Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-06
JEWS INTEREST TO AUTO OWNER AND PROSPECTIVE BUYEF
Notable Entries at Great
Indianapolis Speedway

With the sixth annual international
sweepstakes race on the Indianapolis
motor speedway only few days of.
activities have assumed a tenseness at
the Hoosier track. Dario Resta, speed
way champion OF the 1915 season. has
entered with a Peugeot car. Resta
gave De Palma a hard-fought battle
last year at Indianapolis, but the latter
won. Resta, however, cleaned up at
Chicago. He is looked upon by many
as the greatest speedway sprinter that
ever guided racing car and never
fails to thrill the spectators by his
seeming lack of fear. He drives the
limit at all times. His entry is The
finishing touch that guarantees a great
speed affray on the paved oval May 80.
The only entry that halls from west
of the Mississippi is from Kansas City.
{. f. DuChesneau has built special
race car and named II after himself.
He is a prominent restaurant keeper
in Kansas City and believes in sports
men entering speedway races for the
love of the game. Incidentally he is
out to capture the fortune in prize
money. He will drive his car. being a
full-fiedged American Automobile As
sociation registered driver. Ernest
Schweerin will ride as mechanician.
The car Is a four-cylinder machine.
242 cubic inches piston displacement,
and weighs only 1900 pounds.
From Cleveland comes an entry for
a mystery car. The owner. who is
also the driver, requests that his name
be withheld until the last minute. He
is q prominent business man in Cleve-
land and is said to have spent a young
fortune in getting a car built that has
sufficient speed and stamina to go the
800 miles in winning time. Both the
driver and his mechanician are located
in the Engineers building, in Cleve-
land. this cue for any who care to do
the Sherlock Holmes act
Instead of only one Premier car.
there will be three in the Indianapolis
speedway race May 80. Tom Rooney.
1t has already been announced. will
pilot the first entry, the car that was
built for the late Bob Burman. Now,
then, comes the welcome news that
Gil Anderson will drive the second
Premier. Anderson cleaned up" in
grand style last year, winning at the
New York speedway, and he is easily
one of the stars of the racing busi-
ness. The third Premier is to be
piloted by Harry Stillman.
Howard Marmon, chief engineer and
one of the big guns of the Marmon
factory, has been given the honorary
position of referee at the indianapolis
speedway race May 80.
Frank f. Smith, vice-president of
the Premier company. will he the
paCemaker at indianapolis this year
This is the ticklish Job Carl g. Fisher
has always had. But Fisher believes
in passing the honors around. Smith
will lead the starters around the two
a-half-mile track once, then duck
for cover, as when they come down
the home stretch the race will he on.
Considerable excitement was caused
az the Indianapolis motor speedway
office when the news was received by
CO BILE from London that a second Sun
beam car will arrive in Indianapolis
in time for the May 80 race. One
car is already here and will be driven
by Josef Christiaens. The driver of
the second British car is not an
nounced. These are the cars that con-
tain aviation motors and sensational
speed is expected from them.
John Aitken and Eddie Ricken-
bacher who will drive a Peugeot and
a Maxwell at Indianapolis May 80.
are now in New York getting ready
for the speedway race there May 13.