The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-25
HOOSier Pilot
Answers Call
toAid Thorne
He'll Team With Snow
berger in Race; Trials On
Again Today.
BY HARRISON MILLER

BY HARRISON MILLER
Dave Evans. veteran Columbus
Gnd) race pilot, rejoined the racing
clan at the indianapolis Motor
Speedway today as drivers prepared
for an extra session of qualification
runs following yesterdays post
ponement because of rain. Trials
will be held from until shutdown.
Evans, who has been working in
Detroit, hurried here on request
plea to team with Russ Snowberger
on the Joe Thorne entries. Young
Thorne, Tucson (Ariz) sportsman,
had intended to make his debut as
pilot this year, but is not eligible
! to take a drivers test for another
| year.
| The number of cars in the lineup
for the 500-mile event on Memo
rial Day was boosted to Is over the
weekend, and the withdrawal of
two chargers was announced. Nine
cars qualified Saturday, but down.
pour of rain chased the mounts to
the garages and disappointed ap-
proXimately $4,000 fans yesterday.
The last chance for entries to
pass requirements for the 33-car
field which will get the starters flag
at the 500-mile race here Memorial
Day will be Thursday, from l to 4.
Under no circumstances will the
track be open after 4 Thursday.
gsr0vo Ford IL, 1O2S
In the event of rain, qualifica-
tons will be deferred until tomor-
row, it was announced. Every driv-
err will be given ample opportunity
to try to qualify, and the list will
not be closed as soon as 33 have
been qualified, as has been thought
by some.
The return OF Evans to pilots
seat, brings familiar figure back
to the Speedway. Because of bust
ness connections in Detroit, he
had intended to retire, but will be
behind the wheel of one of the
Dodge motored siX-cylinder cars
owned by Thorne.
Last year Evans was alternate
starter and relief driver for the
Ford va team. In 1884, he quail
fed one of the Cummins-Diesel oil
burners.
The two cars to withdraw are
the entries of Lucky Teter and
Ivan Mikan. Teter, hell driver"
from Noblesville, announced that
he will not bring his car this year,
since he is unable to drive it. Teter
is not eligible to drive in the 500
mile event because he is not a reg
istered A. A. A. chauffeur.
The eight-cylinder Studebaker-
powered Mikan Special which was
to have been driven by Young Al
Putnam of Glendale, CAL, was towed
to the garage yesterday after
throwing a piston through the mo-
tor during a test run. It will not
be repaired for the marathon. Put
nam, who arrived on "shoestring"
this year for his first glimpse of
the Speedway, gained favor at the
oval after taking his drivers test,
and has had several offers to drive.
Shafer Wants Putnam
Phil (ReO Shafer, veteran driver
owner, stated yesterday that Put
nam may try to qualify one of his
cars today. Shafer likes the work
of the California youth and is will
ing to give him his first chance at
the big motor derby. George Bar
ringer qualified the other Shafer
mount at a speed of 112700 miles
an hour. Al Miller of Detroit re-
corded the fastest time Saturday
when he qualified the Boyle Prod
ucts rear drive entry at an aver
age speed of 1913 miles an hour
on the 25-mile tour.
Close on his heels, however, was
Chef Gardner of Long Beach, Cal,
who averaged exactly 116. The vet
GRAMS achievement goes down in tha
books as an oddity record. Accord
ing to ODDS Porter, chief timer, who
has been guardian of the precise
timing machine at the Speedway
since 1909, it was the first time III
the history of local racing that a
driver has completed a qualifying
trial or a 500-mile race in even
figures.
Billy VIM of Detroit gained the
eighteenth position in the lineup by
completing his second test run in
114648 Previously, he had attained
a speed of 115769, but consumes
more than the two and one-half
gallons of gasoline permitted,
Meyer linked Again
Others to pass the tests are Frank
Brisko, Chicago, Elgin Piston Spe-
cial, l14213; Johnny Seymour, De-
troit, -O'Brien Special, 49,
1859; Frank McGurk, Los Angeles,
Abels Auto Ford Special, 1902;
Doc Williams, Franklin, Ind, SUI
perior Trailer Special, 112.837;
Ralph Hepburn. Los Angeles, Art
Rose Special, 1858, and Overton
Smell. st. Louis, Smell Brothers Spe-
cial, 109.561.
A cracked cylinder block retarded
for the third time the efforts of
Lou Meyer to qualify his charger