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qualified, will be eliminated.
Thirty-eighth car to quail
fly was a Brady special, driven
by George Mackenzie of Ed
dington, Pa. His average speed
was 108.154 miles an hour and
his fastest lap was the fourth
at 1O8.630.
He vas followed by AL Jordan, in
his four-cycle Liontamer Miller
Special, whose four-lap average was
11l29O. Jordan'S fastest laps were
the first and third at 111.649.
Eight Others to Qualify
Eight other drivers and cars re-
Parded as certain to qualify before
The deadlne are:
Leon Duray. in his two-cycle NAL
Tory Special: Gene Haustein in Tulio
Gulotta's Mari Special: Sam Ross
in a four-cycle Miller; Zeke Meyer,
in the fifth Studebaker; an un-
named driver in the HoOsier Pete
Special and Jimmy Patterson, in a
buesenberg.
Tragedy again rode with speed et
the mammoth track Friday when
Milton Jones, 398-year- Cleve-
land driver, lost his life when his
machine crashed and plunged over
the wall on the always dangerous
southeast turn.
Wednesday. Harry Cox, 28-year-
old riding mechanic, was killed at
the same spot when the car in
which he was riding hurtled over
the wall
Loses Control Of Car
Jones. one-time motorcycle ace,
Iost control Of his machine on the
turn. and after hitting the inside
wall. hammered through the top
side Of the track, tearing up seven
teen feet Of the concrete wall.
The driver and his riding me-
chanic. Harold Gray. "a, were
rushed to city hospital, where Jones
died at $50 Of a crushed chest and
internal injuries.
Gray today still lay in serious con-
dition. He suffered badly fraS-
tured left arm, decorations and in
tcrnal injuries.
Two other minor crackups oc-
CURED shortly before the Jones
tragedy. The first came when Dusty
Fahrnows Goldberg Special blew a
tire on the northeast turn. The
machine careened into wall, but
Fahrnow righted the car and pulled
TO a stop. He was towed in, UNI
hurt. but the machine was damaged
slightly.
Hall Hits Wall
The other occurred a few minutes
later. when Ira Hall. Terre Haute
star. who qualified his Duesenberg
at a hour speed. roared
up the back stretch. Entering the
north turn, Hall found his throttle
stuck. Before he could turn of the
switch the machine slammed into
the outside retaining wall
Hall managed TO control the car
and limped into the pits. He was
1nhurt. but the car was damaged
Mechanics asserted it would be
ready by Sunday.
Ernie Triplett featured Fridays
qualifications, when he piloted his
cylinder Floating Power Spe-
cial at a speed Of 1149S5 miles an
hour.
Six others qualified. including
Juan Guadino. the Argentine star
Guadino qualified at a speed OF
107 400 miles an hour.
Directly outside the Speedway
gates this morning were lined UP
more than a dozen automobiles
from various points OF the United
States. All are parked there to
wait until s a. m. Monday. when
the Speedway gates viii be thrown
open.
Practically all. is ready for the
annual motor classic. and the track
will be closed all day Sunday while
the crew OF Speedway workers
cleans the bricks OF all oil and
grease.
No cars will be allowed on the
track until Monday morning. when
they will be allowed to motor past
slowly to take their positions at the
starting line.