Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-31
Arthur Greiner, Driver of Amplex Car,
is Badly Injured.
LOzIER AND PoPE.HARTFoRD OUT
Both Cars Are Wrecked and Mechani-
clan Lewis is Hurt.
GREAT GRANDsTANDs CROWDED
EIEhty-Five Thousand Persons See
start of COntest-TwO Men Hurt
when Case Car Breaks It's
steering Gear.


SPEEDWAY, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May
SO.-Ray Harroun, driving Marmon car.
won the 5OO-mile race today in hours, 81
minutes. s seconds. Mulfcrd OLozier) was
second and Bruce Brown (FiaO was third.
As Harroun drove up to the Marmon pit
he was surrounded by a wildly enthusi-
astic crowd. cheering him and trying to
grasp his hands. he ran his car into the
infield and stopped.
Gee, I'm hungry" he said, as he
crawled out from under the steering wheel.
Asked to make a formal statement, the
victor in the first 5OO-mile race ever run on
a speedway said:
IAN credit is due my car for the bril-
liant victory At no time was the throttle
wide open and l relied solely on consistent
high speed to win for me over occasional
bursts in the back stretch The weather
was noticeably warm, although 1 did not
suffer in any way from the heat
The last hundred miles was by far the
easiest of the entire run and the car was
less difficult to handle on the turns. At
first there was a tendency to slip, which
increased toward the 2OO-mile mark, but
from that time ! had little difficulty hold
ing the car to its course.
In my estimation the limit is reached
at 900 miles and is entirely too long for the
endurance of the driver. l was relieved
from the one hundredth and SEVENTEEN TO
the two hundred and fIftieth mile and che
rest of the drive was extremely refresh
ing" .f54f9-Ffft
The Marmon Wasp made only four
stops during the entire run, each time to
change tires on the rear wheel Each time
the oil and gasoline tanks were filled to
prevent stopping for fuel
After one of the early stops Cyrus
Paschke relieved Harroun at the wheel,
bue it was retaken by Harroun later.
Man Killed Early In Race.
At the end of the first 10 miles Of the
5OO-mile automobile race today, one mech
anician had been killed and driver per-
haps fatally injured, and another mech
anician had been injured; four of the forty
cars that started had been Withdrawn be-
cause OF breakdowns, and David Bruce
Brown driving a Fiat, was leading long
grind that promised to continue until $50
o'clock this evening.
S. p. Dickson, mechanlcian for Arthur
Greiner Of Chicago, driving an Amplex car.
lost his life In an upset the back stretch
in the thirtieth mile OF the race. GreiI.er
suffered several broken ribs and perhaps a
conclusion of the brain.
The accident was due to the cars cast
ing I front tire II skdded 20 the infied
and whirled completely around. tearing off
both back wheels. Dickson was thrown
against a fence. Hts body was terribly
mangled Greiner was hurled TO the track.
Another Mechanicinn Hurt.
Dave Lewis mechanician. in Lozier car
driven, by Teddy Tetzlaff. was injured
when the car blew a tire in the home
stretch in the 10th mile and ran into a
Pope Hartford. Tetzlaff was~ uninjured
and the crew Of the Pope Hartford also es-
capped. Louis Disbrow was driving the
Pope Hartford. The Lozier was overturned
/ and the rear truck was torn off the Pope
| Hartford in the collision. Both cars were
taken out OF the race.
| Bruce Browns time for the $50 miles was
1882, which was a new record. the old
mark being zoe. set by Dawson at At
| lanta last year.
The cars were strung out behind the
! leaders all around the two and one-half-
mile course Several OF the older drivers
apparently preferred 70 keep up a steady
grind two or three laps behind the leaders.
| There were few sensational brushes for
! leadership in the field.
After a thorough examination Of Greiner
the surgeons announced that he was not
| seriously hurt and that there was no con-
cussion OF the brain. as had been feared
| before he regained consciousness. His right
arm was fractured and the shoulder dis
! located.
EiEhty-Five Thousand Present.
| Eighty-five thousand people. massed
about a two-and-one-half mile oval today,
ran the gamut OF emotions in response to
the thrilling feats Of forty speed-mAd
automobile pilots. racing 500 miles for fame
and gold.
! At $50 o'clock all the cars were ready tor
the start Of the race. II was announced