The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-01
Owners Rush
to Enter Cars
in 800 Classic
Bar Drops Tonight, Seventy
Candidates Expected;
Late Race Dope.
BY YERN BOXELL

Speedway Office today. as racing car
owners from all over the nation
joined in the last-minute rush to
enter their speed buggies in the 500
mile Decoration Day classic.
At midnight tonight the bar drops.
but the complete field will not be
known for at least two days All let
tiers postmarked before midnight to-
night will be accepted. Some OF the
Pacific Coast horde coming here for
the race Of races are among those
marked missing" and almost GER
tain to enter.
When the Speedway opened for
business today, there were approx
mately IS already in the list. This
VIII be swelled to nearly 20 before
completed, officials predicted.
Ticket Requests Pour In
Augmenting the entry blanks in
the mail were hundreds of ticket
requests. The advance sale Of seats
for the May 30 carnival is far ahead
Of last year, according to T. E. Pop
Meyer, general manager. Reserva-
tons already have been filed for
thriu-lOving fans from 80 states.
With the advent Of May 30 and
its promise Of warmer weather, the
Speedway oval VIII be humming with
activity within the next week. Driv-
ers and cars are arriving daily.
Louis Meyer, a tWO-time winner,
and his wife arrived yesterday from
California. Popular LOuie's home
made car which he entered last year
and encountered bad luck, is on its
way to Indianapolis, and Meyer
promise it Will be in much better
condition. He has spent the win
ter months getting the shiny Job
ready for the big moment, when he
hopes to become the only three time
winner in history.
Gardner Switches Motors
Chester Gardner. who will drive
the radiO-equipped Sampson Spe-
cial again this year was another ar
rival yesterday. Chester announced
that a new four cylinder motor had
displaced the 16-cylinder power
plant he used in the car last year
Little Mauri Rose. who was only
a long breath behind Winner Wild
Bill Cummings last year, is at he
track. itching to take a fling around
the bricks Mauri will be up on the
! famed Four Wheel Drive this year
He's enthusiastic about his 1885
-
seconds which separated him from
victory last year. Rose spent the
winter in Wisconsin, helping to pre-
pare the all-wheels-run job for the
500.
Deacon Litz. the PENNSYLVANIA giant. al
ready has run 500 miles at better than 100
miles an hour this year. Deacons car still
is az the track. and he probably Will take
IL out Tor some more test spins
Tony GuIotta couldn't wait for Leon Du-
raw to get his famed Second placer" out
to the bricks. Tony broke loose Yesterday
I in the BOnalite Special Ford job which
Chef Miller parked over the wall last
Nav 30. Gulotta will drive the Duray car
in which Rose finished second last year
and Wilbur Shaw the previous year.
At least IS other cars are being
assembled in indianapolis garages.
Cotton Henning. Mike Boyle's i'm
preSsariO, who hopes to turn out an
other winner this year to add to his
collection of four is putting together
! three chargers, including the one
(which Cummings hustled over the
wire first last year It's a 'front.'
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chauffeur the reaT-wheel Boyle job
which George Barringer started last
year. The third member Of the team
isn't known.
Arrivals from the West Coast are loudly
singing the praises of four swashuckling,
hcavy-footed Youngsters who have been
battling bitterly for supremacy on the
Pacific shores. They tangIe for the final
time tonight at Legion Ascot Speedway.
: Los Angeles. and will then head East
Immediately to renew their hectic struggle
here.
They are Harris Insiuger, the Penn
sylyania collegian Al Gordon, last years
Western champion: Rex Mays. who has
won the last four tangles of the fleet four,
and Kelly Petillo. the midget Italian dare
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here last year to win the pole position
with an average of Il9 miles an hour for
the 25 miles.
Young Insiuger viii be at the wheel Of
hlgh-pON cred buggy entered by Harry
noted pilot and former winner. ana Mon
roe OWSlcy. screen actor. Gordon VIII
have one Of the fastest mounts at the
track IN Bill Whites trim creation which
Cllu Bergerce handled last year. MAYS
who drove for Hartz and Frame last
year succeeds GORDON on the Paul WeirIck
car. charger that Will get up and 20 in
swift style. PCtllO built his own car on
the coast and Will give &c test on the
ported that Four heel-DrIve Brisko Will
take over the place vacated by Petillo in
dynemite-ioaded Lion Head Special, one
Of tie pretucSt cars of 1884 both in APP
pearSnoe and performance.
Six drivers have been named to
pilot the Ford VS. Specials. designed
and built by Harry A. Miller, auto
4 motive engineer Of Detroit. Pete
DePaolO, winner of the 1925 race, is
) the most prominent of the sextet.
Dave Evans. Billy Winn, George
Barringer, Cliff Bergere and Ted
Horn are the others. Four remain
to be named for the 10-car team.
The first Of the cars, which are
said to be IS per cent stock, is ex-
peoted to arrive at the big oval with
in few days.
Norkmen are busy at the giant speed
plant Installing the new traffic light. They
will replace the yellow and green flags of
last year-yellow for caution TO slow the
race and green Il wind EN- up" Six
lights are being in,talled--on grand stand b
on the southwest curve, grand stand G
on the southeast, the bridge on the
north straightaway. on the entrance TO
the northeast turn, on the auto bridge over
the north straightaway and on grand
stand II coming out Of the northwest
turn. Flags again will be used by the
official starter on the stand at the start
ing line on the home stretch.