The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-05-11
SPEED KING WILL BE
In $50 MILE EVENT
OVER 10000 PEOPLE EXPECTED
TO SEE RACE.
wild Bob" Burman and Other Inter
national Stars VIII Be at the
Wheel Of Racers

Special Dispatch to the IntelIiEencer
INDJANAPOLlS, Ind. May 1o.-Car-
rying with II more than $4,000 I'm
cash prizes for the winners. the sec
ond annual 5OO-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 vic
tory. This number entered the race
before the closing OF the entries at
midnight May l. Manning the cars
are almost all OF the famous racing
pilots in America and several 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.
The Pilots.
Almost without exception. the pilots
who are practicing for the big race
believe that the new record will equal
that established for 800 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
were correct in their estimate OF
speed. most OF them saying the
seventy-four or seventy-five miles 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 capac.
ity IL provided because the require.
ments OF the race may make II neces.
sary to have IL 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.
Speed Kings.
There Is hardly a pilot named for
the race who has not a national and
In many cases an international repu.
tation. The list in part sI0ws wild
Bub" Burman. the speed Eng; Teddy
Tetzaff. winner OF the Santa Monica
race; Caleb Bragg, the millionaire who
finished second at Santa Monica and
who Will team with Tetziaff on the
Flat entry; Ralph DePalma. whose
spectacular driving on mile tracks won
him the name OF mile-track champion
Harvey Herrlck. winner OF the 1911
Santa Monica road race. and. until
Tetzlaff won the last race. holder OF
the worlds road race record. and
Ralph Mulford. winner OF the 1911
Vanderbilt cup race.
The others are just as notable FOR
there is Louis D!sbrow. driver of the
20O-horsepower Jay-Eye-See car which
recently set new mile track records
for five. ten and fifteen miles: How
ard Wilcox. holder OF the mile straight
away stock car record: Hughie
Hughes. the English pilot. who wor
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 II IL reported that David Bruce
Brown. winner OF the 1911 Grand Prize
race. will be named to drive one o.
the fast American cars IN the race.
Despite the fact that between $4,000
and 10000 persons saw the last con
test. II II said that the crowd this
year will be even greater.