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Show RALPH DE PAL! WINS ELGIN RAGE Beats Out Tommy Milton and Murphy By Speed of 80 Miles per hour ELGIN, 111, Aug 28 Breaking all rocords for tho course. Ralph de Pal-ma Pal-ma won the annual Elgin road rac today, covering the 261 miles, 2S20 feet, In 3:09:54, or at an average speed of 79 1-2 miles per hour. Tommy Milton Mil-ton was second, his time being 3.11:47. Third place wa won b James Mur- phy in 3.12 47. Ralph liulford was fourth In 3:12:69; Edward O'Donnell, fifth. In 3:16.60. and Percy Ford of I hlcago, Blxth. in 3 24 1 4 Tom Alley and Gaston Chevrolet finished seventh and eighth but were outside the prize money From the first lap l-e Palme maln-tiinc-u his lead setting the pace, although al-though he was closely pressed at times by Mulford, Murphy and Milton, only a few seconds separated tho leaders, leaving the outcomo In doubt until Do Palma crossed the tape, winning the Cobo trophy, $6000 for first prize money and $3000 more, for lending each lap. Only two car.s .stopped at the pits, one being Gaston Chevrolet, who was forced to halt In the second lap to remove re-move an obstruction from his gasoline pipe and who thus lost four laps, and the other being Joe Thomas, who stopped to allow Tom Alley to replace him at the whee l Thomas wan injured in-jured during a practice spin last week land found himself too weak to finish. fin-ish. 1 e Palma covered the first 160 mUe.s at an average speed of 81 H mil' s an hour. The nineteenth lap ho covered In six minutes and 11 seconds, sec-onds, breaking the course record made DJ Spencer Wlshert. five years ago In the race In which he was killed, of six minutes and 18 seconds. Both De Palma and Milton made the 25th lap In six minutes and 13 seconds. Da Pal-nia's Pal-nia's average of 79 Vi mile an hour for the entire distance also established a new record, the best previous mark of 77.26 miles having been made by Gil Anderson In 1918. |