The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-30

Speedway. Indianapolis, May 30
Twenty-three drivers in the 50e-mi1e
automobile races got away today at
10 a. m, DePalma getting the lead.
Roscoe Sarles and Joe Boyer were
close behind DePalma at the end of
the first lap. Sar1es took the lead in
the second lap. -....-
Fontaine's car caught fire at the
| start, but there was no damage
De Palma led over the first lap at
\ speed of nearly 100 miles an hour.
Sarles. in his Duessenberg, was right
on the Italians tail. and Joe Boyer
was close third. SarIes went ahead
| of De Palma in the second lap by a
| length. The average speed for the
first lap of all cars was ss.4 Hffee
! an hour. A.
De Palma showed his Ballot out
! ahead in the third lap with three
others right on his tail
| De Palma Leads at 18th.
At the twelfth lap, thirty miles.
| De Palma led and had won a majority
of the laps. Milford went to the pits
to change tires and Fontaine stopped
to get new spark plugs.
close behind De Palma and the others
| were scattered.
Leader Close Pushed.
De Palma held the lead for the
first fifty miles. Boyer was right or
his tail, however, as he crossed the
tape.
Wilcox was the first driver out OF
the race. He was forced to give II
up in the twenty-second lap with a
broken connecting rod. Wilcox wor
the 1913 race
De Palma took twenty-three out o,
the first twenty-five laps. Sarles and
Boyer crossed the wire right after
him on The twenty-fifth lap. ALLEY
was fourth and Hearne fifth.
Fountaine Jumps Off Track.
Fontaine's car jumped off the track
on the thirty-third lap at the north
turn, into the straight away, but nc
one was hurt. The car turned over
De Palma continued his lead at 12s
miles and won So of the first SO laps
His average was 1882 miles an hour
Sarles was half lap behind will
Alley and Hearne following. Fon'
taine's accident put him out Of the
race.
With more than 100000 spectator!
looking on, twenty-three drivers, rep
resenting four nations, today lined
their cars at the pole for the starter''
bomb in the ninth renewal of the 50i
mile speedway automobile race will
nearly 100000 in prizes awaiting th'
winners of the countrys automobile
. racing classic.
Following is the list of prizes: Firs
place, $4,000, second place $4,000
! third $4,000, fourth s3,500. fiftl
) $4,000, sixth $4,000, seventh $500
eighth $1,000, ninth $1,000. tentl
s1,4O0. Lap prizes of 800 to tn
winner of each of the first $50 lap
and to the winner of alternate lap
after that totalIed nearly $4,000
while automobile accessory firms hat
offered prizes of more than $4,000
Z Twenty-Three at Start.
AS 10 O'Clock, the time for the start
drew near, twenty-three of the mos
representative racing creations OF tw
> continents, manned by the crack driv
: ers of four nations, were rolled to tn
= tape.
DePalma's Ballot drew a tremen
= dous cheer as it was rolled to its pol
/ position, showing the crowd was wit
the lone wolf of the speed kings
: Hopes of the American racers thi
q year were banked on the Duesenber
l and Frontenac racing creations.
: The French Ballot. piloted by De
: Palma. was conceded by most exper;
to be the speediest car on the trucl
. but whether it would hold togethe
g under the terrific pace and IN the fac
of the DePalma jinx was the question
In addition to the Ballot. the Amer
= cans were faced with the task of beat
n ing an imposing array of Peugeot
l. Eunbeams and a Talbot Darraqu.
s Younger drivers of the new scho
IS pitted their ambition and DARN
a ms 70 ,
the experienced veterans
l. Seventeen of the cars were Amer
q can; four were French and two EN-
d lish.
l. The American cars were all pilott
.e by Americans, while two Italians ar
ID four French drivers were behind ii
wheel in the other entries.