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Show , v . STUDEBAKER SPECIAL IN 500-MILE RACE Indianapolis, Ind., May 20 Earl Cooper, a veteran automobile racing driver when many of the present generation of speed pilots were in swaddling clothes, has arrived here with his Studebaker Special as his mount in the Twelfth International 5 00-mile race to be held at the Indianapolis In-dianapolis Motor speedway, May 30. In the days of yesternyear when Johnny Aitken, Gil Anderson, Tom Rooney. Dario Resta and Barney Old field were the stars in automobile racing electric lights Cooper was a star of the first water. He was a first placer in the sizzling road races as well as on specially constructed speedways. Then he went into retirement and followed the more prosaic existance of a business bus-iness man on the Pacific coast. Suddenly hti announced his return to the track. That was two years ago. He jumped into Joe Thomas' car the day of the Fresno, Cay., race afte Thomas was stricken with appendicitis appendi-citis and had to submit to a track-side track-side operation. Cooper drove the car into first place, giving the group of speedsters that had come to the top during his retirement a lesson in the are of getting get-ting around a speed bowl a required number of times in the shortest period. per-iod. He was second in the Fourth of July race at Kansas City last year and second at Beverly Hills, Los Angeles An-geles in 1922. Cooper's best run at Indianapolis was In 1915 when he ran fourth. In 1914 he was the road race champ. Cooper is of the studious, mechanical mechan-ical type, who keeps a detailed series of charts snd notes on the actions of his racing ccr. These should be Invaluable In-valuable to the Studebaker corporation, corpora-tion, under whose banner Cooper Is racing. Cooper was officially welcomed on his arrival here by Mayor Lew Shank His blue speed creation is attracting much attention. Rppves Tuition, also cf the older school of mechanics, is with Cooper this year, assisting the racing driver in preparing his c?r for the 500-mile race. A |