South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-25
STUFF TEAM IS
AMERICAN PICK
FOR RACE LEAD
All Three Cars Have Made Good
Records on TraCk-Barney
0ldfieId in Huff Over Auto
Men in This Country.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 25.-Through
its great work in the elimination trials
for the Indianapolis 5OO-mile race
Saturday. May %, the Stutz team
ranks as American favorite for that
contest, with DePalma, Resta and
PorpOrato as its opponents at the
wheel of foreign .ars
Wilcox. Cooper and Anderson, the
Stutz drivers, Tapped the course with
averages of $50. 96.S and 96.4 miles
an hour. respectively. WilcOxs mark
was the best of the present season,
1871 fiat, but slightly behind BoillOt's
sensational time of 1908 last year.
What makes the Stutz outfit look all
the better is that il is a three-car
team. Precedent shows that an indi-
vidual car entry is at a great disad-
vantage against numerically stronger
competition. The individual entrant
can take no chances, while the other
fellow can.
Following the elimination trials, the
balance of the week has been voted to
practice, with a final meeting Of con-
testants on Thursday night. ON Friday
the track will be closed for its an
nual scrubbing. The race itself will
start Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Barney OiGfield has his dander up
The big fellow is peeved over the
treatment accorded him by American
motor car manufacturers, none of
whom, he says. appreciates his true
worth and ability.
Why am | driving a foreign car
in the Indianapolis races this year,
asks Barney. For the simple reason
that no one in the United States Will
pay me what 1 am worth. All these
Americans are afraid / Will get all the
publicity, To the detriment of their
car. If they had any sense they'd
give me a contract that would make
my name and the car synonymous.
like the Peerless Green Dragon and 1
formerly were. Then we'd both cash
in.
Barney incidentally says he is far
from being all in, as many of his
friends, anG he himself. by the way
once feared. He is confirmed in this
belief by the fact that Lauten-
schlager. winner of the last French
grand prix. is 40 years old. Barney.
being some summers younger than
that, thinks he will last a long time
TO come.
Ray HaITOun Ambitious.
A speedway lap in 1870 is the am
bition of Ray Harroun, manager of
the Maxwell team in the next Indian
apOlis 500-mile race, 1880 for the two
and a half miles of track figuring 100
miles an hour.
The coming 500-mile race elimina-
ton trials, says Harroun, viii very
likely see one of his new cars turn
the trick. as he says they have never
been let out in previous attempts
and no one, not even himself, knows
how fast they really are.
The present record for the track is
1:3O:13. made by Boillot, in the
speedway eliminations last year.
Tetzlaffs Maxwell comes near this
figure. with 1888. but az yet the
chubby Frenchman holds the palm.
Some Entrants Late.
a time extension was granted by
the speedway to several entrants who
declared themselves unable TO report
at the track by the specified date Of
May 5. Among the laggards were
P.s; Grover Bergdoll, with three
Bergdolls Ralph Milford, with his
Milford special. and w. w. Brown,
with his Du Chesneau.
All the entrants behind schedule
had the same trouble.-their cars
were not quite ready,-but all were
on hand for the elimination trials.
May 20. p and -.
The motor speedway's proposed
100000 thousa rd-mile race may he
held in the fall of 1916 or 1917. in
stead of in place Of the regularly
scheduled 500-mile event in the
spring. as originally planned.
Race fans argue it would be a
shame to disturb the regular Sc
quence of 5OO-mile contests, now the
worlds greatest motoring feature, for
even so great an event as the thou
sand-miler. The latter. they state,
looks sufficiently attractive to make a
hit as an extra venture, any time.
Official action on the proposition has
not yet been taken. though it is
thought an announcement will be
made soon.
Some Unusual Prizes.
The Bosch company announces a
series of spark plug and magnetic
prizes for the next 500 mile race az
gregating $1,000. as follows: Using
Bosch magnetic. 1. $500; >. $500; 3.
5000. Using Bosch spark plugs, 500
each for the first three
Harry Grant and Art Klein have
been added 10 the list of stars now
uuartered at the speedway. They are
driving Sunbeam and Kleinart cars.
respectfully, both claiming they have
a good chance 10 win.