Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1948 — Page 21

MAY 29, 1048 assic pends ace’

Nullify Pre-Race . Higher Speed

Mile classic 1 going .

% 8» BROWN, the likable le ‘Eastern champion. who finished seventh s-going to be content ig relief. for Hal Cole y of Tacoma” Special, ginally was scheduled he Ed Walsh Kurtis. will drive the Kurtis. re dirt tracks, iowever,

- - ® BRISKO claims a rec. anging a piston in one complicated Maserati Brisko, - owner. of the rs Specials, pointed out Harry McQuinn “blew” a the Brisko engine at st Wednesday, it quali. . m. the same day with sw piston: i the engine; I AR old-time faces seen eedway yesterday in. t of “Deacon” Litz, who rive the board speed. Indianapolis “vhen his in DuBois, Pa. Nowvith a cafe (which nas ) do with what follows); + now a Kaiser-Frazer i used car auction bro. Buffalo, N. Y, WT : PAUL WEIRICK car smore was assigned to lerday—while his origi. was still anchored in ),—has the nickname of LiL” It was so named L usually won every dirt e it was pushed up to ing line to compete in, he speed record for half. ks, established at Frank Vinchester Speedway.

n ® = BILL HOLLAND, last cond plac# winner, flew ane yesterday from the OWI plane—he mpanied by the attrac. , Holland, their 5.year-

’s race, But Bill Jr. was here, the youngest roller skatered in official amateur Mrs. Holland and Driver are champions on roller

- = » E OTHER race drivers y working on their cars ; them on test runs yesMillionaire Joe Thorne y touring Gasoline Alley a motorcycle.

ps Tennis Meet at Brookside

een men's doubles teams mpetition this afternoon (side Park for the Memoy . tourney Sponsored by anapolis Amateur Tennis

ieeded for the meet are Campbell and Arthur vith Stanley Malless and Burns in the second -po-

niatches: ,~Malless and .Burns vs. Sore Lynn; Taylor and Schmitt vs, ] ;—idohr and Roth 3s. dan - and Partner; Banta- and - Combs and Chamberlain. ~Linne and Campbell vs. Dias ner; Akard and: Partner Vi. | Chaffee: Toombs and McClure and Stinson; Bicket and Ote and Dafley.

GLE RACES FEATURE CURLY

e Park’s reconditioned one-half

pal will be the mm for Inplis* Curly Brooks Sunday aft: when the Midwest Dirt Track Association holds its first { the season. Brooks, a former ner and a favorite with the iil pilot the Indianapolis-made Hal Special. The famed oval ted 8 miles north of Rockville te Road No. 41. Time trials al . m. and the finals at 3:30 Cenandard (slow) time.

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‘Chronometer, Timer, Scorers to Keep Track Of 33 Cars in ‘500'

Electric Eye Printer Will Type Speed Of Machines Up to 1-100th of Second

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A chronometer, an electric printing timer and 100 men will * keep track of what car is in what position and at what time during

the

X vy above items combine to form the most

of race scoring and timing in the world.

Keeping track of the race is one of .gimple affairs which American technicians develop. At the “500” the key to the timing is.an ultra-accurate mech. anism known -as-a- chronometer. It is checked and certified by the U. 8S. Naval observatory before each race. One year at checking time it was found to be losing one second every month. Tch,

Electri¢ Timing Printer The electric timing ‘printer, a refined time clock like the one you punched when you left the factory chronized each second with the

Tch!

last- evening. is

master chronometer. An electric|goorer,

eve heam across the finish line of the track is broken when a

car

actuntes the printer which print _ the time in-1/100th of a-.s d on adding ma : A timer sitting beside the machine writes the number of the ear beside the printed time. It would be only a job for one man it there was only offe car on the track. buzzing around crossing the finish line two and sometimes three at a time it takes more help. That {s where the other 99 men come tw, racers.

in. Let's picture the first few laps of the race and maybe you can get some idea of how it's done. ,;. Timer Starts Work”

e tape.

than equal to the task.

accurate system

car to pass the finish line. These cards are then compared with as a cross check. Chester Ricker, who has been

and

master tape

ing 1911. is now director of timing and scoring. Assisting him are °| Clifford M. Rigsbee, assistant ‘ai-| SYD“irector; William 8. Powell. chief timer, and C. D. Vawter, chief

They will have a busy day of

{it, especially for the first dozen’ passes through and this jor 80 laps, but they are more | |

‘New Moore Car Baby of Stable

The new $25,000 Blue Crown!

But with 33 machines| Pecial, built by Lou Moore and

driven by Mac Hellings, is the baby of the Moore racing stable. | {It weighs about 1300 pounds, or! |{30C¢ pounds less than the other Although it has the same wheel base, it is shorter in| over-all. length. - t It also differs from the cars iven by Bill Holland and Mauri Rose in that it is a fear drive and

The pack led by the pace car employs magnesium brake drums

pulls away from the starting (and new type hydraulic shock abline and breaks through the beam |sorbers which save weight and|building—two of his creations finished one and two here in the way on race day. but the timer is not started since [Will allow Hellings greater ac- Memorial Day classic.

the lap does not count. Around celeration as he comes out of

the cars come and as the front turns.

line crosses the beam the printer

goes into action. The number of DePalma Forced Out

the cars are put down in their order of starting. Next-time around the cars are

‘With Victory Near Ralph DePalma, winner of the

more strung out but still bunched. 500-Mjle Classic in 1915 was . The chief timer frantically writes | forced out of the 1912 race while down car numbers beside thé|in first place with only five miles printed time as the machines between him and the checkered

gross the line,

. flag. Joe Dawson assumed. the ....In_this melee the chief timer lead and won the race. Dawson.

could make mistakes. But he is completed the 500 miles in 6

assisted by the scorers. Thirty-three of them, one for for an average s .each car, sit in rows behind the miles per hour.

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_.. THREE FOR THE MONEY—Lou Moore flashes a_ confident. grin as he prepares one of Kis three cars entered in this year's classic. It was one'and two for Lou last year. Will it be one, two, three this year?

And He Hopes fo R

Twenty-five years ago a tall sandy-haired fellow out in Cali-| fornia hopped-up a Model T to satisfy his craving for a fast car)

to drive in West Coast dirt track

This year that car builder, who iby this time you know is Lou!

(the question of whether he can! {finish them one, two, three. | But whether he accomplishes the feat or not Lou is still well established as one of the leading car builders at the track. { Roberts Won in '38

goes like this:

the all-time record for the course; of more than 117 miles an hour. {In 1941 Floyd Davis and Mauri Rose won with a sister car to that of Roberts’. In 1947 Rose won again in the car he will pilot| Monday. In addition, Frank Wearne fin-| ished a Moore car ninth in 1939 and Rose came in third in another one in 1940. All this amounts to approximately $70,000 in Speedway prizes, not including lap and accessory money. But Lou will tell you it has not |been an easy road to the top of| {the heap. Watched Milton

“I got the urge to drive from| ‘watching Tommy Milton and oth-| |ers drive on the dirt tracks of the West Coast,” the 44-year-old vet-| eran said. “So when I was 19 I| put a special head with overhead] valves on a Model T and got into| the scramble.” 1 That was in 1923. Then fol-| {lowed five years of beating |around the short tracks before he, [came to his first 530-Mile Race in | 1928. The first year was almost a {winner for Lou. lond, less than a mgs behind | Louis Meyer. The next year Lou had second place all but won when his car broke down onthe |last lap. He lot the white flag which means one more lap to go, [then a. connecting rod went’

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| Finished Third Lou didn’t break into the money | circle: again until 1933 when he! | finished third. The next year he

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Lou Moore Well Established As Top Race Car Builder

Entries Finished One, Two Last Year

epeal Success

races.

A year ago, this same fellow realized the ultimate in race car

To. Be on Duty

§ [possibly a hospital. way grounds.

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Ready for ‘500’

220 Doctors, Nurses

If you are going to become {il Lor injured on race day you'll be! i lin as good hands at the Indian- Job. donut it? d apolis Speedway as about any ® Firestone lire place. you can think of, except

For on ‘Monday no less than 220 doctors and nurses completea in 0 “he Speed. tires have been synonymous for

Eleven physicians and 24 sur- he track. » gical nurses will be on duty at the modernly equipped hospital in| garage with complete tire service the infield and other physicians equipment and a stock of be will be at the track subject to call{tween 500 and 1000 tires, There Place is kept neater than the will be brain specialists, bone spe- Deatest super service station you clalists, orthopedic specialists and eVer saw. even a specialist in obstetrics.

Dr. Smith says the latter type !n Gasoline of case is about the only one they have never handled at the race. No bables were ever born inside PaRY since 1930 and before that the track but there is always a De Was first for everything he says. cars Most generally the staff hari. y dles cases of appendicitis, gall drunkenness and if the! prostration Tents with cots are provided be side the hospital for any spectator who might become ill. In addition to the hospital facii- N® 1¥ huddled over a drawing (ities, six or seven first-aid stagrounds and . - Sey 3p be. statroq, Wheel specifications for a “dream by a physician and two industrial nurses. Also a medical intern will

~ ‘Busy Crews at Speedway Change 1000 Tires During Period of Three Weeks =

Moore Heads

Garage Service

How would you like to change 1000 tires in about three weeks? Sounds like a back-breaking But that is what shop in the garage area does during the last {three weeks of May. And the imen who do the work think nothing of it.

Firestone and 500 Mile Race

{a number of years. This. isn't a

Rogers Smith, head Pad advertisement and it doesn't

- ehiseked over mean. that the -gompany makes yess oe ine sit today wna the only pleasure car tire either. it ready for Monday's But for several years now Fire

stdne has been the only tire «it

The company has a “large

The

Bullt Tires for Stutz At the head of the organization Alley ‘is Johnny manager of racing tire He has been with the com-

Moore, isales.

with Mason Tire Co. which built tires for the old Stutz

Johnny, whose home is in Los Angeles, travels the country most {of the year solving tire problems ‘for race drivers on midget and big coast. When he is not at a track

table with one of the race car designers working out the tire and

Comes May. Johnny moves into

{be posted- . n Indianapolis. From. then until. the vs HEH sack MN wha ng last car is called off the track

{kit of first-aid materials.

Draw for Assignment Interns and nurses at IndianShella hospitals draw lots to see {who will get to go to the Speed-

it's. just one ‘tire problem after another for the Firestone representative * 12 Sizes Stocked Twelve different sizes are

Dr. Smith, a psychiatrist, has stocked for the cars at the track.

duplicated the performance. He |Moore, has brought three cars to/ Faced every year from 1928 to he has never psychoanalyzed ithe track and consequently poses 1937 and then he put away his race driver he jokingly adds, they ever had a psychiatric exam * he|out here there never would be a CATS take 6.00x18 on the front race.” !

helmet and goggles.

“Just don't have the urge’

says.

“Lou's design for his present

— been in charge of the

Not jokingly he says, “Actually

medical These range from 6.00x16 pleas-

oy ure car size to the large 7.50x20 staff since 1937. Although he SAYS | sed on the Don Lee Mercedes.

yr the Frank Brisko ‘Maserati and

{several others. However, most

and 7.00x20 on the rear. noints out that the car

cars is the result of his own ex- these bays out here would com-| OWners buy all the tires they use.

perience * gained century of racing.

’ “There wasn't any . question! > Lah Arnon. CTY about the engines.” he said. “Lye, "MAY a raced with that 4-cylinder Offen-'s MEETS HELD IN 1910: In 1938 Floyd Roberts roared hauser myself and I know it's the ok to victory in the first winner at pest you can buy today.”

He continued:

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In 1910 three meets were held at the Indianapolis Motor Speed- ers about what dedlers pay for has already run on the car.than —iWay:—A-three-day meet was held the same sizes in pleasures tires. to trust a new one. They Know “The chassis and body design May: 28, 290 and 30; a three-day A 6.00x16 six-ply costs the race the old one will hold air. | Krary, fleld manager; Bo are my own ideas of what is best meet July 1, 2 and 4, and a suited for this track.”

{fine bunch both physically and tors can't. come back on us with { Physically ‘Yeah, all the drivers--use them ticular

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“TIRE DOCTORS==Johnny More (standing) and Otte Wolfer, both of Firestone, keep an-accurate check on all tires used in the race. Here they test the wear on.a right rear after it had turned four fast laps in qualifications.

ply tire for a pleasure car would on one side and a pair of shallow TEOBL STOOL Fetal Tgrooves on the other, Was proKeep Spares Handy duced for racing on the Ascot On an average the cars take track 4n California. The tire one set of tires to practice on, makers made a template from a one set to qualify on and one set worn tire, because the drivers for the race. Tires used in quali- sald the worn tires seémed to.go fications ‘are most generally kept! faster than the new ones, and in the pits to be used as spares from that made a mold for a tire. during the race. But Firestone's Thus the new tires now have the pit has & large stock on hand speed advantage of the worn race day ard when a car comes ones. in and changes a tire the old one gy (sts made during qualificacomes off the wheel and the tire, ..c ihe tire manufacturers can makers put a new one on 80 It to) pretty well how fast the driv. will be ready if needed. er will wear down the tires in the This makes for a lot of fast race. Tests are made of tempera

race day. {pletion of the four Japa. Juan A lot of drivers are very par-|fication and by these res about their tires, or eXperts can determine how. long

during the main: event. Assisting Moore with the tire handling are Otto Wolter of the engineering department, Bin ae. b - The present tire design, an odd- dieck, office manager, and five affair with a shoulder service men, Ah

called. Some, like Tommy Milton, would rather put on & tire which

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