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Show I - There Off Today At Indianapolis Track . Worlds Greatest Speedsters Will Face Starter in What . Gives Promise of Being Greest of All Race Classics Ever Held in Anmerica. INDIANAPOLIS. Intl., May 30. The stage was set tonight for the I eighth renewal of the 500-mlle racv at the Indianapolis speedway tomor- row when speed stars of four nations J will match their skill for racing supremacy su-premacy rtnd the lion's share of $sr.-000. $sr.-000. the richest purse in tho history of automobile racinp. Twenty-five drivers arc scheduled to face the starter. After final elimination trials were held this afternoon, the gates of tho two and one-halt mile course weu closed to the public and tho drivers worked over their motors to have thorn as mechanically perfect as !'skilled hands could make them, i Elimination trials during the week developed astonishing speed and the I record of 0.S4 miles' per hour established estab-lished by Ralph do Palma, when he 'won the event In 1915 is expected to be shattered. .Do Palma, In his, sped trials for tomorrow's race, "drove his car at the rate Of 99.65 miles per hour, which earned him the coveted pole position for the get-away. Goasip of tho race crowds shows do Palma to be a strong favorite, although al-though Rene Thomas, Howard Wilcox Wil-cox and Jules Goux, the French driver, driv-er, who ha3 competed in former races here, arc counted upon as dangerous contenders. Tho Chevrolet brothers -i-Louls and Gaston Tommy Milton. Eddie Hearne, Joe Boyor, Ralph Mul-ford Mul-ford and other veterans also are regarded re-garded as dark horses. The winner of the race will re-cclvo re-cclvo $20,000 and he also has a chance at the lap prize of $20,000 offered by tho business men of Indianapolis. A prize will be awarded the winner of each complete circuit of the track, and it Is possible for a drlv.cr to take and retain the lead, thus assuring him of a total of $40,000. Weather Indications tomorrow arc for a warm, bright day and the speedway speed-way management Is figuring on a crowd of between 100,000 and 125.- ono. Tho Influx of visitors began early this morning and hotels aro jammed to double capacity. Cots brought as much as ?15. while thousands thous-ands of visitors were accommodated in private home at $5 a person. With the killing; of three persons in the race last year f re3h in mem-' ory. the officials of the speedway have taken every precaution to safc-j safc-j guard the drivers and spectators. But tho hot wave which descended on Indianapolis presages a sizzling course and a possible scries of spills and thrills. |