Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — QUARTET OF FRENCH CHAMPIONS LOOM UP AS FAVORITES IN INDIANAPOLIS 500-MILE RACE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

QUARTET OF FRENCH CHAMPIONS LOOM UP AS FAVORITES IN INDIANAPOLIS 500-MILE RACE

Easily the moat formidable racing aggregation that Europe has ever sent to America to compete for international speed honors, the Ballot team, composed of Rene Thomas, Albert Guyot, Jules Bablot and Louis Wagner, will go to the post as favorites in the Indianapolis 500-mile Liberty Sweepstakes on the Indianapolis speedway, May 31st. Each member of the team is a star of highest rank, and the speed crea, tions they will drive have been prepared especially for the Indianapolis

event, having been secretly built in a private Paris factory since the armistice was signed. . > _ Rene Thomas is famous on this side of the big puddle as winner of the Indianapolis 509-mile race in 1914, the greatest international event held in this country to date. Guyot finished third in this contest, and won a fourth the year before. Bablot has a string of European victories to his credit as long as his arm, and Wagner won the 1906 Vanderbilt on Long Island and the 1908 Grand Prize at Savannah. S/ . * A,