Midget Auto Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Sunday – July 24, 1938

 

 

Attendance:  1,000

 

 

This is the first known midget race to be run on the Kansas State Fairgrounds racetrack.

 

 

 

Jimmy Stallman

Geisen collection

D. A. Clem

Louann (Chacon) Schodde collection

Dee Toran

One Tough Circuit by Bill Hill

 

Harry Graves

One Tough Circuit by Bill Hill

 

 

 

 

Time Trials – 7 Cars - 1 Lap

Place

Driver

From

Engine

Time

1

Harry Graves

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

30.1

2

Dee Toran

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

30.4

3

D. A. Clem*

Wichita, Kansas

 

31.1

4

Snag Abbott

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

32.0

4

Pop Edwards

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

32.0

6

Jimmy Stallman

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

35.0

7

Red Smith

Wichita, Kansas

 

35.1

 

 

 

First Heat Race – 6 Laps**

Place

Driver

From

Engine

 

1

Dee Toran

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

 

 

 

 

Second Heat Race – 6 Laps**

Place

Driver

From

Engine

 

1

Dee Toran

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

 

 

 

 

Third Heat Race – 6 Laps**

Place

Driver

From

Engine

 

1

Dee Toran

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Feature Race – 15 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Engine

Time

1

Harry Graves

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

7:59.0

2

D. A. Clem*

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

3

Pop Edwards

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

 

4

Jimmy Stallman

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

 

5

Dee Toran

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Ford V8-60

 

 

 

 

 

* Durward Aloysius “D. A.” Clem  (1906-1956)

 

** Dee Toran won one of the heat races in 3:16.0 but it is unknown which of the heat races it was.

 

 

 

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