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Show ISSUE ENTRY BLANKS FOR BIG AUTO RACE Seventeenth Season for the World's Famous Contest. Entry blanka for the thirteenth annual an-nual 500-mile International Sweepstakes, Sweep-stakes, scheduled for Saturday, May 80, 1925, have been placed in the malls by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This will be the seventeenth season for the world's most famous automobile automo-bile speedcourse, the $50,000 five-century dash being Inaugurated the third season and the track being Idle during the years this country participated In the World war. The conditions for the coming race will be almost Identical with those for the 1024 event Cars eligible must not be powered with engines exceeding 122 cubic Inches piston displacement, which In European terms is two litres. It will be the last year for these engines, en-gines, the speedway having announced last summer that beginning with the ; 1925 race the engines would be lim ited to 91 Inches or 1 litres. The two-litre class started in 1923 and last May 30, the late Joe Boyer averaged aver-aged 98.23 miles an hour, lowering the records made by larger engines. Cars with two-litre engines must weigh not less than 1,400 pounds. The contending drivers must average 85 miles an hour for ten miles or four laps of the course to go to the starting start-ing line. Not more than 33 cars will be permitted to start, the slower cars dropping out If more than 33 qualify. The trials will be conducted on I May 26. i The $r0,000 in cash, which Is an- I nually supplemented by awards of al- most an equal amount by accessory and equipment makers, will be divided I among the first ten drivers to com- plete the distance, with $20,000 to the i winner and $1,400 to the tenth pilot. ' In addition to these prize moneys a consolation prize of a substantial , amount will be awarded, the amount f and manner of distribution to be an- nounced previous to May 30. European drivers have been unable , to win an Indianapolis race since the war, although the late Howard Wilcox did win in 1019. The engineers on the other side of the Atlantic are showing I unusual Interest this year In the race f and numerous requests for entry I blanks hnve been received. The In- I terest shown caused T. E. Myers, sec- retary-treasurer of the speedway, to jl visit Europe and he Is now on the s continent making the rounds of the I Interested factories In Belgium, Ger- many, Italy and France, and will - spend some time In England before be returns to this country. |