Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1952 — Page 32

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age-old question, “Where are the former champions today?” After 35° years of Memorial Day racing, 13 former champions are dead, 10 killed in race tompetition, one a suicide, another in a highway wreck and one by natural causes. One winner is in prison. Most of the Hv-

ing “500” winners are still con-|1035 race. Several years ago the dianapolis Speedway.

nected with the game. Johnny Parsons, winner of the abbreviated 1950 race, is the only former champion driv“ing. In this year's race. 5 ” . . "LET'S TURN back the calender. Ray Harroun led the field home in 1911 and is now living in racing retirement in Detroit. Joe Dawson, the 1912 winner in a National, died five years agoj. after running a successful auto replacement business in Philadelphia. “v Jules Goux of Paris, France, drove a Peugeot to victory in the 1918 renewal, Goux fought or France in World War 1 and is now an ofl dealer in his land. Another ¥FrenchRene Thomas, drove a to first in 1914. omas has long since dropped obscurity. » » . RALPH DePALMA won the 5 race, traveling 88 miles per ‘hour in a Mercedes. He is now ‘employed by General Petroleum {in Los Angeles. Dario Resta, a *gspeed-mad young man from !France, won in 1916 but was killed in 1924 in a race at Brook‘land, England. , World War I put the race in ‘mothballs until 1919. The first

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ROY KEECH, the 1029 winner,

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the m ost, popular champions drove to gold and glory in 1934. ace, was on the move to becoming! Cummings continued in racing until he was killed in 1838 In (1937, Shaw also won the “gaso.|Floyd Davis and Mauri an automobile accident in In- i

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sentenced to 1 to 10 years in 1950 to the Michigan City Penitentiary. in.the 500-mile classic

wild Bill Cummings, one of Wilbur. Shaw, the mustachioed| g 0

line derby” in 1939 and 1940. blended talents. Today Shaw is known interna- Davis early in the race

. » tionally for his work as president brought the Noc-Out Clamp

Pl iy de he i — _. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

"AMERICA'S Coast where he is active as rac-|flery driver was arrested on an

: g fraternity gathers for an|ing secretary in the stock car|attempted murder charge. He was annual classic, there's always the sport.

CO-WINNERS were received

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| craft in Burbank, Cal.

World War II put the race on| 4.8 4 {the shelf until 1946. Likable George Robeson was the firstiang

Floyd Roberts won the cham- IWXLW., Rose “continued racing| engineer for Loc kheed Air. . plonship Jin 1938 but came back |until Jast year. at or the next year to meet his death

and Mauri Rose won all by him- NASCAR sanction.

Spe-| self in 1947 and 1948. Rose re- | Parsons,

BILL HOLLAND, winner in| 949, ran afoul of the AAA | knows Lee's courageous story | On the eve of Amercia’s great. ost-war champion. The lustre of!pett . the ro com la champion among champions in for the second time in 1941 when that title soon ended when leg In She Jou. Yea “Central Rose|son was killed three months later States Racing Association circuit|lard has been recovering from Once he is crowned Rose relievediin a fiery crash at Atlanta, Ga. |and also. stock cars under the severe burns he received in a

who won 345 miles

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race fans to win No. 2 this year. six months but he is itching to Lee Wallard; last “years [get behind the wheel of a race champion, will be rooting from |car. Fans hope to see him in the pits this year. Everyone action in the 1953: classic,

... its sadness and its goodness. » w » . DURING THE last year Wal- known champion awaits his glory. “winner of

the Indianapolis 500-Mile race,”

|est engine-powered race, an un-

driver moves into a select

wreck at Reading, Pa., last June this .a group who once a

...just five days afterghe won group..

ELLY. PETILLO won theland general manager of the In-|cial home, Davis is now a part-| tired after the '51 race and is race cut short by rain in 1950,/the 500. Wallard has been tour- year draws the question, “What

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