The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-05-25
De PALMA AFTER GOLD
FAMOUS ITALIAN AUTO DRIVER
TO RACE AT SPEEDWAY.
VIII Drive Big Simplex Car In 500
Mile Race at indianapolis Next
Memorial Day.

Ralph De Palma, champion mile
track driver of the automobile racing
season of 1910, will drive Simplex
car during the 1911 program of big
events, according to the announce
nent by the Simplex Automobile Com
Iery DePalma has been nominated
- rive a special fifty-horsepower
Smplex in the 500-mile International
Sweepstakes Race a tthe Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, on Memorial Day.
This will be the first big eveIt il
which the famous Italian will partici-
pate since his recent winnings a. the
Los Angeles mOtordrOme, when he
was one of the star performers on the
big board saucer track.
The Simplex car which DePalma
entered in the long classic but the
steel steed has been left riderless I'M
til the nomination of DePalma came
to complete the entry. DePalma is
preparing his car for the coming sea-
son and will bring it to Indianapolis
to tune it over the brick track at once.
DePalma's nomination as a pilot In
the long grind narrows the list of
those great masters of the motor who
are still out of the event down to one
--Burman. Assurances have been re-
ceived by the Speedway management
that he will be In the field of starters.
Burman has been doing some great
work on the beach in Florida and
comes north soon to prepare car
for the Sweepstakes.
1t is believed highly probable that
ten more entries will be added to the
list of thirty-eight. and all prepare
tons are being made for the starting
of forty cars in the long race. While
the foreigners are wrapped up in
their own big races across the water
this year, indications are that some
Of them will be among the starters in
the Sweepstakes.
From the standpoint of the entrants
the race conditions are becoming
more and more interesting and Ailur-
Ing daily. Side offers are being made
by the various accessory and supply
makers, and the side money thus far
hung up totals $4,000. This is in ad-
dition to the purse of $4,000 offered
by the Speedway
The Wheeler & Schebler Co., of In
dianapolis, lead the side offer list In
size with the "Schebler Carburetor
Purse" Of $4,000 for the winner of the
great classic II the cars equipment
includes the Schebler carburetor. The
donors of the famous Wheeler &
Schebler trophy have placed in the
hands OF the Speedway management
check for the amount, payable to
THE Worlds Champion Automobile
Driver" They state they believe the
winner of this event entitled to that
name.
The "Rayfield Carburetor Prizes" of
$4,000 are made payable to the win
ners of the first four places by the
Findeissn & Kropf Manufacturing Co..
of Chicago, makers of the Rayfield
carburetor. This purse is divided as
follows: First, $1,000. second $500,
third $500 and fourth 5000, with the
provision that the cars are Rayfeld
| equipped. The other side offers are
$1,000 by the Columbia Lubricants
Co., in the Monogram Oil Purse. "
$1,000 by the Remy Electric Co., in
the "Remy Magnetic Purse" and $500
by the Bosch Magnetic Co.
1t is now thought that the total of
the prizes to be won in the event viii.
be about $4,000, and several aces
sorry makers have said they will come
in later with other offers. This makes
the fortune at stake the greatest by
far eyer offered in any one automobile
race.