Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-25
RECORDS SMASHED
IN AUTO RACES
STRANG AND ZENGLE SHARE
HoNoRs AT INDIANAPOLIS
MEET.
FIVE MILE FREE-FoR-ALL WON
BY MERE IN MA
TIONAL.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 21.-Strang
and Zengel shared the honors of the
second day of the automobile racing
meet. The former won the fastest
hundred mile race ever held in this
country while the latter established a
new ten mile record.
The feature yesterday was the easy
victory of Strang, who drove Buick
in the 100 mile race, the star event
of the day Strang led adj the way
from the start and won by about ten
miles in the exceptional time OF
1:32:4S $40. At first it was thought
that this was a new hundred mile
record for this country, but the Of
ficials announced that they had decid-
ed to allow the mark of 1:32:1S $40
made by Chevrolet in the first hun
bred miles of the 250 mile race
Thursday to stand, despite the fact
that Chevrolet did not finish the race.
Strang, however, beat Chevrolet's
records for nearly all distances be-
tween twenty and 100 miles. Strang's
time was more than eleven minutes
better than the 100 mile track record
made by Burman at Columbus, Ohio,
July third last Burman'S record was
made on a mile track. Following are
the figures:
20 miles, Strang, 1874 7-l0; mile
track record, 1915 2-5.
80 miles, Strang, 27:55 $40; mile
track record 28:3S 2-5.
40 miles, Strang, 37:01 6-10; mile
track record 3S:14 As.
60 miles, Strang, 44:47 TO- mile
track record 1:0S:1 II rs
so miles, Strang, 1:14:1S; mile
track record 1:30:46 10.
100 miles, Strang, 1:32:4S 5-10; mile
track record 1:4400.
Dewitt in a Buick finished second
to Strang in the long race in
1:41:32 3-10 and Stillman, in Mar
mon, third in 1:42:37 6-10.
Before Strang started on his won
derfuI race the honors had gone to
Zengel who established a new ten
mile record in his Chadwick. This
was the second time in the meet that
this record had been broken. Chevro-
let reduced Oldfeld's old mark of
35-5 Thursday when he won the
ten mile race in $3.50 4-10, and Zengel
slashed this to 1928 2-10 in the ten
mile free-for-all yesterday.
Aiken in a National, who finished
Second in that event, had the honor
OF breaking Chevrolet's old mark as
his time was 1892 Clio. Wright, in a
Dayton-Stoddard car, easily won the
80 mile race taking the lead after
the ten mile mark was passed and
holding it to the end. His time was
1892 ITO.
The five mile free-for-all handicap
was the most closely contested race
Of the day and resulted in victory
for Merz, who drove a National, and
his team mate, Aitken, finished one
tenth of a second behind him, ac
cording to the electrical scoring ma
chine. Aitken really made the better
time as his handicap was ten seconds
while Merz received an allowance of
u seconds. The time of the winner
was AIS.
The ten mile race for machines
which will compete in the three hun
bred mile race today resulted in an
other victory for the National. This
time it was Aitken who piloted the
car to victory in the creditable time
ef 9:26 e-10. Herbert Ly.tle broke
into the lime light for the first time
during the meet, when he fnisaec
second II his Apperson nearly ten
seconds behind Aiken.