The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-31
MOTOR SPEEDWAY

MOlOR SPEEDWAY, indianapolis.
Ind. May 3o,-One life was sacrificed and
several men were injured today in the
first 500-mile race on a speedway. won
by Ray Harroun. driving a Marmon car.
In hours. Al minutes and seconds
Closely pressing Harroun for victory
were Ralph Mulford, with a Lozier. who
finished second. and David Bruce Brown
in q Flat. good third
Sevcntyseyen thousand persons
shouted announcement TO the forty pilots
| who started the race at 10 o'clock this
morning. and with unflagging enthu-
slasm chcered The leaders in the last
laps and watched the field pound around
the course in division OF the lesser
honorS.
In the most serious accident of the
day, S. p. Dickson OF Chicago. mechani
clan for Arthur Greiner, driving an Am
| pick. lost his life in an upset on the back
stretch. The race had been on but
few minutes and the Amplex was In It's
! the front wheels flew off.
Dickson Meets Death.
The car twisted on the track. hurlins
| Greincr and Dickson from their seals
| Dickson was thrown against fence
| twenty feet away and was terribly man
| gled. He was killed instantly.
Greiner was unconscious when picked
up. and II was feared he had a. concus-
sion of the brain. but when revived al
| the field hospital 1t was found his only
injury was fractured arm.
Succeeding accidents thrilled the imi-
mense crowd. which, with nerves at high
| grandstand and momentarly expected a
| carnival OF death as the racers sM
| around the course in groups at terrific
speed. Men injured In the mishaps were
! Dave Lewis, mcchanIcian for Teddy
| Tetzalaff Lozier), right leg broken near
| nip.
Harry e Knight, driver OF westcott.
breast bruised and possible internal In
| juries.
John r. Glover, knights mcchanician.
| body bruised.
| Bob Evans. mcchaniclan Tor JACK
| Tower (Jackson). body bruised when he
leaped from car in panic.
John Wood, mechanlcjan :vr Joe ia
sersburger (Casc), run over and badly
bruised,
The crowd was too large TO be con-
| trolied by tho militia and the hundreds of
| policemen posted about the grounds.
Spectators Swarm on Field,
The spectators swarmed across the In
| field when Dickson was killed and pressed
| closely about his body and that OF the
unconscious Grainer Soldiers fought To
! clear a space for the surgeons when the
| ambulance arrived
The crowd was Wild with excitement
after the first accident, and brushed back
and forth over the field when other acci-
dents were reported In the stand men and
| women were on their feet for hours.
| cheering their fayorites and Eroanlng
with apprehension when cars crashed in
ia cars or ran off the Inner edge OF the
track,
In the earlier part OF the race the track
was so filed that the races seemed but
an exhibition OF speeding automobiles, AT
the $50 miles Bruce Brown had set a new
record. regardless OF classification His
time was l:09I2 as against Dawson s
old mark OF 2:0l;09,
| When Hsrroun took the lead in the
Tooth mile the race took form and then
the crowds interest was heightened and
divided between the contests and catas-
| trophies that were momcntartly impend
ing
The cars began 10 cast their tires
| burned out by the fierce grind over the
speedway's brick pavement. Steering
| front OF the grand stand Joe Jagers-
burgers Case car got away from him
and switched bnck and forth across the
| track.
Wood g Narrow Escape.
Wood the mechanician, loapcd out and
fell and the car passed over him He
Law In q path OF death. FOR other cars
were rushing upon him, An swerved
| tho track side with the exception OF
Harry knights Westcott, which plunged
TO the inner fence. threw out Knight and
Glover and caracned against Herbert
Lytle's Apperscn. turning II over,
A scream from woman when the
race WAS half over, caused tho crowd In
the grand stand To look toward the north
| end of the home stretch Louis Dis
brow's Pope Hartford had thrown tire
and swerved In front of Tctziaggs l-o-
zier. A collision followed in which the
rear wheels OF Disbrows car were torn
off and the Lozier turned turtle Tetz-
Iafr's mechanician WAS caught under tho
car and his leg broken.
The roar OF The motors. bclchinC flame
and smoke from the eXhausts, and the
| continuous cheering Of tho multitude
was doafcping as the race drew into its
last hundred miles.
| Hystcrcal screams OF women in tn"
southern grand stand when Burman' S
EpnZ cast "a tire over the retaining wall
were heard above the deeper roar of the
, grand stand and bleachcrs.
Ovation to Harroun.
IN the latter part OF the race acci-
dents ceased md the spectators became
composed md ccntercd attention on the
+ | struggle that larroun WAS winning.
| shouts OF encouragement rose In Il steady
crescendo. and when hc swept In the
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