The Washington times., 1911-06-01
Only Four Substituted in
Great Event at Indian
apolis.
THOUSAND USED
BY THE FORTY CARS
Bruce-Brown Will Get Second
Honors If Protest Is
Sustained.
By HARRY WARD.

An analysis of the 500-mile race on
the Indianapolis speedway Tuesday,
which was won by Ray Harroun,
would indicate it was a battle of
tires, the greatest factor in motor
racing. Without taking any credit
away from Harroun's Marmon car, II
is evident the Bedouin driver won,
because he did not have to change
more than four tires. an occurrence
never duplicated since the inception
of fast motor racing. The fact that
more than one thousand tires were
used up by the forty cars participat-
ing in the race shows the awful
strain the tires were subjected to.
Averaging seventy-flve miles an hour
in a 500-mile race and changing only
four tires is a performance that will
long stand as record in automobile
racing.
II a protest filed with the contest
board Of the American Automobile
Association by David Bruce Brown,
the Fiat pilot is sustained, second
nonors in the race will be taken from
Ralph Mulford and given to Brown.
Brown claims the scoring was mac
curate, and to determine this fact
thorough investigation is now under
way by officials of the three AS.
Since the timing arran gementS We're
excellent there is no doubt that the Of
ficials can straighten out what now
seems to be a tangle but il will require
much work to check up the records, in
cluding those of the dictaphones, the
adding machines. the timing machine
and the other methods by which the
score was kept.
Officials say there is no possibility of
a mistake after the records are properly
tahulated. In order to ascertain the
correct standing of the leaders all the
lap records of the forty cars that start
ed in the race will nave 10 be checked
up from beginning to end. Complaint
is made by several OF the drivers that
they ran their cars one or more laps
after they had made the 200 laps neces-
sary to complete the 500 mile race, and
that while they were running these eN-
ira laps other cars finished ahead of
them, according to semi-ohfclal scores.
According to o. w. Sedwick possibly
this was done, but Re added that a reVi-
sion of the scorers records would leave
no doubt as to the accurate standing of
the winners.
T. Browning Spence, president Of Of
Washington, and one of the best
known men in the motor trade of this
city, sprung a surprise yesterday by
announcing he had sold his interest
In the company to John H. Nolan.
1t is expected the company will hold
a meeting next week for the election
of officers. At the present time the
company has the agency for Mathe-
son, Pope-Hartford, Everitt, Oakland,
and Columbus electric Cars.
With President E. P. Chalfant at
the wheel of a big siX-cylinder
Thomas, and Factory Manager Glea-
son in the tonneau, and Chief En-
gineer Frank Trego and Mr.. McCulla,
of the Thomas experimental room, in
another car of the same design, and
General Superintendent Bill" Birm-
ingham and Engineer Jerome in two
other cars of the same type, one of
the hardest tests ever given an au-
tomobile has just been completed.
The cars were driven from Buffalo to
Laurel Ridge and Cove mountain, in
Pennsylvania, the best testing ground
in the Allegheny mountains, over the
worst road in the world. The cars
came through the tests with flying
Colors.
Congratulations are being showered
on Frank Boyd upon his appointment
as manager of the Boston branch Of
the Century Tire Company. Mr.. Boyd
has represented the Warner Speed
ometer Company in this city and sur
rounding territory for a number of
years. He is a member of the Auto
mobile Club Of Washington and has
acted as an official in every automo-
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