Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1940 — Page 19

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1940 __

The Choice--A Man's Life 3 Jr the Rail?

Chet Didn't Hesitate Sg Swanson’s Back =

Another driver's life or his own. 2 5 That was the decision facing Chet Miller last year as he roared out of

“1€ southeast turn at more than 20 miles an hour.

_ | There on the track lay a fellofvdriver. A kid with whom he had SWapped yarns and /played cards. Bob Swanson, a youngster at the game, who had been hurled from iis spinning, skidding car directly n Miller's path. Chet could do one of two things either go directly into Swanson And save himself or swerve to the ,. inside, crashing through the * heavy guard rail and taking his chances on life or death for himself, Chet didn’t . hesitate = but let's go back a ” few laps. Swanson had started the race : in the AmeriChet Miller can - built 16 - cylinder creamsColored alcohol burner h=2'll drive this year. Differential trouble developed -after 47 miles, so Bob €hecked into Ralph Hepburn's pit. When “Hep” pulled in after 250 miles, Bob relieved him. Jamming into the southeast turn on his third lap around, the big red car whipped into a spin. Bob battled to pull out of it, but the car saroened back toward the outside all. : Directly behind rushed Car No. 1 . driven by Floyd Roberts, the 1933 “500” champion. He smashed machine which | turned over and : burst into flames.- Swanson

into the Swanson

track. Roberts plunged through the outer barrier. . “Ilanded on the § ‘track stunned,” § Swanson said. } 13 Wie to crawl 0 the outside, * when a car Bob Swanson, ; ‘loomed up in front of me. The driver had two choices—either | come directly into me and save himself, or pull to the inside and hit the rail there. “He didn't hesitate an instant— ‘he swung to the inside and crashed. That driver, I learned later, was Chet Miller. If it hadn't been for his sportsmanship and courage, I wouldn't be alive today. I told him so later when we were hospitalized together. And I'm glad that Chet will be out there driving against me in the coming race—he’s tops in

.|sets up another currént which re-

at the Speedway

8. A, Silberman of the A. A. A. Technical Committee operating the Magnaflux.

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Race Motors |

‘Believe Answer May Lie In Faster R. P. M.

Aviation engineers seeking lighter;

- |smaller and more powerful airplane

motors are watching. the performance of Speedway motors.

Indianapolis motors run so fast. The competitive racing engines ‘turn from 5000 to 7000 revolutions a minute while the best commercial aviation motors in transport planes only spin at 2000 to 2200 revolutions a minute. The flying boys think“they have about reached the limit in siz& and weight in airplane motors and hope the answer to greater speed may be found in increased motor revolutions. :

planes has attracted attention to the racing cars because while the Allies thought they were restricting German military aviation . by the Versailles Treaty, Hitler's engineers were busy developing aviation motors on the ground. = Generous government subsidies

Hidden Flaws in Race Cars |Eddie Was Just

Picked Out by Magnaflux i i ig

ONE AFTERNOON EDDIE HEARNE was working on his car } i, in the pits. y That small Speedway-A. A. A, seal that stands on the side of every approved racing gar is the 500-mile driver's assurance that each steel rod, frame and knuckle in the machine is as. sturdy as it looks. cars whirling down the straighta away threw a tire. ‘the rim like a hoop, sped toward Hearne and knocked him flat. He lay there for a minute then turned his head and asked the pit crew: © “Well, when does the rest of that car go over me?”

He was stooped over’ with his back to the track when one of the The seal might be called a “diploma” from the Magnaflux machine, the testing equipment that totally eliminates the human element in

ferreting out fatigued metal or hidden cracks.

The Magnaflux, borrowed from T = Kelly’s Name Really

the aviation industry, was put into use at the Spsadway in 1933. Prior Is (Sh-h)—Cavino There really is no Kelly Petillo,

to that, the A. A. A. technical ¢comKelly was christened Cavino Pe-

mittee was responsible for the metillo, but he has been called Kelly

chanical equipment in racing. Committee members made visual as long as he can remember. - While attending grade school in Pitts-

checks, paying particular attention to steering perts, axles and frames burgh his teacher gave him the rame Kelly, It stick.

Horse on Carl

and equipment more liable to oc- Carl Fisher, who built the Indi

casional accidents, But these automotive enginedrs, after all, had no way of X-rayirg the parts. And that's vmat the Magnaflux does. It is simply a magnetizing machine which sets up a cross-cur-rent of eleciricity In a part, which, if interrupted by a nidden crack,

horse won.

flécts itself if the part is dipped into iron filings suspended in oil. With this mechine the technical committee can locate cracks and imperfections not visible to the human eye and definitely order a part replaced. No car is allowed on the: track even during the tuneup period unless all-important parts have been examined by the Magnaflux and the car has been stamped okay by the committee with a seal. easily seen by the guard at the track gate. Each individual part also is marked or stamped so that there can be no interchange of parts without official approval. ; The Magnafiux equipment is located alongside the A. A. A. office

Cool in the Fa

All champion drivers have

one mind ig the face of death. -

Tommy Milton, two-time winner of the “500,”

do you think about

stretch. The wind whipped the flames into his face and enveloped his body. Calmly he glanced behind him. No cars were following. He threw the car into a skid, made a half turn and backed the car to a stop, ‘the change in direction blowing the flames away from him. He walked to the track hospital. One of the most amazing stories of coolness during a crash is that of Roscoe Sarles, one of the most beloved pilots of all time. He lost a wheel avoiding another car and shot off into”space over the 50-foot bank at the Kansas City speedway in 1922. . fn When the car turned upside down in mid-air, Sarlés twisted into an upright position and shut off the motor. Ordinarily that precaution would have saved his life, but the car burst into flames when it | landed, and he was killed. His mechanic lived to tell the story.

* Eddie Hearne who drove in the!

first 500-mile race went into a wild - spin in a race at the Atlantic City "speedway.. A jamup of drivers was right behind him. The old master, knowing from the feel of the car

just how it was going to slide, ls

calmly sat in his seat motioning the drivers to the topside away from where he would ge. Norman Batten had a burning | car ® his hands going 100 niles gn hour down the straightaway in & race here some years ago. Rather than desert it, perhaps causing a pileup of cars or have it crash into a packed grandstand, Batten stood on the seat, gripping the wheel with one hanc ¥The other protected his face from the flames | which licked -around his body and

ce of Death---That's What Makes Champions

‘when you get in an accident?” answered: “Getting out of §t without getting hurt.” < During a Uniontown race Tommy’s motor caught fire in-the home

at the entrance to 'Gasolirie Alley.

common denominator—presence of

when asked: “What

where he had guided it, National Guardsmen pulled it to a halt, For weeks Batten l4y in the hospital with serious burns and cuts and bruises, Such is the stuff of which champions are made.

Mays Has Won the Pole Three Times

Prior to 1928, no records were kept on who held the pole position nor. who held the one-lap record. In 1928 Leon Duray toured a lap at 124.018 miles an hour, a mark| which stood for nine years, the longest record in Speedway history. Jimmy Snyder broke it in 1937 with & one-lap speed of 130.492 and then cracked his own mark in 1939 with a speed of 130.757,

It rolled off -

anapolis Speedway, raced a horse against his motorcycle in 1903. The

were granted to motor manufacturers and auto racing was encouraged. When the Germans were ready to take wing, they soared into ‘the .| skies with automobile racing motors. Italy was following the ‘same

capturing most of the important automobile racing events in Europe.

erati won here. Italian racing cars were entered. Thus, aviation engineers have good reason to be investigating the winning Speedway motors.

Diesel Only Racer Never to Stop Dave Evans is the only driver to complete the 500-mile race without top. i Back in the early 30’s Dave made

the run in a Diesel speedster. His car wasn’t quite as fast as most of

. They want to know why the small |

The success of German fighting |

trend and, with Germany, they were!

Last year an Italian-made Mas- | This year eight

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been victory years for those of Ital- | lan - A ecord: | Prediction for 1945: The 500-mile| 7 “%°0 L20k Biatlie recon) race will be won by a driver bear- alph De Palma. ing an Italian name. 1925—Peter De Paolo.

The years ending .in fives have 1935—Kelly ‘Petillo. I

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Here are all the pole winners since 1928. Note that Rex Mays has held that spot three times, z Driver Clif Woodbury ......... Billy Arnold ........ ‘ed Russell Snowberger ....... Lou oore . Bill Cummings Kelly Petillo Rex Mays Rex May Bill Cummings ...

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