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Show two inn RECOHDSJSOKEN Playa Del Rey. Cal., April 14 Two American speedway records were biokeu on the motordrome here this 1 afternoon. Tho crowd also was j thrilled by two mishaps which barely fscaiied being 6erlous. In tho ten-mile free-forall, while leading by a gxd margin, the Dar-racq. Dar-racq. driven by Ben Kerscher, threw a tire The car was going at a apood of 80 miles an hour at tho time. The tire rolled along the upper rim of the pie-pan for 2uu (eet and then leaped the outer fence, hounding fiO feet in the air. The car swerved to the side nrd It was with the greatest difllculty thai Kerscher brought the machine to a stop without an accident. Bragg was following closely In a Fiat, and missed the rolliug tiro by only a efw incheit. $n the second mile of the r0-mllo rtco the Bulck, driven by Nlkrent. broke h steeriug knuckle and slid off the track. Nikrent flammed -n all the brakes and the car was stopped stop-ped right side up. The pitch of Ihe track prevented a bad ntcldnt, as It caused the car lo slide toward the inFlde Instead of shooting through tho fence, as probably would have occurred oc-curred on a dirt track. In the 10-mile stock race for cars of 451-600 cubic Inches piston displacement dis-placement Oldfleld, In the Knox, defeated de-feated De Palma in the Fiat in 7:22.12, which establishes a new speedway I record for this class of cars. In this rice De Palma's mechanic rode astride the heod for several miles while tho car was making S. miles an hour. Nlkrpnt In the Bulck established a jiew American speedway record in the 161-230 das by driving ten miles in 8:40.17. The Cole was second. A few miles after the start of the. BO-mile race the Bulck and the Chal-nurs Chal-nurs went out. leaving the two Moi-inens Moi-inens in the race. After the Marmous hi.d traveled 36 miles the Chalmers returned to the track. The Marmon driven bv Harroun won the race. Wade, driving the other Marmon. was second |