MOTOR RACING
SPEED OF 115 MILES AN HOUR LAST YEAR’S WINNER KILLED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 30. Wilbur Shaw, with a speed of 115.035 miles an hour, won the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Jimmy Snyder, of Chicago, was second, and Cliff Bergere, of Hollywood, third. Floyd Roberts, the winner last year, was killed in a collision with two other cars whose drivers and two women spectators were injured.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 5
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71MOTOR RACING Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 5
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