The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-01
ChevrOlet'S Share
 More Than $26,OOO
Indianapolis Citizens to Give Drivers Banquet Tonight
 When All Prizes Will Be Awarded-125,OOO -1 Persons Saw 300 Mile Race

Indianapolis, June 1-Gaston Chev- rolet of Indianapolis, who won the eighth annual renewal of the 500 mile auto race at the Indianapolis mo- tor speedway yesterday in an In- dianapolis built car, will be award ed his many trophies at banquet to be given all the drivers by the citizens of Indianapolis tonight. Chevrolet maintained an average speed of 8S.16 miles per hour. His time of 5:40:15.14 is second only to the record made for the local course by Ralph De Palma in 1915. Chevrolet for his triumph in the long grind will re- ceive the speedway prZe of $20, 900; citizens lap prizes of $1,300 for lead ing the field during the last 13 laps; at least s5,OOO of the $15,000 to be divided among the drivers using ac- cessories of certain automobile man ufacturers, and the Wheeler-Scheb- Ter cup; the prest-o-lite trophy and the Strauss silver tea set.
 crowd estimated at. 125,0O0 by Carl G. Fisher, President of the speedway company, watched 23 of the greatest automobile pilots of Amer ica, France, England and Italy battle for racing fame and the $S5,O00 in prizes. This attendance exceeded by 5000 the record set in 1914, when Rene Thomas. who finished second the Chevrolet yesterday drove to a hard-eafned victory. Thomas finish ed in 5:43:O2.29, an average speed of S7.45 miles an hour. He gets s10.O00 in prize money and s7O0 for leading seven laps of the race.
 Tommy Milton, who finished third will be awarded $5,0O0 in prize money. Jimmy Murphy finished fourth and will get s3,500. Ralph De Palma the favorite before the race, who took the lead shortly after the 275 mile mark and held it until with in thirty miles of the finish, will get $3,000 in speedway prize money for finishing fifth, and $500 in lap prizes De Palma's car caught fire twice within a mile, costing him first place He was temporarily unable to start his car when Barney Oldfield led the drivers around the brick saucer for the first two and half miles, and then had to change a tire after finish ing his first lap. This gave Joe Boyer his chance to grab the lead which he held with the exception of a few laps when he was at the pits , until the end of 260 miles. Boyer, who later was slightly injured when his car turned turtle on the north turn while he was in fifth place and
 
 ish. will get s9,soo for leading 93 out of 200 laps of the race.
 Sixth place money, $2,z0O, will go to Eddie Hearne, Jean Chassa gne will get s1,SO0 for finishing seventh, and an additional s1O0 for leading , the seventh lap. Joe Thomas finish | ed eighth, prize $1,60O; Ralph Null 1 ford ninth, s1.5Oo, and Tom Alley, ! driving for Pete Henderson the car entered by Tom Rooney, captured the | last money prize S1,40O. John Bol- | ing also finished and Ray Howard was. Tagged Engine trouble or mil nor accidents eliminated the other ten i pilots Art Klein, who led the sixth l lap. will get $1oO. He went out when his car sl1idded on an oily turn | and crashed into a retaining wall l Roscoe Searles was in two accidents
 His own. car skidded into the side i wall after he had finished IA miles | and when he was driving as relief for I Bennie Hillia steering buckle broke He escaped injury both times.