Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1915 — RESTA LEADS AT END OF 400 MILES [ARTICLE]

RESTA LEADS AT END OF 400 MILES

Cooper, in Stats, Led at End of 100 and 200 Miles—Gets SI,OOO For Each Century. Chicago’s first five hundred mile calssic started this morning at 10 o’clock. The cars at the end of 120 miles were runnings in the following ordeT: Cooper, Stutz; Resta, Peugeot; Anderson, Stutz; Van Raalte, Sunbeam. Wilcox, one of the favorites, was forced to leave the track early owing to a broken piston rod. Chandler, in his Ogren, No. 24, was also forced from the race with a broken crankshaft. Cooper receives one thousand dollars for leading the field at the end of the first hundred miles. Standing of the cars at 200 'miles,; Cooper, Stutz; Resta, Peugeot; Anderson, Stutz, and Van Raalte, .Sunbeam, tied for third place, Sunbeam, Grant; O’Donnell, Dussenberg. Henning, in a Mercer, and Haupt in a Duesenberg, were forced from the race with motor trouble. Cooper receives another thousand dollars for leading the field at the end of the 200 mile mark. At the end of the 300 mile mark there was a big shift in the leaders and Resta, th 4 favorite in the race, had assumed the lead, the little I tab ian’s sensational and consistent driving sending him out to the front over Cooper, who lost time at the pits. Harry Grant in a Sunbeam crawled into second place. Cooper in a Stutz followed closely, holding his mount up among the leaders. Porporato, the much feared fellow countryman of Resta, had pulled his Sunbeam into fourth place and was pressing the leaders hard. Eddie Rickenbacher, the reckless German, had gone into fifth place at the end of the third hundred miles. Rests, receives SI,OOO for leading at the third hundred miles. Resta maintained lead at 380 miles, with Porporato and Grant in Sunbeams second and third.