Automobile Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Friday, September 22, 1922

 

Races Sanctioned by – International Motor Contest Association (I.M.C.A.)

 

 

An estimated 12,000 people watched these races.  The racetrack was exceptionally rough but had been thoroughly packed before the program and dust was not as bad as usual. 

 

 

 

Fred Horey Don Radbruch collection

Jack Petticord Fred Gildersleeve photo from the Christine Logan collection

Larry Stone Birmingham, Alabama Public Library collection

 

 

 

 

Time Trials – 2 Laps

            According to an article in the September 20, 1924 issue of the Hutchinson Herald newspaper, John Boling of Tulsa, Oklahoma had set a new two-lap track record of 1:04.4 on this date but it is doubtful that Boling was even entered in these races.

 

 

First Heat Race

 

 

Second Heat Race – 7 Laps

 

 

Invitational Handicap – 10 Laps

            “Bugs” Allen dropped out with engine trouble on the fifth lap while Petticord dropped out on the eighth lap.

 

 

Kansas Sweepstakes – 10 Laps

            Jack Petticord dropped out on the sixth lap with engine trouble.  Fred Horey was running in third place with one lap to go.  The first three cars finished the race less than one car length apart.

            Harold Homer “Jack” Petticord (1900-1940) of Wichita, Kansas, went on to win the I.M.C.A. Canadian National Driving Championship the year after he raced in these races at Hutchinson.  He also compete in the Indianapolis “500” in 1927 and again, but only as a relief driver, in 1928.

            There was a Jimmy Craft from Chicago, Illinois who was racing with the I.M.C.A. at that time.  Could Clif Craft and Jimmy Craft have been the same person?

 

 

 

Race Officials 

 

 

 

 

* Clifford George “Cliff” Craft (1884-1924) was fatally injured in a racing accident at Ascot Speedway near Los Angeles, California.

 

 

 

 

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