West Side Racetrack

Wichita, Kansas – Monday – October 7, 1918

Attendance:  7,000

Earl Cooper in a Stutz Los Angeles Public Library collection

Louis Disbrow Don Radbruch collection

Cliff Woodbury’s Duesenberg Jean Culligan Doris collection

First Heat – 6 Laps

For cars with engines of 300 cubic inches or less

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile	Time
1	Jerry Wunderlich	San Francisco, California	Marquette Buick	3:37.0
2	Frank W. Cody		Ogren Special
3	Jake Strickler	Enid, Oklahoma	Hudson Super Six
4	Wilbur D'Alene*		Disbrow Special

Second Heat Race – 6 Laps

For cars with engines larger than 300 cubic inches

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile	Time
1	Louis Disbrow	Indianapolis, Indiana	Simplex	2:33.0
2	Gaston Chevrolet	Indianapolis, Indiana	Sunbeam
3	Earl Cooper	San Francisco, California	Stutz

This race was a "battle royal" from the start with first one competitor and then another leading. 

Time Trials– 1 Lap

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile	Time
1	Louis Disbrow	Indianapolis, Indiana	Simplex	32.0
2	Jake Strickler	Enid, Oklahoma	Hudson Super Six
3	Jerry Wunderlich	San Francisco, California	Marquette Buick
4	Frank W. Cody		Ogren Special
5	Gaston Chevrolet	Indianapolis, Indiana	Sunbeam
6	Earl Cooper	San Francisco, California	Stutz
7	_____  Wilson		Ford	37.2

Australian Pursuit Handicap – 10 Laps

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile
1	Earl Cooper	San Francisco, California	Stutz
2	Gaston Chevrolet	Indianapolis, Indiana	Sunbeam
3	Jake Strickler	Enid, Oklahoma	Hudson Super Six
4	Jerry Wunderlich	San Francisco, California	Marquette Buick

Wunderlich's Buick blew a tire on the fourth lap. 

Novelty – 3 Laps

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile
1	Gaston Chevrolet	Indianapolis, Indiana	Sunbeam
2	Earl Cooper	San Francisco, California	Stutz

Two cars competed against the clock.  They had to run two laps as fast as they could go and then make a pit stop to change at least one wheel.  Chevrolet won the event after changing a tire in ten seconds.

Match Race – 4 Laps

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile	Time
1	Frank W. Cody		Ogren Special	2:31.0
2	Jerry Wunderlich	San Francisco, California	Marquette Buick

The two cars ran side-by-side until the final lap when Cody inched ahead to win by inches.

Liberty Sweepstakes – 20 Laps

Finish	Driver	From	Automobile
1	Earl Cooper	San Francisco, California	Stutz
2	Gaston Chevrolet	Indianapolis, Indiana	Sunbeam
3	Louis Disbrow	Indianapolis, Indiana	Simplex
4	Jake Strickler	Enid, Oklahoma	Hudson Super-Six
5	Jerry Wunderlich	San Francisco, California	Marquette Buick
6	Frank W. Cody		Ogren Special
7	Wilbur D'Alene*		Disbrow Special
8	_____  Wilson		Ford

Disbrow had trouble getting away from the starting line and was a half lap behind before he did get going.  He steadily made up ground though finishing just a straightway behind Cooper at the finish.

* Wilbur D'Alene's real name was Ed Wilbur Aleon (1884-1966).

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