The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-30
SpeeCng Amplex Car on the
Eighth Round Bursts Tire,
Killing Mechanician Dick
son Instantly.
DRIVER GREINEr3
EXPECTED LIVE
At Noon Today There Were
$4,000 People Within the
Speedway Park Race Is
Hotly Contested.
(National News Association

tNational News ASSoclatlon)
Indianapolis. May 30-Mecanician
S. P. Dickson was killed outright and
Arthur Greiner, a millionaire driver of
Chicago, was quite seriously injured
when a tire on the Amplex car which
Greiner was driving exploded and the
car rolled over several times, landing
in the ditch at the east turn of the
Speedway on the eighth lap of the
great Ave hundred mile contest
With ideal racing conditions, and
countless thousands pouring into the
famous Speedway enclosure. forty
qualified entrants dashed away
promptly at 10 o'clock after being pi-
loted once around on the preliminary
lap by President Carl G. Fisher. John
ny Aitken of indianapolis, driving a
National car soon took the lead, with
Spencer Wishart in a Mercedes, Sec
ond. At the end of ten miles the Mer-
cedes was leading.
TWO Racers Retire.
Lap by lap the pace grew hou.er un-
til at SEVENTEEN mile, racers were
making IS miles an hour. At this
stage David Bruce Brown, a million
aire driver in Fiat car was leading,
De Palma second, and Aitken third.
Taylor Bragg, Cincinnati million.
aire driver in Fiat, broke crank
shaft, as did Arthur Chevrolet in a
Buick car, both retiring from the CON
test, but escaping injury. The leaders
changed frequently until at the hun.
dred miles Brown in a Fiat was lead
ing again, Mulford in Losier, second.
Harroun in Marmon, third. Time.
one hour, twenty-five minutes.
At noon President Fischer estimat.
ed the crowd at $4,000. At the 40
miles. practically a quarter Of the to.
tai distance, an average of nearly
eighty miles an hour had been main.
tained
Grenier May Live
1t was announced this afternoon
that Grenier's injuries were much less
serious than first thought.
Dickson was son of a Chicago
newspaper man. Several machines
became crippled during the steady
grind, and several thrilling accidents
occurred in front Of the grand stand
but fortunately only broken leg was
sustained by mechanician Dave Lew,
is when the Lozier care, No "a, smash
ed into a Pope-Hartford, No. 5, after
the latter suddenly became disabled
This was the most serious accident af
ter the Dickson-Greiner smashup. An.
other smashup in front fthe grand
stand sent several sprawling over the
track but the following cars were flag
ged in time to prevent serious rsslts
At 240 miles Harroun in a Marman cal
was in the lead, Bruce Brown, second
De Palma in Simplex third. Time
3:01:10.
A scare was thrown into the grand
stand about two o'clock when the
steering gear on Case car No. s. driv
en- by Joe Jagersberger, snapped
throwing the left wheel at right an
ggle with the track and skidding the
mahcine across the track. Mechani
clan L. Anderson fell out OF the ma
chine and rolled on the track where
he lay for an instants as if expecting
to be hit. W. L. Studebaker, driving
Horroun's S Marmon care was Tagged
in time to save Anderson's life
There was some excitement following
until the Case car was removed from
the track.
| Harry knight, driving Westcott cal
No. I, turned to avoid hitting L. An
derson as he lay on the track after
being thrown out of Case car No. s
The movement threw Knights cal
ibroadside against the Benz repair pil
breaking down three of Knights
wheels and caving in the side of the
pit Neither knight nor his mechan
lician. John T. Glover was hurt
though they suffered few bruises.
Bob Evans, mechanician for Jacl
Tower. driving for T. Jackson, in No
"a, jumped from the car on the bacl
stretch for no reason at all other thar
that he was crazed by the nerve
wrecking grind
| 1t was not thought that Evans was
badly injured if at all He was taker
to the hospital however for thorough
examination. On the 210th mile there
were 81 Of the original 40 starters ii
the race. H2rroun in the Narmon was
first. Ralph De Palma in the Simple,
second, while Bruce Brown who lee
so long in his Fiat was in third place
Time for ESQ miles was 3:50:15.
4 $4,000 PURSE.
Indianapolis, May 3O.-The intefna
tional sweepstakes event which open
ed the annual Speedway meet also
iushered IN the frst year Of the grand