Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-01
SPEED ALMOST 90 MILES HOUR
Resta Finishes Second After Making
Hard Fight to Head Off
Leader.
WINNING TINE IS 5;ss $3.50
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INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, May 81
Especial Telegram. Driving the
race of his career, Ralph De Palma,
the most popular of automobile
drivers with speed enthusiasts over
came the jinx which has always pur-
sued him and carried off the premier
honors in the 500-mile sweepstakes
race at the famous brick speedway
heretoday.
De Palma not only won the face,
but he shattered every existing rec
ord for distances from 200 miles to
De Palma hustled his German Mer-
oedes 900 times around the track In five
hours thirty-three minutes fifty-five and
one-haif seconds.
The former record for the distance was
S,Os:45ys4, made by Rene Thomas IN
French Dc Kage car in 1914. De Palma
also broke the records for 200. go SoO' 4oo'
$50 and 800 miles.
Made Records 10 stand.
speed enthusiasts predict all Of the rec
ords win stand for some time.
Darius Resta. the sensational English
driver, who created such stir by win
ming the Vanderbilt cup and Grand Prix
races, finished second after pushing De
Palma hard all the way. But Resta had
met his match.
Al SAN Francisco De Palma retired
from both races because OF the wet
track, but today he went into the race
determined 70 regain the laurels won by
the Englishman. and he did He outsen-
eraled Resta completely and once more
conclusiveiy proved himself to be the
premier driver Of the world. Restas time
was 5;s7:9Le4. an average Of SOS miles an
hosr.
GIL Anderson IL Third.
Gil Anderson. plotting a Stutz. pushed
his car In third money and Early Cooper
in another Stutz. was fourth. Andersons
time was 5:42:2557 and Cooper's 5;4e:ls.S6.
Eddie O'Donnell. in Deusenherg. fin
ished an easy fifth in e:os:0s.27. For the
first time in history Bob Burman finished
in the money at an Indianapolis race.
Bob manager to sneak over the line in
sixth place just ahead OF Howard Wilcox.
Burman sent his Peugeot over the line
three minutes ahead OF Wilcox in his
Stutz. which Travelled the last fifty miles
of the race on three cylinders. wilcox
was given mighty round of applause
when he chugged home with his one dead
Eylinder It was a pluclSy finish and
WHcoxs time was even better than the
best previous time ever made by an
American car.
Tom Alley Eighth.
Tom Alley in Deusenberg was eighth.
He believed that he had beaten out VIII
cox. however and protested that his po-
sition should have been seventh. The
judges declared Alley eighteen seconds
behind Wilcox, but the Deusenberg pro-
test will be heard.
Hughie Hughes in a Maxwell: was
ninth. Hughes finished in the car Billy
Carlson started WITH Ed Van Raalt. the
English army officer, who first entered
under the name of Norman Graham, fin
ished tenth in an English Sunbeam
Takes $4,000
AS a result of his victory De Palma
will carry off over $4,000 in cold coin OF
The realm. He gets $4,000 for fist pace,
$1,000 for leading at 400 miles and several
other smaller prizes
At the start OF the race the Stutz team
swung into the lead and after a few laps
had been run Gil Anderson darted to the
fore and stayed there\ until the thirty
fourth lap. Then he was forced TO change
tires and both De Palma and FIESTA
Iassed him while he was In the pits.
Resta took the lead and held it until
the sixty-seventh lap, almost 200 miles.
De Palma was hard after the English
man until the sixty-third lap, when Ralph
lost a minute changing tires.
But Resta had come into the pits on
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