Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1919 — FINDS RACING FAME HAS ITS DRAWBACKS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FINDS RACING FAME HAS ITS DRAWBACKS

EDDIE PULLEN Eddie Pullen, winner of the 1914 Grand Prise at Santa Monica, and star contender in the Indianapolis 500-mlle Liberty Sweepstakes on the Indianapolis speedway. May 31st finds that being a famous racing cele brlty has Its disadvantages. A short time ago Pullen was as founded to read in a San Francisco paper—he lives in Oakland, acros» the bay—that he had •‘married a Miss Rosa Bernauer, trained nurse, and would leave Immediately for New York, where he planned to make his home.** He also read that “when he drove for new honors on the Indianapolis speedway, Mrs. Pullen would be in the pits to take care of him in case of accident." Pullen rubbed his eyes and then hustled across the bay to find out how the story had started. He found out that a man with the same name as his own had married, and either purposely or accidentally had given the impression that he was “the Eddie Pullen." Eddie is not a bachelor, having been married long before he became famous for his exploits witn a steering wheel; in fact he never starts in a race unless his baby's first pair of shoes is tied to the steering post of his car. Pullen is now hurrying east for fear he will arrive at the Indianapolis race and find the other Eddie has usurped his driver’s seat.