Arizona republican., 1912-05-19
FUR
 GREATEST RACE
Fifty Thousand Dollar Five Hundred Mile Sweep stakes at Indianapolis; Twenty seven Cars Are Contenders

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, May 1S- Carrying with it more than $50.000 in cash prizes for the winners, the sec ond annual 500-mile International Sweepstakes race will be started at ten o'clock the morning of Memorial Day. May 90, with twenty seven speedy racing cars as eontenders for the victory. This number entered
 the race before the closing of the
 entries at midnight May | Manning
 the cars are almost all of the famous
 racing pilots in America, and several who have international reputatiOnS
 for proWess at the wheel. Taken
 throughout the field of starters in
 this long grind is the classiest that
 ever has been brought together in
 one contest.
 Last year there were more entries,
 but only the fastest cars have been
 entered for the second race, and the
 terrific speed and endurance demands
 in the gruelling fray were too great
 for many to tackle again. With about
 one exception all of the cars this
 time were among the fastest in the
 first 500-mile race, which furnished
 the most spectacular contest ever witnessed in motoring annals It is believed that the average speed will
 be as high as seventy nine miles per hour The last race brought out an average of 746l miles for the five century distance
 Almost without exception the pilots who are practicng for the big race believe that the new record will equal that established for 300 miles on the road at Santa Monica. Some have ventured the opinion that eighty miles per hour will be necessary for ] the winning car Last year the ! drivers ewre correct in their estimate '! of speed, most of them saying the | scvcnty-four or seventy-five miles 1 per hour would be the result.
 ] Despite the fact that the eliminat ing speed was set at seventy five miles per hour for one full lap of | the track most of the motors which have been specially built for the race carry from 100 to 120 miles per hour beneath their bOnnets. This great speed capacity is provided be- ' cause the requirements of the race may make it necessary to have it at times, and sufficient power must be held in reserve so that the motors will not be strained in maintaining
 an average of about eighty miles.
 There is hardly a pilot named for the race who has not d national and in many cases an international repu- tation. The list in part shows Wild Bob" Burman, the speed king; Teddy Tetzlaff, winner of the Santa Monica
 race; Caleb Bragg, the millionaire i on ica and who will team with Tetz- laff on the Fiat entry; Ralph De Palma. whose spectacular driving on mile tracks won him the name of mile track champion; Harvey Herr rick. winner of the 1911 Santa Monica
 road race. and, until Tetzlaff won the last nace, holder of the worlds road race record. and Ralph Null ford winner of the 1911 Vanderbilt Cup race.
 The others are just as notable for there is Louis Disbrow. driver of the 200 horsepower Jap -Eye-Sec car
 which recently set new mile track records for five. ten and fifteen miles; Howard Wilcox, holder of the mile straightaway stock car record.
 Hughie Hughes. the English pilot, who won the Savannah challenge race
 in 1911 and Len Zengel who won the l1911 Elgin national stock chasSlS
 road race Several drivers have not been named, but it is reported that ! David Bruce Brown, winner of the 1911 Grand Prize race, will be named to drive one of the fast American cars in the race.
 Despite the fact that between so, 900 and 90,0OO persons saw the last contest it is said that the crowd this year will be even greater. The ad- vance sale of seats indicates that the crowd from outside of Indian apolis will be fully fifty per cent greater than before. More than forty special trains are to be run to In- dianapolis from many faraWay cities and six motor club tours will be run to the Speedway. one of them com ing from Denver.