Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1939 — Page 25

PAGE 24 a. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ MONDAY, MAY 29, 1939

IN THE INFIELD ON THE BUSY DAYS JUST BEFORE RACE

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1. Cars must be as sound as human ingenuinty can the infield roads on a bike and motocycle. Thorne is the the cars in the Thorne team out for a practice spin. Mays 6. Rex Mays (left, opposite the driver's seat) talks to make them for the 500-mile race. Louis Schwitzer. tech- owner of a four-car team and both he and Snyder are listed is rated as one of the fastest and most capable drivers Art Sparks, designer and builder of the cars in the Thorne nical committee chairman of the American Avromobile as drivers for the outfit. at the track. team. The Thorne entries are all painted blue and have Association, is the man charged with seeing they are put 3. The topic of conversation of this quartet is “speed.” 5. Every trial run calls for an examination of spark modified fish-nose fronts, a . y ’ Left to right are George Bailey, Detroit; Lou Moore, Los plugs. This car is the Italian-made Alfa Romeo entered 7. After a trial run George Bailey reports on how one Yreniet right. Angeles; Tony Gulotta, Dearborn, Mich., and Al Putnam, by Bill White (left). White is talking to Lou Meyer, of the motor-in-the-rear cars entered by Harry Miller . With the day’s trial runs over Jimmy Snyder Detroit. Moore, a former pilot, has retired as a partici- only three-time winner of the race while Elbert (Babe) handles. There are three of these Miller cars, all identical, (eft). Chicago, and Joe Thorne, New Rochelle, N. Y., pant, but the others will pilot cars in this race. Stapp (in the driver’s seat) gossips with Rex Mays, a rival They are four-wheel drives and are powered with sixstill want to do some more speeding so they run through 4. Rex Mays, the blond California comet, takes one of pilot. Stapp is to drive this entry. jw cylinder motors of 180.39 cubic inch piston displacement.

TURNER AGAIN | THE STATISTICAL HISTORY. OF THE 500-MILE RACE |DEFECTS FOUND ON RACE STAFF - - = oon ——) BY SIMPLE TEST

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Col. Roscoe Turner, a speed king of the airways, is the honorary] referee for tomorrow's 500-mile automobile race. This marks the second time that Col. Turner has been named to the race staff. He served as honorary | starter in 13934. He has been out to the track for the last few days reacquainting himself with some of the drivers. He appeared in the American Legion air show Saturday and yesterday. Vice president of the PorterfieldTurner Aircraft Corp., Kansas City, Col. Turner has established many air lane speed records both in transcontinental flights and over race courses. A perennial contestant in the National Air Races, he won the famous Bendix trophy in 1933 and was second in 1936 ast vear he won the Thompson and Ludlum trophies and was presented with the Cliff Henderson award as the outstanding American aviator. His latest world record is a mark of 283.113 miles an hour for a closed course, which he made recently in France. During the war Col. Turner enlisted in the U. S. Army ambulance service and transferred to the air corps. He was with the Third American Army at Coblenz, and in 1919 he received his honorable discharge as first lieutenant. His colonelcy was a brevet award from the Governor of Nevada in 1929. He also is a California colonel and a Mississippi colonel. He was a barnstorming flyer in 1919, has operated a commercial flying school and has done stunt flying for the movies.

FASTEST LAPS ARE JUST BEFORE SUNSET

During the weeks of practice be- Se fore the race, most of the fast laps Haier. Ral oh Mulford are made by the drivers just before —193]— sundown. Reason for this is that there usually is less wind at that time of day, and winds not only slow cars but make driving at speeds over 128 miles an ha dangerous.

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