Cejay Stadium – Wichita, Kansas – c1948

   

1.

Ted Kammerer

10.

Ralph Lowry

19.

Orval Beckel

29.

Henry Hay

2.

Charlie Lutkie

11.

Claude Ash

20.

Claire Miller

30.

Marvin Clary

3.

Glen Martin

12.

Willard Bodkins

21.

John Frost

31.

John McGee

4.

Ira Woodward

13.

Lyle Baker

22.

Harold Dean

32.

George Truier

5.

Ray Whittaker

14.

Joe Collins

23.

Shorty Jones

33.

Bob Wilmore

6.

Bill Mears

15.

Troy Routh

24.

Tom Salmon, Jr.

34.

Brian Corrigan

7.

Bob Mack

16.

Hi Mesel

25.

George Hibbs

35.

Joe Hobbs

8.

Kenny Adkins

17.

Bob Thorne

26.

Ted Davis

36.

John Conley

9.

Will Forrest

18.

Earl Mills

27.

Bill Bookout

37.

Cotton Musick

 

 

 

 

28.

Bill Perkins 

38.

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

 

1.

Jerry Everhart

10.

Shot Hampton

19.

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

 

6.

Jim McAmis

15.

Bob “Rapid Robert” Roberts

 

7.

Willie Berger

16.

Bill Nichols

 

8.

Elmer Balzer

17.

Noel “Shorty” Jones

 

9.

Troy Routh

18.

Frank Lies

 

 

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Driver’s Meeting – Kansas State Fairgrounds – Hutchinson, Kansas – c1955

 

1.

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

 

1.

Earl Mills

2.

Elmer Balzer

3.

Reuben Loepp

4.

Vester VanSickle

5.

Bob Champlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 LawrenceWarren 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.

 

 

20pt. Century

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