Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1948 — Page 16

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HER DAD WON IN 1934 — Mrs. Jack Wells, the fo daughter of the 1934 500-Mile winner "Wild Bill" Cummings, visited the Speedway sterday. She is shown above looking at the sculptured head of her father on the {15000 ‘Borg-Warner trophy. Mrs. Wells, 20, is an epee at the Flefcher Trust

||Chet Miller Novi for Mercedes

Twenty-three positions remained open today in the starting lineup for the 500-Mile Race after a week-end of death and spins. Yesterday's «death of Ralph Hepburn,in a crash on -the north“Teast furi nearly pat an end to” was his loss felt among friends in the pits and garage .areas. A crowd estimated at 45,000 which gathered for the second 1 day

of qualifications saw only one car

{complete or attempt time trials.

Joie Chitwood in a Nyquist Special qualified for the pole position in the fourth row by turning

the four required laps at an average speed of 124.619 alles.

hour, He qualified before Hepburn crash, crash the

/ r Earlene Cummings,

/ {time

After Hepburn's {track was closed for more than

an hour by AAA officials.

Chitwood's best time was on ig first lap which he made at a peed of 125.453 miles an hour. attempt won for him the )0-- price offered by the way management for the fastest a qualifying day. Qualifications will be resumed next Sat from noon to 6 p. m. Other qualifying days will be next Sunday, May 26 and 29. 89th Fatality Hepburn’s death was the 30th at the track since it was built in 1909. The last fatality at the track occurred in last year's race when William (Shorty) Cantlon of Indianapolis crashed on the

Balley of Detroit v who in 1940

y Qualified

BILL HOLLAND

4(Blue Crown Spark Plug Bposialy

Lap . Time 1 seevesvnees 1:09.42 2 cerensenees 1:09.48 8B sivsnesenin 4 tiiiinenees 1:00.51 “Totals Lo... 43796

MAURI ROSE

1 (Blue Crown Spark 2 Plug Syedith

: sssssessses 1:00.38 evisveeesve 1100.68

er a eee 4889 120.129 p ~-Qpening- day, time trials Satur- : sm——— ay saw 11 drivers attempt to] _ Citation Heads for N. Y., ior Mat Title MY IRCKSON | ia0u waa mn eke ae (Howard Keck Special) “Wild Bill” Cantrell of Louisville 3d f Tri le Crown Lap Time MPH |was first. His 123.733 time in the a oT 1 p At Stake Here 1 esverienses 10081 1271017win Coach Spl. broke the track, 3 ssasvensese 130M . - JBALTIMORE, May 11 (UP)-—"General Oreenbacks” point; for | {3 NNN dante 130678 “Mauri Rose and Bi Hotiand! Ih A ow mat. battle - involving “the & riiiirsness 1:10.58 127.515 gained front-row spots with Rex! Chater the ‘Calumet congueror who took the place | phow : esses 4:42.33 121.510 ‘was due to Tun either in the Withers Mile Mgy 29 or| world's junior heavyweight cham-| Totals ..... 4: Te ay i onthe So. Peter Pan handicap June 5 as a warmup for his thrust at the!pionship will headline wrestling “WILD BILL” CANTRELL Jimmy Jackson. Doe Wiliams ird jewel on the triple crown, the Belmont Stakes June 017 action at the Armory tomorrow! (Fageol Twin ach Speclel and Ted Horn each .passed- the Horse that is making own- Ken | night when Johnny Demchuk, the Lap ne test. arren Wright at Ft. Knox weeks before he wory t e Ken- 1 aesesssense 1113.38 122.649 Hal Cole in his City of Taco | ky Derby by three anfl a half, [newly crowned champion who A248 124.172 yO ronal th legs hoisted his earnings to tucky y by will be making his first start S sareseenees 1213, Spl. completed two laps then was, $8,020 for this year as he Assault Set here against Young Bull Mon- : tesusnrnnes pla 135408 forced to quit when his Offy utzed home the Preakness win-| ,..,u1t in 1046 set the exist- tana, of Los Angeles. sressveeees pid 128 783/ Jumped out of gear. Spider Webb. r Saturday by six lengths. Two. ing record for they most money, The title match, billed. for two “retain ‘440s driving the Anderson Offy, had won by a 3-year $424,195. i1a1ls out of three, or 90-minutes, LES ANDERSON Kinney Moves Bouts But Citation a destined t0/ will mark the first junlor-heavy- (Kennedy Tank Special) butote breaking an axle housing|terday » Outdoor Arena eclipse that. 10 Palakes * boating weight championship in a local|Lap Time MPH [On the no urn. ell run in 's es arena. sesssseness 1:13.98 121.737 THE Sit Suldoor axing ented) $650,000 worth ‘of prizes before, 3 ses 122.800 season presented ithe end of the, year, and there's friereeens 161358 122.399 JFromoter Portes McKoy as not- a_horse—or a rocket ship, Toon to Coach 3 nun rea 1:18.52 122.416 By ahs En at atlaget|ifor that matigr—iin sight to chal- I Totals vv... 4:34.27 122.387 : +| les him. . Hanapolis will box Billy Smith,| ce ot LL cnc or Mi roy Cage Team DOC WILLIAMS Aci 1a the 10-round feature!,, ~ big races after the Belmont| Herod Toon, former Butler (Ford Moyer Spl.) n use of the anitk to: thé aui- stakes. But that Belmont—that| University basketball guard ald ah rh ame Bees {sweep of the triple crown—Iis A-1 second baseman, has been signed Seesensuoes th ard, orinall the- agenda pr whe 2.64.....-123800, 1 8 ~iediled fed od Tor The ennsyl- “We want Ara tratnet OF SOSH tHE MHISY HigH" BehooT!"y rrr Ha 29 124.499 1 a st. Arana this week has Jimmy Jones sald. ‘We know Bajnetodl) teasn. i 3 rvessinnsevs NIZAM 124.412 3 canceled. Citatiog belongs in that exciu-[ TOO Wil take over his duties| ‘yoqly ..... 4:49.97 124.151 The bout between Chaney ey and| Se ple-crown winner coms s coach and physical education) -: ay ith was originally scheduled] any.) a at the Rush County TED HORN > Madison Square Garden, N,Y.| iP ¥. fe iis high school in September. He (Bennett Brothers Spl.) dt {will graduate from Butler in June! La Time MPH . Bu ef Wins Third as a physical education major. ede 1:10.77 127.178 Y Jowight litle, | Toon halls from Franklin| 2 1:10.99 178.778 I TD ror Adan Thal ° State Meet | Township where he picked up let-| 3 ........... 1:10.81 - 127.101 Jufidw ing tenagiie” 5. pL tier University carried homie, ters in baseball, football and bas- § ciiiiieeen, It 12.32 124.447 win gi i Sih oly Ros. Sir: Lady its- third Little State track -erownketbaii: - + He played basketbutt: Total... “44439 126.388 | |

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gtufday after placing first injon two of Butler's wartime teams mer ly two of the sixteen events on under Frank (Pop) Heddon and sdway; a3 wesh a Sar Matehanis > "| {the program. The Bulldogs scored remained on the team under the

ONT MANTZ : (Kurtis-Kraft Spl.)

42 W. WASHINGTON ST.

CAL in Less Than 4 Minutes

Pict -quality.

car. 120.048 tests here last year after the)

1409.55 em year I've driven my head off

129.513

Quits

“for the day, so deeply]

Mays Sets Record

Rex Mays lived up to his word Saturday afternoon when - he sald he would have to run 130 or 131 miles per hour to ....His.. 180.57 hour for the 2 laps not only put him on the pole for May 31, '

Leh *$ a

“opening qualification day were made in 1940, 1936 and 1985.

rammed his racer into a southeast retaining wall and was fatally burned in the fire that followed. After the Hepburn crash Chet Miller, who was scheduled to drive a sister car to Hepburn’s, quit the Novi team for that of

Duke Nalon

German Mercedes, has agreed to chauffeur ‘the re-|

{southwest turn.. The last driverimaining Nevi. : +8 killed during practice was George} i

‘Tm “Nat Afraid’

Lou Welch crew said He car is damaged too seriou {repair for this year's race. Late yesterday Miller told re-| rters: | | . “Hep was a good friend of mine, and I-figure if. he couldn't handle; them (meaning the Novis) I can’t! either, So I got out and changed|™ to the Mercedes. “It's not that I'm afraid of the I drove it in extensive tire

burn’ 5 1¥ to,

{1947 race and it did 128 easily.|

tice and the best I could! is 120. The car has lost some[oning. I think.” { Miller made

several turns

Lap around the track in the Mercedes, | 1 eeesnsssnse nop 128.682 but It did not run up to expecta2 i iia 1:00.84 128.866|tions and was returned to the ga-

rage without an attempt made!

129.162 to qualify it.

‘Dan Lee where he will drive the?

Members of thé-Bud Winfield-| |

{was very unlikely that any. agercedes ran-away with-ail hon-

turned in a 124 mph his first lapitice spins for the first time yes-

.. SPINS ON MAIN STRETCH — Anthony. Granatelli of Chicago has the dise tinction of being the “spinniest” driver at the Speedway. The youthful driver

“yesterday gave thousands of grandstand fans a thrill when he skidded at the

south end of the main stretch, turned halfway around and darted backwards onto the grassy infield. An hour later he spun again on the north turn, The Granatelli pit crew (above) and AAA officials inspect the car after the first incident,

Speedway Lineup Hansen, Hom Win { Feature Races

Driver . Car Qaul. Speed 5B Rex Mays «...eee0eeees Bowes Seal-Fast Spl......... A308 3 "Bill Holland ..........Blue Crown Spark Plug Spl.....1 _ Mauri Rose. «...esre... Blue Crown Spark Plug Spl... 11 a Ted Horn and Mel Hansen con SECOND ROW {tinued their WAYS yesters 127.510! day by respectively capturing the’

Jimmy Jackson .......Howard Keck Spl 1 Ted Horn ..... reverses Bennett Bros, Spl. features in the dirt track event.at

Sessa rans

cersssnsnsss 126.365

Salem, Ind., and the 30 lap midget PR h cerereeasanse 1241 1 7" Dee Williams . hag Moyer Spl hs 5 at, the. 16th. Ste. 8 [36 Bill Cantrell ..........Twin Coach Spl tyro way. 198 Johnny Mantz ........Kennedy Tank Spl o...........122.337 The big car event at Salem was

halted during the 11th lap when

34. Les Anderson .........Kurtis-Kraft Spl ....c00000...122.781 cars driven by Leon Hubbell and

oan ROW

OI ONIROR 5 TOR Nast Spl 5 i 1 ITS 1088

Bab . Simpson. turn. Hubbell sustained a back injury

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Sectorey Roo

How far beyond 120 milés.anland Free, the Auto Shippers Speke today's race cial driven by Duane Carter, the no fan you ma y {Speedway C driven by owner Joe Lencki of Chicago, That is the question which oF Tuffy's Ofty piloted by Cage, every garage in Gasoline Alley) snqres and Tony Bettenhausen. with a car not yet qualified is try-| rT uw ing to answer today. The Feason the Mechanics are ADD NEW CARS:at the, Sask: {seeking the answer is due to the ‘by Mel Hansen and in which firm belief of one and all that!cy Robson. won. the 500. iri] it will take. a qualifying speed of 1046: the-TPerman- Specialters more than 120 miles an hour 10| swned by John Lorenz, and the

get in the. starting. lineup May Walter Redmer entry to be driven 131. by Charlie VanAker. » » » THE MERCEDES of the Don {burn yesterday appeared to have; .o stable just won't run up to its effect even in the racer en-| gines. All of them on the track.! after the accident, ran only half|

Dunn Memorial Hospital in Bedford. Horn set a new track record during qualifications, being timed at 21.58 seconds for the hall mile, Spider-Webb-was second-in-the feature and Joie Chitwood drew third. Hanson, piloting Rex Mays’ Bowes Seal Fast midget, won his {second -- straight - 30-lap - feature event as. the 16th St. midget raceway held its first night pro-

“Johnny McDowell that order, Hansen. also won a 10-lap event by beating out Duke Nalon and Potsy Goacher. ¢Cliff Griffith of Indianapolis Chief mechanic ‘Mal Ord {won the big car feature on ths having Soave ‘getting the|Greenfield sopuedway and Ray proper carburetor Lyden of Indianapolis won the heartedly, Because of their driver| yorerans at the track recall the(25-lap midget car feature on the superstitions and genuine grief), .; poosevelt Roadway races in|Armscamp track at Alexandria. over the loss of their buddy Iti ypich the Germans and their] Swede Carpenter had things pretty much his own way on the Kokomo midget track yesterday, Carpenter won the trophy dash, the first heat and wound up by taking the feature event. Stan Smola, Bill Mackey and Gene Force, won the 2d, 3d and 4th heats ively. The sémifinal was won by Mark Henn.

and Sam

=» THE DEATH of Ralph Hep-

chauffeur would have attempted ors. In that event if a Mercedes ‘qualifications if their mount had! |engine acted up it wasn't tinkered {been ready. with. Instead the German mechanics jerked it immediately from the car, put in a new en(they brought large humwith them) and sent the alling one ‘back to the factory.

” - » CARS which appeared for prac-

included “the Gustafson K-F Motors Special piloted by Ro-

Reet ee an Advance Ectroiype. 4-137/3-7 points; tallying fn 10 everits.| [renewed Tony Hinkle reign al-|Lap Time MPH ’ 3 _obening os at Beech Grove last sil ‘Ball State was a pretty close! | though he gave up a first team] 1 +eoereenees 1:12.96 123.358 den's Milk shaded Hope, Ind., More zécond with 40 3-7 and Qe» Paviw | [berth t6 younger men. He also| # ..ecvvev... TISIL 128.102 some 40 Mie: preliminary’ gam | the host team, was third with plays second base on the diamond 3-wvrrvervrrr 1:13.27 122.838 “mbihg of Whiteland, 10 to 8. (32 3-7. crew. @ ..iiveeinee 1:13.84 121.885 Totals seees 4:53.18 122.791 )aseball Re ults Standings Schedul REX MAYS 18 S ' an ing I u e |.....(Bowes Seal Fast Spl) |. AMERICAN ASsoctaTION ; 1 (Second Game, Seven Innings) [Toledo ..... oe 120 000 000— 3 3 Lap . Time MPH i Ay Ney Ea esses EIR 8 41 Ho Cl Hr ei ab native ar PUBAT = 131As | fre camrY 11 46 i Ross. Johnson and Palmer; Kel-| ' eseresanaes 1:08.92 130.586 a. 5 ; i Sarin " Hiuteninson and Conroy, AMERICAN TERGOX 2 eaniaversss. 1:00.27 129.926. 13 esreenene 19 180.077 HR 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE (rst Game) : ale ees 1ub34 Jn ER thw mington or $80 ovo 5 1 Re CL Mates don=1 § 8 *New record for pole posit : Ashington ........ Ww record for pole position. 504 31x14 19 Coleman and Rosar, Shea and Berrs. LEAGUE Bo ynn, ‘Candini, Welterroth d Barl —— > ‘ L Pet, OB Evans; Kramer, Johnson and Tebbett, , o | ERfladeiphia (Seeond Sama) 120-810 © JOIE CHITWOOD ‘ h i vl po ashin ton Wt Boston, second gam e. [New Ok 4 200 L., b3.- 4 10 1 {Ted Nyquist Spl.) sy 3% ’ " e— (Page. Gumpert, and "Berra, oat ree. Lap . Time MPH on 1 HH vo | De Louls ve 000 90! wi -3 : 3 — i Cede veee 11174 125.452 So AA v ro POO 0 i w ingt 0 - Louis .. i 43 oh Zoldak ‘Widmar, Stephens and Partee hibio Ean. 100 990 800 : 3 2 iiieriiiess 1112.38 124.430 Diugton ..oo0ees 1 = 11 |Houtteman and Riebe p Masterson. a Tepbtin Pieretti and’ 8° ,......00000 1112.18 124.775 * NATIONAL LEAGUE A (First Game, Ten Innings) ‘ | 4 soenn sesvee 1:12.68 128.881 " * 000 000 130 2 §10 © - » w L pet. GB Clrveitng i» 900 obo 130 7- 413 ¢ Chicago | Sonus 900 008 100 1 3 3 Totals ..... 4:48.88 124.619 e ’ —| Wight, Judson. Caldwell and Robinson;| Haynes, Goodwin, Pearson and Robin- EE — i 8 600 1 |Lemon, Christoph nd H T 1 i i 10 Ha de TU Foran Gamal te TOM Pellerin Ten Junior Flight Added wr . Chicago . 000 DOO 030— 3 4 3 . . ‘ 8 th 43 3% Cleveland ees 8 Been Tide oon «8 0 To Women's Tourney 3 Soo 2 Grove, Bradley. Pearson and Weigle, Garver. Biscan. Shore and Partee. Trout Fl Lm - ] 4 ad Kennedy, Gromek and 'd_Hegan. and Riebe, ! A flight for junior girls will o | Philadelphia se Nem York, postponed, NATIONAL tao be Added to the regular women's GAMES TODAY | % owt A EN 4 ol Mate golf tourney to be held fF A — o . 1 AMERICAN ASSOUIATION NATIONAL 1 ov | Brooklyn ago 900 S00 1 . 2 July 19-23 at the Indianapolis a DIANA LIT a sgn ht) | Ten LEAGUE | Joann and Salkeld, Barney, Casey and Country Club. Participants must 1 ruisville a} Tojgho \ Cincinnati 087 000 010 2-13 18 1 Edwar I | be under 17 years of age. inneapolis at ukee, Chicago 104 020 031 0-11 17 2 " Le - — ——————— i . Paul at Kansas Walters, Fox. Peterson, CGumbert and|D!ttaburgh 000 002 010— 3 7 23 amanne amb PO 2 . { AMERIC a Taos Huan "Kish. Me ver ‘and Beneltin ctson, * Riddle, Lombardi "Man. "Gress “and Ww tch R i i i , games AMERICAN ' ! and Schelling. {Kluttz; Brecheen and Rice. - a epa r ng i (Ten Innl — : on J NATIONAL LEAGUE Sp on ont of’ 0120 8 13 2 New York ......... 00000 0000 3 N Accurate — Dependable witon » 3. t ul 040 16 11 | elphin 04 200 10x.- 10 1) — W i iv York at nlinas asiphia (night). B Higbe "Ww greek, and ¥ ngerala;_ Dickson, Jansen, Hartung vir Livingston, West Wolf § Moderate Ie nly games sc : rasle, 1iks, Pollet hs 108, liber. rum ubiel an » 0 ussman ne. ol 1 eeep———— ———— y ; RESULTS YESTERDAY Boston at Brookiyn, postponed, rain. Cincinnati +001 300 200 ie 0 239 W. Washington $t. } AMERICAN TATION N York ica 000 011 000 3 10 0| neapolis .,.. 000 ew Yor at Philadelphia, both games We eeler " Glumbert and Hi. Me. Paul ....0.... 77400 011 13x— 9 14 3 postponed, ra Call. Rush, Kush, Dobernic and Schetfing. ndrews, St » Emmerich and Whee TE I Ts - . Waren ad, Martin, MeGlothin RESULTS SATURDAY n s s— _ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION { 2 ' rst Game) (Twelve Innings) a sas City v.0.210 004 000 7 13 O/ INDIANAPOLIS 010 010 100 004—~ 7 11 © waukee ..........110 140 Olx— 8 11° 3 ntiisvitle 100 000 002 000-— 3 9 6 nang, son and HMouk; Bernardi | Bagby and Turner; Toolson, Crate, er_and Burris. v Zuber and Rolandson, (Sec Game, Sev Janings) t —— ——— HB yes 3 3 mir womkmaMANs sroms~ Buy Your LEE 1 OVERALLS { And: Matehed eR Corner. Dilinels and 10th Sts, ' ; o SHIRTS & pany MINIT AUTOMATIC CAR- WASH Wok PANTS » AM. AR FEATURED IN LIFE MAGAZINE - “Too! yp — .¥ Washed by Machine—Air Dried $ AETRR o . nelnding SIMON BARUCH SPM Viewsm Cleaned=Mand Finished | Saturdays 4 t SM

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