The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-20
Chevrolet Wins.
Chevrolet Wins Great
 Road Race in Lndiana

and his ,imechanictan handled the oil can, during stop at the repairing pits, n spectacular competition with the teams of, another racer, gained him time. CT immense value later in the day.
 The race, which showed an average ol 4s. 26 miles an hour, was unusually SLOW Tor cars of the sixty-hors power class. This was even slower than that diana trophyzevent of yesterday, which reacnea an average speed of 51 Ia miles. The big face of today, it was expected, would naturally exceed this ngure. but the load of trouble which assaiied the cars and drivers from the very beginning, together with the fact tnat the roadway at the turns was lft- eraIiy cut to ribbons by the almost sontnuous performance of the two days racing, slowed down the heavy motors to most unexpected degree and upset all calculations.
 Tne most conspicuous feature of to- oays race from a technical point of psrsormsnoa nsw, was the e, wSsnderfuly consistent start when for six laps he ran neck to neck with Denison, in command of a knox, his average scarcely varied eighteen seconds. penison being put wheel of Locomobile, took up the task of beating the leading Buick car. and after running a close second for three laps. jumped into the lead in the lns while Chevrolet fell back
 o Eof the next three roundsh Chevrolet -Wrestied With load of worry. Seeing him worn down and, all but vanquished his assistants at the. repair pit, re- peatedly signaIleds him to give up. but ne ne, declined and summoning all of his railing strength, sprang into the lead in the fourteenth lap and was never thereafter headed.
 Bouraue Consistent.
 Bourque's perforrhance. while not so sspectacuiar was steady and, consistent. At no time was he worse than f.urth and In the thirteenth lap took the lead for a. brief interval, dropping back, logged determination to the end
 To George Robertson. the big blonde Easterner, piloting one of the Locomo-
 ose t ost Ts # yes hard 50 ran consistently, apparently trying more to save his car than to equal some of the spurts made by drivers whose cars failed to finish the contest. He was never worse than fifth in point of. elapsed time. When "ehevrolet's cylinder valve gave out, Robertson as- the thirteenth lap when his magneto troubles began.
 : At one time he had a lead of twenty four minutes and 1t was generally conceded. that barring. just what did happen; he could not be beaten. But at Lowell. half way around the course. his magneto failed him and the time was lost. He ltnped into the repair ing pit and more valuable moments were lost. while new. magneto was sinstalled and tuned up. He started again. but had scarcely crossed the tape when the sparkling instrument failed once more ai;d Robertson was compelled to stop and go back to his rspairing pit for further overhauling. This cost him the race. However, there was balm to him in the fact that he finished third.
 g4 Trouble resulting in the withdrawa of car after car charaeterized the race fore the finish Florida, in a Locomo- bile, met his. bad luck during the first lap. breaking jackshaft. resulting in his immediate retirement Seymour. driving an Apperson. was not much p better off, engine. trouble compelling him te quit in the fonrth .rognd.
 Strang. the victim of 8 picturesque seTtess of mishaps, on the contrary, astuck to his task with grim singleness pc sRsoi nsP1ess anRno5S RroS aneeS1 iefk1 htnz Ia : 6nAB lap ybefind tho slehder at ah ss begin ndngc of therEourth , to 1hake Yepstrsysn stai erasoAtths les near EpweIE and in 'th seventh sand eighth Tlapst he 1f@ds tJea pscIlitnr perienee of nbreakinE E doNn dIS sthe4 same spot smear ronttnAfed only toTceine &nIDn the next Circuit fwitlEtan mcapacitated meehani- sscianS FaeHs Kun ze ,s who, sW6pn out by. the neat tsandsblinded by,4iYiRg, oil. was -;unabies r tol, goA farther; Amidst great cheering. StFang fed htns to the repair Dit, took on another helper and was again on hlsewaN- .,-Af as-e
 The third car to quit was a.. Buick with Burman at the steering gear. He ended his career, so far as the race was concerned, An ditch in the sixth lap with 8 ruined gasoline tank. He was quickly followed by Denison, in a Rnox, who was forced out by engine Miller's thirteenth lap was fatal to his chances. After mounting from seventh place atatfIe outset to fourth in rthe tWe1ftR6 b oth wheels. of hIs- ma chine came off ,ons the~ rough east leg Tn thiS uniuclkyn ronnds :. In the twelfth Afohhd Ey tt1e TEhidines an Appepson, al- so gave upl z Hes had broken. the rear -spFtngS-of tho car and had made four rounds with the body resting on the - The spectators in the grand stand saw no serious accidents. Probably the most serious affair of the day oc- cured about 3. o'clock when Robert son.s car skidded at the head of the east stretch, struck Theodore Mueller, the hagman at that point, before he could leap aside and broke his arm.
 g Altogether. during the entire day and throughout the course, there were