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Show JINX DESERTS RALPH DE M Daring Raeer Breaks Run of Bad Luck by Win on Elgin Track I The jinx which for more than a I year KSi ridden n!i Ralph DeJPalms In all (he big automobile races of the country has flnaUV been rou.cu. Vfter repeatedly having vlcrorv within his Kiusp, only to have it snatched from him b some evil ge-1 ge-1 lus. the famolls ra lug driver 'Tcanu hick' gloriously in the 251 1-2-mllo I 11 e u I hi Id l Klein. Illinois, in oip- of the most furiously contested r 11 1 of the ear. And Just to emphasis! thai iie Is tlin same master, driver as in 1911 when he won the r01-mlle Indianapolis event DePaAnra made s dean sweep II E&lgln, breaking nil recordn for 'no dourw He led the field from start to finish winning Hist prize of $6,0011 and a special prize of $3.fn0 for li ,l-Ir.g ,l-Ir.g each o:' the thirty laps at S100 each. He was given a crent ovat.-on as he pulled Into thp pits aftei winning win-ning the event. His time for the rac- WOe three hOUrS nine minute, fifty-four sec-Onus sec-Onus and his average speed T '.' 1 miles per hour, a new mark. Having established the best time tori the course in practice, DePalmS was given the honor position at the start and was the first driver to pull nwayj from the tape, his competitor foi- I lowing at Interxals of fifteen BCCOIUIH, j On the nineteenth lap he set a new , mark of six minuos, eleven seconds I for the eight-mile course. cUppitltf seven seconds from the former record rec-ord which had held for five year? He ran off the road on the north end of! the course during the twenty-first -ap but got back on the ti-ack without losing his position Tommy Milton and Jimmy Murpny, , each piloting I Miesenbergs. Hulph Mill- 1 ford In a Monroe. Eddie O'Donneli nt the wheel of a Duescnberg nd t Vori y 1'ord in a Trontenae. finished j fecond, third, fourth, filth and slxiu I respectively, all of them within tr.e money. |