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CAR WINS:5Ray Harroi:;i Pilots Winning Autoin Indianapolis 500-Mile Inter-,national Sweepstakes.MECHANICIAN DICKSON KILLED*Many Drivers Injured and CarsWrecked in Exciting Contest—Lozier Second and Fiat Third.Sfccicl to The Xezv York Times.INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May SO.-Ray Harroun driving a Marmon car won the 50o-mile International Sweepstakes to-day at the Motor Speedway. Ralph Mulford atthe wheel of a Roller was second, and D. Bruce-Brown in a Fiat was third. The winner's time was lt;j hours 41 minutes and S seconds. More than SO,000 enthusiastic spectators shouted encouragement to tiie lorty pilots that started the race, and with uiulaggihg enthusiasm cheered the leader in the last laps of the contest and watched the cars travel around the course to decide minor honors.The death toll of the race was one mechanician, while several were badly injured. The most serious accident of tne day was in the thirtieth mile of the race, when S. P. Dickson of Chicago, mechanician for Arthur Greiner, driving an Am- j plex, lost his life. The accident occurred on the back stretch, when one of the front wheels of the car flewr off. The car twisted and hopped about the track, ; hurling Greiner and Dickson from their i seats. Dickson was thrown against a ! fence 20 feet from the car anci terribly ; mangled. He was killed Instantly. Greiner was knocked unconscious, but escaped with a fractured arm.Throughout the thrilling contest a series t of 'succeeding accidents kept the immense I crowd in a state of fearful expectancy 1 and kept thousands of eyes strained on !■ iithe track for a fatal collision that seemed imminent whenever several cars flashed !i:close to each other. Considering the rapidity with which the accidents followed during the early hours of the race i it was surprising that more serious trouble did not foilow. The men injured in j the mishaps were as follows:Davis Lewis, mechanician for Teddy Teizlaff, (Lozier,) right leg broken near hip.Harry Knight, driver of Westcott. breast bruised and possibly internal injuries. jJohn T. Glover. Knight’s, mechanician, body ' bruised. iBob Evans, mechanician for Jack Tower, i (Jackson.) body bruised when he leaped from car.John Wood, mechanician for Joe Jagersbur-ger, tCase,) run over and bruised after leaping from car.The race was for a purse of $23,000 offered by the Spetdwav management, and 4 nearly Slo.iMJ in special prizes from va- ! rious manufacturing lirmS. Harroun won j the first prize of sio.ivo. and several f of the other special prizes, including the ! Dorian Rim purse, offefred to the winning driver if his car was equipped with Dorian rims. In all. iiarroun’s winnings willaggregate nearly *15,000. Among the jother special prizes were those given by I the Rerny Electric Company. Bosch Mag- ( to Company, and Columbia Lubricants; Company. •The cro.vd v as too big to bo controlled | by a company of militia, and hundredso? special policemen were posted abouttor- grounds. The spectators swarmedacross the infield when IMokson was! killed and pressed close about his body and that of the unconscious Greiner.Soldiers had to club their guns to cleari1 Ia space tor the surgeons when the am-; buianee arrived. The throng went wildwith excitement after the first accident, i and rushed back and forth over thefield when the other accidents were re-ported from one point or another around j the two-and-cne-iiaif-mrle track. In tiie j stands the men and women were on their , feet lor hours, cheering their favorites j and exclaiming with apprehension when ; cars scraped each other or ran off the inner edge of tne track.A new record was established by Bruce Brown at the lVMnile mark, when his car was timed in 1:59:12, as against Dawson's old mark of 2:ol:U9. Harroun took the lead in the 19uth mile. Then cars began to cast tires, burned out by the j fierce grind over the brick pavement. I g Steering gears began to give way. In I front of the grand stand Jagersberger's IvtCase car got away from him and switched | Aback and forth across the track. Wood, the machanician, leaped out and fell. The car passed over him. The other cars were rushing on him. but all swerved safely by as he rose and staggered from the track, except Harry Knight's West-cott. This car plunged to tlie inner fence, threw out -Knight and Glover and careened against Herbert Lytle's Apperson, turning it fiver.When the race was half over Louis Dls-brow’s Pope-Hartford threw a tire at the entrance of the home stretch and swerved In front of Tetzlaff’s Lozier^ In the collision the rear wheels of Dmbrow’s car were torn off and the Lozier turned turtle. Tetzlaff’s mechanician was caught under the car and his leg broken. The other racers ret tie 3. to more fixed positions in the grind and the roar of the motors belching flame and smoke from the exhausts of the scorched engines aroused the cheering multitudes in thePuMDli\vJiGML1'IILai11OliKa:rrgrand stands and bleachers to a highlybiRJ(drTTl lt;* H \\VIVBbKI%tension. A woman in a box fainted and fell from her chair. The incident almost caused a panic in the nervous crowd. Hysterical screams of women stalled another small stampede in the grand Ftand when Burma u's Benz cast a tire into the air and over tlie retaining wall.As the race proceeded, however, accidents almost ceased, and the spectators became hardened to the excitement. Harroun kept In front, earning shouts ofencouragement. When he swept into the homestretch on his last lap and Harter Wagner gave him the finishing flag, the speedway enclosure rang wi’h applause that drowned the loud barking of the seemingly ceaseless motor explosions.A study of the complete score card for the race, shows that not more than eight of the forty ears were in the lead at any stage of the long grind. These were Ray Harroun. Marmon: RalphMalfcrd. Lozier: David Bruce-Brown,Fiat: Spencer Wishart. Mercedes; Ralph De Palma, Simplex; Fred Belcher, Knox;jC( John Aitkin, National, and Teddy Tetz- ^ laff. Lozier. Of these Aitken and Tetzlaff Were forced to withdraw by accidents.At the end. of the first TOO miles Bruce-Brown led, Mulford second, and Tetzlaff It third. At IV* miles Harroun had come j r un from the trailers to second place. At 390 miles Harroun took the lead, which beheld to the end. At 200 miles Bruce-Brown was seccnd and Mulford third.At 300 miles Mulford was second ami Bruce-Brown third. At 4ho miles, at 450 miles, and at the finish it stood Harroun*Mulford. and Bruce-Brown. But in between these last three points P.ruce-TCrrtltlicoBrow n and Mulford see-sawed for second j Rs were cer- ^ha11place until not even the Judge tain until the last lap who would take it.Bruce-Brown and Mulford were at ail ptages of the race contenders for the lead, and a delav of more than tire changing time bv Harroun would have meant certain loss of the contest. Toward the end of the race the three leaders werewoobTirlittle more than thirty seconds apart. All t!three handled their cars in masterly fashion. Mulford lost considerable time through tire trouble, and Bruce-Brownwas off the track more times than Harroun. „As a curtain-raiser Bob Burman wascrowned aa the “ Speed King.” Thecrown presented by the Firestone Tireand Rubber Company was of elaborateworkmanship, made out of solid gold andlined with purple velvet.The firs’; ten men to finish the race,with their winnings, follow::Name. Car. - Prize.Kav Harroun..............Marmon, $10,000Ralph Mulford.............Lozter, 5,000D Bruce-Brown Fiat, .‘{,000Spencer Wishart...........Mercedes, 2.000Ralph de Palma...........Simplex, 1,500Charles Mcrtz....... National, 1,000W. H. Turner..............Am plex, MR)Harry Cobe ...........Jackson, (00Fred Belcher...............Knox, 500Hughle Hughefl............Mercer, 500aViQvJ’PnTaiin* «• i . p ----Total................................. $25,000In addition to this sum, in gold, the leading ten drivers shared in a distribution of side prizes, given by accessory makers, amounting to nearly $15,000. The drivers of the ten leading cars will also receive bronze plaques from the speedwaymanagement.PBPfiirS'JtltlF
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Wed, May 31, 1911
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