Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-31
SPEED KING TO
BE CROWNED AT
G. OF G.. SMOKER
Tommy Milton Will Be Object
of Special Attention at
TOnight's Event.
PRIZES TO BE AWARDED

Tommy Milton, who won the inter
national automobile race at the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway yester-
day, will be officially crowned the
speed king of the world tonight at a
smoker to be given by the Speedway
management at the Chamber Of Com
merce. The prizes won by Milton,
aggregating $4,000, which includes
the first prize of $4,000 and $500
in lap prizes, $500 of the tenth prize
which was pro rated among the nine
drivers to finish, and the accessory
prizes will be awarded at this time.
The prizes from the Speedway and
the accessory awards will also be be-
slowed upon the other pilots at the
smoker.
Charles F. Coffin. president Of the
Chamber of Commerce, will preside at
the meeting which Will start at S o'clock,
and short talks will be made by Mayor
Charles W. Jewett and c. +. Kettering,
an autOmOtive engineer Of Dayton, Ohio,
For the second year IN succession an
Indianapolis car designed by Louis
Chevrolet was returned winner in the
annual 5OO-mile race. Tommy Milton At
the wheel of an eight cylinder FrOntecac,
flashed across the line at the completion
of his last lap in the remarkable time Of
hours "a minutes 6j seconds, at the
average of S9.62 miles an hour, breaking
the track record for 1S3 inch motors and
being just a shade below the track rec
ord of S962 for motars Of all classes set
by Ralph De Palma in 1915 with a much
larger car.
SARLES ALMOST
-FOUR MINUTES BEHIND.
Almost four minutes behind Milton
came Roscoe Sarles in a Duesenberg and
he was followed in order by Jules Eung
Doe who had driven Percy Ford's From
tenac for more than half the distance.
Jimmy Murphy in the Duesenberg
originally driven by Eddie Miller. Ora
Haibe of Indianapolis, in a Sunbeam, the
only foreign car TO gain a place in the
race; Eddie Miller in the Duesenberg.
piloted at the start of the race by Guyot !;
Ira Vail in Leach Special; Jerry Won
derlich driving the last two laps in Ben
nett Hills place in a Duesenberg, and
Ralp Milford in a Frontenac. Only nine
cars out Of twenty three starters were on
the track when the long grind ended and
when Wonderlich finished MulfOrd still
had twenty-six laps to go and was called
in and warded ninth place. 1t was an
nounced that the S1,4O0 for tenth place
would be divided among all drivers who
had finished the race
indianapolis made cars showed bril-
hantly in the race. seven Of the nine to
finish three FrOntenacs and four Duesen-
bergs being products of the HOosier
Capital
1t is remarkable fact that the sec
ond largest purse falls to Ralph De
Palma, who went out Of the race when
1t was only little more than half com
pleted, but while he was in the running
he found the going good and won s1O65O
in lap prizes bv virtue Of leading every
lap but two while in the race.
MANY CARS
FAIL TO FINISH.
Never in the history Of the Speedway
have so many cars drOpe u by the way
side OF the twenty -oaF.ng racers
that faced the starters flag &C hopefully
1t 10 o'clock in the morn NJ, fourteen
had dropped by the wayside when Nil
ton came laundering down the stretch on
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