The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 4

Wv iWnMMJUWifi 4 WRUJB W1 4WHJV 11 IM 1 MJ i SV iK: J' st ji 9 ntrr A er J'ii: A i 'j A i "7 I THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR RIDAY MAY 31 1912 We have tested it for you Polarine Lubricant In All Makes of Cars fpolftrine The Standard Oil for Motors Tit MATCHLESS LIQUID GLOSS for Policing Automobile Bodies Wind Shields Windows Etc AMUSEMENTS LOSS AUTO RACE REE IS HELD PATHETIC DEATH TOLL la Town it became irst Event Without Loss of Life Driver of Mercedes Loses Race Ever Held on the Motor Speedway CHANGES ONLY OUR TIRtS $35000 IS SNATCHED AWAY PILOTS ESCAPE IN WRECKS an BY MYRON GREEN BURMAN'S TIRES EXPLODE miles at i our Girls Win Husbands at Choice Binding was able to to SKIN REMEDY Deaths in Indiana Ju the ci wm lie served as Company ifty seventh In 1 ro 1 tr Mail I ROST ND CARBON PROO ROST AND CARBON PROO the ire driven by from the to spy the called out of an un that not rantuin of diana Infantry and was and de Polarine TheStaridiii Oilor Motors The Saving in Barrels regain his feet The two were picked up soon by an ambulance and taken to the DAWSON'S EAT EQUIPMENT TEST persons might 1JMI HHII Ml'4 ivv 1 I £3J llul (IL LHU Uv binning of his race as he was driving' when the accident occurred riends who saw tne tspeea King' that resulted in the marked: is beginning to A few minutes later tires by the dozen Hughes who scored third would have made a bettor show ing with his little car had not tires handi The' accident in which Burman and Goetz were fortunate to escape with their lives occurred at the northcast curve Burman did not drive so fast at the be CAPT THOMAS RIDGJ'l 7T years old is dead at Marion National Military The Winning Oil Everywhere tention but sat near owler talking calmly with him of the accident while his injuries were being dressed Inring the day attendants at the hos pital expressed the belief constantly that they would have much work to do before the race was ended The corps of at tendants and nurses was kept in constant readiness for accidents but its services seldom were required Official of the Speedway last night were overjoyed at the successful oulmination of the races declaring that all kinds of horse shoes must have been strung about the track while the race was in progress If the blood is poor and filled with tho poisons from diseased kidneys or inactive liver the heart is not only starved but poisoned as well There are many con dition due to impure blood such as dropty fainting spells nervous debility or the nay scrofulous conditions ulcers fever white swellings etc All can be overcome and cured by The narcotics Ingredi CH1CAGO May 30 our young wom en who won an equal number of ble" as prizes at cinch Wednes day night today announced their choices Even before the games were finished the men who had offered themselves as prizes said they Tvould marry who ever won them And after the final cards had been played each of the four said he was well pleased with his lot and would carry out the original agreement Miss Amanda Smith chose1 Joseph Ritchie Miss Rebecca Eevy picked out Dr Ed win Bennington Miss Marie Endicott decided on Otto Tune Miss Gretchen Krctchrner took Daniel The men are members of a lodge which gavo the party Officers and members have promised an elaborate wedding feast to the four couples if they marry SHEEP 30 Doga in on the farm in Bear Creek Those who usually buy oil in small can save a neat sum buy ing by the barrel or half barret i economy for everyone who owns a gasoline car to buy this way DOGS KILL PORTLAND Ind May vaded the flock of sheep tenanted by Everett Lamb Township last night and killed six ewes and two Iambs and maimed others our dogs have since been killed LUBRICATING PERECTLY While making speed rec ords or crossing hot deserts in long gruelling tours The explanation of course was ine start on tho lap catastrophe re THE LEAD nacemaker sent rrziir i Pf tnAb thp bit in his teeth and rambled around ahead fan the air there was the dis reiinrt of irun Two tires on car had exploded simultaneously and his car' having been thrown high into the air tho great driver and his mechanician were thrown head long with the uncontrolled machine The report was circulated quickly that both Burman and his mechanician had been killed outright as witnesses of the acci dent did not see that it was possible for either of the two men to escape death The accident involving Marquette and owler was equally as fortunate in its results as that which wrecked the Cutting car Marquette was driving on the north west curve when a wheel gave way The car instantly turned turtle throwing its Prepared in consistencies to meet individual tarid mechan ical conditions of transmissions dif ferentials universal joints ball and roller bearings timing gears etc tion during the day Morbid crowds watched the hospital through field glasses and many persons who had ac cess to the interior of the track gazed intently at the hospital gates ambulances as they might be to carry in the mangled form fortunate driver Date in the afternoon when known that the Cutting driven by Bur man had been wrecked thousands de parted from the places of vantage they had chosen to view the race and rushed madly across the interior of the course in hopes of seeing the driver and mechan ician as they were borne to the hospital Men women and children fought in a frenzy of excitement pushing shoving cursing and lighting their way deeper into I the crowd which surrounded the small company of hospital attendants assisting the injured men into the ambulance Track policemen on mounts others rush ing to the scene in automobiles and the infantrymen fought back the crowds that only gave way under orders to retreat when bayonets were jabbed dangerously near their legs The crowds ran behind the ambulance and another corps of police had to be summoned to make the comfortable hand ling of the patients possible Scores al most fought to gain entrance at the hos pital gates hindering the physicians in the proper discharge of their duties Tn using Poslam you are using the most modern and most successful rem edy ever devised for the quick eradica tion of all skin troubles It is daily accomplishing astounding cures with al most increaiDie rapidity easy healing process its septic properties make it hospital and household Take an case of eczema acne itch salt rheum piles scalp scale etc how ever stubborn and will stop Itching as soon as applied bringing im mediate relief and comfort If any skin difficulty besets you write to the Emer gency Laboratories 32 West 25th street New York for free sample and test be fore buying for the sales of Busin are was uninjured Showing true affection for the man who was risking his life by All are called POLARINE and are the recognized standard greases for Motor Car and Motor Boat lubrica tion Vp Eajch grade has superior iri erit in durability and cushioning properties Its pleasant Intense anti invaluable in MARGARET BAKER (14 is dead of pneumonia and a complication of other ailments at the home of her nephew James Stoker near Bortland Her hus band Amos Baker died twelve years 'ago One sister Mrs Anna Osgood of Marion survives The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon MRS CATHARINE NORTHERN 78 years old is dead of paralysis at the home of her daughter Airs Lawrence Glen dening near Portland Ind She had been ill for several months ar fifty years she had lived on the farm where she died Two daughters are living and ten children are dead The funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock riday inorn MATINEE EVERY DAY 10c 20c THE HOLDEN STOCK CO Presents Beulah JENA RIVERS ormer Success J1101 1VA leturas rom SpoeOway Races Read rom State TMuraday Nleht Prices 10c 20c 30c Moa Tutt Thun ri The 500 mile International Sweepstakes race at the Indianapolis Motor Speed way yesterday was the first contest of its kind in history and the first race for any distance over the two and one half mile race course that has not cost at least the iTfe of a driver or spectator Death hovered over the track for more than five long hours but it only flirted With the reckless drivers at times send ing their cars in an uncontrolled zig zag course when a machine lost a tire and growing more bold on other occasions it turned the cars drivers and all flip flops In the air with lightning speed Bob Burman and his mechanician Har ry Goetz in a Cutting and Melvin Mar quette and his1 companion at the wheel Ray owler in a Mcarland all expe rienced miraculous escapes from death when their cars were hurled from their course while traveling at the rate of about eighty miles an hour turned completely Over hurling the plucky drivers and mech anicians headlong The four men es caped without broken bones but although bruised painfully were able to walk about the grounds watching their rivals play4y with the fates of the tracu most serious accident of the day occurred in the grand stand where Honacker Tampa la slipped and fell Buffering a fracture Many of the Injuries treated at the emergency hos pital were called insignificant by the surgeons and were the results for the most part of carelessness MORBID CROWDS WATCH HOSPITAL Next to the track itself the emergency was tne spot on the Speedway grounds that attracted the most atten showing the way how she must have felt when she that Ralph was minutes at the 475th mile and (hen think a shock for her a few minutes capped him toward the finish and had the Tetzlaff Bragg combination had as little tire' trouble as DePalma (who changed only four tires) the score would have read differently The winning car had more than Its share of tire difficulty and Daw son and Herr his alternate were wise in holding it down at times to save their tubes At other times this car gave Bragg and DePalma some pretty fighting forcing the mile track wiaard to tempt fate It was surprising how in the early part of the race tires blew to shreds and would flap around on the rims in long ribbons It was unprecedented Last year at the flve century numerous casings were blown out but they did not tear to thrAArts that a much hnttAT naeft WAS set most spectacular tire throwing was that of Jenkins He flung off two front tires at once toward the tlnale and then find ing it impossible to replace but one he finished in seventh place on a bare rim driving a dozen laps HePalma made tire changes in half a minute and some re placements especially those of entire wire wheels on other cars were remark ably rapid Burman had the luckiest sort of an escape when he turned over pulling out with only a few scratches while Goetz his mechanician had his arm slightly in jured Marquette and owler were like wise in right with the goddess of fortune not to be bunged up more wdien their car tore oft two wheels In colliding with the concrete wall and a telegraph pole TRACK WIZARDS HARD Next to the dramatic finish the most exciting part of the race was the section between the twenty sixth and Hath laps when DePalma ami Tetzlaff were having a battle roval or a couple of laps the Pacific coast pilot did pass DePalma but the latter never let him get far away Then there was Dawson looming up with this pair to make things Interesting Perhaps few of the spectators knew that charming beautiful Mrs DePalma was In Now Pork during the race at the other end 'of a special wire livery twenty five miles she kept hearing how her husband was showing the way ancy heard ahead what 1 zc Viewed from all its angles the race was a wonderful sensational contest better racing than last Memorial day Cars Speeding Eighty Miles Hour Turn Turtle but Men Are Uninjured Standard Oil Company Corporation LAST TEN of the contest were killing ones for some of the cars They brought to bear to obtain and maintain the very utmost of quality in this cream of motor oils the wall Marquette was not bruierl although the mechanic Vnwlpr in lured his arm in iumninff Teddy Tetzlaff champion road race driver by virtue of his recent Santa Monica victory relinquished the wheel of the iat in Its eighty fifth lap Caleb Bragg took the wheel and kept the car in third position until Tetzlaff again took his seat behind the steering post for the last 100 miles of the drive Whalen at the wheel of Case No 6 went out of the race in his fiftv fifth lao with broken earn shaft bearings Whalen then re lleved Dlsbrow in Case No 5 Gil An derson driving Stutz No 1 was the next man to drop out of the conflict An ear blew a rear tire on the north turn and turned over twice anician Agan thrown free of stant death by We begin to perfect it at the point where other oils are deemed finished All our facilities our vast resources and our forty years of experience are in prizes and bonuses under his very nose He moment when practically conceded the race to tho plucky Italian American who accompan ied by an Australian mechanic set such a terrific pace with his German mount Only nve miles to trol $7000 a mile: That was the sort of taxicab fare Ralph missed Nevertheless with a smile on hlu face amid the cheers of some SO 000 spectators he pushed his car with its broken piston around nearly a whole Lip in an effort to cover the dis I taneo ami then fagged out and disap pointed hut not sulky he leaned up against tho car exhausted He asked for a sandwich and some lemonade Of course that is merely one of the fortunes of speed war and Dawson the clever Indianapolis boy winner deserves his enormous prize for being sufficiently clever to tag on to DePalma after a heavy race and then play his hand fur all it's worth at the finish CROWD IS OR DAWSON However I never saw at any sporting event in my life where so many spectators and contestants in the race were as sin cerely sorry for a good loser As it was it gave the contest a dramatic climax that would have been lacking otherwise When two laps before hr retired the thousands noticed that DePalma was running on only one or two cylinders that crowd was on Its feet instantly Never was excite ment at a Speedway event like this Daw son piloting the National an Indianapolis product had a large following and they rooted for him too! Aside from the climax of the great race what was more noteworthy than all else was that in spite of the fact that DePalma paced the race at an eighty one mile an liour clip and Dawson aver aged nearly seventy nine miles there was not a single fatality and none of the contestants seriously injured This Is a splendid vindication for the sport and showed that when proper precau tions are taken speedway racing can be made safe Not a single spectator was Injured In any way Incidentally if some of those persons who try to say that the racing game is dying out could have seen the throng of 85000 present v'juu more paid admissions tnnn year admission price about double ol last year those roast so loudly CARS GO IN Dr Golden Medical Discovery Thi tappliei pure blood by aiding difactioa iacreaaint assimilation and im partial tone to the whole circulatory system Its a heart tonic and a great dealora haviaM an alterative action on the liver and kidneys it helps to eliminate the poisons from the Mood To aorich the blood and increase the red blood corpuscles thereby feeding the nerves on rich red blood and doinf away with nervous irritability take Dr Piaree's Golden Medical Discoven and do not permit a dishonest dealer to msalt your intelligence with the just as good kind has 4i yirs turn behind it and contains no alcohol or ents plainly printed on wrapper Dr Pierre's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent BY WALDO EDENBURN Driving steadily and with the grim de termination that has made him famous among the gasoline heroes of the world Joe Dawson hurtled his big blue Na tional across the finish line of the Motor Speedway with an unusual record be hlnd his victory Dawson's 6:21:06 was almost every min ute running time for he made but six stops at the pits changing four tires two of them before tlie 250 mile mark and two in the last half Dawson made his first tire change at the 180 inile mark The leader did not nor did any of the competitors develop magneto trouble in this race This is the first race of this length where ignition trouble did not cut a figure DePalma the famous Italian American took the lead at twenty miles and was never headed until after he had completed his 198th lap At this point the famous driver had engine trouble that put him out of the running with victory almost within his grasp Dawson was about four laps behind when this developed and at the speed DePalma was driving the race seemed his Previous to the engine trouble that made Ralph DePalma the possessor of the original luck he had changed only three tires and stopped once This was oniy fret on receipt of amps to pay expense of wrapping ano mailim onlv 'Send 31 one rent stampa ter tea reaait clate kMad book Addaeaa Dr HV ierce Buffalo shed tears as lie realized that his chances for winning were blasted This is the second race in which Brown has started in his career in which he has not finished in the money Brown lost ten minutes when he stopped on the twenty fourth lap and had been worrying the leaders from the time the battle began arr was the first relief driver to take the wheel relieving Billy Liesaw in No 17 Buick on the completion of the forty ninth lap Neil Whalen took the wheel of Case No 6 on Eddie Hearne's completion of the forty fifth lap Harry Endicott relieved "armer Endi cott at the wheel of Schacht No 18 in the fifty ninth lap and Anderson re lieved the Schacht mechanic New house As DePalma flashed across the finish line on his isotn mue stone Eddie Rlckenbacher' withdrew race having engine trouoie On his next lap DePalma before he crossed the mark for 1825 miles changed a tire Dawson in National No 8 also stopped for a new shoe DePalma was away in twenty five seconds also taking on oil and gasoline mcfarlan car wrecked Mel Marquette's Mcarlan was out of the race in the sixty third lap Both the right front and right rear wheels on Marquette's car collapsed This threw the car on top of the wall Dike Ray Har roun in the Wasp Marquette held on to the steering wheel like grim death and rode for 100 feet on the wall breaking down a telegraph pole and then the car jumped back on the northwest turn and lay there throughout the race close to even Ray After Victory Had Been Conceded Him Decrease in Mechanical Trouble Marks Second Annual Inter national Event BY RED WAGNER a In my career as a starter of autorr dbile races I have seen some wild finishes heart breaking incidents but never such a combination of exciting finish pathetic breakdown as that which elded tho winner of the 500 mile sweep stakes on the Speedway here today in these columns is told the story of how DePalma in Charles Mercedes after holding the lead from the second lap until the very tail end of the race with only a couple of laps to go broke down and had more than $35000 snatched from lost out at a Driver Makes Unusual Record in 500 Mile Race at Motor Speedway get speed out of his car as the clutch was slipping Bert Dingley famous for his Pacific coast victories went out on his 117th lap with a broken connecting rod thrust through the crank case of the Simplex No 12 This was initial race on the Gocal track He had been in fourth position for a number of laps crowding iat No 3 Joe Lozier was out in the 110th lap A broken crank shaft was re ported as the causte by the pit attend ants At this point twelve cars or half the field had gone out of the race leav ing every car then running a chance to get in the money BOB BURMAN IS DITCHED Bob Burman one of the cleanest sportsmen that ever grasped taped wheel of a speed monster in any race suffered one of the most painful spills in his 158th lap Cutting No 15 blew both rear shoes at once and the car turned completely over near the aerodrome on the back stretch Burman stood third He was thrown beside his car while Harry Goetz his mechanic was thrown free of the wrecked racer Knippor erstwhile team mate of Burman in mlle track events and teammate in the first five century event reported the accident at the stands The remaining cars with the exception of DePalma and Knox completed the 200 laps required DePalma went out in the 198th lap with engine trouble and the Knox had more than twenty laps yet to run when Starter Wagner gave De Palma the flag Mulford later continued the grind and qualified for tenth position The race this year was not nearly so much a battle of tires as before The track was in superb shape and the pilots had labored hours to balance their cars and lighten the wear on tires At 250 miles the leaders had changed the following tires: DePalma (Mercedes) 2 Dawson (National) 2 Bragg (iat) 4 Dingley (Simplex) 2 At 400 miles or 160 tnen in the race hud as follows: DePalma Dawson (National) 4 ONE for all motor cars for every the warmest or coldest In EVERY instance WHERE OTHER OILS you will find isaists sell Poslam (50 cents) ami POSLAM SOAP thft bpmii ifvlntr skin actin this stalwart young Gotham millianalra the race was called off but was unable to' 25 cents) laps the ears changed shoes (Mercedes) 3: Tetzlaff (iat) 6 Endicott (Schacht) 3 Jenkins (White) 11 Zengel (Stutz) 4 Merz (Stuz) 2: Wilcox (National) 6 Hughes (Mercer) 5 Mulford (Knox) 4 Horan (Lozier) 3 Burman (Cutting) 4 When the race was finished the ten cars running had changed tires as follows: Dawson (National) 4 Wilcox (National) 6 Tetzlaff (lat) 8: Zengel (Stutz) 4 Merz (Stutz) 2 II Endicott (Schacht) 3 Hughes (Mercer) 7 Mulford (Knox) 4 Horan (Lozier) 3 Jenkins (White) 12 POSLAM IS THE PERECT It is used in dll makes today It is sold everywhere by all reputable dealers in handy tool box cans with tin seal intact under the screw cap This seal shows that the can was filled at the plant and that the oil is genuine Polarine Thus user and dealer are both protected Write for frea booklet in Zero or Tropical We? MP The mech and Anderson were the car and escaped in sheerest luck DISBROW OUT RUNNING A moment later In the sixty seventh lap the second Case car was out of the running Whalen was driving mount No 6 He blew his right rear tiro and spun around the soft infield twice at almost the same point that marked spill His batteries were dead and he sent for new batteries On attempting to get the car back on tho track they found that a pin in the differential had been sheared off while the car was spinning in the soft earth i arr at the wheel of the Buick went I out In his seventy second lap with a broken crank case which was damaged by a broken connecting rod The car was left on the back stretch Spencer Wishart the New York millionaire who had been pushing his big gray Mercedes along with the leading quintet went out of the battle in his eighty second Inp The Mercedes had a broken water line connection at the radiator joint This was the second start for this carrin a 500 mile event the only veteran of the first race to face Starter Wagner agnin Joe Dawson running second relin quished the wheel of National No 8 in his 108th lap Don Herr took up the battle and held the position for the Na tional Immediately afterward the Buick that went out In the seventy second lap was' reported afire on back stretch Bob Burman jjade his fourth and last tire change cm the com pletion of his 126th lap while in third position holding the wheel of his Cutting mount Knipper relieved Charley Merz at the wheel of Stutz No 28 on completion of his 115th hip Ralph Mulford halted at the pits The crowd groaned for the Knox pilot had been reeling off some fast miles Mul ford had clutch trouble and attempted to repair it After half slop he changed only three tires i adjust ms caruuietui minor adjustment TETZLA TAKES When Carl isher as the i of the smoke trailed field in 1:4393 or an average speed of approximately seventy miles an hour The first car to halt at the pits was the Opel which wlthdrew from the race In the seventh lap with a broken connecting rod and a broken gas oline line Tho German car was driven by Len Ormsby The pair of Case cars stopped in then eighth and ninth laps for minor adjust ments and were soon away Howdy Wil cox drew his National up to the pits in his tenth lap and replaced a stuck valve Spencer Wishart in the Mercedes was the next to thrill the crowds with a quick tire change drawing up to the pits in his fourteenth lap and getting away almost before the crowd knew he had halted Harry Knight had trouble with his Lex ington car and after vainly attempting to keep it in the race was forced to with draw in his sixth lap The crowd had picked Hughes for one of the winners and he was roundly cheered when he made a tire change or rather replaced a de mountable wire wheel in thirty four sec onds on bls twenty eighth lap Bruce Brown driving a big National made twenty four circuits of the course before he halted at the pits Brown had valve trouble He made an effort to get his car back in the race and started on Ills twenty fifth lap only to halt at the pits bruce Brown withdraws Brown then withdrew having a stuck valve that could not be extricated With grown out of tho running the men be 1 hind the pits saw something unusual for was away again and kept running until I A 1 I 4 1 vl orMimr Pl 1 Wil 1111 AT1O Ira 1 vrnr o1L A 1 grade Semi luid Oil grade Semi luid Greaae grade Semi Solid Greaaa Also include Cup Grease and ibre Grease of high melting point Plucky Pilot Smiles as He Pushes Car Across Asks for Sandwich I I Ai 1 a 2 i vv Ibr 1 I In I I 1" IW I II "1 JhiWrffBlh Jar VAVM 1 1 1 I 1 II I 1' i AI' 'Al S' xX'HBIfl Nil i hi 'r Afi cm lw ftth1 nr I ir i a U' I i JVt 'fP rrtr J' 1 11 I 1 Aj iV mil.