The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-31
AUTO RECORDS
WERE SMASHED
At SPRINGFIELD
0lddeld Broke the American
Speedway Record for Mile
and Kilometer
HARR0UN SUSTAINED WONDERFUL
DASH THROUGHOUT FIFTY MILES
Fierce Contest for Ten Mile Was Won
by Aitkin in s01 to $50 Displacement
Cars-Ten Mile Free for All Was
Hub to Hub.

Indianapolis, May 31.-In slashing
races at the indianapolis speedway
yesterday new records were set for
the national championships in stock
car classes, which will be contested
annually Barney Oldfield, with his
big Benz, broke the American speed
way record for the mile and the kill
ometer, and Ray Harroun, driving a
Marmon, topped the time for fifty
miles for cars of 231 to 300 cubic
inches displacement.
A crowd of $4,000 people cheered
the drivers on to desperate. feats of
speed and the companies of militia
pressed hard in controlling the
spectators who overflowed the
ldstands.
Ndfield cut the mile speed record
down from SO fiat to 35.6 and the kill
ometer record from 1871 to 21.45. He
made the former records on the Los
Angeles track.
In wonderfully sustained dash
throughout the fifty miles race, Har-
roun easily led his rivals and was
ahead of the record at thirty and forty
miles and the finish. His time was
42.41. The former record, which was
44.48, Harroun himself had set at At
lanta.
For the national championships, the
drivers battled with all their skill,
forcing their engines to the limit Of
their power. The leaders were al
ways punched in the home stretch
and the contests were not decided un-
til the front wheels of the victors
actually had crossed the wire of the
timing machine.
L. Chevrolet in a Buick, winMng
the 161 to 230 championship for ten
miles,. set the record down to 9:o3
from 9:46 and Dawson (Marmon)
Wrestling from Harroun the victory in
the 23f~to 300 class for five miles put
a new mark at 4:41, seven seconds
better than the old time.
Oldf1eld, with Knox, won both the
five and ten-mile championships in
the .451 to 600 class. Leading all the
way. Oldfeld cut down the record for
five miles from 4:03 to 4:01.
Only two accidents marred the days
sport and in neither of them was any-
one injured, though Harroun had the
narrowest escape from death that he
had experienced in all his days of
racing. His Marmon wasp" burst q
tire and hurled itself on the cement
wall that guards the upper margin
Of the track. The car tore a furrow
in the cement for fifty feet and then
toppled over, f1inging Harroun from
his seat. He picked himself up un-
hurt.
The second accident Of the day oc-
CURED in the five mile free for all
which Kirscher's Darracq cast high
in the air one of it's front tires.
Reed driving q Stoddard- Dayton
won the five mile free for all handicap
in field of sixteen cars. His handi-
cap was 81 seconds. Tousey, ma
tionaD, "a seconds, was second; and
Aitken, (National). 81 seconds, was
third. Time, 1886.
In q fierce contest in the home
stretch Aitken (NationaD won the
championship for ten miles for cars
Of 301 to $50 inches displacement, and
set new record, 1871. Kincaide.
(NationaD, was a close second with
Merz, (NationaD, third. The former
record in this class was sos which
Kincaide made last Saturday.
Hub to hub Bragg FiaD and Kir-
schner, (Darracq), fought out the ten
mile free for all to the home stretch
when Bragg set the crowd wild with
a sensational burst Of speed which
took him over the timing wire fifty
feet ahead of Kirschner Aitken ma
tionaD third. Time 1902.
Nine cars started in the biggest race
of the day, the first event on the pro-
gram, fifty miles for cars of 231 to
300 inches displacement. The prize
being silver trophy valued at $2.50O.
The starters were: Fox. (Pope-Hart-
ford). Scherf1er. (Jackson), Anderson,
(Marion), Miller, (Warren-Detroit),
Kincaide. (Great Westerly, Harroun,
(Marmon), Dawson. (Marmon). Clark,
(Cutting). and Bisbee. (Cutting).
Harroun won the fifty miles for cars
of 231 to 300 displacement, lowering
the record. His time was 42:41.6.
Harroun held the former record of
44:48.98. Dawson was second and
Fox third. Kincaide, fourth; Ander-
son, fifth; Clark, sixth.
STILL PROBING