Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12
BY HOWARD s. FISK.

@ARRYING with it more than
II $4,000 in cash prizes for the
winners, the second annual 800
~ mile international sweepstakes
race will be started at 10 o'clock
the morning Of Memorial day, May 80.
with twenty-seven speedy racing cars as
contenders for the victory. This num-
Der entered the race before the closing
Of the entries at midnight May 1. Man.
ming the cars are almost all OF the ia
nous racing pilots in America, and sew
eral who have international regulations
for prowess at the wheel. Taken through
out, 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 ,grueling
fray were too great for many to tackle
again With about one exception all OF
the cars this time were among the fast
est in the first 5OO-mile race. which fur
nished the most spectacular contest ever
witnessed in motoring annals. 1t is be-
lieved that the average speed will be as
high as seventy-nine miles per. hour. The
last race brought out an average OF 44.6l
miles for the fve-century distance.
Almost without exception the pilots who
that the new record will equal that es-
tablished for 800 miles on the road at
Santa Monica. Some have ventured the
opinion that eighty miles per hour will
year the drivers We're correct in their es-
innate Of speed, most of them saying that
seventy-four or seventy-five miles per
| hour would be the result.
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Despite the fact that the eliminating
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 12O
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 re-
serve 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 a national and in many
cases an International reputation The
list in 'part shows wild Bob Burman,
the speed king: Teddy Tetzlaff., winner
of the Santa Monica race; Caleb Bragg,
the millionaire who finished second at
| Santa Monica, and who will team with
| Tehzlaft- on the. Fiat entry. Ralph De
Palma whose spectacular driving on mile
tracks won him the name of mile-track
champion; Harvey Herrick.. winner OF the
1911 Santa MONICA TOdu TdC6, ANU uHtil
Tetzlaff won the last race. 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
are Louis DisbroW. driver of the 0-horse-
power Jay-Eye-See car which recently
set new mile track records for five, ten
and fifteen miles: Howard Wilcox. holder
of the mile straightaway stock car rec
ord; Hughie Hughes. the English pilot.
who won the Savannah challenge race
in 1911. and Len Zengel. who won the
1911 Elgin national stock chassis road
race. Several drivers have not been
named, but 1t 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 $4,000
and 10000 persons saw the last contest, 1t
is said that the crowd this year will be
even greater. The advance sale of seats
indicates that the crowd from outside of
Indianap oils will be fully 30 per cent
greater than before. More than forty
special trains are to be run to Indianapolis
from many far-away cities, and six motor
club tours will be run to the Speedway.
one of them coming from Denver.
The list of entries for the big race in
cludes the following: