Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-31
AUTO DEMOLISHED;
HARBOUR ESCAPES
Car Tears Into Cement Wall at
Races at Indianapolis
When Tire Bursts
DRIVER HURLED FROM SEAT
Barney 0IdfieId and Victim of the
Crash Smash Marks in
Three Events
DRIVER HURLED FROM SEAT
ASSOCIATED Press1

INDIANAPOLIS. May 30.-In slash
ing races at the indianapolis speedway
today new records were set in the ma
tional championships in stock car
classes which will be held annually.
Barney OIdfeld, with his big Benz
broke the American speedway records
for the mile and the kilometer, and
Ray Harroun, driving Marmon
topped the time for fifty miles for cars
Of 231 to goo cubic inches piston dis
placement
Only two accidents marred the day S
sports and In neither of them was any
one injured, though Harroun had the
narrowest escape from death that he
had ever experienced. His Marmon,
wasp" burst a tire and hurled itself
on the cement wall that guards the
margin of the track. Sliding along the
top of the wall the car tore q furrOW
in the cement for fifty feet and then
toppled over, finging Harroun from
his seat. He picked himself up un-
hurt, but his car was a snarl of steel.
1t was only partial consolation for his
loss when F. H. Wheelocl, vice presi-
dent Of the Speedway company lead
ing him before the thrOnged grand
stands, presented him with the $4,000
silver trophy and a check for $1,000,
which he won in the 200mile race
CURED in the five-mile free-fOr-all,
when Kerscher's Darracq cast high in
the air one of it's front tires. Sum
mOning all his strength the driver held
his careening. flying car true to the
track and finally turned it off to the
inner field and stopped it safely in the
sand. Summary:
Ten miles, free-for- r-all-Bragg (FiaO first,
Kincaid (NationaD second, Greiner NationaD
third time 1919. Kirscher Darracq) threw
tire.
Ten miles, 121 to 23O displacement-Chevro-
let (Buick) first. Burman BuiclD second,
Prayer Firestone) third, Miller Warren-
DetroiD third; time $685.
Five miles, championship, 231 to 300 dis
placement-Dawson (Marmon) first, Harroun
Odarmon) second. nderson CMarmon) third;
time 4:41.3 old record 44S.
| Five miles free-for- -all-Bragg FiaD first,
Kirscher (Darracq) second, Aitken CNationaD
third time 3:34.s.
! Ten miles, championship, 231 to 300 dis
| placement-Harroun Marmom first, Dawson
(Marmon) second, Clark (Cutting) third;
time 9;251.
Five miles championship, 451 to GOO displace-
ment-Oldfed CKnok) first, Atken (Nation-
all second Kincaid (NatonaD third; time
4:O1.3; old record 4:43.
Five miles, championship, SO1 to 45O dis
1
(NationaD third; time 4:o6.7.
Speed trials-Oldheld, in 2oO-horsepowe
Benz, kilometer in 2145; old record 237. Old
field (same carl mile in 81; speedway record
Five miles, handicap-Reed (Stoddard
Dayton) 81 seconds, first; Tousey NationaD
"a seconds, second; Aitken (National( 27 Sec
onds, third Time. 1855. Sixteen starters.
| Ten miles, championship 451 to 900 displace-
ment-Oldfed (KnolO first, Merz NationaD
second Kincaid (NationaD third; time 1850 10
Ten miles, championship, sol to 450 dis
placement-Aitken (NationaD first; Kincaid
! CNationaD second Merz (NationaD third
| time 1911. New record.
Ten miles, free-for-all, second race in
classic-Bragg FiaD first, Kerscher Darracq)
second, Aitken CNationaD third; time 1902.
| Speed trial mile-Goldfeld Benz)i
time 356 American record. Former record
1922.
Fifty miles, 231 to 300 displacement-Harroun
! CMarmon) first, Jackson (Marmon) second
Fox Pope Hartford third, Kancaid (Great
Westerly fourth, Anderson (Marion) fifth,
Clark (Cutting) sixth; time 42:4l.6. New
record