Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — RALPH DE PALMA IS RATHER OPTIMISTIC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RALPH DE PALMA IS RATHER OPTIMISTIC

«■ <3 ' < j/' -W ’ "v Raliavas Thorp Will Ra Mnro Ran. i iic™ wm De more ndcing Than Ever Next Year. derful Record, Capturing Fourteen Out of Sixteen Contests / —Didn’t Change Tires. . X Though Ralph de Palma, who broke all world’s records for cars of 300-cubic-inch displacement, from 2 t 0.50 miles, believes there will be nvre racing than ever next season. De Palma has had a wonderful record. This year he started in 16 contests and won 14 of them. He won the 100-mile at New York, then the 100-mile handicap at Cincinnati; then the Chicago derby; returning to New York he captured the Sheepshead Bay . sweep- ’ stakes, and thus continued his record, of victories. Besides the 4 mileage records he achieved, his racer also holds ( all records from one hour to six hours. “I did almost 600 miles at racing speed during the season at an average of over 108 miles an hour, without making a single tire change during any contest,” says De Palma. “My twomlle record was made at a speed of over 118 miles per hour, which is certainly as severe a tire test as will soon be encountered by any racer. The tenmile record was made at 110 miles an

hour; the six-hour record at 105 miles an hour. My car is not only the fastest but the heaviest racer that I know of. When all ready for a 100-mile race, with its gasoline and oil, driver and mechanician, it weighs 2,800 pounds."

Ralph de Palma.