Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1948 — Page 14

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _

New Sp 3 Records “In All es of Race ~ Predicted for Monday

: 6 Top Favorites Qualify; Strong Field of ‘Dark Horses’ Set for 200-Lap Competition

EE By LOUIS ARMSTRONG +3 Thirty-three of the fastest cars to ever make up a field for the 500-Mile Race will roar away at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) Monday in the 32d renewal of the classic of speed and endurance. All predictions, tempered of course by weather condi- ) tions, point toward the setting of new speed records in all stages of the gruelling event.

Record Entry List A number of unqualified cars, capable of speeds faster than some of the slowest in the lineup, are being prepared for the trials. How many mounts this group forces from the present lineup cannot be told until tonight. The fleld will be ade up of the 33 fastest qualifiers. From the largest list of entries (80) ever to be fled. for the race, more than 60 cars came to the track to bid for a-place in the starting|wingeq, is the mate of the one lineup. in which «Ralph Hepburn was

killed in pre-race practice when a lop tavoras mae Jen he crashed on the northeast turn.

Naion in his Novi, No. B54, k form 4. § Saas and are 1A Poa {turned in the fastest qualifying!

pressing them will be a strong

~Aeid-ot Hdark.horses’ in excellent

Thirty cars have already qualified for the whirling | chase and a full afternoon of time trials will be held today.|

MR. SPEEDWAY—Tony Hulman; Terre Haute multi-millionaire ‘and owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, intends to keep improving the race plant for the enjoyment of the spectators.

“+ |Shaw Predicts | Marks to Fall In "48 Race

Views Classic as Test of Drivers’. Skill

ord book will be rewritten Monday bdrring accidents or bad weather.” This prediction was obtained from the diminutive Speedway boss after he was finally cornered the Gasoline Alley cateteria. Frying 10 stop Shaw in the days the race 1s like trying © |to halt Duke Nalon in a Novi with © |your bare hands. The former three-time winner, © lof the “500” expects to see an average for the race of 120 when the fastest field in the history of the event takes -to the track Monday. No Changes in Track About the future of the Bpeedway, Shaw said the track will | {stay “as it is.” Many spectators are always asking him if the ‘banked turns will ever be made steeper.

Hepburn in the sister car in 1946 qualifications, Horn, one of the top “eompettors at the track, will be making his ninth attempt to win top honors at the Speedway. His dependable Maseratl, groomed by Cotton Henning, has

Foreign Car Entered In general, the race will be a contest between American auto-| motive creations. Only one for- . eign-built car, the Bennett Bros. Maserati, to be driven by Tea Horn, AAA driving champion, is among the favorites challenging

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. . n Closely | 16-degree turns is a contest of actime of the race, 131.603 miles an Milli é i S rt Pl celeration, ‘deacceleration and hour, and on one lap nearly ona re oO sman ans handling in the curves. equaled the track recordset oy . WHER YOu “tere ge

Future '500' Improvements

Tony Hulman, Owner

2'/2 Mile Oval, Buildings in 1945 for $750,000

Anton (Tony) Hulman Jr., Terre Haute multi-business man and owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, eyed the filled stands on the first day of qualifications this year and dreamed of future

bank of the turns,” he says, “there is no Jimit at which to stop short of a perpendicular wall. When you .get to that point the advantage is all with the driver with the fastest car. On the Indianapolis course a driver with skill and not so fast a car is on

Speedway, Bought

| Wilbur Shaw, Bpesdway presi:

bought for $0. A bus driver I used to “scare” with my antics, looked me up when he quit driving busses to become a Policsmen.

- |to ride fast, why didn’t I do it on a speedway. He introduced me to a promoter of races and I entered ‘my hopped-up Ford. Iran back at the rear most of the time, but I stuck at it. Since I wasn't win

To this he answers “no.” After; all, hé says, the Speedway with its/in the orchard.

Ted Horn's Own Story——

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Auto Racing His —And He'll Keep on Driving

Reaches Top After 23 Long Years of Hard Work and Disappointments fe [2 ia BED HORN, Ne 1b to becoms one of sportdom’s retired champions if I should my third national

same: . I'll keep driving until I can't vw. many titles or

races I win,

virtual “ip of ola cola”

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Ascot me out of continuing tion. He never wante race, anyway. Bought $0 Ford My first car was a Ford 1

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a fruit orchard and slept nights

By 1928 I had acquired the car with which Noel Bullock had won the Pike's Peak Hill climb. I did tpretty well with-it,-but- it. was. Ano... that car that I had my Thanksgiving Day wreck. Promised Father 80 I told my father I would git a job and I went to work as apprentice in the shop that That made the rotogravure sections f or 3 Los Angeles 1 stayed out Of race cars um until mid-1930 when I went to Riverside, Cal. to see a roadster race. A friend of in, Whe o owned a Hy came up to. me in stand: “Ted, my it the t show up. How about rin my CAT,

first event and the

I got the pole position, won the| LLO feature

Another First For The Times

-COLOR-PIOTURE of Ted Horn on the front of this soQvenir edition is another first for The Times in newspaper color reproduction. An important phase of the procthe image of

1936 Was “Big Year” My first “big year” at Indian. apols came in 1936 when I drove arry Hartz's Miller to second

Bince then, although 1 haven't owned my Indianapolis cars, I've owned my. dirt track cars. By saving my money, paving strict attention to the business end of racing, I've been’ able to build a Facing team for the ant tracks. I ve my own at Paterso pt Ad A “ plete car—and I have had a many as eight men working there at one time. I have won a .lot of r broken a lot of track records have won my share of champions ship titles in all parts of the country, but it costs me money to win races. By winning races and becoming better known I can make the

I'm always’ asked about my re. actions to wrecks and whether I “scared.” I'm as human as anyone, but wrecks don't scare a race driver .,, they're part of

{ithe sport. When I no longer ha fidence that I can i the oon with the proper car in my grip, then I'll hang up the goggles, 198 Had Wark for the fans who |

center and he bought out a real estate development to provide $1500 building lots for half the price. “Bo Tony ¢éan see even more than just new steel stan As he eyed the southwest c he

with many, many seats and comfortable lounge sections where fans’ can retire to luxurious salons if they become bored during

Wants 18 Attractive “We want to make it as aftractive as possible to the spectators and although it wéuld be impos-| sible’ to do it right away I would like to see some type of clubhouse stand down there similar to that at Churchill Downs,” the Speedway owner sald. When asked if he one day envisioned stands completely around [the track he sald, “No, 1 don't

type of Huu to bucing on the

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is needed because I know of no place in the country where histor ical pleces of racing machinery and equipment are collected,” he said. Would Cost a Lot “Of course it would take a lot

te have such a place here on the grounds. A lot of visitors come to the track each year on days other than race day and I think it would be a nice attraction for them. It would be good even if it, included only a gallery of mural photographs depicting the various Yaces.”

began in 1913 when he saw his

Let's go! from Traction Terminal Bus Station

Wain gate in twenty minutes.

“One-A-Minute” Express BUS SERVICE TO INDIAN APOLIS SPEEDWAY RACE

Special “One-A-Minute” express bus service

Motor Speedway (and return) will again serve thousands “of race fans this year on May 81. Leaving at the rate of one a minute. Speedway Special Buses will arrive at the

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first race. About that time he feit the. urge for speed himself

spoke of a beautiful clubhouse]

EAA But Tony is stil planning some| ~~

of money. but some day we hopei.

Tony's love for the Bpeedway|

to Indianapolis

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the many Offenhauser-powered Won more prise money than any|..;.qq at his speed plant. even terms with a driver not so s vehiéles. other car at the track. Wilbur" my, iTionaire sportsman holds steadfast to his statement [skilled but who has a faster car.” - The ohly other foreign car in a Shaw finished it in first place Inj). he has no intention of making money at the Speedway but spot is the Don Lee 1939 and 1940. Horn placed it ends only to: further what he Will Try for Record driven by Chet Miller. third mn 1946 and 1987. calls ‘ithe greatest sporting event and he bought a-motoreyele... Hel Shaw said he still intends to But unofMcial track observers be- Jackson s Favorite in the world. liked to go so fast that he crashed|try for the “world straightaway Neve the ated. German Another. favorite who has Tony, who is 46 3 hought the the two ihe JWo Whesjer into the fence Jones 3t speed record but shat, is plans creation has many “bugs” piaced in the money. in’ the twoand OBe-half mile “oval and | fairgrounds: have been postponed. * to last the full route. times he has entered the “300”|surrounding buildings and _agreaTerre Haute. tended to build a Jet-propelled oar “Chief among the American con-| Jimmy Jackson, will be in -a|for 3150.000. tn and Plased ty ns slwais bean 3 Sports sports oe a B17 8% hb Moors, Howives, “LORAers ure the two sparking ~wew creation buiit| Wilbur w_in the : usias e an All-Amer: engin been cars of Lou Moore ch Aniahed along the lines of the Moore cars, |President and general manager. ican football end at Yale in 192%|barred from - international coms first and second last year. The cat. by a brand.Since then the Hulman-Shaw(and the year before he won the petition. Pilot Same Car new four alinder Offen r. is management has made extensive high hurdles representing Yale Consequently, he said, he inMaur! Rose; last ner Gr under Of rhasct: aslimprovements _ to stands andland Harvard in iotersationallisnds to bulld his car around the a Rn, Arrest In the race similaMty to the successful Bius|SFOuRdS. They eventually envi-| competition at Wembley, England. Allison engine made here in_Into ever receive the checkered Specials. Jackson, a for-{3100 all-steel stands for the com-|Today he stil likes 0 gut out of disnapolls. ‘He could give no date f fiag of victory, will pilot the same|mer Tech High School athlete gs Satety of the spietators. 400m With 8 gun and audi wher : gonstrustion ofthe car y ' . ve begun to reMoore car in which he won last/finished second in 1046 and firth JU (EVE 2 Ou is with time to go fishing. A ra ape . “In the other car will be his| Perennial favorite the 8 Snes nd have bulk 4 . teammate of last year, Bill Hol-{fans and railbirds is Rex | bleachers on the southeast land, who' led most of the 1047 who will make his bid for the event only to give way to Rose/pot of gold in the same Bowes) Makes Improvements. et through a “misunderstanding” of Seal Fast Special he drove to It is only natural for Tony to i pit signals. Both drivers have sixth place last year. make improvements in things. At pronounced their Blue Crown| Rex. who holds the pole posi-|his home in Terre Haute, where : Spark Pi Specials In bet! {tion, turned in the second fastest he heads the firm which manu-|: condition in last year when qualifying time this year by com-|factures nationally known Clabthey proved the tops in speed and pleting the four test laps at an|ber Girl baking powder, he has e de. » average of 130.577 miles an hour.|spent hundreds of thousands of Designed by Winfield Leading the dark horse group dollars in the interest of his Another leading contender for|is Mack. Hellings of Glendale, neighbors. the laurels is ‘the Bud Winfigla-|Cal; who is making his first ap- ¢ gave $100,000 to make posLoi Welch entry, the Novipearance at the track. Hellings| sible the town's municipal rt, Grooved Piston Special to be surprised the railbirds Wednes- he signed over 55 acres of land driven by Duke Nalon. |day when he turned in the fifth{to the Indiana State Teachers "The car, a V-8 designed by!fastest qualifying time this year. College for the $50,000 athletic

) Tek he fellow said to us. “Any. one with half an eye knows your car's good looking.

ri “Anyone who ever stands on a street corner for half a moment knows it’s big and slick looking and the easiest job of them all to spot.

“What I want to know is what will it do for me? What will I get out of it better than I get elsewhere?”

Wel, mister! You left yourself wide open. Because any Buick owner will tell you - eh

It was Buick, no one but Buick, who put Fireball combustion under your bonnet to give you the liveliest, goin’est bundle of horsepower you - ever put your treadle foot to.

It was Buick, no one but Buick, who" first floated each of all four wheels . «on a soft coil spring that’s like a sofa cushion between you-and the bumps.

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