Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1939 — Page 27
PAGE 26 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES MONDAY, MAY 29, 1939 . ‘ ‘ ii biti oi i ; i TRE 0 3 | | send the field away with a green!cautious pace with a yellow flag : : : EN a RN h aa TUNNEY T0 WAVE | flag, indicate the start of the final and the race may be stopped with a 4 i NER is : Fa | lap with a white flag and then wave red flag. ] Ro ; . the coveted checkered flag over the The starters also control the sys= & & I TH x winner, tem of traffic lights about the ; : 3 In between these flags, however, track, leaving the green lights on
‘there are many flags which are for the “go” signal and turning on | kept in action upon many occasions. the yellow lights to slow down the {Displayed with a number, this blue race. While running under the yel-
Fastest Men on Land. Sea flag informs a slower car that alow lights cars cannot improve their
| faster car is attempting to pass it. position in relation to the rest of
And in Air Have Served Yellow Flag Slows Race | the field.
In Honorary Post. Should the car fail to observe KELLY REALLY IS CAVINO ———— | this signal, it is called into the pits] Kelly Petillo waa christened Cae The fastest man on his feet since of consultation and the driver vino Petillo but he has been called y reprimanded by a black flag, dis- Kelly as long as he can remember. | Gentleman Jim Corbett wii Send om with the driver's number. While attending grade school in the fastest field in history away t0-|" ghoyld trouble develop on the Pittsburgh his teacher gave him the morrow. [track, the race is slowed down to a/name Kelly and it stuck. Gene Tunney, retired heavy- = I : a x re — weight boxing champion of the] world has been named honorary | starter. Tazio Nuvolari, one of Europe's | 3 | greatest race drivers, waved the 0 [flags last year and a long list of | fleet men on the land, in the air : CONVENIENT F Th |and on the sea have performed this 3 or e | distinctive function in years past. 3 I | Gar Wood, famous speed-boat i Era SPEEDWAY driver and holder of the valued] : & 3 ® | Harmsworth Trophy for the un- | Ae Ye limited water racing championship | ; mm
‘of the world, set the field to gold | Re a) mo k Takes Less Space and glory in both 1932 and 1933. p Y 5
The fastest American in the air, ENR 4 Roscoe Turner, was honorary | = % Cools Quicker starter in 1934. Col. Turner returns |
| this year as official referee. | 3 i af ; * No Empties to Return |
Merrill Served in 1937
Dick Merrill, two-time flier of the | rs J a On Ice Everywhere in
Atlantic ocean, was in charge of | the starters stand in 1937. Capt. | the Handy Party Pack Albert Stevens, stratosphere bal-| ; > JAN loonist, was the starter in 1936. 4 NE of 12 Tunney will be assisted by the veteran Seth Klein who has handled the flags for many years | and other assistants will be Ray P.| Johnson and A. W. Harrington. The starters are not only respon= sible for the start and the finish of the race but control the racing STERLING BREWERS, INC., Home Office: Evansville, Ind. ey
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The following story was written by ; bi. $ ™ 3 SE ¥ Don Herr, widely known Indianapolis x \ ; . business man, whe won fame as an ® bh 5 ) R N : a auto racer in the early days of the » So % RX A X R RRR sport Mr. Herr was one of the first i a RS 3 men in Indianapolis te drive an aute- ; BREA F S 7a - mobile and he was a member of the Na- \ 4% 3 tional Motor Car Co. racing team. Mr. hia id : ce Herr drove relief for Joe Dawson in the x X } i 1. Don Herr, seated in the riding mechanic's spot, shakes hands 1912 race when Dawson won ¥ = gleefully with Tommy Kincaid in the spring meet of 1910 at the In-
dianapolis Speedway after Kincaid brought the car to a safe stop when
By DON HERR HE the right rear tire blew out on the home stretch. The small tank be- W FHEN Joe Dawson climb 3 : g hind the gasoline tank is the oil tank. | ‘W out of the National ‘ the 3 i 2. The lineup for the Wheeler-Schebler 200-mile race at the Speed | end of 175 miles in the 1912 In ; : a way in 1910. dianapolis race d I climbed J ; 3. One of the handsomest racing cars of the old days. This beauty ind the heel h relief 8 boasted 36x35 clincher rim tires, | iriver, 1 got mito 2n Au n ® §. This wreck occurred in Atlanta, Ga. Howdy Wilcox was driv. Just about 1000 pound : |. ing and Johnny Aitken was riding mechanic. It was the result of a
failure of the steering mechanism,
ae § cingiial R| Loop Record VETERANS SCAN |
rouzh e Cars were not as \ \ . ” ——— NEES - - - ! / > - Ee — balanced as they are now, : . 3 RN | k or i 1 Cl vou knew, and most of the cars | it from there and came home the | comparison of that old National | S C I Hi 16 lind that started did not finish With | winner when Ralph DePalma ran | Which won in 1812 with these cars | _— ome d IS -Lylinaer A mE | Ar E i t tive wWhbel T So > 3 1t here this year. The National : » | : : the same driver ¢ he wheel ik od Si VERIO ty out here ts 3 The “outside loop-the-loop Those Old cars literally shook a | 00° Of £35. You remember WAL, | ygior had four-eviinders. The | anil ak Ind ok 5 held Creation Fastest Thing man al to piece dont you? Ralph told me later | pore was four and seven-eighths record at Indianapolis i At S d Nn rie that it was the most heartbreak- | inches, the stroke six inches and by Chet Miller. He posted peeaway. life the piston displacement 443 and | the unusual mark in the 1934 —— | a fraction cubic inches. This big | . 1d clincher Hm tire roll ; Ahi § eT cay that race race | The famous ank Lockhar N= old clincher rim tires. Well, we I mean it when I say that rac motor enabled us to reach a top | The famous Frank Lockhart me : ing in the Indianapolis race In | speed of about 105 miles an hour. 1010, 1911 and 1912 and for Take the Alden Sampson Spe- " cial entered in this race. Jt has a trol of his car, plunged over The 16-cyviinder creation, conceived 16-cylinder motor with a bore of the wall, turned one complete and built in the Hoosier capital and two and three-sixteenths inches, end-over-end loop in a 203 a stroke of three inches and a Ins . pagoda. unles p were in bn Tires in the old days were made | <ubic inch piston displacement of a] po nngel a te ith Hexch neler LOtRNStS Was ith some other car. 1 ng it ¢ ve Instead ord and thev : Ly a Lc BF wl and drove off without shift- . : bi ve av im the clear. If of fabric instead of ny aia they | only 183 inches. There is not much ing gears. He missed a tree killed in an attempt on the weuld's Necessary ti av i h a couldn't stand up under ie ter- | question in mv mind but what oniv by inches straightaway record, has been inA ~t N= SBA, Mea a anbyee 3 \ iQ ar ur { \ F yr ' 44 rific heat © npjecteq them Jo this car can turn up a speed of When he came back to the . Nay vanyeny her and AT Th a ANY .- 3 inh A $V iis i < \ ; 1 can remember one race 3b about 170 miles an hour on the pits a little later his only 3 : wil Speednay when I was following straightaway. There's progress for reply to questions was that warns. | Hughie Hughes in a Mercer up | you. A motor considerably less he “sure had quite a bump.” Friday at a speed of 129.431 miles the back stretch. Suddenly the | than half the size in piston dis He must be the sort of gent an hour I HAD built the National I tread came off his right rear tire placement and able to run al- who could sleep through an Men of alling on th mest twice as fast! earthquake >
Those were great i
Some of you can ber ing experience of his
Coming into the southwest tor will ride for the first time to-
Ure res at turn, the Detroiter lost cons [ooo © and fast ory. One bad skid and a general | quite a fex tup on | more a battle of tires than of
accelerator about th ress | anything else
vears after that was
raced but a few short miles at Day-
stalled in the Sampson Comet which Bob Swanson will drive. He qualified
owe BEY . helped drive in the 1912 race and instead of falln motors have talked about
this engine for vears but this is its
of and it was my baby. Joe gave it track it fell right inte my lap to - initial appearance in its home-town
8 = o ae 1 Bh Nar ~ a TY na Ale v nhbher \ 3 Q not a b BO I A en re eS De rd i Oe [OM in tires is not veloping various alloys to make n, it was running third e took warned my hand throwing it ont a St 11 iS * . . tei J ... phi took t © ) o or the only advance in automo- the present day car the ultimate Ce | the track ee Cot es Le \ Fo ; ing about it A case in point is the way we tive engineering. We had no idea in safety used to test tires. In preparing in those davs of metallurgy and I'm not trving to take away for the 1912 race, A. C. Newby, | related sciences. Steering arms credit from those fine boys drive
and the boys of speed are still talk-
“The Lockhart motor is about eight miles faster than anything else ve of the founders of the Speed- : . " on the track,” says Ernie Olson, vet | & RRA WEN - " * : » es dent of the Nat aa) | Used to break and other parts and = IN@ today. They are a COUrageous, ¢yap racing car mechanic av and president of the Natio: " . Na . : R : ¢ Motor Car Co. ordered all three | “¢ hadnt the slightest idea of intelligent and resourceful group Olson has prepared the car which : : AND racing cars out to the track for a | What did it. of high-grade gentlemen. The Ralph Hepburn will drive for An(est. Accompanving us was a Nowadays thevve gotten ue regard they hold for each |thony Gulotta of Kansas City this He Meal Al Ene FE var _~ : : her and the constant contri- year but openly bows to the untried ek loaded with tires of vani- h 5 win ih other anc v oo PALS 6 Tas aru e, X-raving them and | pytion they make to automotive king of racing motors | US Ai alll AAAI «Q ALTON » ~ . . “ °o % . \ y : vou can tell what's inside a piece | engineering puts them in the “The motor hums like a top and
QIr pressures i x Shh 5 3 » RD : : We started at different times | oi, first row as far as Iam concerned. should be the fastest in the "500, "| Sigs : i B® r OL hi. ka fd ks " I am of the opinion that very The only regret I have is that route? Well, that's something no<| ! J {3 C LAY EL t als qa
and maintained as near top sneed , 5 ‘ a and maintained as near top SHC few motorists today realize to | everyone of them can’t win first body can tell but this is the baby
a ~ TA " “AY WDOS a X y 3 oa i oS Sl 3 Ye by i g > Ne what extent car manufacturers | place in that race tomorrow. that we have all been waiting to see | REIL R continue Qriving unt : | 80 In testing materials and de< | They all deserve it! “tio p $ ears.” HB EE : : { © tT f failure OF NEAr-FAIGIE OCCUNTEd. | mms am—ie MATE SN in action for the last 10 years : | 8 This was the only way we could \ NY achieve any degree of certamty about our tires. Compare that x ; n J ot the modern way of dome it! TAKE A LOOK! New § EY § rs EW CAR BUYERS, here's a tip AEs Tu aa X headlights==wider \ RR ™ worth taking! When your eye ® oe \ apart, closer to road * Vas i ; ] has had its fill of the beauty of the big
iT 4 u T $ Is YI \ 10 Sate igh ] i R he y 3 Dodge Luxury Liner, let it rest on that were, (to a great extent N \ driving! adiator : Y k he “red hot” price tag!
rille nards at > 9% vas i . Rs & You'll agree it's a sight for sore eyes
DOWN THE [10k tae wi seiner ae : fre owe eH NL) ee ts a ' | makeshift bodies. To make them \ : > » . R EINER NEE | -and a delight for modest pocket= \ 3 TAKEALOOKI “Scotch | ON books! In fact, never before has Dodge
MILES | more adaptable for racing, the Na i oy 2 d yf oficred 50 mary: now. dense. sacl | frames were shortened, springs BV \ \ me SR : } \ - R ¥ luxury at any pt ice! Yet with all this straightened to make them lower N economy features, i. (RY ~ de extra value, the 1939 Dodge is priced and cam shafts reground to give ) ] RS plus hew advances ; N ! even lower than last year’s Dodge! for even more effi. Py And these new low prices ine power \ \ La : cient operation! i clude, as standard equipment, the Another problem we had to NR ) a ! most revolutionary new ideas | \ ) : Na Xie 3 ever offered by any Dodge! Go to
A ~ f Ti us ontend with was oil. We had no | \ Wy ru-Orange Sg ni vith as oil ed U ARR X \ 1 S NN J your Dodge dealer and see these | OF. Gauls then and we us ux \ : \ X - 0 new ideas now! Then take a
UEEZE | splash feed system. Our oil tanks XN \ : nN : a t ; nn L of Ce err dove. Belera y | Ireld about 15 gallons of oil and A\ N A Ra : TRL : price in yourcity.You'llsay it's the
LN Bh g a race car would consume from best news in a long, long timel ) J
greater valve opening and more
hed 10 to 15 gallons in the course NN NR Ed : 3 a 3 Tune in on Major Bowes, Columbia Network, { of the race. That oil, by the way, HEE. ae Thursdays, 9 to 10 P. M..E.D. 8.T. YX? > , dripped all over the track and 3 X . TR he. ee a . . » . . » . . * TUNE IN WFBM by the time we were at the 200- x Raa 3 . y 5 ae Hae y : R USED CAR 8 . ile mar w 1's sized NN NR NL Neen ] : $0 GOOD NEWS FOR USED UY. Monday and Fridays mile mark it was a nA S Nz NAN X R : . p ? 8 pr XES ERS! Now vou can get a Dodge used job keeping those machines on NM ND : ERAL TA ‘hick wavs. is Just as wed . Sw 3 RRR x R 7 . FED 4 pric car which, in many ways, 1s just as ern 4. 30 {fo S300 P. M. the turns N x . Ne & AL alt delivere n As many competitive-make 1939 new cars iN , 3 ) N \ 3 X n 5 NE ¢ Aard equip? y and get it for only a fraction 6/ the Tea Time Topics These cars now will consume \ NR hy RT ee Ma apare tire eT Re ae TT ares : practically no oil in 500 miles of \ ) \ a ; \ "0 3 # ' demand for the new 1939 Dodge that
running. | taxes buyers are actually turning in fine late
nd loca
painted t model Dodge cars 'way ahead of timel
I mentioned that the 1912 cars = TAKE A LOOK! New kind of speedom. Tranaportalie ay), extra. DELIVERED And these cars, still “youngsters” in oR mileage and looks, are now being sold by
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SPEEDWA ¥ \ 3 833 N. Meridian 3759 N. Illinois St, 2215 E. Washington St,
DECORATION DAY, MAY 30, 1939 Capitol Motors, Division of the Gibson Company, 447 N. Capitol
RUNNING TIME, 12 MINUTES d hi Anderson, W. ©. McLain Frankfort, Howard Motor Sales Morgantown, Joe Woods & Som trains will be operated to Speedway at frequent intervals starting at aT » ih, . Redford, Ellis Fish, Ine Greencastle, Putnam Motor Sales Muncie, Walnut Motors, Inc.
m. to 10:15 a.m from Speedway beginning at 2:00 d. m Bloomington, J. 0. Humphreys Greenfield, Dobbins Motor Sales New Castle, Goodwin Bros, Auto Co, Greensburg, Govert & Co, Noblesville, Joe Goins Sales Co.
Safest, Fastest and Most Each Di- : 2 Comfortable Way rection | : al es Brasil, C. M. Jeffries Greenwood, Springer Brothers Pendleton, Jones Mator Co, : iin! nd 4 i Columbus, Frederick M. Sutter, Ine, Knightstown, Kennedy Motor Sales, Ino. Rushville, 0. F. Busard, Ine.
TRAINS WILL RECEIVE avd Fg AP SIRT ERS IMMEDIATELY GQ i : : a Connersville, Riedman Motors Co, Kokomo, Smith-Hite Motor Co. Shelbyville, H. Curry & Son Spencer, Weldner-Bain Motor Oe.
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