New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-24
|a,otor Racing Crowd Inter
ested in Final Makeup
| of Speedway Field.
oouIOT SAYS HE
is SURE TO WIN
o.wson's Marmon, Among Amer
,ean Cars, Has Shown Greatest
Speed in Practice.

,pv Telegraph to The Tribune.l
Indianapolis. May 2L-Interest in the
-.,oor,es TO the 5Oo-mile race on the
snsedway next Saturday centres at
NO.. .,.,,, in the elimination trials that will
Ia's ' 80 the list OF starters dozen or
- S.. ~ the entrants, in order that the
s. "a nav be brought down to tho limit OF
thirty starters -,
-, n,orning as early as any of the
~o .. aosre Between that time and
s,-',.osdav evening each one Will be al
- % make three circuits Of the track
Suser official supervision. the fastest lap
:. oo,,nt as his effort to avoid the hook
:, &c thought that many, OF the cars
"a - hold back until Wednesday after
80, in order that the drivers may gain
80 idea Of how fast a lap VIII be neces-
-, % oualify as a starter in the great
That the officials will disclose the
lines Of the early trials is not expected,
,r, there will be plenty OF unofficial
,ockers on the job from sunrise TO sunset
zach Of the three days.
There are. Of course. a dozen or more
nrs in the big field that are considered
..r,sin 10 qualify. and several OF these, II
!. expected will get out on the track on
Monday and reel of laps under the l:4o
~ which will surely be fast enough
"a make the starting line. Even LAB or
"a NAV prove good enough.
There IS intense rivalry among the for
sgners who are Quartered at the Speed
rov or. rather between the Peugeot
,no,s and the remainder Of the European
sars II is felt that the Peugeot drivers
vsra unfair in leaving Europe a week
ahead Of the others-apparently in the
sort 10 steal q march on their rivals.
Roillot seems likely to so 10 the post
I ,.vorite for the race with his teammate,
J coux next in line. The Peugeot pair has
kaown enough thus far to indicate that
4 ,bev will take a lot Of beating. If their
avn opinion is worth anything the race
i only a formality, as they Will finish
tne-two.
When Joe Dawson, with the Marmon'
nnped out and covered lap OF the
two and one-half mile track few days
.so in the amazingly fast time Of l.So 2-1'
Boillot Immediately got busy and went
,,ter the figures, hanging up new lap
pcord OF 1.SJ %, speed of ninety-siN
niles an hour. That stands still ana
viii likely stand unless some one bets
The Frenchman enough money TO induce
him TO go the limit
an cover the lap in $50. 100 miles an
hour" Boillot asserted after his trial. II
.ny one will wager $500 against me.
He had hardly finished the challenge
when five of the American factory men
had formed a pool to take up the dare
II was felt. however, that the eHorl
might result in the death of the FAMOUS
plot, as ia experts assert that loO miies
an hour is impossible with safety, ana
The proposed trial fell through.
OF the prominent drivers and team
managers al the track only two-JohhhE
Aiken. who manages the Peugeot team
and Caleb Bragg. one of the Mercer
drivers-csn be found who believe thdt
lap as fast as Boillot says ne can
make il Is possible De Palma, DaWsoh'
Oldfeld, Burman and others declare tla'
II cannot be done under any conditions
Apart from the time hung up by Boiilot
and Dawson, the fastest laps have peeh
made by Goux. Wishart. of the Marmoh
team. and Gil Anderson, of the StutZ
eearn. Dawson has boon going wonder
FUZZY well at al stages of his work. ana
has covered ten consecutive laps at unoer
ls. something that no other ehtraht
has ever done in practice.
Ralph de Palma, who is TO drive a
Mercedes fitted with an aeroplane motor
has not been doing well, as far as time
sOes-in fact, his trials have been SO
low that the railbirds are inclined TO
mink that he may have something up
his sleeve. The Maxwell cars look GOOD
10 the insiders, and indianapolis people
ara Inclined to respect this team because
II IL under the management OF Ray Har-
roun. a local boy, who once won Soo-
mile race. It is possible that Harroun
will handle one Of the three cars.
E. c. Patterson, owner OF the sunbeam
TO be driven by Harry Grant, has talked
Of an Injunction In case his car iails 10
qualify. The Speedway management
however. says the threat Is ridiculous ID
view Of the fact that elimination trlals
are provided in the entry blank IN case
the field runs over thirty.