The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-29
FULL FIELD OF ~ CARS WILL BE
STARTERS IN SPEEDWAY RACE
as Racers Pass in Trials:
Four Eliminated: Two
Die in Crash.
SPEED MARKS PERILED
Crowd in Excess of $4,000
Expected to Be Present
for Classic.
BY NORMAN ISAACS
Times Staff Writer

Times Stan Writer
Undaunted by the deaths of a
driving pal and his riding mechanic,
fOrty-tWO of the worlds greatest
racing drivers Tuesday morning at
10 will pull away from the starting
line at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, all in quest of victory in
the twenty-first 5OO-mile automo-
bile race.
indianapolis, crowded with Wis
ltors, put on its holiday appear
ance, gayly carrying on" while flu
neral arrangements were being made
for Bill Denver, Audubon tPaD
driver, and Bob Hurst, his Indian
apoliS mate, who were killed Sun
day afternoon when their car
crashed over the northeast wall.
One More Qualities
Although the forty-two places in
the starting lineup already we're
filled, one more driver qualified
early today, Phil Shafer breaking
into the starting lineup during an
additional forty-eight minutes of
time tests.
Qualifications, scheduled to end
at 7:04 Sunday evening, ended at
GIG, when a downpour of rain hit
the Speedway, and officials granted
the waiting race pilots the right to
take their speed tests today.
Must Beat 100 Miles
Cars had to exceed 100 miles an
hour for ten laps twenty-five
niles and in all forty-Six cars
passed the test, but the four slow
est we're eliminated and held as
auxiliary starters in the event any
of the faster cars are withdrawn.
Fair and cool was the weather
fare promised for the race today.
Downtown hotels reported their
facilities taxed almost to the limit
and automobiles from every state
in the Union were sighted on down
town streets.
Half a dozen machines were lined
up at the Speedway gates, waiting
for Tuesdays o'cock bomb which
will swing the gates open for the
mad dash across the infield by the
early cOmerS for vantage points
along the back stretch wall
Fourteen cars qualified Sunday.
Babe Stapp in the Boyle Products
four-cylinder car, leading the field
with an average speed of 1885
miles an hour.
Death Car Starts Test
Thirty-hve cars had been quail
fled when Denver and Hurst
climbed into the cockpit of the
Brady Special, the same car which
crashed on the short south straight
away last Monday.
In that crackup, in which the
machine skidded 1000 feet after
bouncing into the wall, AL Aspen
and Mitzi Davis, driver and me-
chanic respectively, escaped serious
injury
The car was reconditioned and
Denver grinned happily as he clam
bered into the machine.
I'll get 100 out of this bus. or
bust" he told several persons
around him.
MY fingers are crossed" muir
INJURED Hurst cheerfully.
Takes Warm-Up Laps
Denver asked track officials if he
could take three warm-up laps be-
fore starting his qualification run
and they aSsented.
The car pulled away from the
starting line, picked up speed in the
south turn and Denver stepped on
1t" as the machine swung into the
backStretch. The racer Numbered
down the stretch, picking up mo-
mentum swiftly.
In the northeast turn, the car
went into spin. A Mortified shout
went up as the car plunged UP the
banked turn like bullet, and
hurtled over the top wall .
1t crashed into a tree. landing
upside down, and throwing both
Denver and Hurst clear. The car
burst into flames and when Track
Guard Homer Pollard and two other
persons, Arlie Couple and Ted Ross,
reached the scene the clothes of
both men were ablaze.
Both Die Soon
Pollard's hands were burned in
ripping the burning clothes from
the men. They were rushed to city
hospital. Denver died in the speed
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