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Ted Kammerer |
10. |
Ralph Lowry |
19. |
Orval Beckel |
29. |
Henry Hay |
2. |
Charlie Lutkie |
11. |
Claude Ash |
20. |
Claire Miller |
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Marvin Clary |
3. |
Glen Martin |
12. |
Willard Bodkins |
21. |
John Frost |
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John McGee |
4. |
Ira Woodward |
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Lyle Baker |
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Harold Dean |
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George Truier |
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Ray Whittaker |
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Joe Collins |
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Shorty Jones |
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Bob Wilmore |
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Bill Mears |
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Troy Routh |
24. |
Tom Salmon, Jr. |
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Brian Corrigan |
7. |
Bob Mack |
16. |
Hi Mesel |
25. |
George Hibbs |
35. |
Joe Hobbs |
8. |
Kenny Adkins |
17. |
Bob Thorne |
26. |
Ted Davis |
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John Conley |
9. |
Will Forrest |
18. |
Earl Mills |
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Bill Bookout |
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Cotton Musick |
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Bill Perkins |
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Ray Watkins |
The photo above is from the Bill Collins collection. You may have to use the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen to scroll your computer screen to the right so you can see all of this photograph and the one just below. If you know anything more about these photographs, please contact Bob Lawrence.
Driver’s Meeting – Kansas State Fairgrounds – Hutchinson, Kansas – c1955
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Jerry Everhart |
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Shot Hampton |
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J. D. Cox |
2. |
Harry Prater |
11. |
Dick Hendershot |
20. |
Gil Story |
3. |
John McGee |
12. |
Harold Leep |
21. |
Pete Jacobs |
4. |
K. O. Christian |
13. |
Buddy Quick |
22. |
George Pruett |
5. |
Alvin Riley |
14. |
Don Shepherd |
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Jim McAmis |
15. |
Bob “Rapid Robert” Roberts |
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Willie Berger |
16. |
Bill Nichols |
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Elmer Balzer |
17. |
Noel “Shorty” Jones |
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Troy Routh |
18. |
Frank Lies |
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The photo above is from the Mills collection. You may have to use the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen to scroll your computer screen to the right so you can see all of this photograph and the one just below. If you know anything more about these photographs, please contact Bob Lawrence.
Driver’s Meeting – Kansas State Fairgrounds – Hutchinson, Kansas – c1955
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Bill “Chief” McAninch |
2. |
Harold Portlock |
3. |
Gerald Doty |
4. |
Henry Ellington |
The photo above is from the Jim Kelso collection. You may have to use the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen to scroll your computer screen to the right so you can see all of this photograph and the one just below. If you know anything more about these photographs, please contact Bob Lawrence.
Driver’s Meeting – Kansas State Fairgrounds – Hutchinson, Kansas – c1955
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Earl Mills |
2. |
Elmer Balzer |
3. |
Reuben Loepp |
4. |
Vester VanSickle |
5. |
Bob Champlin |
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The photo above is from the Jim Kelso collection. You may have to use the scroll bar at the bottom of your screen to scroll your computer screen to the right so you can see all of this photograph and the one just below. If you know anything more about these photographs, please contact Bob Lawrence.
Helping a Buddy Celebrate His Victory
Left to right: Troy Routh, Will Forrest, Charlie Lutkie, and Frank Lies. Charlie Lutkie had just been awarded the season hardtop stock car championship at Taft Stadium in Oklahoma City for 1952. The trophy is currently on display at the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame of which Lutkie is an inductee - J. R. “Bob” Cox collection
Jayhawk Amusement Park Speedway - Newton, Kansas
Left to right: Forrest Coleman; Troy Routh; Elmer Balzer; Tom Salmon, Jr.; Christian D. "Jim" Roper; Bill Mears; track promoter Earl Mills; Bill Nelson; Gerald R. “Skeeter” McKinnie; and radio personality Lee Nichols - Mills collection
Some of the Top Hot Rod Drivers at Cejay Stadium in 1949
Standing left to right are: Charlie Lutkie, Will Forrest, Buddy Quick, Shorty Jones, Bill Perkins, and Bob Thorne. The track official at far left is Joe Hobbs. The man standing back at the far right is unidentified.
Year End Trophy Winners at Cejay Stadium - c1950
Left to right: Bob Moffitt, Stan Schoenberg, Will Forrest, Lee Nichols, Bill Mears, Ted Kammerer, and Lee Cornish. Click your mouse on the photo to see another of this same group that was taken on the same occasion - Photographs from the Anthony Miller collection
Jayhawk Speedway – Newton, Kansas – c1951
The first two men at left are unidentified. The man in the middle is Gerald R. “Skeeter” McKinnie. The man fourth from left is Ted Kammerer and the man on the fair right is Bill Mears. If you can identify anyone else in this photo, please contact Bob Lawrence – Warren Brown collection
Cejay Stadium – Wichita, Kansas – c1954
Left to right: Jerry Everhart, Frank Lies, Willie Berger, Chuck Jones, local radio personality Mack Sanders a.k.a. John Bozeman, Earl Mills, Bill Killion, Roy Bryant, Will Forrest, and flagman Ted Davis – Mills collection
This photo was taken at the “81 Club” on North Broadway Street in Wichita, Kansas on October 7, 1949. Those that have been identified are, left to right: Bill Everhart, Frank Lies, Bill Mears (standing behind the bar), Duane Wilkinson, Carroll Forrest (squating), Will Forrest, Don Thornton, and Bob Thorne. The four men at right are unidentified – Lies collection
Track Officials at Cejay Stadium in 1949
Left to right: Bob Wilmore, Rex Woods, and Joe Hobbs. The #27 hot rod in the background was owned by Vernis Church and driven by many including Frank Lies, Jim Roper, and Jerry Shumaker.
Dorell Wilkinson at left with this brother, Duane Wilkinson at Cejay Stadium in 1948. Dorell Dean Wilkinson was fatally injured in a crash there on July 24, 1948.
Jayhawk Speedway, Newton, Kansas – 1948
Front row, left to right: Bob Thorne, Bob Murra, Will Forrest, Charlie Lutkie, Bill Everhart, and Don Thornton.
Back row, left to right: Earl Mills, Ted Davis, Kit Carson, and Bryson Mills – Mills collection
Popular KWBB-AM radio personality Lee Nichols (1906-2005) congradulating driver Gerald R. “Skeeter” McKinnie
Unless otherwise noted, all of the photographs on this web page were taken by Jim Edwards. If you can identify any of the unidentified people pictured on this web page, please contact Bob Lawrence.
Thank you to:
Gaylon Albright, Fran Balzer, Warren Brown, Bob Cox, Jim Edwards, Galen Kurth, Charlie Lutkie, Anthony Miller, Bill & Bryson Mills, Jim Petty, and Todd White