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To learn more, contact us or call to talk to a representative. Can only be used for the specific purposes listed. All limited use licenses come in the largest size available. Return to royalty-free licenses. Sunday, December 26, Read More about No. Recap Results. View Full Schedule. Last Name. Email Address. Latest News. View All. Indy Instagram Twitter. His car blew a tire on lap 6, overturned, and threw Billy out. Winn suffered a fratured skull, broken ribs, internal injuries, and never regained consciousness.
Winn's mother and step father, Mr. Withrow, arrived the next day and took Winn's body back to Detroit. Winn had begun his racing career c. The and mile AAA Championship level races began an annual tradition of staging a mile event at Springfield each year, but the "big-car" mile Springfield events held annually for the years to were not of Championship ranking, although all had an AAA sanction of some sort.
These non-Championship Springfield milers of to all allowed the use of single seat racing cars. August 21, Rose, Mauri; Miller, , During the qualifications for the Springfield , Frank Lockhart's old mark of First George C. The promotor for the Springfield was William Menghini. There was no Springfield in either or So race represented a post World War II revival of the miler events here.
Miller", Dinsmore had finished 10th in it at Indianapolis and his best placement elsewhere in was 4th at Goshen August There were 18 starters with the fastest qualification times being: 1. Emil Andres Mel Hansen Walt Brown Ted Horn Tony Bettenhausen The race was dominated by Tony Bettenhausen who led all laps in the Belanger No. Andres stayed in 2nd until encountering car problems and was then passed by Bill Holland on the 44th circuit. Andres pitted on lap 48 for oil and dropped down to 5th place.
Holland had started 6th and moved up to 2nd, but was retired after 65 laps with a broken rear axle. Horn drove a steady race to take 2nd. The five top placements were: 1. Jackie Holmes Dreyer ; and 5. Bettenhausen's winning time was The attendance was put at 12, Horn collected points for his 2nd place finish, while Holland got 40 for his 9th place overall, although Bill was not actually running at the finish.
The AAA Championship points now were: 1. Ted Horn , 2. Bill Holland , 3. Mauri Rose , 4. Charles Van Acker , 5. Walt Brown , 7. Rex Mays George Connor , and 9. Jimmy Jackson Here Wilbur Shaw revealed that the Speedway had received two separate inquiries as to the legality of two strange and possible "" entries. Shaw said that David R. Osborne and and Paul B. Kuehl from South Bend, IN had asked if a steam powered car was eligible. Supposely their plans for such a car were in an advanced state and they stated that the car had adequate safety features to keep water off the track.
And further Edward J. Shermeister, Jr. Shermeister had sent Shaw a small model of his design which featured a hydraulic fin in back to prevent skidding, by creating wind resistance!. Goshen was the second of two, Championship races, promoted by Jimmy Frattone.
Jimmy had also promoted the mile Championship event staged here on October 6. The Goshen race was christened the "George Robson Memorial".
Some of the pre-race publicity hinted that Mauri Rose would be an entrant, but Mauri failed to put in an appearance. The time trials were held on August 7, and the fastest times were Andres at The previous one lap mark had been For the first time both of Murrell Belanger's cars, i. Rex Mays' Bowes No. Holland 13th , Connor 14th , and Jackie Holmes 15th.
Holland's Peters No. Andres, off the pole, led laps and then retired on lap 9 with engine failure. Bettenhausen took over after that and led circuits Although Bettenhausen was threatened by Ted Horn at times, Tony won the race with a half lap lead at the finish.
The two Belanger entries had led all laps. Holland retired after 16 laps when riding in the 5th position with transmission failure, to place 14th, just ahead of Andres who placed dead last. Tony had beaten his own past time of The attendance was placed at c. The AAA Championship point ranking were now: 1. Holland , 2. Horn , 3. Rose , 4. Van Acker , 5. Mays Brown Over the course of these last three races, i. Horn was moving in on Holland and getting closer! With just four Championship events left for the season, the battle for the AAA Championship title was now seemingly just between the Championship division rookie Bill Holland and the old time veteran Ted Horn.
Bob was the son of the Indianapolis winner Fred Frame The AAA Contest Board had announced in June that a mile Championship race would be run on September 7 in Utah, on the famous salt flats, using a special 5 mile circular layout. This unique contest was being run in conjunction with the centennial of the Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City, made by Brigham Young in However the AAA finally concluded that the project was not at all practical and the race was cancelled on July 26, The stated and ostensible aim was a "good will" tour to encourage foreign entries for the upcoming Indianapolis Their idea was to buy on the cheap a few of these cars, import them to the U.
However Shaw and Henning did not find any bargain or inexpensively priced cars, and returned to the U. Posted 14 December - Posted 15 December - Posted 16 December - Actually, the Goshen miler took place on Sunday, August 17, as part of a sort of double header with the Orange County Fair races at nearby Middletown on Saturday Aug Ted Horn, Bill Holland, Walt Brown and Walt Ader were entered in both events, but Ader decided to give the sprint event a miss, and eventually dropped out of the Champ Car event as well when his car went sour during practice.
The other three had to practice and qualify early at Middletown on Saturday, then rush about ten miles east to the tri-angular horse track at the County Seat in Goshen to complete another time trial, then again west to the County Fairgrounds to take part in the heat races and main event there.
Apart from Holland failing to qualify his Champ Car due to engine trouble, the trio did remarkably well: Horn broke the Middletown track record, Brown matched the time a few minutes later and Holland took third, while at Goshen the former two took 2nd and 5th, respectively. Horn was less speedy on the highway, though, and arrived late for his heat race, so that it was postponed until after Brown had won his in record time from Hank Rogers, and Holland finished second to Tommy Mattson in the other.
Amongst the non-qualifiers, Frankie Bailey and Lee Wallard were the most prominent names. One of the slowest qualifiers in a field of 18 cars, a Midget driver from New Jersey, had managed to garner a spot in the ten-car final, without drawing much attention to himself, but he would be heard of in the future: Art Cross. The latter took the lead from the start, only to lose it on lap 3 to Mays, who retired almost immediately with an overheated engine, then Horn passed Bettenhausen on the next lap, but the "Tinley Park Express" managed to get back into the lead on the last lap.
Holland was an unimpressive third. Mays had to scratch from the main event due to his problems in the match race, but George Connor got a second chance after breaking an axle in the time trials.
All in all, the Goshen race was a bitter disappointment: the "crowd" 16, was even poorer than the year before, and not much better than that at Middletown on Saturday 12, , when much less had been at stake.
The organisers of the Orange County Fair were much happier. Posted 21 December - Posted 22 December - On April 10, , with the Miller Marine 4 bored out to cubic inches, and running over the Muroc Dry Lake, Shorty Cantlon established a world speed record for four cylinder engines over the one mile distance, of Thus Bob Burman's old mark of Blitzen Benz, was finally set aside.
Emil Andres' biggest victory had been a win in the Springfield Oct. Walter C. Its chassis was probably that of a old Miller. There had been a special preliminary 5 lap match race between Mauri Rose and Bill Holland, which Bill won by nine car lengths. Probably Rose didn't take it all too seriously, but it was just easy cash in hand for Mauri.
Rose made no attempt to run in the miler itself. Bill Holland , 2. Ted Horn , 3. Brown , and 6. Jackson The next contest was at Milwaukee on July Posted 24 December - Harris Insinger was flagged off in seventh place, with or without engine change, and he didn't even carry the red lantern!
That "honour" fell to Hal Provan, who was destined to lose his life at Ascot half a year later. Michael, outstanding as usual. Great account of the strike, race and aftermath. I want to mention H. I truly feel sorry for him. I can't speak for his talent, but he came across as a no hoper When he died soon thereafter in the crash at Legion Ascot, described as well behind the field, I think the Times felt guilty over their earlier remark and reported that he was popular and well liked which very easily could have been true.
One wonders how some drivers of the era managed to field a car, and nowhere is that more glaring than with Provin. He was a house painter with a teenage bride, living with relatives. His father was apparently an itinerant handyman.
Obviously, H. Provin desperately wanted to be a race driver and probably sank every penny into a weak car in hopes he might get noticed. Their purpose was to discuss mutual problems such as track conditions, schedule conflicts, rule recommendations, and other matters of concern. Heretofore, prize money had not been one of their problems. I first learned of it from Mr. Sparks himself. My information about Cantlon's "Miller Hi-Speed Special" is taken from the Los Angeles newspapers, which may be incorrect, but photo captions also are often mistaken.
It was Emil Andres himself who informed me that the chassis used for his Springfield win, was the ex Indianapolis winner. I remember him stating this more than once, however memories can be often very much in error also. As I have said before, much of the AAA racing history, , is a complete mess. Jim, first of all, are you sure the name's Provin, not Provan? I'm asking because I've seen both versions, but the latter far more often, including on entry lists, in point standings and programmes - that's no proof, I know, but do you have seen official documents that prove otherwise?
Posted 25 December - Maybe the LA Times reporter didn't like Hal, or maybe he had a crush on that teenage wife of his - who knows? Jim, Actually that same scenario is repeated yearly at tracks across the nation as many "no hopers" chase the dream. If fact while many never become famous it is often those very guys that end up the last survivors to regale later generations with stoires of how they competed against some of the more famous drivers in their driving careers when they raced.
They just dont get killed as often nowadays. And sadly in Mr Provin's case it ended up giving him a measure of immortality over those other "no hopers" that didnt die on the track back then.
Posted 07 January - Bill Holland in , lost out at the very end in the AAA Championship Title chase, just as he had lost winning the Indianapolis , in its final laps. Bill placed 2nd in both cases, instead of 1st, after he had looked unbeatable. It must have been a bitter experience for him in both instances.
Holland however, was a newcomer and a rookie to the AAA National Championship circuit in , and he was the first entirely new post World War II Championship division driver to make a real impact and newspaper headlines. Even with his two 1st placement loses, it had been a wonderful year for this neophyte. Posted 23 October - All rights reserved.
Community Forum Software by IP. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Please log in to reply. I have tried to get a clear picture of this period of three seasons. I think the time has come to post what I have gathered together for and about I had originally thought I would try to cover the five year span of to , but most certainly to Anyway here's what I've gathered for It's a sequel to my and Mr.
McMaken's Championship online writeups. Printz Edited by john glenn printz, 18 November - Printz and Ken M. First off, the Championship division proper and the AAA "big car" or sprint races were not combined into just one overall point reckoning, as had been done in Secondly, the AAA Championship schedule was the largest, in the number of events actually staged, since The had eleven point counting contests.
After that the post war AAA seasons all hovered about a dozen races a year. And thirdly, for the first time ever, a hill climb was added, i. Pikes Peak would however give the same amount of Championship points as a mile oval track contest. The season's eleven AAA Championship winners were: 1. NTR 3. There were very few new cars. Industrial suppies and materials in the U.
Mike J. Lew Welch had constructed a second V8 Novi machine, an exact twin of the Ralph Hepburn car, which had proved such a sensation at Indianapolis in Hepburn and Sam Hanks were, at first, to be their pilots.
They were put together by Emil Deidt Ted was having constructed a Championship dirt car and had entered it with Tommy Hinnershits as the chauffeur. Joel was trying to sell the car, with the added catch that he himself, be retained as its driver, but Thorne had no takers. Car owner Thomas Stewart "Tommy" Lee d. It was probably the most advanced racing car constructed anywhere before World War II In the popular press Lee's Mercedes-Benz was suppose to be Adolf Hitler's special made "getaway car", althrough it was never quite clear as to just where Hitler was to get to.
Mel L. Ord was assigned to be the mechanic on Lee's W, but its complicated and complex techicalities, and the lack of any spare parts hampered this new enterprise. Charles E. Bowes had Frank Kurtis built a new lightweight chassis around the cubic inch suoercharged straight 8, which formerly had a Myron Stevens chassis.
This had been Rex Mays' Championship mount used during the , , seasons. Driver Jimmy Jackson was back with his 2nd place car. There was only one foreign entrant, Henry L. Brooke of England, with a supercharged 91 cubic inch ERA. However there was big, big trouble on the horizon for the upcoming Memorial Day Thiller, which had in fact been brewing for a long, long time. It was true that in the Speedway paid out prize money for only the top ten places, the rest got nothing. This was changed in , when every starter got at least some kind of a payout.
There had been considerable grumbling in about the prize money problem, but in the hurried euphoria of getting the first post-World War II "" up and running, the problem had been shoved under the rug. There had even occurred a meeting about the matter on May 18, , at the Reilly Hotel, located in Indianapolis. Edited by john glenn printz, 21 December - Posted 08 October - I get the feeling that the older equipment and years of no racing had wiped the slate clean to such an extent that anyone who could get up and racing at championship level could do so, therefore lowering the quality of the fields.
Andy Granatelli's experience seems to have been largely in hippodromes but he got to practice at Indy. I remember a Hungness yearbook mentioning that Mike Salay had a grotty-looking car at Indy, yet he qualified for the in There were a few others that seemed to make anomalous appearances at Indy Pete Romcevich, Cy Marshall. The real talents not able - yet - to get there?
Or is that just retrospective rationalization for greater opportunity? Posted 09 October - Based upon what I found in the various AAA Contest Board bulletins, I was under the impression that the Contest Board did indeed adopt the new CSI international formula Formula A or I , but with Wilbur Shaw and others asking that the implementation of the lower displacement for supercharged engines be delayed due to a shortage of such engines in the US.
After several years of deferring the implementation of the 1. Wilbur Shaw seemed to be adamant about this issue and successfully fought the complete adoption of the new international formula by the Contest Board.
The use of supercharged engines on the National Champion Trail was relatively rare and generally restricted to the IMS event. The Don Lee W adventure was, basically, a good idea that was not so well executed.
Mechanic, constructor, and owner Joe Lencki, who was very festy, fiery, and argumentative, was one of the main and most volatile spolesman for the ASPAR organization. The Speedway deadline for all entries was April 15, By April 10, Shaw stated that unless official entries were submitted and recieved by the deadline quote , "If we don't have their entries they'll just be out of the race.
We already have nine official entries and I have some more in my pocket. Even without them we'll have at least 24 cars in the race. And it was run for many years with no than that. It was certainly enough vehicles to stage a "", even if the actual starting field might be a bit below the now traditional thirty-three. The two pilots now listed for the Novis were Cliff Bergere on the ex Hepburn car and Merril "Doc" Williams on the new machine.
Charles Bowes however did not file an entry for Rex Mays or his new Kurtis lightweight superchared cubic inch straight 8. The latter application had been sent in by Vincent "Jimmy" Frattone of Phildelphia. The Indianapolis time trials opened on May 17, and here the situation got a little sticky. Only four cars qualified on the first day and Ted Horn in the old Maserati took the pole with a Both Novi cars qualified on the first day, i. Welch was disappointed at Williams' performance with the horsepower car and Doc himself admitted he was somewhat uncomfortable in it.
Welch thereby replaced Williams with Herb Ardinger Herb had driven for Welch at the Speedway in and and had actual experience here with front drive jobs in both and The next day saw just three more vehicles move into the official race lineup.
Bill Holland was added to the field on May The problem was now, for the Speedway at least, was not the number of cars entered, but rather that there were no more drivers at hand willing to buck the ASPAR boycott. On the morning of May 23 there were but seven cars duly qualified and in the race day lineup, with the actual race date just eight days away. The first movement, now by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway itself, was the waiving of the April 15 entry deadline, on May This was easily obtained and proved to be no great obstacle, but ASPAR balked when they learned they were not eligible for and Speedway qualifing prize money.
This was rectified on May 22 by Tony Hulman's offer to duplicate the qualifying prizes, supposedly out of his own pocket. ASPAR merely returned to where it would originally had been, had there been no strike.
ASPAR had gained absolutely nothing. Edited by john glenn printz, 06 June - It rained most of the day. Further qualifications on May 25, 26, and 27 brought the number of starters up to 17, but the biggest day for trials was May 28, when eleven more cars moved into the lineup.
Duke Nalon to to be the quickest at Emil Andres and Mel Hansen qualified on May 29 to bring the field up to 30 starters, which is where it remained. The two fastest qualifiers were Bill Holland Neither of them was even close to Ralph Hepburn's four lap record of There were seven new rookies, i. Cliff Bergere, in the Novi, led the first 23 laps before pitting for fuel and tires.
The two Lou Moore front drives of Holland and Rose led the rest of the way. The rookie Holland led and , while the wily veteran Rose accounted for the rest, i. Holland spun in turn one and the long time veteran, Shorty Cantlon, then on his 41st lap took evasive action to avoid hitting Bill and crashed into the outside concrete wall.
Canton was killed but the two vehicles of Holland and Cantlon never touched each other. Some observers said that Holland had hit an orange colored car in the rear, which resulted in Bill's spinning into the infield grass. Investigation made it apparent that only Duke Dinsmore's vehicle could have been involved here and Dinsmore never denied that he may have been bumped.
Cantlon's wrecked car was not removed from the track, but remained parked, up against the outside wall for the remainder of the race. Bill continued on, but his "Blue Crown Special" now had a dent in its nose on the left side, which is clearly visible in the later photographs. Bergere went out after 62 circuits with piston failure and then relieved Herb Ardinger on the second Novi for laps At miles the running order was 1.
Holland, 2. Mays, 3. Rose, 4. Jackson, 6. Horn, 7. Nalon, 8. Walt Brown, 9. Cy Marshall, and Ken Fowler. The "" was marked by a very controversial ending, when Rose passed Holland for the lead on lap Late in the race Lou Moore gave the "Easy" sign to both Holland and Rose, as neither car was being threatened by the third placed machine. Holland immediately obeyed the order and slowed down, but Rose speeded up and passed Holland.
Apparently Bill thought Rose was only unlapping himself and even waved him by! Rose made but one pit stop, while Holland had made two. Before the qualifications the race itself, everyone thought the two Novis would run away and hide from the rest of the field. All this was, of course, based on Ralph Hepburn's performance in But it didn't happened as Ardinger and Bergere could only place 4th.
Lou Moore did not enter any cars in the "", having sold his entire three car stable, i. For the "" Moore had two new front wheel drive vehicles constructed for him by Emil Deidt. Both of the cars were nearly identical and were obviously inspired by the long low slung front drive Novi of the the previous year. However Moore's two cars were less complex, lighter in weight, less tiring on the drivers, and proved much more mechanically reliable than the Novi.
Lou's cars were unsupercharged and used the standard Meyer-Drake Offenhauser "" 4 motor, with high tested octane aviation gasoline as fuel. The original drivers assigned to the two new Deidt front drives were Mauri Rose and Tony Bettenhausen.
Rose was the seasoned veteran here, who had been in the AAA Championship ranks beginning in , and had already won the Indianapolis for Moore in Rose had also won the prestigious Syracuse twice and while running in Moore owned equipment. Tony Bettenhausen was selected as the second pilot because he was a bright new talent and had had experience with a front drive vehicle at Indianapolis, having run an very ancient and frail front drive Miller for laps in the "".
Rose qualified on the first day of the time trials May 17 at The businesslike and no nonsense Moore therfore replaced Tony at once with talented rookie Bill Holland, who had never driven at Indianapolis before or in even in an AAA National Championship event. Holland made the lineup on May 24 and posted the fastest four lap time of with a Holland qualified in the midst of the ASPAR strike and at the end of the day the Speedway only had a total of eight qualified cars.
But Lou Moore, with both of his entries already in the field, could now direct his entire attention to the race preparations and strategy with some leisure not given to most of the others.
Edited by john glenn printz, 13 June - Do you want to hear about it? I was "all ears" as they say and Rose went on talking at length quote : "The two front drive cars were housed in the garage and in Moore's presence Holland and I, each selected the car we would drive. They were both good cars but not perfect. They would shimmy terribly in the turns, but it was just something one had to get use to. Seemingly both cars were identical but as it turned out Holland's car proved to be two or three miles per hour faster than mine.
There was nothing I could do about it, such things happen. Moore was over anxious about Holland, he being a rookie and all, and Lou kept hammering him with specific instructions. Moore repeatedly told Bill, over and over again. Moore emphasized to Holland that as soon as the warning breaker strip came off it was a warning devise to alert the pilots that their tires were getting thin , to not stay out, but to pit immediately. Holland was somewhat cocky and showed up late at the driver's meeting where it had been explained that if a driver wished to know his exact position, the number of laps run, and his laps on the rest of the field, where he could look to find out.
The postings, it was explained could be wrong, but were better than nothing, but Holland missed the whole discussion.
I couldn't race with Bill, not having an equal machine, in speed, to his. I thought that by driving deliberately slow I might be able to save the tires and lower my fuel consumption, and just maybe, I could run the entire miles using only one pit stop, instead of two. In this manner I might be able to gain a minute or two on the faster car of Holland.
I discussed this with my assigned pit crew secretly during the morning of the race. In the race itself I nursed the car carefully and held off my first and only pit stop until about lap I knew that after the warning breaker strip came off the tires, it was possible to run another ten laps before there was any real danger.
When I pitted on about lap 90, I knew I could go the rest of the distance without another stop. Holland however made two stops, his first occurring on lap Shorty Cantlon, to avoid the spinning Holland, took evasive action and hit the wall. Near the end of the race, with both his cars running one-two, and with no threats to either car, Moore gave us both the "EZY" sign to slow us down as a protective measure against mechanical failure.
Holland slowed down but I started running as fast as I could, to see if I could catch Holland. I continued to drive as quickly as possible and soon sighted Bill, in the twin Blue Crown car, up ahead and I gradually reeled him in.
Holland kept moving at his now reduced "EZY" pace and I decided to use a little "psych" on him and made my pass lap in the first turn exactly where Bill had earlier looped his car leading to the death of Cantlon. Holland did not up his pace, but rather waved me by, and obviously he though that I was merely unlapping myself. I didn't want Holland to see me get the white flag, as he might wake up to the true situation and try and repass me, so I continued to drive as fast as I could.
At the finish I had built up a 30 second advantage over Bill and he did not see me receive the white flag. Holland pulled in thinking he had won. Of course immediately after the race I had to make excuses by stating that Holland was running so slowly, I thought he was experiencing mechanical problems, which were only confirmed when Bill waved me bye.
Holland, it must be understood, had not received any warnings from his pit crew that he was about to lose the lead to Rose during the latter stage of the race, nor that Mauri had taken the lead after lap Holland said this, "The first time I knew I didn't win the race was when I pulled into the pits and heard the man on the loudspeaker say 'Holland second'. I asked the men in the my pit why they didn't tell me I was about to lose the lead and they all said, 'Moore wouldn't let us'.
I thought I had a lap on Rose. I was running at half throttle when Rose went by. All I was getting was the "Easy" signal. I was going into the turns at 90 miles an hour after I got the "Easy" sign. I thought I had it in the bag. I would have won the race by a lap and a half. The next time I'll have my own car. If you can't trust your own pit crew, who can you trust?
I don't know whether it was an honest mistake or not. Whom are you going to protest to This was not the case at all as Moore had flashed the "Easy" board to both drivers but Rose ignored it and pretended he hadn't seen it, with the real prospects of a second "" win in the offing, and began running at full throttle! Holland's total inexperience at Indianapolis was certainly a determining factor in what had occurred. Bill came into his first race with the idea that an immediate pit stop was required after the breaker strip flew off a tire and further that, since his car was identical to Rose's, if he himself had to make two pit stops, surely Rose would have to do so too.
The savvy Rose did not begin or start the "" with any such notions. On the very morning of the race Mauri was not sure that he could possibly drive the entire miles with just one stop, but it proved so. Rose's only pit stop consumed one minute, 40 seconds, while Holland's two stops totaled two minutes and 32 seconds.
And Mauri's one stop strategy here, completely managed to confuse and fool Holland. Holland however had made one more gratuitous and totally erroneous assumption about his race situation. Bill believed that his pit crew would keep him fully informed about his position in the race and if he was, by chance actually in the lead, his crew would surely inform him if he was about to lose it.
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