Show RI IN DESPERATE STRUGGLE I AUTO RECORDS SHATTERED High Marls Marks for All AN Distances Go Down Before Ter Terrific Terrific Onslaught of Daredevil Drivers at Indianapolis I i I I I I I I i INDIANAPOLIS T May 1 a 28 In des desperate deSperate Aerate struggles for supremacy among drivers of tho the most powerful Amerl Amen I Ican can cars records down for all distances between bet Ily miles I at the Indianapolis speedway today toda and In the merciless grind only two men were Injured i Herbert LlIo the driver and his William Clifton were hurled from front their thell car an American I when a front tire burst as they were I i turning Into the homestretch home stretch In the thelast thelast I last Insl lap of the ten ale free for all handicap left leg was was broken I and Clifton was badly hadly bruised Harroun driving a Marmon farmon achieved ed a n sensational triumph when he won the mile race raco In breaking the he record which had been held by uy Chevrolet who went the distance In at Atlanta j I The rhe performance of Lynch Tynch In a Jackson who was second was hardly 1 less brilliant for he lIe did not stop once j I while Harroun paused parsed at fit the end of o flue tho hundredth mile for COI gasoline I The five fi mile record for cars of or and GOO COO cubic inches piston displace displacement ment went was broken by 11 Barney Darne and his bis Knox Time 03 The old i record was 4 1 43 13 I I Aitken National broke e the record I Ifor for ten miles smiles for cars of o to HiO I Inches displacement His time was SOS against a the former record of Harroun Marmon Marman and Merr Herz I National were close second and third I Burman Buick led off tho the mile almost al almost almo race Harroun Marmon pressing most mo l his hiR rear wheels wheela but hut Bur Dur Durman Burman man had engine en trouble before the twentieth mile and dropped back bacle From then on to the finish Harroun kept the lend lead His team mate Day Daw Dawson Dayson son Bon was wac just behind him until the OlE seventieth mile Then Dawson had hall a an remarkable n escape from rom death On the time hack back stretch a tire tiro tir burst hurst and his hiscar CRt carr plunged HI to lo tho the Inner sand cush cushion ion turned tented completely over oer landed on Its wheels and crashed through a 1 fence Dawson did Ild not lose loso his bh sent seaL and ancl when time the car stopped a mm heavy post he found himself unhurt The Tho car however was wrecked Har Hm Harroun Harroun roun drove drow ten miles ahead of or his clos cios closest est st rivals after the hundred miles had been heen covered Lynch Jackson Chevrolet Buick and National Na National alternated in the second place with the rest of or the field I hopelessly behind but grimly hanging on Tine The track was now an drenched oil path Patin on which the tir s slipped sUpped Tho drivers strained to lo hold the tho course and their thel added thick their grip on the tho steering wheels neels Harroun carried no hot hilt nevertheless Increased hIs hs speed sped in tho the last fifty miles As Chevrolets Chevrolet engine lne went dry and he lost 1081 a lap while ho took water Lynch jumped Into second place and finished there therewith therewith with Chevrolet only a few yards yard be he behind behind hind was fourth Harroun was ahead of or all nil American records record from Crom start starl to finish |