The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-30

the previous record for the
first time at the 175-mile
mark. Speed at this distance
today was 1O9.216 miles an
hour. The previous mark was
109.407.
With the leaders battling
every mile, the worlds great
est field of racing drivers this
afternoon was led by Babe
Stapp in a Boyle Products
Special as the 500-mile race
neared the halfway mark.
Every previous record had
been shattered at the 125-mile
mark.
Stapp wrested the lead from Fred
Frame. 1882 winner, plotting Mil
ler-Hartz Special, at the Bonnie
mark. Stapp had been riding in
third place and Frame had held the
front post since the 85-mile mark.
Frame Forces Leader
Wild Bill Cummings. Indianapolis
driver in a Boyle Products Special,
cornered the speed market in the
first eighty-five miles of the race.
He set a new first lap record and
continued his terrific pace until
forced into the pits far gasoline and
water.
Throughout the first seventy five
miles Frame had forced Cummings
most of the way and was in the
lineup ready to Jump into the lead
when the chance came.
Frank Brisko, Milwaukee driver,
who i.8G kept his F. w. D. Special
in the leaders of the pack, was
forced to the pits on his fOrty-f1fth
lap with an overheated oil line.
Cummings Back in Race
Cummings returned to the race
after Frame took the lead, but his
delay forced him far down the field.
The new 125-mile record was
Ill 1923 miles an hour and the new
150-mile mark is III 463, almost two
miles an hour faster than the mark
set last year by the late Bob Carey
With Stapp still in the lead at $50
miles, Louis Meyer, a one-time win
ner, was in second place, with Will
bur Shaw in third. Frame was
fourth, with Pete Kreis in fifth.
Mauri Rose, starting at the end
of the field, due to drivers-om-
Gals battle. pulled up to fourth
place in his Gilmore Special, but
ran out of gas before the 150-mile
mark.
Hall Hits Wall
Ira Hall, in a Denny Duesenbere
Special, had the first mishap OF
race, spinning and crashing into
the concrete wall on the southeast
turn on his thirty-seventh lap.
Hall and his mechanic we're unhurt
but the car was out of the race with
broken connecting rods.
Sand was being thrown on the
southeast turn, which became slick
after the crash. The pilots were
fighting their mounts into the
straightaway to keep frfom skid
ding.
Stapp came into the pits on his
Sixty-fifth lap to take on gas, water
and right front tire and lost q
minute in doing it.
Kreis' car was pushed off the
track on the back stretch when he
ran out of gas.
Ernie Triplett was out of the race
on his siXty-first lap on motor
trouble.
At fifty miles Cummings held his
lead, setting another new record
Frame had pulled ahead of Brisko
Speed for the distance was HALE
miles an hour, three miles an hour
faster than the previous record.
Cummings also set another recorc
at the 25-mile mark with an average
of 1928, with a time of 13.0099.
Brisko then still was in second
place. with Frame only a short way
behind. Lou Moore was in fourth
place and TripIett in fifth.
Russo Goes to Pits
Joe Russo was the first driver tc
take to the pits. He came in at the
end of his first lap for change OF
spark plugs.
| Triplett was the second to make q
trip to the pits, coming in on his
ninth lap.
Louie Schneider, winner in 1881
also was forced out of the race be-
fore he had completed the first lap
when he pulled into the pits and his
Edelweiss Special quit on him.
Paul Bost, driving a Frame-Mille
Duesenberg Special, went out with
oil trouble after he had completed
twelve laps.
A new ten-nile record was set by
Cummings, who turned the mileage
at a speed of 1850. Previous rec
ord at this distance was set by Billy
Arnold at more than III miles ar
hour last year.
BriskO and Frame Next
Cummings started the race at 9
terrific pace, leaping from the pole
position to win the first lap at the
first record breaking speed of tht
day. He set the new record o.
114141. The old record was more
than 113, established in 1923 by
Leon Duray.
The driver official argument de.
Ilayed start of the race until 1000