Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1952 — Page 28

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Don't Wait— \ Get Out to the 500 Early

By JIM HEYROCK

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500-Mile Entry List

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ment stil holds at 500-Mile Race

Jt's the same plea from. the police, Marion ‘County Sherift’s office and the .Indiana State Police. were urging race-goers to get "to the Speedway early. In fact, . they believe it would help a lot if everybody woul first at the be Speed plant. oer THE THREE agencies have simple advice for all—get there Robert O'Neal of t early and by the most simple

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“+ The police are charged with the Fesponsibility of getting the thouspectators 4 unds before race time. After ‘She crowd passes through the gates, the job of steering the spectators to their proper places and avoiding pedestrian jams re.werts to Speedway Safety Direc‘tor Joe Quinn and his silver=hel-| Lyndhurst Dr.

into the

One of the lessons learned by the three agencids outside the gate is mow used as a valuable example. In 1946 late comers to the Speedway were blamed “gor the uncontrollable conges-

5 o ” » A i TRAF F110 WAS snarled for miles in all directions while pojice did their best to get cars and through the gates. There were thousands of persons awho did not get through the gates until late afternoon and there &were others who never did see ‘any of the race that year.

* CAR Belanger Spl. Blue Crown 8. P. Spl Sid Street Motor Spl Hinkle Spl. Jim Robbins L ing Spl. Chapman Spl. Coast Grain Spl. Miraclé Power Spl Lutes Offy Spl.

Bowes Seal Fast Spl. Blue Crown 8. P. Spl Granatelll Spl. Blue Crown 8. P. Spl a Pat Clancy Spl Cal. Speed & Sport Shop Spl. Fed. Engr. Detroit Spl. Ansted:-Botary Eng. Spl Bardahl Spl

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Electric Eye Keeps Track

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(bashian. Swish. Swish, {there go three more cars.

Persons parking in the

hours to untangle, " » » IN CHARGE of the

top floor of the Pagoda. radio cars, motorcycles,

Supt.

Michigan. Spectators having

parking space.

DRIVER Duane Carter Henry Banks Walt Faulkner Jack McGrath Johnnie Parsons Danny Oakes BilF Schindler Manuel Ayulo Andy Linden Paul Russo Alberto Ascari Joe James Jhuck Stevensgn Sam Hanks Danny Kiadis Chet Miller Clift Griffith Carl Forberg Neal Carter Bill Vukovich Tony Bettenhausen Fred Agabashian Jim Rigsby Johnny McDowell Allen Heath Art Cross Rodger Ward Johnny Mauro Duke Nalon Jimmy Reece Unnamed Frank Armi @ Jackie Holmes Unnamed Bill Taylor Bill Boyd Spider Webb Bob Sweikert Joe Barzda George Connor Bobby Ball Frank Luptow Buzz Barton

their greatest problem in 194 \when'a pedestrian jam and near-| panie enveloped the Bhecdway | eye on every car as It crosses i were met in the tunnels by. per-| sons parking on the outside with seats in the parquet section. was a jam that took several

250 offi- Race remains

wers outside the gate will be Supt. eX 1 rail 5 he State Hon] One familiar figure—an insti-|

lice, who will pperate from th

The officers, equipped with and |

those on foot will be spotted at |ing and scoring. He grew up the most advantageous points. with the O'Neal's advice to mo- track's woo torists is to use the main routes provided to the Speedway after getting an|Model T flivgers. Ricker wasn't that bright afternoon in 1911 16thjon hand for the first race in when Ray Harroun became ‘the

early start. These routs are A ome there in 1912 and| first winner of ‘the 500.

8t,, 30th St., Georgetown Rd. and|1911,

» » LJ TRAFFIO coming from out of town from the north should move;

parking | spaces around the track should | wo ner was a head man in | 20's, such as the Warner Speedometer Co. | Harry Hartz, and Tommy Milnow the Stewart-Warner Corp. | ton among others. | The timing device is valued at their careers in contrasting 8 = play an important part in han-\¢,;50 Clifford Rigsbee is this| fashions of today’s speed stars. dling trafic. The plane will spot/' w. "nriactor of Timing and| traffic jams, radio the central of: J { fice in the Pagoda and .officers will be dispatched to the trouble patrolmen had points immediately. .

enter the gate nearest their |

The State Police airplane will]

g needed to win the 500-Mile grind. | The Speedway has a timing

| the line. Tabulators and card | changers record laps completed 1t| by each car.

o n a THE SPEEDWAY'S virtually cept for one ‘thing.

e tution at the Motor Speedway — | is missing. He is Chet Ricker, | who passed away last November.) Ricker was the director of tim-

Speedway sinee

H lwas Sapo inent figure in the big| ‘race until this year,

un " v HIS WAS A HIGHLY impor-

The device was Invented by Charles E. Warner in 1909. |

| Scoring.

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” " ” KEN HURLBUT, a chief clerk|,

(the Indianapolis Power & Light | one Last |—

Co., i8 now chief timer. | appointed Ray House of | lle assistant chief timer.) anges in timing have this year, but some radical changes are in the offing in a year of two. The electric eye catches each car as it speeds across the finish line in front of the pagoda.

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pagoda prints to one-hundredth of a second the amount of time consumed by each car on each lap. =

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”» ” ” IN LESS than a minute, Rigs-| {bee and his 33 assistants, one for {each car, can give out the first {10 leaders. | Approximately 90 men are in{volved in the scoring and tabu-| lating operation. The auditors {take the tape off the timers and break the time of each lap down, \te hundredths of a second. If an error occurs, the tabu{lators and their mechanical old [faithfuls — the timers — soon de-| tect it only a few seconds later, |

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Power Weak | So many mechanics use electric) {tools in the Gasoline Alley ga-: rages during the three weeks be-| fore race day that they have to, take turns with the power. When | |a force of drills and grinders are| {in operation, the power falls so! low that none will run.

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4 4 4 Grancr Wynn Oil Jim Rathmann 4 | A total of 40 persons, including| Auto Shippers Spl. Jimmy Jackson 4 (three spectators and a child have Ellen Atomic Spl. Albert Scully 4 [been killed since 1909. The child Jeanie- Dick Fralzer 4 was killed when hit by a wheel , Merkler Spl. Jimmy Daywalt *8 which came off a car and was Leitenberger Spl. George Fonder 4 [thrown loose over the fence to John Zink Spl Mike Nazaruk 4 !the road outside. Mel Bi Spl. Gene Hartley 4! mein ‘ Vulcan Tool Spl Duke Dinsmore 4 : Marion Engr. Spl Doc Shanebrook 4 Two of d Kind McNamara Spl. Unnamed 4 | The b500-Mile Race and the Helin Flyer Spl Peter Hahn 4 (Indiana high school basketball | Schmidt Spl Jimmy Bryan 4 [tournament were both born in| Gdula Spl. Unnamed 4 |1911, Ray Harroun won the race Eddie Johnson 4 |and Crawfordsville won the state 82 John Fedricks ‘8 {basketball tournament. i 84 ' Ottis Stine 4 | - 88 - a George Tichenor 4 Sets Records - 92 Chuck Weyant 4 | Johnny Parsons set 10 new 3 Bob Scott 4 [records in winning the 1950 In6 Co. Spl. aene Force 4 |dianapolis 500, despite the fact Troy Ruttman 4 [that his mount was discovered to ‘have a slightly cracked block . just before the race. pe

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Thrills Of Speed,

Sometime tomorrow after-

Of 33 Cars {noon the drone. of churning if ~r

ey ; lengines will be interrupted on SWISH. There goes Aga- one of the Speedway’s trea¢h-|erous-turns by the stubborn cough Swish— | °f a stricken race machine. For shirt-sleeve fans in view, {it will be anxious moments as the { It's the blazing speed of the 33 low slung car careensi out of a | fastest cars in the world’s fastest spin, flirting dangerously with the D> - » a ! ’ 1 . That was said a long time ago by the old Confederate race, They cross the finish line retaining wall. ree Marion |one cdf at a time. Or in clusters.)

i _ | And you wonder how does anyone | Reaper this time, keeping the car County law enforcement agencies are concerned, the state | keep track of the required 200 on the straightaway. And from

The driver ‘ beats the Grim

the relief of his escape, comes the fan's stock question in racing, | device that keeps an electric “what makes those drivers tick?”

THERE ARE various explanations, but the best bet is to say it's the deep-seeded yen to pit man’s skill against a man-made minute monster of steel, wire and rubber. system of timing the 500-Mile When its engine power breaths intdct; 1ife into othe car, there lies the driver's challenge. Death is ever present as man pits his - talents against such speeds. win, a driver Is constantly teasing this factor. J Today's drivers are probably the mo better, nor possess a greater den running surface daring, Most certainly the auto the roadbed for thejage has, taken giant strides since

o IT IS VERY possible there was greater danger in the pioneering) 1) OT“ ora of the race. Until shortly be-| on 30th St. and’ those coming in tant task. In 1922, an electrical gro the war, race cars throwing Harry Stevens (left), Gene Marcenac (top, center), Jack Beckley (lower center) on Rt, 52 should use 16th St."and yyming device was instituted at , wheel, blowing tires and some-' And one of these fellows might be the mechanic of the winning car. If he is, in addition to his many the cars coming from the south ihe track to check the cars 1aP times exploding In a fiery crash! h : and southwest go on Emerson t0'yy 4p, y noes

A young man seeking a race

|prentice jockeys of the turf. They usually started as a me-| the same year, ¢ hanic’s assistant, tinkering] lin the engineering department at|apound the garage area on odd| of the famed Meyer-Drake en- | The first graduate step gines, contends the drivers of |the leaders or he’s finished.

BY YELLOWSTONE, INC., LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY |

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By JACK WELSH

But in his desire to

Louis Meyer,

launched

"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 2

Pot O' Gold, Lure '500" Drivers

today have more races in which | to participate. There were about 12 in the Twenties, while the calendar enables a # | driver to race at least six |

MEYER, a triple-winner of the, months a year. Memorial Day classic, started his Rigsbee has been .an driving career in bygone days was career in 1926 as a mechanic forthe under-a-100-mph.-days assistant director since the last somewhat akin to today’s ap-'Frank Elliott. He finally drove [pre-race strategy. ‘As Meyer puts 000. Now that price is more | his first race at Charlotte, N. C., it, a driver 20 years ago could doubled. Harry Hartz,

Another interesting aspect of

{race against time and almost

“Louie, who is now a builder calculate where he'd finish.

A driver of the 20's and 30's would usually ‘make about one stop for fuel and almost always made it on schedule,

THE TOP RACE was Meyer's prime usually cost $10,-|

DOCTORS OF MOTORS—A- few of the crack mechanics who have cars in the '500' are and Clay Smith (right). [the

, he'll receive a diamond- studded pin and $1200 from the Wynn Oil Co., regardless of

‘were common place hazards of : on Ps , whether or not the car used Wynn oil.

Daring (lads of the Roaring found the young man moving up |as a riding mechanic and evenitually, after proving his worth, | {he got a chance in a regular race., modern

.__ THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1052

at Culver City, Cal, in 1016. Winner of the Junio! National championship, Hartz moved

riding mechanic.

the first row five times,

over old thrills.

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veteran explained. = ” »

tires’

in the progress of the race,

Carter, Andy Linden,

Agabashian,

big car drivers.

a ‘retaining wall possibility of

of last year’s race.

into big car competition as &

Hartz, now an AAA official’ for the fourth year, made six starts in the 500-Mile Race and made

“I belidve the equipment in those days was as good as today considering the era,” Hartz said yesterday as he reminisced

Hartz is of the opinion it was easier. to break into ‘the game when it was in the pioneering stage. “A fellow could start out by warming up cars and after KOE up the race technigue, he’d probably get a chance to drive by himself,” .the dapper race

THERE WAS more relief drive ing in the old days and the tires burned up more frequently but the steady development was probably the biggest single factor

Most of today’s stars such as Tony Bettenhausen, Troy Ruttman, Johnny Parsons, Duane Freddy among others either started in midget race cars, roaring roadsters, or stock cars. The latter, however, has produced relatively few such

The strain of handling a big car is terrific. If you don't snap an axle after 50 miles, smash into or have a mechanical failure, there’s always leg cramps which forced Jack McGrath out

Yet despite the danger . . «

and tear . ing at

of the Big Heat tomorrow. ” o

cars in place else.

driver before and after World blood.

Today he has to keep up with! War I, started in the race cars

Seated in the pagoda are the| - ; timers and assistants, surrounded ‘ £ by their recording machines, tim- $e. - ers and tabulators. As each car. : crosses the line, the timer in the .

the mental and physical wear . +» the all or nothall. aspect . . . You couldn’t get those 33 guys out

They wouldn't ‘want to be any Some drive it for thrill of speed, than others for the chances of a big |jackpot and some just because a top-flight |gasoline seems to mix with their

Whatever their reasons—they

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