Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — NOTED SPORTSMAN TO START LIBERTY RACE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTED SPORTSMAN TO START LIBERTY RACE

E. C. Patterson, of Chicago, celebrated cross-country driver, football expert and ex-baseball star, has been selected to start the international Liberty Sweepstakes race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway race, May 31st. In previous years Patterson has been an entrant, bringing Theodore Pilette from Belgium to compete in the contest of 1913, and backing Ralph De Palma in the 1914 and 1915 events. Patterson is one of th® finest sportsmen who ever graced a pastime, and he has been identified with a number of them. As an of his mettle it may be cited that in 1915, when De Palma captured first money at Indianapolis, amounting to ?20,000, Patterson, though he had financed the Italian's campaign in its entirety, refused to accept a single penny of his winnings, but insisted that he keep them all. „ "" Undisputed holder of the crosscountry record between New York and Chicago, Patterson makes it a point every year to try and clip a few minutes off of his best previous performance, and thus far he has always succeeded. When he is not busy driving fast cars, he picks all-western football teams for Collier’S Weekly, and he also holds the strike-out record for organized baseball.