Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-27
SECOND ROUND
OF TIME TESTS
FOR RACE CARS
qualification Trials Resumed
at Speedway for Big Event
Decoration Day.
MORE SPEED FOR FANS

The thirteen cars that failed to take
heir qualifying tests Wednesday for the
indianapolis Motor Speedway 5O0-mile
Classic 10 be held Monday, were to be
given their final trial at the stunt this
afternoon.
A car must travel ten miles for an
average of eighty miles per hour or bet
ter 70 gam the approval of the A A A.
Eoen for the big race. This is really no
speed for any one Of the cars entered in
be- drivers that did not have their cars
a good shape today were facing q tick
ISL proposition, as this was the last
Shay for taking the test.
II wss learned yesterday that Mervin
|&fdtadley probably will not start in the
+ race. Headley. 1t seems. was TO get
4pns Of Louie Chevrolets Jobs, but a
'1nitch bObbed up somewhere in the deal,
Hnd as far as Mervin knew yesterday
afternoon, he was a driver without a car.
However, Louie had not given HeadIey a
sdehnite answer on the car, and there
Tss a possibility that he would see some
way II providing him with one before it
svss too late to qualify this afternoon.
Bonnie Hill. with new pistons and
&rings in his Deusenberg. knocked off
Better than twenty-five easy laps yester-
day afternoon, then slipped into his
garage TO give his car the final touch
before qualifying today. Bonnie is work
#ing hard with his ~Deusie" in prepara-
ton for the race and if he didn't have
Jerry WOnderlick around to open the
smile key once in a while. Ben probably
would fall a victim to the au-work- and-
no-play stuff.
Rumor has It that Tommy Milton threw
a connection rod all the way out OF the
lot that time his Frontenac eight went
dead Wednesday. Nobody seems to know
whether this info is o. X or not, but
sit Is true that Louie Chevrolet and
Tommy pulled the car away from the
speedway, and were among those missing
Yesterday There is little cause to worry
about difficulties, however, when Old
Louis himself is looking after things.
The boys were betting dollars to at
mOsphere that the car would be quail
fled this afternoon
Smiling Ralph" Milford is as keen on
the secret stuff this year as the non
running Peugeats were last year. Ralph
arrived in Indianapolis wednesday,
visited the track to shake few hands,
then beat 1t and has not been seen since
Ralph probably spent yesterday at the
factory getting a line on his Frontenac
and getting ready to qualify today
Ralph knows the Indianapolis track like
book, but his racing buddies expected
i him out for at least a brief practice
run yesterday. The car that Milford is
TO drive has never been on the speed
oval. and he probably viii do lot OF
running this afternoon and tomorrow.
Eddie Hearne evidentally was not com
pIeteIy satisfied with the 96-mile per
hour performance Of his Revere Wednes-
day. He had the car torn down yester-
day, while the flag Of the Irish Republic
floated peacefully in the breeze over his
garage
Today was the day for "Our Own
Howdy" Wilcox to strut his stuff The
local pilot said yesterday that he was
ready TO show the crowd just what real
race car can do on the indianapolis oval
The rail birds were anxious to see what
the Sunbeams were going to do in the
qualifications this afternoon. Little has
been seen Of these cars. but they have
drilled out some pretty motor music the
few times that they have been on the
bricks.
Joe Dawson, winner Of the 1912 auto
derby, is with the speed eaters again
for a few days. Joe always makes IL a
point to be on deck for the big drive,
and he has a lot of fun visiting the ga
RACES and exchanging stories with his old
buddies.
Ray Harroun, 1911 winner and team
mate Of Joe Dawson in the days when
the MarmOns raced, is one of the ''busi-
ness men" at the track these days. Ray
IS trying tn introduce the disc wheel
into the race game.