Benefit Micro-Midget

&

Stock Car Races

For the Family of

 Arthur L. James

 

Grant County Fairgrounds

Ulysses, Kansas

Sunday Afternoon – July 22, 1951

 

 

Sponsor – Charles B. Hart American Legion Post 379

Races Sanctioned by – Grant County Racing Club

Attendance – “a large crowd”

 

Ulysses News

July 19, 1951 – Page 4 

 

 

 

Stock Car Time Trials

Place

Driver

From

1st place tie

Chuck “Chuck” Arnold

Ulysses, Kansas

1st place tie

Jim Smith

 

 

 

 

Micro-Midget Time Trials

Place

Driver

From

1

Cecil “Junior” Maupin

Dodge City, Kansas

2

Paul Buck*

 

 

 

 

Micro-Midget Feature Race

Place

Driver

From

1

Cecil “Junior” Maupin

Dodge City, Kansas

2

Paul Buck*

 

3

Shirley Burnett

 

 

 

 

Stock Car Feature Race

Place

Driver

From

1

Charles ”Chuck” Arnold

Ulysses, Kansas

2

Jim Smith

 

3

Doug McGillivray

 

 

 

 

 

Cecil “Junior” Maupin tied for the fastest time in time trials driving this car at Ulysses on this afternoon.  He then won the feature race for micro-midgets – Maupin collection

 

 

 

  

            36-year-old Arthur L. “Art” James was killed on July 7, 1951 when the Piper 125 airplane he was piloting struck a telephone line and crashed while he was crop dusting a field northwest of Ulysses.  He was survived by his wife, three children, and his parents.

 

 

 

* This may have been Paul Bucy of Montezuma, Kansas.

 

 

 

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