Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-31

Tho most seriously injured. 1t was
tated at the hospital today. are Harry
Knight. driver Of the Westcott car. his
mechanician, John T. Glover. and c. l..
Anderson. mechanician Of the Case
car.
Indianapolis, Ind. May 31.-A large
majority Of the $4,000 spectators of the
spectacle at the speedway paid their
money not to see a contest between
man and man but a contest between
man and death. In this contest one
man was killed and five injured.
Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon
car. won the race. which covered 500
miles, Mulford. in a Lozier, was sec
ond, and Bruce-Brown. in Fiat, third.
Harrouns time was 6:41:oS.
Over the throngs Of twentieth CEN
tury Americans. gathered in the sun
light OF an ideal Indiana summer day.
hung the spirit Of the Roman coliseum
and the Spanish bull ring.
The crowd did not turn its thumbs
down and cry 'Habet!" but it did shout
speed! Speed" cheered every reckless
act Of the drivers slithering over the
slippery track, and exhibited little con-
cern for the dead and wounded.
Altho only one man was killed. and
he not close to the stands, the specta-
tors had their full share OF thrills. The
game between man and death was not
as one sided as the final score might
seem to Indicate.
Death forced the fighting and often
came 20 near to scoring that thousands
OF the scorers credited him with the
points he seemed sure to be about to
make.
psath oS Dickson Predicted.
These incidents in the game were
also unexpected. The death OF 8. p.
Dickson, mechanician of the Amplex
car driven by Arthur Greiner. was not
unexpected. In fact, many men pre-
dicted it Monday when they learned
the '7boodoo car" Only most Of them
the race and they thought that both
men would be killed.
How Greiner escaped is q mystery.
Both front wheels and one rear wheel
were torn off. The two tanks were rip
ped from the car, one crushed and the
other torn open. There wasn't any
steering wheel left. Dickson looked as
II he had been chopped with an AK.
AS Greiner lay on q cot on the grass
near the course an hour after the acci-
dent smoking cigar and watching the
racers he explained how It happened.
There was something wrong with
the ,rtm." he said, "and it let the whole
tire fly off, altho the tire had not blown
up. Il threw us Off little and we ran
into the grass beside the track. didn't
shut off power, thinking that we could
run back on the track, but we struck
cuivert or something and went over. I
remember the first time the car rolled
over being crouched in there with the
machine over me, but the second time
It rolled over something hit me on the
head and was knocked unconscious"
Greinee's Injuries Not Serious.
Greiner is hurt in the left arm and
right leg, but neither injury. is serious.
He makes much of the fact that the
smash came during his thirteenth lap,
altho when he decided to ride the man
killing car, he sought to have its num-
Der changed from twelve to thirteen.
No car had been given the number
thirteen. The officials not only re-
fused, but exchanged the numbers on
the two Amplex cars 80 that the num-
berT II bore. in the race was forty
four.
One Of the post spectacular acci-
.-ents ever seen on any race track took
place directly In front Of the main
grandstand at 1880 p. m, when four
cars were piled up and three men sent
to the. hospital.
Car 8 Case, Joe Jasersburger driver,
broke its steering rod some fifty yards
(. before resthing the Judges stand on
its eighty-ninth lap and scraped,
reeled. ana wabbled down the center
Of the course to a similar distance
pasfs the starting tape.
AS It careened on its way the me-
chanician. G. Z. Anderson. was seen
20 rise from his seat and stand on
the edge of the car. The car jerked
" under the car, the left rear wheel
OF which passed over his neck and
back. - u -.
He lifted himself on his hands and
lay there fswaying drunkenIy as three
cars. well punched, came tearing down
the stretch toward him.
Spectacular Course Of Car.
Harry Cobe and Jack Tower, driving
Jackaons fairly did figure IS as they
shot past him with unslackened speed,
but Harry Knight in d wescott tried
both 20. dodge him and to stop.
As he put on his brakes his car
began to skid shot at right angles
across the track for the crowded re-
pair pits. and the throngs behind
them, hit Herbert Lytle,s empty Ap-.
person that stood at one OF the pits
turned upside down. and began doing
pinWheele down the track. while