Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-30
MEYER WINS
AUTO RACE
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The cars entered the treacherous
curve a few feet apart and smashed
together when a wheel came off
Fox's Universal Service Special.
Jordan died in hospital shortly
after the crash. He suffered head
injuries. Spangler, picked up un-
conscious on the track, was serious
ly hurt.
Three other accidents marred the
days race, run under q clear sky
and perfect driving conditions.
Drivers in the others were hurt
only slightly.
Three leaders fell by the wayside
before Meyer went out in front.
Wild Bill Cummings, of Indian
apolis, who held the pole position.
started the race at a burning pace,
and shattered all records up to the
85-mile mark, when he went to the
pits.
Fred Frame, winner of last years
event, who had been pushing Cum
mings from the start, jumped into
first and held it until the 130-mile
mark. Frame was forced out when
a valve in his Miller-H special,
the same car in which he won last
lear, broke.
Babe Stapp, diminuitive Los An
geles driver, who has been a strong
first place contender in the 500-mile
race for years, took the lead from
Frame and hit a dazzling pace until
he relinquished it to Meyer, at $40
miles.
Undoubtedly the track record
would have been broken more Sc
verely than it was had not drivers
been forced to proceed under the
yellow warning flag at less than
so miles an hour Tor several laps
while wreckage of the Spangler-
Fox cars were removed from the
track.
Shortly before Meyer took the
lead from SJapp, the speed was five
miles an hour faster than the rec
ord for the corresponding time of
last year, when the records were
set.
Times for every 25 mile interval
except $50 and ITS miles were brok-
EN-.
Ran Typical Race
Meyers performance was typical
OF the Californian. In addition, to
winning in 1923, he was among the
leaders in a subsequent race last
year, after his own 16-cylinder car
was forced out, took Malcolm Fox IS
entry and finished among the first
10.
Shaw, also contender last year,
broke into the leaders at $50 miles,
when he took third position be-
hind Frame and Stapp. From
there out he drove dogged race,
dropping once to fourth place but
coming back to third at 225 miles
and once going to second before
Stapp went out.
Chester Gardner, was among the
first 10 in his Miller special after
the first 100 miles was passed.
Lou Moore, young Los Angeles
driver, became a contender Short
ly after the halfway mark was
passed. He went into fourth place
at 325 miles and trailed few
laps behind the leaders.
Tony Gulotta, Kansas City, was
seventh. zeke Meyer, Philadelphia,
was ninth and Cliff Bergere, Hol-
lywood, tenth. Bergere had been
among the leaders since the half
way mark. Gulotta, captain of the
team. and Meyer came up in the
last 100 miles.
Dave Evans, who finished sixth
is the only pilot ever to have conf
pleted the 500 miles without a stop
In 1881, Evans drove the Diesel
motored Cummins special the en-
tire distance without a trip to the
pits.
The first accident Of the race oc-
CURED when Ira Hall, Terre Haute,
skidded into the wall on the north
west turn while on his 37th lap. He
was uninjured.
Billman'S accident was the second
of the day. His car ripped four
feet from the retaining wall ard
poised on the concrete until rc-
moved by attendants. Billman's
mechanic, Elmer Lombard, Indian
apolis, was hurled so feet through
the air and injured slightly.
A few moments after the Sparg-
ler-Fox crash, Willard Prentice, OF
Los Angeles, crashed in his Carr
special against the Southwest wall
He was unhurt.
A few laps later Wesley Craw-
lord, Indianapolis, lost wheel and
skidded into the wall, but without
injury to himself or his mechanic.