The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 36

iiif. ini Ami is mar nn oeedwa i ST 7 Haofl ,1 i Daylona Claims 2 Of 4 Drivers Killed In Races Four top-flight 500-Mile Race drivers have lost their lives on the nation's race tracks two of them at the Daytona Beach International Speedway since last year's 500-Mile Race here. Unser, Corlner, O'Connor Raise '500' Toll To 50 Death ramp again to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last, year, taking the life, of popular Pat O'Connor, then returned this May to claim two more race drivers. hl f'i iJkm.ujiS)'. i lYiAmn finishing seventh in tha MARSHALL TEAGUE trw ART BISCH i i mmW- -wm ar a i n'-iinni'i nfnV lairt li I 1 iiMiiiitii 1 PAT O'CONNOR troit, killed in prac lice.

1947 William (Shorty) Canllon, race. l91 Ralph Hepburn, driver. Van Nuys, killed practice 1949 George Metler, driver. '0 GEORGE A MICK I' w-i JIMMY REECE and Jamej West, Indianapolis, killed when car driven by Charles Merz went through the fence. Officials halted scheduled 200-mile race.

192 Fert Shnup, Lafayette, injured fatally when car driv- fn hy Tom Alley, Indianap olis driver, rrasnea tnrougn gate. 1931 William Brink, II, Indianapolis, killed by wheel spinning from car driven by Billy Arnold. 1937 George Warford, 42, lndi-. anannlis. and Otto C.

Rhode. mly injure(1 when car driven by Overton Phillips exploded and crashed into pits. 1938 Everet Spence, 33, Terre Haute, killed when thrown from truck by force of wheel spinning from car driven by Emil Andres. Fatally injured on non-Indianaoplis tracks were George Amick and Marshall Teague, both at Daytona; Jimmy Reece at the Trenton (N.J.) Speedway and Art Bisch at the Atlanta (Ga.) 100-Mile Race. Amick, named rookie of the year after the 1958 Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, was killed April 4 at Daytona when his car became airborne and flipped over an estimated 10 times.

He was on the 40th lap of the 100-mile run which was won by Jim Rathmann at an average of 170.261 miles an hour a new world's record. Amick, 34 years old, lived at Rhinelander, Wis. THE SAME TRACK took the life of 37-year-old Marshall Teague. He was killed instantly Feb. 11 during a practice run on the new, high-banked, 2'2-mile course.

His car, too, became airborne and flipped several times. Teague was thrown from the cockpit. He died instantly. A former national stock car champion. Teague lived at Daytona.

He had driven in three Indianapolis races, 7 IVs' A BOB CORTNER Burbank, killed In practice Bill Vukovlch, driver, Fresno, killed in race. 1 957 Keith Andrews, driver, Colorado Springs, killed in practice. SPECTATORS 1909 Homer If. Jnliff, Franklin, 'A 1957 race. Death waited on tha afternoon of Sept.

2S until the last lap of the 100-mil championship race at Trenton before it reached out to grab Jimmy Peece, 28, 5514 West 25th Street, Speedway. HIS CAR SOARED 150 feet and hurdled a hurricane fence. Reece was thrown from the racer-It was Recce's car over which Pat O'Connor climbed during last year's 500-Mile-Race here, killing O'Connor. Reece escaped and finished fifth. Bisch, 32-year-old native of Phoenix, died July 6 of a brain injury received a few days earlier in the Atlanta 100-mile feature.

Bisch, a rookie at the Speedway last year, had been racing since 1948. was eliminated last year in the first-lap pile-up. At Atlanta, Bisch suffered a severe brain injury when his car flipped twice after ramming into a guard rail. For lower cost resultj rely nn STAR and NEWS Quick- r'o WANT ADS MEIrost 8-2411. it li.

ir 1 nu ll Indianapolis, killed In race, 1910 Thorns (Tommy) Klneald driver, Indianapolis, killed while testing stock car for Indianapolis company. mi S. P. Dickson, mechanic, killed in first 500-Mile Race. Harry Martin, driver, Indianapolis, killed in pre-raca practice, I9I Enuli D'Cocq, driver, France, killed in race.

R. Randina, mechanir, California, killed in race. Arthur Thurman, driver, killed in race, M. Molllnard, mechanir, fatally injured in race. 1 92ft Herbert Jones, driver, Indianapolis, killed in practice.

H2ft Bill Spencer, driver, Eos Angeles, killed in rare, 1 9.10 PkuI Marshall, mechanir, Indianapolis, killed in rate. 1931 Joe C'accia, driver, Rryn Mawr, Pa, killed in practice. Clarence firovM, mechanic, Haver ford, killed in practice, 19.12 Milton Jones, driver, Cleveland, killed in practice. Harry Fox, mechanic, Indianapolis, killed in practice. 19.1.1 Mark Rillman, driver, Indianapolis, killed in rare.

I.esier Spangler, driver, Ins Angeles, killed in race. (i. E. Jordan, mechanic, Lafayette, killed in race. William Denver, driver, Audubon, killed in practice.

Hugh (Rob) Hurst, mechanic, Indianapolis, killed in practice, 19.11 Peter (Pfie) Krels. driver, Knoxville, killed in practice. Robert Hahn, mechanir, hico, killed in practice. 191. Johnny Hannon, driver, Nornstown, killed in practice.

H. W. (Stubby) Stubble-field, driver, Eos Angeles, killed in practice. Een W'hltaker, mechanir, Eos Angeles, killed in practice. 19.17 Albert Opalkn, mechanic, (iary, killed in practice.

19.19 Floyd Roberts, driver. Van Nuys, killed in rare. I. axvsnn Harris, mechanic, Injured fatally in tire test. 1910 (ieorge Railey, driver, De- Fatally Injured rl rl practice at the big truck thi month were Jerry I'nser, 2i years old, Lakewond, Cal, and Finn Cnrtner, rookie from Redlandi, Cal.

THE THREE DEATHS In- creased the fatality list, at the Speedway to 50 since the track opened in IfiOfl, The 20 year-old O'Connor from North Vernon, was the first driver to de-In the race since Hilly Volkovich was killed in the lf)V5 race. He died of a fractured skull after being involved in the worst rrackup in the Speedway's history. The wreck occurred on the first lap, involved 15 cars and ehminatcd eight from the race. UNSER DIED in Rohert W. Long Hospital nearly two weeks after he was burned May 2 during practice on the northwest turn.

The car struck the inside retaining wall, rupturing the fuel tank. Rurnirig fuel pot. into the cockpit and the car careened across the track and struck the outside wall. It was the fourth accident In less than a year for Unser. The trail began in the sme accident that took O'Connor's life.

In that pile-lip Unscr's car climbed over another and somersaulted over the wall. He suffered a separated shoulder and bruises. Cortner, a newcomer to the big-car class but a 10-year veteran in midgets, Buffered a skull fracture, fractured jaw and crushed facial bones from the impact of his car smashing almost head on into the outer concrete wall as he headed into the northeast turn nn May He died a few hours later In Methodist Hospital. CORTNER HAD been on the track only three minutes when his car, a new one built by Ted ornis of San Pcrnardinn, was shoved by a strong cross-wind as he headed into the turn. Of the SO fatalities at.

the Speedway, have been drivers, 13 mechanics, six spectators and an ll-yrar-old boy who was hit by a flying tire while sitting in his front lawn. The death list: Speedway fatalities aince 1009 follow: DRIVERS AND MECHANICS 100IV William Bnurque, driver, Springfield, killed race. Harry Holeom, driver, Springfield, killed in rare. Claude Kellum, mechanir, ii, 'tK 7--' Sfw fi PMk ffs AxKXrnfrrvTMint gggnagijgilv rfigs )z-AA JERRY UNSER IndiHnapolis, killed in practice. 195.1 Chel Miller, driver, Olen- dale, Cal.r killed in practice, Clarkston.

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