Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
Spectators, Hardened 10 Excite
ment, Encourage Racers on.
Ray Harroun In Marmon Win
ner but Was Closely Pressed.
MuIford In lozlsr and BFues :
Brown In Flat Take 2nd and Ord.

| Motor Speedway. indianapolis. Ind,
| May 30-One life was sacrificed and
several men were injured today in the
| first 500 mile motor race on a speed
way. The great test of skill and en-
| durance was won by Ray Harroun,
| driving a Marmon car. in 6:41.0S.
| Closely pressing Harroun. were Ralph
milford. with a Lozier. who finished
second, and David Bruce Brown who
drove Fiat in third place.
Many thousand spectators saw the
40 pilots start the race at 10 o'clock
| this morning.
In the most serious accident of the
| day, S. P. Dickson. of Chicago. me-
chanician for Arthur Greiner. driving
an Amplex was killed in an upset on
| the back stretch. The Amplex was in
| it's thirtieth mile. when the rim of one
of the front wheels flew off. and
| Greiner and Dickson were hurled from
their seats. Dickson was instantly
killed. Greiner was knocked uncon-
scious but his only injury was frac-
tured arm. Men injured in the mis-
haps were as follows:
| Dave lie Wise. mechanician for
| lSuus Iet1tdii, kA-o1ictt IibHl le6
broken.
breast bruised and possible internal in
juries.
John T. Glover, knights mechanic
ian; body bruised.
| Bob Evans. mechanician for Jack
Tower Gackson), body bruised when
he leaped from car.
TzL
Jagersburger tcase) run over and
bruised after leaping from car.
The crowd was too big to be con-
trolled by the company of militia and
| the hundreds of special policemen
posted about the grounds. Spectators
| swarmed the infeld when Dickson was
killed and soldiers had to use their
guns as clubs to clear space for this
surgeons. The same scenes were enact
ed when other accidents were report
ed from one point or another around
| the 2ia-mile track.
At the 150-mile mark in the race
Bruce Brown set new record. re-
CARELESS of classification. His time was
| 1.5912, as against Dawson's old mark
| of 20f09
Harroun took the lead In the 1sOth
mile. Then cars began TO cast tires
burned out by the fierce grind over the
brick pavement. Steering gears began
to give way. In front of the grandstand
Joe Jagersburger's Case car got out OF
condition and switched back and forth
across the track. Wood. the mechani-
clan. leaped out and fell and the car
passed over him. Other cars were rush
| ing or him. but all swerved safely ex-
| cept Harry knights Wescott. which
plunged to the inner fence. threw
| Knight and Glover out and careened
against Herbert Lyttle's Apperson.
turning 1t over.
When sthe~Nrac was half over Louis
| Disbrow's Pope Hartford threw tire
at the entrance of the home stretch
and swerved in front of Tetzlaffs Lo-
zier. In the collision the rear wheels of
| Dishrow's car were torn OFF, and this
Lozier turned turtle. Tetzlaffs mocha
nician was caught under the car and
| his leg was broken.
| AS the racers settled to more fixed
positions in the grind woman In a
box tainted and fell from her chair.
| The incident almost caused panic in
the nervous crowd and hysterieal
screams of women started another
small stampede in the grandstand
when Burmans Benz cast tire into
| the air and over the retaining wall.
AS the race proceeded however, &C.
cidents almost ceased and the spec
tators became hardened to the ex-
element. Harroun kept in front.
earning shouts of encouragement.
When he swept into the home stretch
| on his last lap and starter Wagner
gave him the finishing fias. the speed
way enclosure rang with applause that
drowned the loud barking of the
seemingly ceaseless motor explosions.
GIVE me something to eat said
! Harroun as he dragged his stiffened
legs from under the steering gear and
alighted
| A study of the complete score card
for the race, shows that not more
than eight of the forty cars were in
the lead at any stage of the long
grind These were Ray Harroun,
Marmon: Ralph milford, Lozier:
| David Bruce Brown, Fiat: Spencer
| Wishart, Mercedes: Ralph De Palma.
Simplex: Fred Belcher. Knox; John
Aitken, National and Teddy Tetzlaff.
| were forced to withdraw by accidents.
| AT the end of the first 100 Bruce
| Brown led AMulford was second and
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