Show OPENING OF MARDI MARDIGRAS MARDI I GRAS IN NEW NEY ORLEANS New ew Orleans Feb Fob 20 The prin principal principal cipal feature of the first days davs Mardi Gras GrM automobile races was waG the ilie break ing of oC tho the tenmile worlds worMs track rec old for Cor heavyweight gasoline cars ears by Ralph do dc Palma In big his Flat Fiat cyclone car he made matle the tho distance In 9 ll 11 25 which Is 1 15 seconds better than the record made by b Barne Oldfield In 1901 1 i Do Palma made his hs record In tho the tenmile handicap defeating a field of or five after aCtor being handicapped a full minute Mrs Joan Cueno broke her hm own rec record ord orti of five miles In an exhibition race her time lime being 05 25 hey hor h former record which was vat also the worlds womans record was 35 Mrs Cueno negotiated the turns case ease and made them than most of nt the men anti ami kept abreast of De Dc Palma for the first eighteen miles nilles of the race I The features of Sundays YA races will willbe III he be Ito tho jno uno hundred milo event lu In which there will VIlli be he ten entries In Including chiding Mr Mrs In Cuneo Cunco and 10 tl Palma antI and entries Event No o 1 IOne One mile nub free Cree for COio all ahl time trial to lo leaor lo or worlds records of or 51 Ei I hold by b Ralph DePalma Fiat Fint CV Cy C Cyclone clone Ralph DePalma Buick racer Robert Hilbert Matheson lames James B n Rall Knox Giant Mr John Newton Cuneo Simplex George Goorge Robertson Isotta Lewis Lowis Event No 2 Tenmile trial to lower worlds record Flat Cyclone Ralph De Do Palma Event No 3 exhibition Knox Giant Mrs Cuneo Event No 1 Five miles gasoline stock Chassis Chasis Cha touring car and amid runabout selling at to and including Buick Bulck Burman Bunnan I Jackson Oldsmobile Lind Lindrose Lindrose rose Event No 5 Five miles freo for all New No Orleans cars for New Orleans Item trophy Thomas Monteleone Mobile Buick Bulck Schwartz Event No C Fifty free for all cars Isotta Strang Simplex Rob Robertson ertson Buick Bulck Burman Matheson Ri Rl Riall all 11 Jackson Knox KnoL Giant Mrs IrH Cuneo Cunco Flat Fiat C Cyclone clone Ralph Do I Palma Packard Donnelly j I Event No 7 Ten miles handicap I Flat Cyclone Ralph De Do Isotta I Strang Buick Burman Burm n Jackson Knox Giant Mrs Im Cuneo Matheson Riall Packard Donnelly I Thomas Greiner Simplex Robertson Oldsmobile Ford Little I |