The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-21
.STRANG IS HERO
OF SECOND DAY
Daring Buick Driver Wins Two
Events on indianapolis
Speedway.
THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS
COURSE is OILED AND MADCAPs
DRIVE AT RECORD CLIP.
CBY NAGNETO)

Indianapolis Aug. ZO--LOuis Strang was
the hero of the second days automobile
speed carnival on tine motor speedway. the
daring Buick driver winning the big loo
mile q. d j. cup race and the nve-mils
stripped chassis event
Straug also set q new mark of 1904 clio
for fifty miles ON a circular track jim
America, but failed by less than thirty
seconds to lower the huudred-miIe mark
MADE by Chevrolet i'm yesterdays big
event. StrangS time for the century was
l:3Z.iS 5-iG. ZengIe, with the Chadwick
SIX, shared houOrs with Strang, by aver
aging lZlz miles for ten minutes in the
opening event.
The public's morbid interest I'm automo-
bile racing has never been better dem
oustrated than by the comparisons Of
Yesterdays and tOdayS crowds at the
speedway Although yesterday was the
opening day Of the Indianapolis big prof.
ecJ ana the program was much more at
tractiVe, Che attendance today was sew
eral thousand larger, and fully 10000 per
sons witnessed the contests, which were
interesting, but no accidents, coIlapses or
breakdOWns resulted.
According TO the order of the A. A. Of
ucials, the track was well oiled during
the night and dangerous spots were re-
paired with the result that there were no
accidents of any kind.
strang Gets Record.
In the feature for the G.. d j. trophy.
Straug took the lead at the outset. and
started to clip out the laps at a dizzy
pace. AT the end of . miles. he was two
laps IN the lead and at the fifty he had
established new record. Up to this
period le had been racing against his
own teammates. Burman and Chevrolet,
but the latter had trouble and retired
Monsoon. the Chicago driver. and StulZ.
lH Mar1ous, had also Withdrawn, leaving
the half of the race 10 be fought between
Strang and BuTmau and H8r0un another
Chicago driver. and SUlImau. i'm MarmOns.
But with STangS ear working perfectly.
there was no chance and ha finished more
than twelve miles to- the good. Bu-uan
was second and HarOuu third less than
a mile behind.
All the star short-distauce drivers
started out for the Sn hung MP for the
winner. ZauEIe, with the Chadwick De
Palma. with the Fiat. OldfaId with his
Benz, and Kahn. with the National six,
and Heiua. with the Tozicr. AN starting
De Palma got away and gained d good
lead ON the first lap. but trouble with his
spark plugs put him out of the running.
and OldfIeld assumed command. only t8
fall by the WaTSTde Oh the third lap. Civ
ing way TO ZenEIe. who held it TO the fin
ish. Aiken finished second with the
Stearns far in the rear.
Large Fields Starts.
Fourteen started i'm the rive-mfe free
Two Nationals gamely fought it out st
the finish. running neck and neck iu the
stretch Aiken was Judged the winner,
kincaid second and Miller. i1 the St0d-
dard. was third. The winners time was
4.25
Only four cars started I'm the fifty-miIe
chassis event two St0dGards and two
Bucks, and only the St0ddards finished
Dewitt and Ryan drove the Stoddards.
Oldfield equalled his record for a mile
against time. made Thursday. by uego-
tiatiug the distance after flying start
in his Benz I'm g 10 seconds
De Palma, who was afraid to drive the
Fiat cyclone on the track. went after the
mile record with Eddie Hearus stock Fiat.
but the best he could do was IS 6-10 sec
Ouds
ZenEIe i'm the Chadwick also failed TO
beat OldGeld's time, his best mark being
80 3-10 seconds.
Msrz, with q National. won the teu-mile
stripped chassis race. with Chevrolet. i'm
the Buick, second, and De Hymal I'm the
Stoddard third. The time was q.16 $40
The opening race of the day was a five
mile affair for stripped chassis went to
StrauE in the Buick. with his teammats
The MaChliU tire people who had equip
ment on all but one winner Yesterday.
repeated their performance today. their
record showing the first three places i'm
the CUD event. first and second i'm the
50-mile events. and firsts iu the 10-mi'e
handicap. frae-foT-ail 10-mila chassis and
five-mile chassis race.