The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-31


ok drivers shared in the lap prize
- money at the Speedway during
MONDAYS race, Fred Frame taking
the lions share. Fred garnered
So 800 of the lap prize funds and
Billy Arnold pulled down S2,SOO:
Bob Carey took away $1,000 ana
wilbur Shaw captured s1.400. Err
ME Triplett managed to take StOO
and Ira Hall earned $500.
Here's how w. n. (Eddie) Edenburn' A.
A. chief steward for the race hsteo
IN, ehampionsdip point standing TO-DAY
Frame. 500; wilcox. $50; Bergere. 400
Carey. $50; snowberser. 1905 y. Meyer go;
II, Hall 1911; winnai. $50; Jim Patterson,
sos: 10. HUFF, SO; Billy VIM. iiS; ana
L. Meyer. ..
A RNOLD'S crash was tough
N break and by no means was
any fault of his or his car. Rloing
vide on the northeast turn at a
terrific pace. Arnold saw Pete
Kreis' car seventy-five yards aheaa
of him slip and skid toward the top
the track. Finley McGrew, Times
renorter. who was covering the
turn. saw Arnold maneuver TO sip
under Kreis, but found his car ska,
ding in oil. The car catapulteo
10 the upper retaining wall, hung
there for moment ana Ihen
dropped into the field.
r
Another thrill for fans came when Ira
Hail., Duesenberg skidded and MT inc
wall on the southeast turn. Hshs me-
chanic was injured slightly, but the car
was not damaged. Hall sent his mecnan'e
70 the neId hospital. drove the car around
TO the pits and stopped.
LET me have another mechanic sara
Ira.
Then he went on with the race.
rDou.spas we're roofing for Bob Carey.
the anderson fast bow" in the closing
stages OF the rece Carey gave z great
driving performance all Inc way through.
~ The pits and was there some time. ne
came back into The race TO md himseit
ont Of the hrst ten. He pulled nimseh
up 70 ninth at 900 miles ana worS So. h M
Thinning sixth behind Russ isnowbcrger:
and Al AS he had passed Snowberger ano
hsd show, in fourth place and was driving
like a wild man., II was great per
Torrance.
ONE Of the perfect things about
" Mondays 500-mile classic at
the Speedway was the start. Paced
bv Edsel Ford, the field got away
marvelously, every car in the first
few rows keeping position perfectly
There were a few stragglers in the
rear. but they we're all going.
Then came the end Of the first lap. Lou
Mrore Was fifty wards out in front Of Ar
7ch and BRYAN SauIpauSh was running
;hird. On the second Ian. Billy was wa
in frert as thew whizzed bv the timing
stand and he was travelling like comet.
III. e-.t car ont came with start.inr
lion Tamer Special. Gordon cracked 10
on the northwest turn. on his second lap.
scbraser and the Harry Miller four-wheel
drive with 2 broken oil line: on the
IN piloted bv Bob McDonoEh. went out
with the same trouble and that was the
end of the four-wheel erives.
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All was well until the eighteenth lap
when Paul Bost's meteor died and his En-
pire Stale Special went cut Of the race. On
The twenty-eighth lap, Wesley Cravford's
Fevle valve Special vent out with motor
trouble. and on the thirtieth lap. Johnny
Krieger's c. r. 8. Special. blew rod.
on the thirty-hrst lap. Al Aspen's Brady
Nardin Speciai also blew rod and that
left fhirty-three cars still eoinT. Louis
Never and the sixteen-cyllnder ,iampson
Special we're the next 70 leave ne COM
pefsfion when the Sampson came down
with a case OF broken gears on the hftieth
lap.
ON the ffty-hfth lap. Bryan Saulpaugh's
Harry Miller Special went out with a bro
ken oil line and fear laps later Billy Ar
mold went out when his .Mlller-Hartz dove
over the wall on the northeast turn. Bob
Carey spranE inte the lead and kept MP
the Wild. pace. Then Ray Campbell and the
Folly Farm Special went cut on the six
tieth lap with a broken erankshaft and Al
Millers Hudson followed II on the sixty
sixth with a broken connecting rod on
the sfxty-hfth George MaeKenEie's Brady
Special had EoHe eat with 4 broken case
Hoe f@Hh