The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-31
MANY RECORDS
ARE LOWERED
Daring Automobile Drivers
Burn Up Father Time in
Slashing Races.
0LDFIELD GETS MILE
AND KIL0METER MARKS
Fifty-Five Thousand People At
tend Automobile Races; No
One Seriously Injured.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 30,--In slashing
races at the Indianapolis speedway today
. new records were set for tho national
championships III stock-car classes. which
will be contested annually, Barney Old
field, with his big Benz. broke the Ameri-
can speedway records for the mile and
the kilometer, and Ray Iarroun, driving
Marmion topped the time for fifty miles
Tor cars of 23l 10 800 cubic inches piston
displacement.
drivers on to desperate fests oi speed,
and the companies of militia were pressed
hard in controlling the eager spectators.
field straining for a near view OF the
heroes OF the motors.
Odf1eld cut the mile speedway record
down from 30 fiat TO 30 6. and the kilo
meter record from :23 to :2l.i5 lie
made the former records on the Los An
geles track
In a wonderfully sustained dash
throughout the fifty mile race, Harroun
easily led his rivals and was ahead OF the
record at thirty and forty miles and the
finish. His time was 42:4l. The former
record, which was i4:4S, Harroun himself
had set at Atlanta.
Amateur Makes Fight.
Caleb Bragg. the Cincinnati amateur.
with his Fiat. was the third star OF the
days triumphs He won two ten-milee
had TO put up a hard fight for each OF
them with Kirschner In a Darracq.
For the national championships the
drivers battled with all their skill. fore
ing their engines to the limit OF their
power. The leaders were always punched
In the home stretch and the contests were
not decided until the front wheels OF the
victor actually had crossed the wire OF
the timing machine.
L. Chevrolet. in a Buick, winning the
16l TO SOC championship for ten miles, set
the record down 10 903 from 9:46, and
Dawson (Marmion), wrestling from Har
rroun the victory in the 23l to 800 class
seven seconds better than tho old time.
Oldfeld Is There.
oldfeld in a Knox. won both the five
and ten-mile championships in the 45l
to 500 class. which included the highest
powered ears recosnized under the stock
car racing rules. Leading all the way,
Oldheld cut down the record for five
miles from f:03 to 4:0l
The honor for setting the champion
ship record for ten miles in the 361 TO
$50 class went TO Attken (NationaD, who
pulled down the time from sos TO 752.
Only two. accidents marred the days
one injured, though Harroun had the mar
rowest escape from death that he had
ever experienced. His Marmion Wasp"
with which he so brilliantly won the 900
mile race Saturday. burst 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 a furrow In the cement for fifty
feet and then topped over. flinging Har-
roun from his seat He picked himself |
up unhurt. but his Wasp" was a snarl |
Of steel II was only partial consola-
ton for his loss when f. II. Wheeock. |
ice-president OF the Speedway company |
leading him before the thronged grand |
stands presented him with the $40 900 |
silver trophy and a check for $1,000 |
which he won in the two hundred mile |
race.
The second accident OF the day oc-
CURED in the five mile free for-alI when
kirschner's Darracq cast high in the air 1
one Of its front tires. Summoning all his |
strength the driver held the careening |
flying car true to the track and finally |
turned II off to the inner field and |
stopped il safely in the sand.
Z The summaries:
Reed. driving a Stoddard- -Payton won |
the hve-mile free -for-all handicap in a |
field OF sixteen cars. His handicap was
81 seconds. Touscy (NationaD. 81 see
onds was second and Aitken (NationaD, |
p seconds, third. Time. 1856.
Oldheld (knoN), won brilliant victory
In the ten-mile championship for cars
451 TO 500 inches displacement with
Merz (NationaD. second. and Kincaid
(NationaD, third Time, 75O.75.
In a fierce contest in the home stretch
Aitken (NationaD, won the champion
ship for ter miles for cars OF sol to $50
inches displacement and set new
record. 1871. Kincaid (NationaD was
a close second. with Merz (NstionnD.
third. The former record in this class
was sos. which kincaid himself made
last Saturday.
Harroun (Marmon), won the 5o-mile