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THE IXDIAXAPOLIS STAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1933. Oil Limitation "Bogey Man" Proves to Be Myth in Race AIR ACES OF WORLD WAR MEET AT SPEEDWAY. SIX-GflLLOW RULE Staff Pholosrapfwr.) 3 Lives Claimed By Oval Crashes Youthful Race Driver Achieves His Ambition, But Pays With Own Life 'JWT'W IN GARS Inspire fear In him. Ho couldn't realize that a fatal crash might be numbered for himself. When a boy living on the West aide he always managed to get to the speedway and watch the drivers tune up their cars for the big raco snd then he made it his business to see the race.

Aa a pupil at St. Anthony's Catholic school and later at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic school he dreamed of racing and finally when he was graduated from the eighth grade he went to work. He was employed in the Ford Motor Car Company plant here several years and then when he was 18 years old he drove in his first race at the old Hoosicr speedway, a half-mile dirt track on the Pendleton pike. From then on he raced moro and more on the dirt tracks. Then he graduated to the board track at Al-toona.

and also raced at the Oakland track in California. Won 10 Races Last Year. Last year he added ten victories to his string, increasing the total number of races that he won to more than fifty. This year, however, was the first BV ROBERT KARLY. Mark Billman, youthful Indianapolis race driver, achieved his lifetime ambition yesterday but paid for it with tho highest price of man his own life.

Since the days when he was a child and listened to the daring deeds of race drivers, Billman looked forward to the time when he, too, would drive in the Indianapolis 500-mile race, flashing past the thousands of cheering spectators. Yesterday his dream came true but carried tragedy with it. He was driving a steady, masterful race and then on the seventy-ninth lap something went wrong. His car, traveling low in the track around the southeast turn, skidded, hit the lower wall tail first and then careened across the track to the outer wall. Crushed Under Car.

Striking the upper wall with terrific force, the race car tore out a shaped piece of the concrete retainer and then hurtled high in the air. In midair the car turned upside down, throwing Billman's mechanic, Elmer Lombard, 4.18 North Colorado avenue, into the grass outside of the track, but Billman fell on the inside of the track and an instant later the race enr fell on him, bounded again and cr.me to rest upright astride the wall. Lombard's condition is not believed by physicians to be serious. Although only 26 years old, Rill-man was a veteran in the racing game, having followed the trails of speed on dirt and wood tracks throughout the nation for the last eight years. While he was a victim of a number of crashes In his career, only one other proved serious.

That was at speedway in Winchester in 1928 hen his car was wrecked and he suffered a broken hip. Stuck to Racing Game. Billman, like all natural drivers, paid little heed to the pleas of his parents, Nick and Anna Billman, 2225 Villa avenue, to give up racing. Tragedy to other pilots could not (Photo by Star X. Jervey, Maj.

H. Weir Cook, Col. honor of being the ace of aces of Uncle Sam's air contingent, having biought down twenty-six German planes. Maj. Cook of Indianapolis and Mr.

Chambers, who was in Rick-enbacker's squadron and former at for the first time as eighth. Evans and Chet Miller were next in order. Careening Dash to Finish. Further use of the yellow flag as a result of serious accidents during a still longer period between the 375 and 450-mile posts reduced the average to 104.683 miles an hour, with the 1928 winner still in front of Shaw by approximately three laps. Moore was third and Stubblefield fourth.

The remainder of the order, with fifty miles separating the leader and the checkered flag, was Evans fifth, Gardner sixth, Gullota seventh, Ber-gere eighth, Snowberger ninth and Zeke Meyer tenth. Then came that dashing, careening grand finale in the last fifty miles with Meyer maintaining his lead ahead of Shaw and the latter fairly coasting on his last two laps to play safe against Moore, Gardner, Stubblefield and Evans, who were in a real heavy-footed battle for the succeeding positions. Eddie V. Rickenbacker, Heed Chambers and victor Stralun. tache of the American embassy at the City of Mexico, each brought down seven German planes, while Strahm, a captain in the regular army, stationed at Wright field, Dayton, brought down five of the enemy planes.

Jervey, who was an ordnance officer, attached to the 94th squadron, brought down three enemy planes as a "substitute" flyer, seeking a thrill. The five men staged an informal reunion yesterday of the 94th air squadron, first pursuit group, at the 500-mile race at the Speedway. Two-Way Radio Between Car and Pits Proves Worth in First Speedway Test Race Gets Late Start First Time In History; Drivers Threaten "Strike" For the first time In the history of the race, the big evfnt started late -more than five minutes late, In fact. The reason involved a lot of difficulties between drivers and officials on the matter of Howdy Wilcox's entrance. time in his career that he was able to obtain a mount for the 500-miln race.

James Mannix, for whom Bill- man formerly drove on the dirt I tracks, and Jimmy Kmp, who for- merly aided Fred Dncsenbcrg In preparing race cars, obtained a Duexon- berif for this year's race and selected Billman to drive it. Billman worried along with Kemp and Mannix while the car was being prepared and then forgot his worries after he qualified the car at 112 410 miles an hour for the race. Billman's father is grounds keeper at the Sarah Shank golf course. He has two brothers, Luke Billman, 17 years old, and Paul Kiliinan, 14 years old, both students at Cathedral high school, and three sisters. Mrs.

Mon ica Tate, Miss Kerlnlis ana Mini Modasta Billman, all of the Villa avenue address. He was not married. Billman was a member of St. Catherine's Catholic Church. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

the nature of the trouble that the driver was encountering. I.ikewiso instructions by Alden Sampson, owner of the car, were transmitted to Gardner without the use of the old blackboard method, and eliminated unnecessary stops at the pit. Condi tions on the track and cars involved in accidents were broadcast to the pit ahead of the oflicial word. Riding Mechanic at Microphone. Gardner did not operate the re ceiver and transmitter In the ar, but left this duty to his riding mechanic, Herschell McKee.

L. J. Knee of VanNuys, was technician in charge of the operations. Installation of a high frequency tranHmitter and receiver in a race car traveling at high speed presented many problems and the entire apparatus was set in rubber to withstand the constant vibration. Both the sending and receiving sets were mounted in the tall of the car.

McKee wore an aviation radio helmet which had the headpohnes built in. A small hand microphone was hung to the dash of the car. Unlike the usual antenna associated with receiving sets, the one on the Sampson Special con sisted of a small brass rod mounted on brackets along the left side of the frame of the car. Battery Cable Breaks. Despite the unusual care taken to Insure operation of the transmitter and receiver In the car over the en tire 500 miles, a battery cable was broken at 310 miles, ending the two-way communication between driver and the pit.

Both Gardner and Sampson were pleased highly with the results of radio in race cars yesterday and pre dicted that the blackboard method of communication to racers is doomed to give way to a newer and more efficient method. Both transmitters were operated yesterday by authority of the Federal radio commission. "LUCKY," FOX SAYS OF ESCAPE IN FATAL SPEEDWAY CRASH CONCLUDED FROM PACK ONE. juries. Several blood transfusions were given in a fruitless attempt to save his life.

He was pinned between the concrete wall and the left front wheel of his car and twenty minutes were required to remove him from the wreckage. He died about an hour later. Billman lost considerable blood. He was In his seventy-ninth lap at the time of the accident, driving a Kemp-Mannix Special. Hurled Fifty Feet.

Billman's riding mechanic, Elmer Lombard, 28 years old, 438 North Colorado avenue, was skyrocketed out of the car when it hit the outer wall and he landed outside the wall more than fifty feet away. He suffered painful burns and lacerations of the legs, He was given first aid treatment at the emergency hospital and then was taken to the City hospital where he was reported to be resting easily last night. Three other cars smashed Into retaining walls on the south turn but in each instance the drivers and mechanics escaped with slight injuries. Shortly after the Spangler-Fox crash. Wills rd Prentice in a Jack Carr Special hit the wall.

On the next lap, Wesley Crawford, driving a Boyle Valve Spi-rinI, hit the Inside wall when a wheel came off. Ira Hall in a Jjenny Duesenberg S.c. ial cmcked up near the same spot early in the race. Treated for Leg Injuries. Russell Snowberger, years old, of Indianapolis, a driver, suffered severe leg injuries and was treated in the emergency hospital.

Luther Johnxon of Bend, a driver, was forced to quit the raco when lie suffered injuries of the abdomen caused by vibration of his car. Several other drivers and mechanics were treated at the hospital foi slight burns and bruises. Oicm and Hurst were killed Sunday afiernoon when Orem lost control oi his car on the northeast turn. The careening machine, traveling approximately one hundred and ten miles an hour, lfaped the wall and landed twenty feet below. Hurst died of a skull fracture and Orem of a broken The wme car was in a wreck tho previous Monday when Al Aspen and his mochnnic Buffered injuries.

Kntered Rsce at Rohy. Spangler, who was unmarried, born In Brook, where his family sti I lives. His father nnrl mother, Air. and Mrs. Henry Spangler, left for Indianapolis last night when word was received in the Newton county community of their son's death.

Spangler left brook as a boy and was reared in Canada and in the Da-kutas. He entered racing in 1929 at tho Roby track, near Chicago, and was second In the Pacific coas driving championship in His home was in Los Angeles, where he had lived two years. Spangler drove his first 500-mile race yesterday. He had witnessed five of the local Speedway events. Survivors are his parents, two sisters, Mrs Paul Howell and Miss Pearl Spangler.

and a brother, Floyd Spangler, all of Brook. Several Survive Jordan, Survivors of Jordan are four brothers, thre? sisters, the widow and parents. The brothers are R. F. P.onm Jordan and Walter Jordan of Indianapolis and Rollie Jordan of Lafayette.

Sisters arc Mrs. Wallace Long of Lafayette, Miss Jane Jordan of Lafayette and Mrs. Nellie Van dn Creyse of New York. Mr. and Mrs.

Morris Jordan, the parents, reside in Lafayette aa does the widow, Mrs. Lucille Jordan. Killed in Pennsylvania, 1 in California Race SOMEP.SET, May 30 (U.P.) Hoy Jones, 2.1 years old, Johnstown (Pa.) automobile race driver died in the Community ho: pital today of in- juries suffered in a Memorial day race at Jennerstown, near here. Three others were hurt, none seri ously. Jones's chnst was crushed and his back probably fractured, it was said.

BURBANK, May 30. (U.P.) Johnny Paskovich, Los Angeles race driver, was killed at the Jim Jeffries race track today when his car failed to negotiate a turn during the running of a Memorial day race. The speeding car broke through a fence and overturned. Paskovich died en route to a hospital. P.

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BT ARTHCB C. BUCK, Automobile Editor of The Star. Oil limitation, the Speedway's preface "bogey man," turned out to be a myth in yesterday' 500-mile race. Followers who predicted that the (pedal-built cara would go to pieces Under the restriction that permitted only six gallons of oil to the car saw their opinions miscarry as four Miller-powered racers roared home ahead of the semistock entries. Only occasional hints of insufficient ell were found in the final analysis of disaster which turned down the numbers of the unfortunate drivers.

On just two cards was written "out of oil" and one of these was of the so-called stock motor variety, spon sors of which class of racers generally are credited with having been responsible for the' adoption of the rule limiting oil supply. No Hardship on Instead of working hardship on the owners of the specials, the rule may have saved their cars in some cases Inasmuch as the previous epidemics of broken oil lines In the race failed to show yesterday in a single instance. Hidden behind the vague report of "motor trouble" noted on several of the cards may have been undisclosed stories of lubricating difficulties, but even these were in a minority. It would seem that the motors were in better racing condition, the much-discussed rule having prompted engineers to give more attention to prevention of oil leaks. Incidentally, the Tydol Special Which was driven to victory by Louie Meyer, who thus becomes the second pilot in history to win the race twice, is the first car ever to carry a mineral oil to first place.

The Meyer car used Veedol as an engine lubricant. The long reign of Hart supremacy, or racing luck, yielded to the law of averages yesterday and went crashing out of the when Lester Spangler met his fatal accident on the southwest curve of the track. Fred Frame, driving the Hartz car in which he won the race last year, previously had been forced to withdraw because of engine trouble. Stock Cars Show Up Well. Sweeping everything clean below fourth place, the so-called stock cars gave a good account of themselves in the finish column although they Obviously were outrun at all stages of the race Wrecks which took several of the faster specials out of competition no doubt spared the stock racers considerable humiliation in the face of their achievement a year ago in placing as high as third.

The smaller cars in the stock division held the edge over those of larger piston displacement which were handicapped by excessive weight, the Buick motored Abels-Fink Special engineered by Phil Shafer and driven by Stubby Stub-blefleld heading the list of ten that ranged from -fifth to fourteenth positions. Next came the Art Rose Special driven by Dave Evans and powered by a Studebaker Commander engine to take sixth place. Both of these cars finished above 100 miles an hour. Finish In Almost Solid Group. Six Studebaker Presidents followed the Evans car to the finish line, the five-car factory team coming home In almost a solid group, with Snowberger sandwiched In between Gu-lotta and Zeke Meyer.

Bergere, who finished third last year could do no better than eleventh this year in the same car. Johnson took tenth and Corum twelfth. Thirteenth position went to the Jack Carr Special with a stock Duesenberg engine, and the Chrysler-powered Golden Seal Special was fourteenth. Of the dozen or so fast fours in the race, only two showed up in the final standing, although Babe Stapp, at the wheel of the Boyle Products four, wheeled to the front about midway of the grind. Wilbur Shaw pushed his Mallory Special four into second place and Lou Moore finished Henry Maley's Foreman Axle Special, another four, third, ahead of Chet Gardner in the Sampson Radio Special.

Twenty-one Cars Forced Out. Twenty-one cars had retired from competition when the 500-mile trek was completed. The number, driver. car, trouble and lap follow: No. 2.

Kreis, Frame-Miller Special left course on back stretch, fifty-fifth lap. No. 3. Rose, Gilmore Special, ran out of gasoline and withdraw on forty-eighth lap. No.

5. Cummings, Boyle Products Special, out of oil. No. 23. Hepburn, Highway Parts Special, broken connecting rod, thirty-third lap.

No. 10. Hall, Denny Duesenberg Special, went over the wall on the southeast turn, thirty-seventh lap. No. 12.

Frame, Miller-Hartz Special, valve trouble, eighty-ninth lap. No. 15. Spangler, Miller Special, wrecked, southwest turn, one hundred and thirty-second lap. No.

16. Trlplctt, Floating Power Special, motor trouble, sixty-sixth lap. No. 19. Al Miller, Marr Special, motor trouble, one hundred and sixty-first lap, No.

22. Schneider, Edelweiss Special, motor trouble, first lap. Broken Crankcase. No. 24.

Boat, Frame-Mlller-Dueaen-berg Special, broken crankcase, sixteenth lap. No. 25. Cantlon, Sullivan-O'Brien Special, motor trouble, fiftieth lap. No.

27. Petillo, Sacks Brothers Special, stalled on north end, one hundred and sixty-eighth No. 28. C. Miller, Marr Special, out of oil, one hundred and sixty-second lap.

No. 32. Crawford, Boyle Valve Special, threw wheel, southeast turn, one hundred and forty-seventh lap. No. 53.

Sawyer, Lencki Madls Special, broken clutch, fifty-sixth lap. No. 57. Fox, Universal Service Garage Special, wrecked on southwest turn, one hundred and twentieth lap. No.

58. Brisko, F. W. D. Special, ignition trouble, forty-eighth lap.

No. 59. Campbell, GAD Special, ignition trouble, twenty-fourth Up. No. 61.

Decker, Miller F. D. Special, broken manifold, thirteenth lap. No. 64.

Billman, Kemp-Mannix Special, hung on wall, southeast turn, seventy-ninth lap. i in on as to Several people had testified before Speedway physicians that Wilcox was subject to sudden attacks of an ailment that would render him unfit to drive in a race. He wffs ruled out of the fray, but a last-minute discussion came near letting him in. Mechanics and drivers alike objected to the ruling and said that Wilcox had driven for years without trouble. "Eddie" Rickenbacker, agitated by excitement and worry, stopped the argument with his pro- (Klrkpatrick Photo.) MALCOMB FOX.

to witness the race, but at the last moment had telephoned her at Lafayette and asked her to come to the Speedway. Mrs. Jordan in Grand Stand. Mrs. Jordan was sitting alone in a grand stand seat at the time of the accident.

The brother explained that Jordan raced for the thrills he received and not because of any money or glory that might be won. He had appeared at the local track as riding mechanic in three previous races. He operated a profitable paint shop business in Lafayette. "The boy had only one fear and that was that some other car might get ahead of him," the brother said. He declared that relatives had made many unsuccessful efforts to persuade him to quit the racing game.

IIIM nouncement "I'm sorry, but the race must go on, and go on now." Rare Must Go On! "What if we withdraw our cars?" asked one driver. "Gentlemen, the race will go on if there are only two cars left," said Rickenbacher. At last Mauri Rose took the place of Wilcox in No. 3. Then the mechanic refused to ride with Roie and there was much difficulty In getting a now mechanic.

Jimmy Chap-pell was In first and then gave up his seat to Kermit Msynard. Then the men in charge of the car behind No. 3 protested its entrance with a driver who never had felt Its speed before. W. D.

Edenburn of the contest board at laHt let the oar remain, but placed it in the last row. Car Holds High Positions. Forty-seven laps later the car went out when the timing gears gave way. It had held high positions since the start of the race. "It did me good to get up there," said Rose after his car was in the garage.

"Everybody was to silly about my starting that I was glad that I could get in the money for a while at leaBt." 100,000 There, Estimate. While definite figures on attend ance at the 500-mile automobile race will not be available until the tabu lation is completed today, an estimate roughly arrived at of one hundred thousand was made by Joe Copps, assistant director of publicity, last night. Police assigned to the Speedway grounds placed their estimates lower. Although the race still ranks as one of the premier sporting events i of the world and one of the greatest gate attractions, grandstands that 1 once were booked solid made con cessions yesterday to that bogey, Depression, by showing a good many empty seats. Rabbit Takes to Pits.

A wild rabbit that had become tame from mixing with the Speedway mechanics was observed running up and down the pit paddock early in the race. It probably was the same rabbit that was parent of the litter of young that was found in the paddock last week. The animal yesterday was caught by a guard and later released unharmed. What're Laundries for? White pants didn't mean anything to the people who sat on the bricks of the track for the mass photo be fore the race. Even Rickenbacker, Edenburn and Steve Hatiagan sat on the oily pavement that soon became hot from singing tires.

Fancy Battery Buggy. The fanciest battery buggy In the whole race was owned by the Lou Moore organization. It was a little wagon, stream-lined and with avia- AUTO RACE. belt to right: Thomas These five men, aviators for Uncle Sam in the world war, accounted for forty-eight German planes. Col Rick enbacker, now president of the Indi anapolis Motor Speedway, was a cap tain in those days and holds the Meyer Wins Race; Shatters Record CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE.

Meyer's Tydol, fifth; Wilcox's Gil-more Special being driven by Mauri Rose, sixth; Lester Spangler's Miller Special, seventh Lou Moore's Foreman Axle, eighth; Ira Hall's Denny Dueaenberg, ninth, and Cliff Ber-gere's Studebaker Special, tenth. The time for the fifty miles was 26 minutes 16.35 seconds. At 100 miles, Cummings had lost the lead and was far back in the 'field as a result of a long delay at the pits caused by a broken radiator cap. Being of peculiar design his pit crew had to manufacture one for the hurried occasion. Frame's Special was setting the, pace at the conclusion of the first century at an average of 112.247 miles an hour.

Brisko was second but went out of the race ten laps later and Lou Meyer had pushed up to third position. Rosa had the Gilmore Special in fourth place but he too encountered bad luck with his engine going dead on the back stretch a few laps later. Cantlon's Sullivan-O'Brien had dropped to fifth and Hall's Denny Suesenberg which soon met grief and hit the wall was in sixth place. Ernie Triplett's Floating Power Special was listed among the "Big rr ii i at the 100-mile mark. Moore still occupied eighth place and Ber-gere was ninth.

Deacon Litz in his Bowes Seal Fast Special was tenth. The time was 53 minutes 27.22 seconds. Stapp Takes First Place. Babe Stapp poked the nose of his Boyle Products Special into first place at 150 miles, apparently coming from "nowhere," as it was his first appearance among the first ten. The average was 111.463 miles an hour.

He was less than a quarter of a lap ahead of Louis Meyer. Wilbur Shaw had moved his Mallory Special into third place and Frame had slipped back to fourth. Rose, the substitute driver for Wilcox, was out of the race before this post had been reached. Peter Kreis, who also went out of the race shortly after this In his Frame-Miller Special, occupied fifth position. This was true of Trip-lett also, who was listed as sixth in relative standing to the leader.

Moore was seventh, Spangler eighth, Gardner's Sampson Radio Special ninth and Billman tenth. At 200 miles the average was 109.635 miles an hour with the order of the first ten being Stapp, a lap ahead of Frame, Louie Meyer, Shaw, Gardner, Al Miller, Bergere, Moore, Spangler and Snowberger. It was the first time Miller's Marr Special had gained entrance among the leaders as well as Snowberger and his Russell 8. Louie Meyer Second at SAO. When the halfway mark had been reached at 250 miles, ten cars of the starting field officially were out of the race but the others were scorching the bricks with Stapp still lead ing at an average of 109.429 miles an hour.

Louie Meyer was second, Shaw third, Gardner fourth, A. Miller fifth. Spangler sixth, Evans seventh, Moore eighth, Snowberger ninth and Chet Miller tenth. Evans his Art Rose Special and Chet Miller In his Marr Special were the new "arrivals" among the "big ten." The average speed was stepped up during the next fifty miles to 109.892 miles an hour with Stapp still leading. However, he soon lost it when he ran out of gasoline on the north turn to relinquish his advantage plus several laps to Louie Meyer.

Shaw was third at the 300-mile post, Gardner fourth, Moore fifth, A. Miller sixth, Spangler seventh, Evans eighth, Snowberger ninth and Chet Miller tenth. Moore Makes Sensational Ride. At 350 miles when the yellow flag was hoisted from the starting tower frequent occasions prior to this (meaning slow down and hold your position, accidents on the course) the average was cut to 107.339 miles an hour and Meyer had moved up to first place. Shaw was in hot pursuit runner-up and Stspp in third position.

Moore had sneaked to fourth a great ride and Gardner was at the tail for fifth. Al Miller in sixth and the ill-fated Spangler sa seventh got their last call among the leaders at this post, while Stubblefield in his Abies-Fink Special showed among the leaders "It Might Have Been Us," Driver Comments After Car Hangs on Wall Following Collision That Kills Spangler, Jordan. "It might have been us, but I guess we were lucky." This is the way Malcomb Fox of Westvllle, N. pilot of the Universal Service Special, dismissed the miraculous escape from death he and his mechanic, Bert Cook of Detroit, experienced when his car smashed into the southwest retaining wall at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday. Lester Spangler, driver, and his mechanic, G.

L. Jordan of Lafayette, met death in the same accident. Car In Front The accident involving the cars driven by Fox and Spangler occurred shortly after Mark Billman of Indianapolis had been killed on the opposite turn. Spangler's racer hit a rear wheel of Fox's car. But let Fox give the details: "We were going along the straightaway just before the south turn when a car shot around me on my left and started to skid.

I shot up toward the outer retaining wall. No. 15 (Spangler) was right behind me and- he tried to go between me and the top of the wall. He couldn't make it and hit my rear left wheel. His car literally dove over my car and landed on top of the retaining wall.

I went into another spin and the first thing I knew my car was dangling on the top of the outer wall." Fox expressed deep sorrow for Jordan and Spangler. Jordan spent Monday night at the home of a brother, R. F. Jordan, 750 Campbell avenue. "When he was eating breakfast he trembled all over and told us something was going to happen," the brother said yesterday.

Mrs. R. F. Jordan said the mechanic had forbidden his wife, Mrs. Lucille Jordan, Radio was brought into new play yesterday when two-way communica tion was maintained for 340 miles between a race car traveling more than a hundred miles an hour and the pits at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Chester Gardner, driver of the Sampson Radio Special, which placed fourth, had a short wave transmitter and receiving set in stalled in the racer and was In touch with his pits, where like ap paratus was Installed. Through the use or the two-way communication, pit workers were in formed when the racer would stop at the pits and knew ahead of time tlon "pants" over the wheels. It held the battery that started No. 37 on the track before the race and later when the car came to the pits. Sad Honor for No.

8. No. 8 had the sad honor of being the first car to come to the pits. It needed new spark plugs after the first lap and got them with a few quick turns of a wrench. Worst of Bad Luck.

Of all the people who had bad luck because of minor mechanical ailments, Bill Cummings, pole holder, probably had the worst. He came 'In from the lead on his thirty-third lap with a broken radiator cap and the hole was stuffed with rags. One lap later he came in with the rags 1 blown out. It was stuffed again and the stuffing lasted only one lap. Then he lost four laps while the mechanics worked with tinsnips and cut a new cap from the top of a five-gallon oil can.

Holes were punched In the Im provised cap and it was screwed down. It gave trouble until the car finally was forced out. Frffnk Brisko went In for Cummings at the 112th Isp but soon gave the buggy back to Cummings. Thrives on Trouble. If there Isn't any danger at hand Spider Matlock goes nut and hunts it.

When Ernie Triplett's car went out early, Matlock, his mechanic, went up and down the pits hunting a car that needed a riding mechanic. At last he crawled In Bill Cum-mlngs's car with Brisko, but gave his seat back to Cummings me chanie when the car was forced into the pits a few laps later. Matlock has gone over the wall twlcs with Billy Arnold. Does It Himself. Juan Gaudino of South America, who entered last year's race, couldn't stand it long in the pits this year while the driver of his car was struggling along.

He went in for his pilot at the 117th lap. "Gas" Last Signal. "Lea Gas" was the last signal flashed to Les Spangler before he had his tragic mixup on the southwest turn at the 117th lap. His pit was emptied fast after the accident when his pals went to the turn to learn his condition. Harry Hartz, owner of the car, was the first to rush off in search of information about his driver.

Les had been in at lap No. 54 for a new bolt in his clutch pedal and was off in a moment. 100 Planes Come Here. More than one hundred airplanes were used to bring pilots and passengers to the 600-mil race yesterday. Municipal and Hoosier airport reported thirty-five planes each in for the races and Capitol airport had thirty-two.

Visitors by plane were from virtually all sections of tha country and from parts of Canada. PickPockets Busy. Pickpockets were busy In the Speedway crowds yesterday. Four victims reported to police that they were robbed while waiting in the crowd to board a bus after the race. Douglas Brown of Manhattan Beach, N.

reported that his purse containing $320 and valuable papers was taken. Chester D. Holman of Leavenworth, was robbed of a purse containing $30 and papers; A. W. Reasontr, 2S26 East New York street, was robbed of $75 and two checks, and Hobart Biets of Stew-artivtlls was robbed of $13.

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Also via Yellowstone National park or Canadian Rocklts. At and tp from Chlcaeo, depending on tours leeted and ccommodatlons. Proportionate charges from other points. This chart of the BOO-mile race ahows the relatl re position of the ten leaders at the various fifty-mile posts: 50 100 150 200 2S0 800 850 400 450 5M) No. Driver and Car.

mi. ml. mi. ml. mi.

ml. mi. ml. mi. mi.

2 Kreis, Frame-Miller Special 5 Kose, Gilmore Special 6 4 4 Snowberger, Russell Special x.x 10 9 9 9 9 5 Cummings, Boyle Products Special xxxxxxxxx 6 Bergere, Studebaker Special 10 9 7 8 8 Stubblefield, Abels-Firk Special xxxxx 854ft 9 'A. Studebaker Special 10 9 10 Hall, Denny Duesenberg Special 9 6xxxxxxxx 12 Frame, Miller-Hart Special 2 1 4 2 13 Spangler, Special 7 8 9 6 7 7 16 Triplett, Floating Power Special 7 17 Shaw, Mallory Special 3 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 19 A. Miller, Marr Special 8 5 6 6 6 21 Gardner, Sampson Radio Special 9 4 4 5 7 4 25 Cantlon, Sullivan-O'Brien Special 4 5 2 Lit as, Bowes Seal Fast Special 10 28 C. Miller. Marr Special 10 10 10 8 31 fiulotta, Studebaker Special -x 10 7 7 80 L.

Meyer, Tydol Special 5 3 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 87 Moore, Foreman Axle Special 8 8 7 8 8 5 4 4 3 3 38 Evans, Art Hose Special 7 8 9 8 6 43 Stapp, Boyle Products Special 1 1 1 1 3 46 Johnson, Studebaker Special 10 58 Brisko, F. D. Special 8 2 84 Billman, Kemp-Mannlx Special 10. I May tend plctur folders.