Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-05-31
Tremendous Feats Of Speed
Marx SlaShing Races at In
dianapoIiS Speedway Yestet-
day,
BARNEY 0LDFlELD CHOPS
DOWN MILE SPEED RECORD
Brilliant Performances Of IIar-
roun CuIninate When Grip
pied Machine Crashes inlo
Cement WALL

~, Morning JournaI ssscid Lenssd wirei
Indianapolis, May 10. --tn slashng
races az the indianapolis speedway to-
day new reeotds were ss - the ma
tional championship IA siocN ,ai
classes which will be conteesNl onuu-
ally. Barney OldHeld With his Die
Benz broke tue American speedway
records for the mile aud the l,llomcter
and Ray lIarroun driving a Marmo
topped the time Cor fifty mihs ;or
cars Of 2sl to 500 cubic inches dis
placement
\ crowd Of $4,000 people eheered
the drivers on TO desperate fcats Of
speed and TIE companies of militia
were pressed, hard IN controlling the
eager spectators who overflbwed The
srandstands on 10 the fields strainins
for ncar view OF the heroes OF the
motors.
Oldficld cut tne mile slred record
down rrom 96 flat 10 35.6 and the Kill
ometer record from 23.i 81 2l.f5- Tic
made the forme; records. On the Los
! AaETie. tys.ohs
In t wonderfuslv sustained dush
froun easily led his riNnls ana was
ahead OF the record at 30 and 10 miles
aud the finish His time was 42;ti.
The former record which was fi;is,
Harroun himself set a. Atlanta.
Caleb Bragg the Cincinnati ANA
teur with his Fiat was tho third
star OF the days triumphs. He won
two ten mile and one five mile free
for all race and had to put ~ hard
Itsh fA oh .p fhprn tyit hf Il ir4Chpr-
ia Darracq
For the national championship, the
drivers battled with all their skill
forcing their engines to the limit of
their power The leaders we're al
ready punched In the home stretch
and the contests were not decided liii-
iii the front wheels OF the victor actu-
ally had crossed the wire OF the TIM
ing machine
The entries had been cut down BY
the strict decisions of the technical
OF the American automobile
association which stated that every
Cur that did not comply with every
specification as TO weight and cylin-
der measurements in the various sec
tions should be barred. But the races
were none the less sensational because
OF the smaller fields OF contestants
L. chevrolet, IN Buick. winning
the 16I 10 23O championship for zen
miles, set the record down TO 9:O3
from 9.i6 and Dawson (Marmon)
Wrestling from Harrouu the victory In
the 2S1 to 900 clnss for five miles put
1 now mark at l,4l seven SECONDS
better than the old time.
Oldfield, in a Knox. won huth the
Ave ANA ten mile championship in
.he All to 500 class. which included
HE highest powered cars recognised
nder the stock car racing rules
Leading all the way Oldfield cur
town the record FOR five miles from
1 o. to 4:0i
The honor for getting the champ
onship record for ten miles ~ tne "Vt
20 $50 class went to Aitkeu tNauonail
who pulled down the time lrom S'os
% 1.52
ontv two accidents marred the days
mort and in neither ot them was any
,ne injured. though Harteun had the
,a rrovest escape from death that he
ms ever experienced Ills Marmop
Wasp) with which ne 50 brilliantly
Won the 200 mile race saturday
,urst a tire and hurled itsolf on me
ement wall that guards the margin
n the track q,
Sliding along the top OF the wall
ha car tore a furrow la the cement
or nftV feet and then toppled over,
lineinu Hurromu from his seat lie
licked himself up unhurt' but ms
Wasp" was q snarl of steel II was
ulv partial consolation ior ms loss
then f. li Wheeler. vice president OF
he speedway company. leading h'm
afnre me thronged erandStands pre-
ented him with the $4,000 silver
.ophA and check Tor $1,000 Whlch
.on in the two hundred mile race,
The second accident of the daN oc-
urred in the five mile frcc-tor-al
hon Kirscher's DarrlcQ cast high In
be- air one of its front tires sum
ioninr an his strength the driver
.ld his rarpenine fi,ing ear true to
le track aud CuailN turned IL OFT 10
ic inner rield amt stopped lt sifeis IN
le sand.