lap hoping to Ito finish before the others caught us It was a terrifically hot I Iday day and it seemed like sixty laps as we wo I tolled on hoping against hope to make I two laps on foot before wed we'd lose that precious eight minutes But we were up against the tho impossible impossible sible and finally we wo- dropped from sheer physical exha exhaustion stion Both of ot us looked as if we had bad been thrown into the river and pulled pulled out out so wet were we from Crom profuse Pe perspiration Heart-breaking Heart did I It say eay I J lost I the first some and extra bonuses Don ses Just beca because because e we we couldn't ish fit finish finis i MY MT MOST AGONIZING VICTORY By Caleb Bragg Winner of of the International Grand Prize Prize Milwaukee Milwaukee 1912 WAS hit by a car going mIles miles I I an hour and lived to tell the tale and and win the tl e race It was on the last lap of the at mile International MU- MU MIlwaukee Mil Milwaukee waukee in 1912 I w was s leading le ding by some two minutes with only about a amile amilo milo mile more to go I was taking no chances now and down to 70 miles les an hour to toj lessen of tho of a I I blow De Palma who had won the won the Va Cup three days before was just and making a I. I desperate desper desper- desperate desper- desper ate effort to We had come to toa toa toa a very narrow section of the Hie course near where my chum Bruce Brown had bad been killed In practice a a. few days ays before beCore and I Iad ad a clear track ahead I kept as close clos to the right as I dared intent only on m making king the j final nal mile i as carefully as I possible Suddenly before I realized was a ter terrific crash against the rear of or my car car De De Palma going at ata a mile mUe clip tried had h had d' d tried to pass pass pass-mo-on moon the narrow crown of the road but ve veteran veteran vet vet- eran as he ho was he be swerved and hit and hit m me me full from behind My own car wonderful to tell was shot right ahead at the increased speed just as a a billiard ball banis ballis is forced ahead when another comes straight straight at it and hits hIts hIts' it dt squarely 1 on on the tji cheek I glanced behind just in time timeto to SeeDe see seeDe ee eeDe De Palmas Palma's P lma's car ar rolling over and over into the ibe ditch It an was an agonizing victory to w which which-I Ich r rode rode so so close to the the Great Great Divide myself and sure sure sur that 0 De Palma Palma Palma-my my friend best and my in instruct instructor in- in t r when I was an anam amateur would be picked be-picked pI k up dead or or dying lut But ut my anxiety was relieved I 1 learned that tua-t t at while De be Palma P Palma ima lia lai a punctured abdomen would he get well well wells as s he did after atter weeks of p pain in I r |