The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-02
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Goux Has Helped Win War
Since He Finished IN 1914
at Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. May 2.-Jules
Goux. winner Of the 1913 indianapolis
60o1mile race, has arrived n Indianap-
oils 70 begin active preparations for
his campaign to capture premier
laurels In the five-csntalTy Liberty
Sweepstakes, May 81. With him
came Albert Prevot, his mechanician
In previous 600-mile races. Prevot,
however. WIN not ride with Goux this
year, his back having been injured by
high explosive shell while driving q
car In the sanitary corps on the
Chemin des DANES.
Goux wears Q wound stripe also,
having been struck by shell splin-
ter In bis left hand during the bonn
bardment Of Beifort in 1915, where he
was stationed as an artillery Heuten-
ant. He served as artillery ueuten-
ant during the entire war, having
battery Of 220-millimster guns, the
French hsavies.
Wearing on Nerve.
Quizzed about his views concerning
the war, Goux said the struggle was
beginning to wear on every French
mans nerve toward the end, and
Americas active participation in the
conflict did not come q minute too
soon. TT was too long" Goux stated,
considerably longer than q five-hun-
dred-mf1e race"
This 10 the first time that Goux has
visited Indianapolis since 1914, when
he won fourth In the Indianapolis 500
mile race, after having been cheated
out OF first place by tire trouble. Since
then Q world war has been fought and
won. His companions of former visits
to America are gone. and his return
to this country awakened many ten
der memories.
IN former years Goux was member
OF one OF the most remarkable racing
combinations ever assembled. an all
star aggregation noted for Its unity OF
thought and action, and the personal
affection between its members. It
was composed of Goux, George Boil1ot,
greatest racing driver of all time, Paul
Zuccarelli, the gifted italian who help
ed design the celebrated Peugeot rae
ing engine, and Johnny Aitken, who
watched over the affairs Of the foreign
delegation In the capacity OF coach and
mentor.
zuccareiIi Meets Death.
Zuccarelli met his death while prac-
ticing for the Grand Prix at LIE Mans,
in 1913, bowling squarely into a peas
ants cart that appeared suddenly in
the road from an opening in a hedge.
the driver being deaf and dumb. Boil
lots spirit assembled in halo of glory
when its master essayed unequal COM
bat with five Boche aeroplanes In
1915 Aitken zsuccumbed to influenza,
and Goux Is thus the sole surviving
member of the former all-star cast.
Goux brings with him a small 150-
cubicinch Peugeot that he has as
signed to Andre Boillot, brother OF
Georges Boillot, who is coming over
on later boat. This car, though
small. is lightning fast and in perfect
condition, having never been raced It
was built for the 1914 LIE Mans races
that were called off due to the out
break of the war. Goux regards the
car so highly that at times he has
considered driving It himself, though
his present purpose is to drive one of
the speedway's Peugeots that were
campaigned by the late Johnny Aitk-
an.
Goux IL dubious regarding the con-
dition OF the speedway cars, and ex-
poets to give them both thorough
overhau1ing, virtually rebuilding the
two cars into one. With this he ex-
poets to have an entry that will 20
through the entire 500-mile grind with
out the necessity Of lifting the hood.
Those who remember the care that
Goux and his associates bestowed on
their cars on their previous visits to
Indianapolis, and recall their exquisite
mechanical skill, feel certain that
Goux will roll to the starting line with
finely groomed racing creation IN.
der him that will prove worthy Of his
best efforts and be In the forefront OF
the fray from the time the starting