Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-06-30
italian Wins Chicago Derby
Averaged GIG Miles.
PORPoRAT0 FINISHES SECOND
Victor in Peugeot Captures Big Prize
When He Travels 500 Miles in
5:27:6-No Accidents Mar
Big Contest.
HOW RACERS FINISHED

Sunbeam, Grant. 5: 1888 95.06
Stutz, {. Cooper. ......5:15:5s 94.90
Stutz, Anderson. .5:19:00 94.04
Guesenberg, Alley. .5:27:04 91.70
Delage, Chevrolet. .5:27:15 91.6o
Peugeot, 6urman. .5:28:55 e1.2o
Sebring, J. Cooper. .5:30:10 $3.50
Speedway Park, Chicago, June 2S.-
DariO Resta, Italian motor racer, is
the speed king of the world. He drove
an automobile for 500 miles at pace
faster than it was ever driven before.
He shattered world records, won
prizes aggregating $4,000, fought his
way to supremacy over twenty rivals.
and crossed the tape an easy winner
OF Chicago's first auto derby.
Safest, Fastest Track.
The performance opened the fastest,
safest automobile race track in the
Iworld-the Chicago speedway.
In his Peugeot French racing car
lResta travelled the 500 miles in five
hours, seven minutes and twenty-sev.
en- seconds. His average rate of speed
throughout the race was 97.6 miles an
hour.
Once, in a hair raising squirt that
spectators, he circled the two-mile
course at the speed of 1O7 miles an
hour.
All Break Records.
Every one of the ten winning cars
that followed Resta to the finish line
made better time than the worlds rec
ord established at the Indianapolis
speedway on Memorial day by Ralph
De Palma.
Porporato, another native of the
land that once held all the high speed
chariot records, finished second. He
drove a hard race in his English rae
ing car, the Sunbeam special. Travel
ing at the rate of 96.5 miles an hour,
he devoured the 500 miles in five
hours, ten minutes and fifty seconds.
He won the second prize OF $4,000.
The first American to receive the
checkered flag was Rickenbacher, who
sent his American made racer, Max
we'll special, across the line for third
place. An average rate of 95.8 miles
al Tic lOISulOSI AnuSAA-
can racer $4,000 prize money.
Grant Never Stops.
Grant, in another Sunbeam car,
earned fourth place and prize with a
wonderfully maintained speed of 95.6
miles per hour. In making his remark
able endurance drive, Grant stopped
not once at the pits. This veteran of
cfn fnv
gasoline, tires, repairs, water nor food.
With his gas tanks empty in the
last half of the last lap of the long
grind, he coasted in across the line
and smashed the worlds nonstop COM
petitive record. The performance is
startling to all motordom.
Earl Cooper and Gil Anderson, in
their Stutz bulldogs, finished fifth and
sixth with respective averages of 94.9
and 94.4 miles per hour.
Alley in Duesenberg was seventh,
Chevrolet in a Delage was eighth, Bur-
man in a Peugeot was ninth, and J..
Cooper in a Sebring was tenth at the
finish. The Sebring, which was the
last car in the money, travelled the dis
lance at an average speed of 9O.3 miles
an hour, higher by mile than the old
worlds record.
Not Single Accident.
No one was killed. No one was in
jured. Neither death nor injuries to
either racers or spectators occurred to
interfere with the first days laurels of
the new safe and sane and speedy race
course. There was not one accident.