New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-20
NETTING A GOLF STAR AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY.
Billy Knipper Named to Drive at
indianapolis.
NOVEL PLAN OF STARTING
Contestants Will Be Paced for
First Lap, and Race Will Be
from Flying Start.

The forty-sixth driver for the 5oo-rn,,e IN.
ternational sweepstakes race at the Ind
annapolis motor speedway, on Nav 20 has
been named. Out OF the entire field of near
ly half hundred cars. one pilot. that Of
the Benz car. entered by F. A. Moross.
with the car TO be driven by King
Bob" Burman, was left unnamed
Billy Knipper, who won reputa-
ton at the wheel Of a Chalmers
Blue Bird" and later captured the I1ede-
mann trophy race at Savannah in Novem-
Der, 1910. Will guide the other German
motor creation through the long race
This is the announcement Just made by
Moross after he had cast about for fit
ting teammate for the speed king"
Knipper has been Ions at the speed game,
and though he has been the victim OF sew
eral spills. he still retains the nerve that
made such wonderful showing for him
at Crown Point in the Cobe race and at
Savannah IN the light car event
Burman and Knipper are on their way
10 the speedway. and will have several
DAYS for workouts before the race Is held.
The car which Burman will drive has $50
cubic inches piston displacement, while
that to he piloted by Billy Knipper has but
444 cubic inches. Both Of the Teuton cars
are fast. and the team is played as one OF
the favorites Neither expects TO have
relief driver. but believes he Will be able
TO pull through the seven-hour drive with
out rest
Most Of the forty-six cars named for the
long race are at the two-and-a- half-nile
brick oval now. When the eligibility trials
are started, on May %. all will be at their
best Each car must show a speed OF at
least seventy-fve miles an hour.
All details for the long race have been
planned and carried TO completion. The
race will start at 10 o'clock. and the gates
will he thrown open to the public at $50
o'clock. The half hundred cars will be
brought up TO the tape in about four lines
Carl G.. Fisher president Of the speedway
will lead the big field the first time around
the track in his roadster. a pace Of forty
miles an hour will he set. while the con-
testants shift into their positions for start
ing When the pacemaker reaches the tape
on the first time around he leaves the field
TO its own speed desire and the race is on.
When the first car crosses the timing in
strument will start to work. Starter Wag-
ner will drop the flag bomb will ex-
plc6e three hundred feet in the air and the
race will he on.
Bombs VIII be exploded at minute inter-
walls five minutes before the start of the
race. and the starting bomb will be
monster American flag unfurled to the
breeze as the piece expodes. It is believed
in this way that the trail Of smoke left
by so large a field in its getaway will have
vanished before the start Of the race is
made, and the danger of collisions in the
start done away with.
The most complete scoring and announc
ing system ever devised is ready for the
race, and more than a hundred men will
be employed 10 keep accurate accounting of
the cars in their flight around the brick
course.