The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-22
Elimination Trials for Great Con-
test at indianapolis May 80
Will Take Place Next
Saturday
FORTy-SIX CARS ARE ENTERED
Those Who Make Required Speed Will
Be Permitted to Participate in
500 Mile Sweepstake Race
Memorial Day.

Indianapolis, Ind. May 22.-Highly
| tuned and mechanically as perfect
as the skill OF tne modern motor car
maker can produce rorty-six of the
fastest racing automobiles ever as
sembled are at the Indianapolis Mo-
tor Speedway awaiting the elimina-
tion trials next Friday whicn will
determine whether they are eligible to
start in the 500-mile International
sweepstake race on Memorial Day,
May 30. Every car must show speed
of seventy-flve miles an hour to quail
~ for one of the greatest races I'm the
history OF the motor contest sport.
When the entries to this event were
closed May /, there were forty-six
cars entered, manned by a list of driv-
ers which includes every well known
pilot i'm America as well as several
who made their regulations I'm Europe
before coming to the United States.
interest is Keen.
IL has been nine months since the
initial announcement of this contest
was made by the promoters and each
month has witnessed an increase of
interest on the part or the public as
well as the manufacturer Almost six
months ago the first entry was made.
when a Case car. with Lewis Strang
as the driver, was entered. From that
time on the entries were sent I'm stead
l..
together for one event was announce
ed wnen the entries were closed. The
greatest number of entries i'm any one
contest previous 60 this time was
twenty-six.
Big Prizes Offered.
The long race has assumed even
greater proportions than the promot-
ers had anticipated when the purse
of $4,000 i'm gold was offered for the
winners of the first ten places A cap
ital prize of $4,000 beaded a list of
nine others as follows: Second. s5.-
900; third, $4,000; fourth. $4,000: fifth.
$1,000; sixth. $1,000; seventh. $500;
eighth. 800; ninth, 5000; tenth. $500.
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have been added side prizes by vari-
Gus accessory makers, which bring
the total to be won up TO about s4O,-
900. Supplementing the cash prizes
are ten bronze plaques which will be
given to the entrants of the ten win
ming cars. 1t long mas been the rule i'm
motor car racing that the drivers
shall receive the cash prizes and the
makers the trophies.
Conditions Of Race.
The conditions of the race. which is
class Il event, are that each car
shall weigh at least 1900 pounds and
have no more than 500 cubic inches
piston displacement. This makes cars
up to about 120 horse power eligible.
The forty-six cars have a total of 20,
$50 cubic inches OF piston dsplace-
ment, giving an average of 43S cubic
inches per car. according to its motor
constructions The majority of the
cars I'm the race I'm their try-out have
averaged about 95 to 100 miles per
hour, while many Of them are capable
of doing two miles per minute. TaeI
entry fee paid by the entrants was
$500 per car.
Estimates on the average speed
which will be attained I'm the long race
have varied widely. but experts eX-
press belief that the winner will
travel the 500 miles at a rate Of about
75 miles per hour.
The race will start at ten o'clock in
the morning and probably the winner
will cross the tape on his last lap
about o'clock I'm the afternoon.