Hot Rod Races
Sportsman Park - Oakley, Kansas
Sunday Afternoon - June 4, 1950
Bill Ratcliffe |
Ray Marcotte |
Les Suter |
TIME TRIALS – 1 Lap – 26.57 seconds |
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Junior Pickrel |
Scott City, KS |
Junior Pickrell |
Scott City, KS |
13 |
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TROPHY DASH |
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Car Owner |
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1 |
Bill Ratcliffe |
Hutchinson, KS |
Melvin Widup |
Hutchinson, KS |
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GRANDSTAND CHOICE RACE2 |
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Driver |
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1 |
Ray Marcotte |
Oakley, KS |
Arnold Blankenburg |
Oakley, KS |
88 |
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MAIN EVENT |
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Driver |
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Car Owner |
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Les Suter |
Oakley, KS |
Ricketts Brothers1 |
Winona, KS |
22 |
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The car running in third place at right was driven by Les Suter – Punch Lemburg collection from the book Roaring Roadsters #2 by Don Radbruch
1The Ricketts brothers were Cloyd and Emmett Ricketts who owned the Chevrolet dealership at Winona, KS.
2The Grandstand Choice Race was a novelty race calling for participants to race one lap around the racetrack; stop their car; get out; run around their car; get back in; race around the track one more time; stop their car again; get out; drink a bottle of Coke; get back in their car and race around the track one more time. The first car to cross the finish line on that lap was declared the winner of the race. On this day, Ralph Leo Snyder of Scott City, KS was driving the #96 straight-8 Buick hot rod owned by Phillip Paul of Scott City (although one newspaper account says the car was a #21). Ralph had just exited his car to drink the Coke when another competitor’s car struck him. Snyder suffered serious injuries including a severely broken leg. Approximately $400 was given by those present to help defray Snyder’s medical expenses.
Ralph Leo Snyder
1929 – 1991
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