The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-10
SMASH AUTO RECORDS
Chevrolet Drives Car 200
Miles in 2::46:48; Strang
Goes Mile in O:37::7O.
STARS TRY ATLANTA TRACK
New Motor Course Is Dedicated By
Series of Sensational Speed
Contests.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 10.-Louis Chevro-
let. the sturdy Swiss pilot of Buick
cars, who has leapea into racing promi-
nence during the last year. annexed
another hard earned victory yesterday
when he captured the 200-mile stock
| chassis race, averaging about seventy
two miles an hour. Chevrolet's victory
came as a climax in a record breaking
contest, IN which Atlanta's new two
mile speedway was opened.
| Two Of Barney Oldfeld's records were
| lowered, one of them by Lewis Strang,
who reduced Oldheld's one-mile mark
of O:4S10 by more than five seconds to
0:S7.70. To do it Strang used the big
| 200 horse power Fiat which has had
a worlds record of 0.2S over the two
| and three-quarter mile track at Block
lands, England. last summer. Oldfield
took the limit out Of his hitherto I'M
beatabe Benz and took nearly three
seconds off his own previous record.
The second of Oldfelds records to
vanish was beaten in the ten-mile han
dicap when John Aitken in National
Sixty starting from scratch. forged
ahead to first position in the field of
eight cars in S.27:22, actual running
time. His elapsed time for the race,
which included his seventy seconds
handicap, was 9:12:41 Oldfeld. who
made the distance at Indianapolis in
S:15:09, also started from scratch in
this contest, but broke a steering
knuckle in the first lap and was COM
PEELED to withdraw.
George Robertson, who was to have
appeared in two events with his Fiat
Sixty" broke an oil pipe before com
ing to the mark and was out of the
| game all day. In practice before the
race he made the two miles lap in 1892,
a showing which would have made him
a competitor in the big car races.
Chevrolets winning Of the big race
of 200 miles in 2:46:4S was a brilliant
| exploit, lowering Burmans record OF
3:24:13 40 made in a Buick at In
dianapolis. The big pilot stopped but
once in the 100 laps. and then only
when his engine caught fire Chevrolet
assumed the lead in the first lap and
increased it slowly but steadily for
seventy-two miles.
The two Chalmers-Detroit cars took
his exhaust at distances which seemed
to increase only by inches, but in the
first ten these inches had multiplied
into almost a mile.
trained eye Of Hugh Harding, the APP
person driver, who was in the press
box. detected what escaped the lay OBJ
server
Ignoring the thunder Of cheers which
drowned al lother sounds. Harding cried
In his excitement: You're on fire
you're on fire. Louis"
Chevrolet apparently was ignorant OF
the fact at the time but when he had
gone about mile the smoke belched
into his face. Then he experienced his
only delay.
During the few minutes that it re-
quired to extinguish the blaze Dingley
regained the last laps and took the lead
by about thirty yards. His triumph was
short-lived, for Chevrolet took after
him and passed him during the mex
lap He was never again in danger.
No serious accident marred the day;
sport The nearest approach to sucl
an incident occurred In the eighty-f1ftf
lap. when Harry Sttllman. whose Mar
mon had not experienced a single delay
ran into the inner gutter OF the track
Neither he nor his assistant were hur
beyond a few bruises.
The accident occurred on the bach
stretch when an overstrained rear tir,
softened and sent the car into th'
ditch Three wheels flew off. one O
them rolling 200 yards into the paddock
before its impetus was lost.