The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-31
HARBOUR IS
STILL KING
OF SPEEDWAY
Grssl indianapolis Race Won
BY Pennsylvania Driver In
Record Time

indianapolis, ma, May si-Ont
4 lie WAS sacrificed and several mel
We're injured Tuesday III the FIRST five
hundred mile race On speedway
won by Ray Harroun driving q Mar
mon car, in c hours, II minutes and !
seconds, Closely pressing harFunn
ioi a victory we're Ralph Muiford
With Lozier. who finished second
land David Bruce Brown In a Fiat
Va good third
Sepenty.seven thousand persons
shouted encouragenent TO the forty
pilots who started the race at III
o'clock and with unllagging enthus
liasm eheered the leaders In the last
laps and watched the field pound
Earound the course iii division Of less
er honors
IN the most serious accident of the
day. y, n. Dickson, ol Chicago, me-
lchanician for ARTHUR Greiner, driy.
ing an Amplex, lost his life in an up
set On the back stretch The race
had been on but a few minutes and
the Ampiex was in its thirtieth mile,
when the rim OF one Of the front
wheels flew off.
The car twisted on the track, hurl.
ing Greiner and Dickson from their
seats, Dickson was thrown against a
fence twenty feet away ana was ter
ribly mangled. He was killed in1
stantly.
Gfenler was unconscious when
picked up, and ii was feared lie had
la conclusion OF the brain. but when
revived at the field hospital 1t was
iound his only injury was a fracture
arm.
Accidents Thrilled Crowd
Succeeding accidents thrilled the
immense crowd which, with nerves
Fat high tension. watched the carr
flash BY sne grand stand and mo-
.mentarily expected carnival Of
Death
The cars at times swept around the
course III groups al terrific speed
Men injured In the mishaps we're:
Dave Lewis. mechanician for Ted
dy Tetzlaif tLozierl, right Tex brok-
en- near hip
Harry H. Knight driver of West.
cott. breast bruised and possible in
ternai injuries.
John T. Glover. knights mechani-
clan. body bruised
Bob Evans. mechaniclan for Jack
Tower. (Jackson) body bruised when
he leaped from car in panic.
John Wood, mechanlcian for Joe
Jagersburger (Casel, run over and
badly bruised.
The crowd was too large to be con.
trolled BY the militia, and the hum
dreds OF special policemen posted
about the grounds. The spectators
swarmed across the inGeld when
Dickson WAS killed ana pressed close
about his body and that OF the un-
conscious Greiner Soldiers fought
to clear space for the surgeons
when the ambulance arrived.
The throng was wild with excite
ment after the first accident ant
rushed back and forth over the field
when other accidents were reported.
In the stand men and women were
Oh their feet for hours, cheering
their fayorites aud grooming with ap-
prehension when cars crashed into
cars or ran OIL the inner edge Of the
track.
Cars Cast Their Tires
The cars began 70 cast their tires,
burned out By the aerce grind over
the yeeeiway's brick pavement
Steering geers began 10 give way. Di.
rectly IN front OF the grand stand,
Joe Jagershurger's Case car got away
from him aud switched back and
forth across the track.
Wood, the mechanician, leaped cut
ana fell and the car passed over him
He lay III q path Of death, Eor others
sweryed safely BY as he rose and
staggered to the track, with the eX-
ception OF Harry knights Westcott
which plunged into the inner fence,
threw out Knight and Glover and
careened against Herbert Lyttle's Ap-
person, turning il over.
"a scream from q woman when the
race was half over faced the crowd
ia the grand stand toward the north
end OF the home stretch Louis Dis
brows pope-IIartford had thrown e
tire and swerved la front ol Tetz-
lati's Loyier
collision followed In which the
rear wheels Of Disbrow's car We're
torn OF and the Lozier turned turtle.
TetzlaT's mechanlcian was eanght un-
der the ear ana his leg broken.
The roar of the motors. bclching
flame an dsmoke frcm the oXhausts,
ANA the continuous cheering Of the
multitude Ia the grand stands and
hleachers was deafening as the race
grew into It's last hundred miles.
Cverwraupht Woman Faints
An oyerwrought woman In a box
tainted and fell from her chair and
the incident almost caused panic In
The nervous crowd. liystericai
screams of women In the southern
grand stand when Burman's Benz
cast a tire, over the retaining wall,
were heard above the deeper roar Of
The grand stand and hleaehers.
In tile latter part Of the race acci-
dents ceased and the spectators be-
came composed and conferred atten-
tion on the struggle that Harronnl
was winning. shouts Of encourage