Arizona republican., 1913-05-28
RACE DOPE |S
 QUITE SCARCE
Best That Can Be Said of the 5OO-Mile Indianapolis Race is That It Will Be Good One - Cool Head Will Beat Speed Spurts

Never before was there such T lack of positive dope" on the most prob as now confrOnts the experts who daily watch the practice at the In dianapOlis Motor Speedway, where many of the worlds best cars are being put through strenuous workouts preparatory to the 50O-miIe race Friday
 Experts with pads and pencils and stop watches have made a careful study of all the cars in practice but they can not reach any definite con- clusion as to probable speed nor most certain contenders. The mysterious actions of the foreingers add to this uncertainty. These invaders. who have added much zest to the ex- citement, are baffling in their man euvers They dash out from the garages, on to the track do few fast laps, then rush madly back to the garages, where the doors are locked. strangers forbidden. and work is carried on in secret. They do not let any one get d line on them" Bob Burman in his Keeton also upset the dope bucket when he did q lap of two and a half miles in time of 1:40 Bob has a way of throwing his competitors off their guard Then, too. the appearance of the National car No. S. that won rnc 1 international classic last year with | running average of SLIP miles per hour. sent thrill through the crowds when it was unexpectedly seen on 1 the track This company did not enter a car this year resting on their ! Iaurels. But when the National-Old as it is and having been given 1 year of hard exhibition work all | over the country-did lap of 1:46, 1 it also gave the "dopesters" q fright. 1 When the National stopped, to the surprise of everybody. Jules GouX. | the Frenchman who is drive a Peu- | geot car in the race. was seen to | bt at the wheel It later developed l that he wanted to drive last years winner just to see-to see what? | That's the question that has the rail l birds guessing.
 | Zucarrelli, in another French Peu ] got car, has caused the watchers to | marvel at the utter reckleSSnesS with l which he dashes his roaring, rushing 1 monster of q speed creation into the | high banked curves where other driv | | The Stutz team. three white painted cars. has been out forming a flying | wedge of white streaks around the ! track. or course. every one knows that Stutz has some sort of team | work planned, but no one can figure | out what is what from the manner 1 in which the three cars reel off the | miles and shift positions according to | the secret code of signals from the 1 repair pits.
 1 Howard Wilcox. in his Fox special. | i~ said to have gone to the track
 just at sunup and done his fastest
 travelling. showing the spectators
 only moderate speed when they gath
 cred al the track It is thought Will
 cox wants to conceal just how much | speed he actually has.
 Pilette the Belgian, who will drive | Pattersons Mcrecedes- Knight car, is
 also a puzzler Pilette won't talk to
 the dopesters: he is silent and | thrifty He drives at modest speed 1 in front of the pits and then burns
 it up" on the back stretches. where
 they cant get his actual time. His l car runs light on it's feet and seems
 to make no effort to answer his demands upon it.
 | The Mercer team with DePaIma
 
 the credited star of the three is also | one that is being rcckoned with in the advance dope DePalma and his | comrades. especially Wishart have | opened the eyes of the crowds by their sudden bursts of seemingly un- limited speed. DePalma laments the
 cool weather He says he wants hot | weather the kind he will likely have
 the day of the race, so he can better | test his tires. Others like the cool | weather saving it is the best kind | in which to work out their motors.
 Laps are being made by practical 1 l-' all the contestants in time of 1:5S and better. This means that they
 can all qualify with the required 75 | miles an hour speed To make this 1 speed they must do the track of two
 and half miles in two minutes. The | National has made the track in time Of 1:37, and all are comparing their | practice work by what the National can do because they must better this