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Show DRIVERS SHOW I SPEED IB CLIMB I Pikes Peak Event Is Held in Snowstorm: Good Time Made in Events i i . n: i m im:in;s. Colo., Sept. Racing through a driving snow- IH storm, blinded by hall and a bitter wind. Otto Loe.oche and Al M. Cline won flrct ami secotnl places In th" fre -for ill hill climb to the summit B of Pike's Peak this afternoon.' William R. ntrun won the small car reoe and Duvls Lewis was second. he not only won the Penrose trophy and the JRrtO ptie. but also the t00 prize for the bis ear event and In addition he set the het lime for the day's driving. whl h was 22 - convivnred In Mnlford's 1 1 ni H ers near the final stretch, while the r... Is were slippery and wet. Goggles to ihoir faces nnd had been i..e. i urves v ere takn with reckless abondon, but (here were no J serious accidents, E J. Realty was unabls to ftnlsb when a rim blew off and his machine was ditched. Rnlph Mulford. picked by many to win becai.se of his Record here four years ago. abandoned the race Just about the 14 mile point because of blinding snow, although two other cam hail prec ded him Into the storm It was a grueling race and the driv-ers driv-ers were exhausted when thev reached the summit. Spectators at the top also suffered and at Mile 14 there H were times when the clouds and snow hegan raining at I o'clock at Crystal Creek, und those without shelter wero Ralph Mulford made a strenuous 1 ffort to get back into the race after stopping In a cloud and spow bank at Mile 14. Rrfereo E E. fiommors ruled that Mulford could not be given a new tri.l beosusi .ill the other driv-erg driv-erg piloted their cms through the snow |