Fall Speed Classic Auto Races at Oakley, Kansas
Sunday Afternoon, October 23, 1927
Total Posted Purse: $360
Attendance: “5,000 or more”
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Vic Felt |
Deer Trail, CO |
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Pierre “Pete” Bertrand Johnny Klann collection |
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Willard Prentiss1 |
Denver, CO |
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Jack Iseman9 |
Hugo, CO |
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Lenord Kerbs |
Otis, KS |
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Jim White2 |
Sharon Springs, KS |
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Walter Krhut4 |
WaKeeney, KS |
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Lee Hillery6 |
Winona, KS |
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Leslie Neff5 |
Winona, KS |
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Oakley, KS |
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Harry Kurtz3 |
Oakley, KS |
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Harley Viers10 |
Stockton, KS |
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The 10-mile and 25-mile races each started the nine fastest cars in three rows with three cars abreast in each row:
Race Results – 10 Mile Race
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Willard Prentiss1 |
Denver, CO |
9:45.00 |
10 |
running |
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Jack Iseman9 |
Hugo, CO |
9:46.25 |
10 |
running |
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Vic Felt |
Deer Trail, CO |
9:52.00 |
10 |
running |
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Lee Hillery6 |
Winona, KS |
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Walter Krhut4 |
Wakeeney, KS |
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Glen Spena7 |
WaKeeney, KS |
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Leslie Neff5 |
Winona, KS |
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Jim White2 |
Sharon Springs, KS |
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9 |
Oakley, KS |
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3 |
threw a tire |
25 Mile Feature Race
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Vick Felt |
Deer Trail, CO |
24:30 |
25 |
running |
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Willard Prentiss1 |
Denver, CO |
24:55 |
25 |
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Jack Iseman9 |
Hugo, CO |
25:03 |
25 |
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Lee Hillery6 |
Winona, KS |
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running |
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Jim White2 |
Sharon Springs, KS |
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running |
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Glen Spena7 |
WaKeeney, KS |
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radiator and hood |
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Walter Krhut4 |
WaKeeney, KS |
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17 |
spun out |
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8 |
Oakley, KS |
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DNF |
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Leslie Neff5 |
Winona, KS |
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DNF |
5 Mile Stock Car Race
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AUTOMOBILE: |
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1 |
Oakley, KS |
Chevrolet |
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2 |
Charles Smith |
Page, KS |
Stripped Ford |
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Tom Harned8 |
Oakley, KS |
Chevrolet |
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George Kinsley |
Oakley, KS |
Essex roadster |
Race Judges:
Dr. M. J. O’Connor
Wayne Churchill
Harley Fulton
Glen Spena in front of his Spena Ford garage at WaKeeney, Kansas with the Ford racer he drove in these races at Oakley, Kansas – Freda Spena collection
Jack Iseman of Hugo, Colorado is shown here in his Fronty
1 Willard Cable Prentiss (1897-1959) ran the last three laps of the 25-mile feature race at Oakley, Kansas with a flat rear tire. Prentiss went on to compete in the Indianapolis “500” in 1933, starting 40th and finishing 13th. He tried to qualify two different cars for the 1934 Indianapolis “500” but failed to gain enough speed in either to start the race. He is buried in the Ft. Logan National Cemetery at Denver, Colorado.
2 Jim White ran off the track three times on his way to a fifth place finish in the 25-mile feature race.
3 Harry Kurtz (1893-1965) was the Buick dealer at Oakley, Kansas for a number of years.
4 Walter Frank Krhut (1893-1984) is buried in the Union Cemetery at Collyer, Kansas.
5 Leslie Levie Franklin “Spec” Neff (1907-1962) who also went by the nickname “Babe” Neff. Spec’s father, John William Neff (1885-1946), owned the race car.
6 Robert Lee Hillery (1888-1953).
7 Glen James Spena (1907-1977) is buried in the WaKeeney City Cemetery at Wakeeney, Kansas.
8 Thomas Randolph “Tom” Harned (1902-1962) is buried the Maple Grove Cemetery at Dodge City, Kansas.
9 John P. “Happy Jack” Iseman, Jr. (1902-1982) is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery at Hugo, Colorado. He was also a noted airplane racer.
10 Harley D. Viers (1902-1979) is buried in the Topeka Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.
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