SPEEDWAY SENSATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 June 1930, Page 5

SPEEDWAY SENSATION

SUCCESSION OF CRASHES

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)

NEW YORK, 30th May,

At the speedway at Indianapolis, Indiana, Billy Arnold, of Chicago, driving a Hartz-Mfiler Special, won the tragedymarred Memorial Day 500-mile motor race before 175,000 people with an average .speed of 100.448 miles per hour, taking rich cash prizes, after holding the lead consistently throughout and threading his way around wreck after wreck. One of his opponents piled up his car sensationally, spectators seeing Paul Marshall, mechanic for his brother, Cy Marshall, killed when the car blew a tire and leaped a retaining wall. Paul died upon his removal to hospital, where Cy is not expected to live, due to broken jaws and numerous internal injuries. Six other contenders for the prize were also injured more or less seriously. Never before in the Speedway’s history has there been such a succession of crashes. Beginning in the first lap, six machines figured in one pile up. It was a thrilling race.

Arnold, despite protestations that lie was “all right,” was immediately taken to hospital for treatment and rest. Ten drivers took prizes. Eleven cars wore wrecked in crashes and several were forced out for other reasons.

A racing car ran off the dirt speedwav into a crowd, killing four persons and injuring at least thirty.