The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-05-31
PHILADELPHIA WILL
GET Cash, TROPHIES
AT PILOTS BANQUET
Purse OF $101 500 Will Sc Di.
vided Among Special
Event Winners
SPENCE'S DEATH Is SHOCK
Louis Meyer, 1928 Driving
Champion, Second Place
Winner. Gets $4,000
SPENCE'S DEATH Is SHOCK

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approximately .siG.0 900 III cash ana
several trophies Will be eivea Ray
Kecch. Philadelphia. here tonight, for
having won The l7tn annual 500-mile
automobile rccc yesterday at the
speedway.
The presentation Will be made at a
banquet for the drivers who VIII d.
vide. there, u purse OF sl0l 500. Each
OF the pilots in the long grind VIII
receive some money regardless OF his
position AT the enl.
Used SIS they are TO sudden death
within their ranks. the racers were
shocked at the accident which re
suited in the passing OF Bill Spence
Of Los Angeles. Spence died from q
fractured skull a short time after his
car had turned over early in the cor
test. It was the first fatality ca TIC
local track IL 10 years.
Never Gets $4,000
Louis Meyer, High Gate, Calf, the
1928 American driving champion who
finished second Yesterday, VIII be
gwen checks for about $4,000. Jim
my Gleason of Philadelphia, who was
third. will b. rewarded With abou
S 1000 in cash.
Others who will get large shares OF
the money are Carl Marchcse, Mllwau-
kec. who was fourth; Speed Gardner,
Philadelphia. fifth; Fred Wlnaal,
Philadelphia. ixth: Louis Chiron,
Paris, Franco. seventh: Billy Arnold,
Chicago. eighth; Cliff Eergerc. Los
Angeles, ninth; and Fred Franc, who
was tenth.
Deacon Litz. Dubois. Pa. who was
in the lead for l22 miles but wrecked
his car in a wild. uncontrolled dash
off the track and did not finish. won
S 1000 in lap prizes and a few hundred
dollars of the 500 consolation fund.
Lou Moore. whose car broke down
five miles from the finish while he
was two lars head OF all others Tor
second place and $4,000 won $4,000
in lap money. He finished second
last year. Moore's breakdown yester-
CAV was one Of the greatest bits OF
misfortune he had had in his racing
career.
In addition o winning a fortune
by his clever driving. Keech gathered
1000 points toward the 1929 driving
championship. kecch lcaped from
obscurity to fame a little more than
a year ago when he established a
worlds record speed of POT miles an
I.Our on a mile straightaway course.
His performances later were so good
he finished in the runner up position
for the driving championship III l3.S,
10000 Arc Thrilled
As had been predicted yesterdays
race was ono Of more than usual
thrills and it kept the record crowd OF
100 900 on its feet much Of the time.
Broken wheels and steering assem-
Ties. crashes into the walls and over
turning lars threatened the lives OF
a half dozen drivers but all excepting
Spence escaped with bruises.
Jules Moriceau, French star. was
one of the men whose car turned
over. He later relieved Louis Chiron,
another Frenchman and 1928 Euro
pean driving champion, who finished
seventh.
The average speed Of the winning
car-97.585 miles per hour-Was a dls-
appointment to many who predicted
the OIL. cubic inches piston displace-
ment motors in their final Tlllrl
around the speedway would Shatter
Peter Gle Paolo's record Of lOl.l3 miles
per hour made III 1928.
There we're several other surprises.
One was the rapldity with which the
cars we're eliminated. There were
only IL running at the finish.