Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — DE PALMA AGAIN WINS ROAD RACING TITLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DE PALMA AGAIN WINS ROAD RACING TITLE

—For th© second time Ralph De Palma has been declared road racing champion of America, the honor having been won by virtue of three firsts and two fourths in five starts. Runner-up of De Palma is Eddie Pullen who made a gallant fight but who lost the honor because he had only two firsts and one second in his flvb starts. The American Automobile association never has attempted to decide the road racing championship, so it has reverted to Motor Age to make the picking, a practice that has been carried on for six years now and which

result Is accepted as official by the motoring public in general. This time De Palma did not have the walkover he did in 1912, when he was adjudged champion, but no one disputes his claims, for his three firsts include the winning of the Vanderbilt cup trophy for the second consecutive time and his second victory in the Elgin National. Besides this he was fourth in the American Grand Prix,' after leading for a long ways, and fourth at Corona. Pullen won the Grand Prix and Corona; was second in the Elgin National, and failed to finish in the Vanderbilt and Chicago Automobile club cup race.

Ralph De Palma, Champion Road Racer.