Arizona republican., 1920-11-26

Chevrolet Loses Control Of Car
 The accident occurred while Chew rolet, O'Donnen and Joe Thomas wers fighting to make up the half dozen laps they were behind the leaders at the 160 point lap. The three cars were punched on the east turn.
 According to persons grouped about the turn, Chevrolet turned to pass Thomas who was on the inside of the bowl. and his car struck that of O'Don. nell, who was on the outside. O'Don- nelTs car turned and plunged down the incline, and Chevrolet's. apparently out of control. shot to the top of the track, tore out 20 feet of fence, then rolled down the incline on top of the wreck age beneath which O'DonnelI and Jolis were pinned.
 All four men were removed to hoS- pital- O'Donnell was unconscious, his skull fractured and both arms bro- ken and attendants brought informa- ton to the judges stand that he was dead The officials announced that both Chevrolet and OsDonnell had been killed and it was more than an hour before the news spread that O'Donnell was still living.
 Winner Leads All the Way
 Sarles led every lap but one, rolling l over the 200 laps on the mile and a quarter track without a stop in 2 hours 25 minutes 20 seconds, an av- craze of 1882 miles an hour. Edward Miller finished second in hours 27 minutes fl seconds, an average of 1928 miles. Eddie Hearn was third, his time being hours 27 minutes 27 s-Io seconds. an average of 1018 Jimmy Murphy finished fourth in hours 31 minutes 41.S seconds, an average of 9S.9- Thomas was placed fifth and Jim Crosby sixth. both being Jagged be- fore finishing. Al Melcher, Tommy Milton and John Thiele were forced out by engine trouble.
 Sarles, in addition to taking first money, s10.000. won 199 lap prizes of l $50 each offered by Los Angeles mer- chants to the man first across the line on each circuit. Murphy won the sec- ond lap prize. The other prizes were: Miller. s6.0o0; Hearn, s3.o00; Murphy. $2.000; Thomas, s1,000: Crosby, $500.
 o'DonneII's Wife Sees Accident
 Chevrolet's point total for the sea- son in the championship competition was 1.030, all acquired previous to to-
 ish today. had s3o. with other com petitors as follows: Murphy, Ss5:
 Ralph de Palma, 6o5; Sarles. 540;
 Thomas. 351; Mulford, 370; Hearn.
 s45: Ira Vail, 40; O'Donner, 110. Null
 ford and Vail were not entered in the
 race today. De Palma was entered, but did not start.
 The wife of O'Donnell was in the grandstand when her husband was in-
 jured She was rushed in an automo- bile to the hospital where the driver
 had been taken.
 } Jolls was 26 years old and a native
 of Illinois. His real name was Header
 but when he entered the racing world
 he decided to make professional use of the surname of his stepfather. He , had been a mechanician for three years. ! His family reside in Detroit. He was engaged to be married to Mrs. May A. Esch of St. Paul. who was at the race ) today and saw the accident but did not know that at the time 1t took the life of her fiance. She was prostrated tonight.
 There were originally thirteen en- ! tries for the race. De Palma did moi start because his car had not arrived and Waldo Stein withdrew just before E the start because he had broken a con- meeting rod in practice.