Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-06-03
THOMAS PASSES
ALL SPEED MARKS.
Winner of Indianapolis Auto Race
Goes 82.47.
SEVEN AUToIsTs ARE HURT
Dawson, Injured in Accident During
Hot Contest, May Not Recover,
His Physicians Fear-Ameri-
cans Are in Fifth Place.
ORDER OF FINISH.

Car and Driver. Time. Ave.
Delage, Rene Thomas .6:O3:45.99 S2.47
Peugeot, Art. Duray. 6:10:24.29 SO.99
Delage, Albert Guyot. .6:14:O175 1920
Peugeot, Jules Goux. .6:17:24.26 1920
Stutz, Barney Oldfield 6:23: 5154 1915
Excelsior, Christians .6:25:3O.52 1882
Sunbeam, Grant. -. g: 36:22.7O 1868
Beaver-Bullet, Keene. 6: 40:57.S4 1882
Maxwell, Carlson. =. 7:02:32.6O 1895
Du's'nb'rg, Rick'b' cher :03: 34.59 1888
Indianapolis, Ind, June Rene
Thomas, driving for France and Del
age against a field of the premier
pilots and fastest of five nations cars,
created a new record at the Indianapo-
lis speedway to win the international
championship. His elapsed time was
hours 3 minutes 40 and 99-10O Sec
onds His average per hour was S2.47
miles The old record, held by Joe
Dawson since 1912, was 1872 miles an
hour
Arthur Duray, in the French Baby
Peugeot. was second mintes 48 sec
onds behind Thomas Albert Guyot,
head of the Delage team, was close
third. Jules Goux, the Peugeot favor
tie and last years winner, was fourth.
Honors of America went to Barney
OIdield of the Stutz team, who fin
ished fifth. Oldield's average was
1915 miles an hour.
Dawson Seriously Hurt.
The race was the bloodiest run since
1911 Joe Dawson lies in a critical con-
dition in the Methodist hospital with
a broken collar bone, internal injuries,
twisted back and bruise blackened
bOdy-a wreck of the man who won
the race in 1912 and entered the lists
a popular favorite His injury was the
result of turning turtle" while going
100 miles an hour. Physicians fear he
may not recover.
In a room near him is Ray GilhOoley.
His face is gashed and torn almost
beyond recognition Gilhooley's Isotta
blew a rear tire, hit the retaining wall
and turned over.
Several Others Injured.
In other rooms are the mechanics
of both drivers, one We're Barnes, who
rode beside Dawson, with face cut and
body bruised, the other Limo Bonani,
with contusions on his forehead, lower
lip torn, right shoulder bruised and
left knee cap wrenched.
These were the most seriously in
iured. Others hurt were Jean Chas-
sagne. driver of the Sunbeam, and his
mechanic. Tom Mitchell, both of whom
were cut about the face. Mitchell also
has internal injuries.
Dawson Crashes Into Wreck.
Dawson was on his forty-seventh
lap in his Marmon when he was in
jured Immediately ahead of him and
puttering along at 80 miles an hour was
Gilhooley, who lost control of his car.
1t skidded across the track towards
the hole, whirled in it's flight, made a
dash for the retaining wall and turned
over.
Dawson attempted to clear the
wrecked Isotta. threw his wheel to the
left, and ran down to the grass. His
speed was too great to make the turn.
The front wheels struck a clump of
sand The car shot into the air, turned
over once, struck the ground. and SOM
ersaulted again. 1t fell on its back.
Pinned Beneath His Car.
Guards and doctors ran to the Mar
mon and the Isotta Gilhooley and
Bonani were sprawled prone on the
surface of the track. Dawson's me-
chanic was pinned beneath the wreck
of his car. Twenty feet away lay Daw-
SON.
Rocking beside him was the Stutz
driven by Anderson, which also had
been forced to take the ditch to pre-
vent hitting Gilhooley's car. Ander-
sons wheels were buried in the sand.
His efforts to extricate himself cost a
broken driving shaft, which eliminated
him from the race.
The terrific race and sensational
driving led to other accidents, none of
which resulted in injuries to the driv-
ers. Coopers Stutz, with RAIDER driv-
ing, blew tire and hit the retaining
wall near where Chassagne's Sunbeam
rolled over. The car skidded across
the track, but remained upright.
Tetzlaff's car caught on fire, but the
blaze was extinguished in time to pre-
vent serious injury to the car, although
it was eliminated.
Burman skidded off the track in the
forty sixth lap.
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