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Show FORDS WIN IN MEXICAN RACE j "Three Ford cars two V-8s and 'a 1931 "four" won the first three places in the famous Laredo Mon-Iterrey Mon-Iterrey road race sponsored by the 'Mexican Automobile Association, 'an affiliate of the American Auto-I Auto-I mobile Association, according to official reports of the race just re-cciv6d re-cciv6d The' two V-8s established the fastest fast-est time on record for the course. The third Ford won the same position posi-tion in the class B event of the original road races which formally opened the new Pan-American highway high-way between Laredo and Monterrey three years ago. The race was won by Eddy Byers, a veteran figure in Texas and Oklahoma Ok-lahoma road race circles, in a Ford V-8 with an average speed for the 138:6-mile race of 78.25 I miles per hour. Byers staged a thrilling finish fin-ish to win over Jimmie Davis, also al-so driving a Ford V-8, who placed "cond one minute and 14 seconds behind the winner. Jam HaU, ot Houston, Texas, was third tea Ford Model A. Davis' average spd was 77.5 miles per hour, Halls 73.1 miles per hour. Speed Wagner, a product of the eastern dirt tracks an da veteran of several years prof essional racing was the only other mver to flnfcto in the money. Other entrants in eluding three Chevrolets, a Fora Model A, l Essex, . and a Motorcycle were disqualified or failed to finish. |