West Side Speedway

1/5 mile dirt racetrack that was located two blocks north of Douglas Street between Glenn Street and Vine Street at 1800 West Third Street in Wichita, Kansas

 

Midget Auto Races Sanctioned by Kansas Midget Racing (KMR)

 

Sunday Night – September 7, 1941

Promoted by Frank Murphy

 

 #C5 Wayland “Bud” Camden prepares to get into his car after stripping down to his long underwear during the “Underwear Derby” a.k.a. the “Striptease Race” that was run on this night at West Side Speedway.  The Underwear Derby was a novelty race in which two cars first raced for two laps around the racetrack after which the drivers exited the cars, stripped down to long handle underwear, got back in their cars, raced for two more laps around the track, exited their cars, got completely dressed again, and then ran the final lap around the racetrack on foot.  Bud Camden was declared the winner on this night after Emmett Taylor was disqualified – George Schaeffer photo from the Vickey Cummings collection

 

 

Time Trials – 1 Lap

PLACE

 CAR #

DRIVER

FROM

 CAR OWNER

 FROM

 ENGINE

1

13

D. A. Clem1

Wichita, KS

 D. A. Clem

 Wichita, KS

 4-cyl. Menasco

 

19

Ted Parker

Ft. Worth, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

 

 

Art Rhodes

Dallas, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

 

½

Tex West

Dallas, TX

 Felix Graves

 Tulsa, OK

 Ford V8-60

 

47

Ernie Powell

Hutchinson, KS

 Ernie Powell

 Hutchinson, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

99

Bob McKim

Salina, KS

 Harry Fuller

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

14

Mike Applebee

Salina, KS

 Ted Applebee

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 15

Jimmy “Buss” Bartlett

Wichita, KS

 Louis Geison

 Minneapolis, KS

 Continental-Beacon

 

77

Harold Priddy

Salina, KS

 Harry Fuller

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

C5

Wayland “Bud” Camden

Wichita, KS

 Wayland “Bud” Camden

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

C4

Emmett Taylor3

Wichita, KS

 Emmett Taylor3

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

60

Carl Oliver

Wichita, KS

 Carl Oliver

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

5

Guy “Mac” McHenry

Wichita, KS

 Chet Wilson

 Wichita, KS

 Willys

 

5

M. L. “Al” Faulkner

Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

First Heat – 10 Laps – Time: 2:11.8

1

13

D. A. Clem

Wichita, KS

 D. A. Clem

 Wichita, KS

 4-cyl. Menasco

2

19

Ted Parker

Ft. Worth, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

3

 

Art Rhodes

Dallas, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Second Heat – 10 Laps – Time: 2:17.7

1

 

Tex West

Dallas, TX

 Ford V8-60

2

47

Ernie Powell

Hutchinson, KS

 Ernie Powell

 Hutchinson, KS

 Ford V8-60

3

99

Bob McKim

Salina, KS

 Harry Fuller

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Third Heat – 10 Laps – Time: 2:17.7

1

14

Mike Applebee

Salina, KS

 Ted Applebee

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

2

15

Jimmy “Buss” Bartlett

Wichita, KS

 Louis Geison

 Minneapolis, KS

 Continental-Beacon

3

77

Harold Priddy

Salina, KS

 Harry Fuller

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Underwear Derby

1

C5

Wayland “Bud” Camden

Wichita, KS

 Wayland “Bud” Camden

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

2

C4

Emmett Taylor3

Wichita, KS

 Emmett Taylor3

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Australian Pursuit2 – 10 Laps

1

14

Mike Applebee

Salina, KS

 Ted Applebee

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

2

15

Jimmy “Buss” Bartlett

Wichita, KS

 Louis Geison

 Minneapolis, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

Consolation Race – 10 Laps – Time: 2:22.6

1

60

Carl Oliver

Wichita, KS

 Carl Oliver

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

2

5

M. L. “Al” Faulkner

Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

3

5

Guy “Mac” McHenry

Wichita, KS

 Chet Wilson

 Wichita, KS

 Willys

 

 

 

Match Race – 10 Laps

1

13

D. A. Clem

Wichita, KS

 D. A. Clem

 Wichita, KS

 4-cyl. Menasco

2

 19 

Ted Parker

Ft. Worth, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

3

 

Art Rhodes

Dallas, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

4

 

Tex West

Dallas, TX

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

B Feature – 20 laps

1

77

Harold Priddy

Salina, KS

 Harry Fuller

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

2

14

Mike Applebee

Salina, KS

 Ted Applebee

 Salina, KS

 Ford V8-60

3

60

Carl Oliver

Wichita, KS

 Carl Oliver

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

4

 

Bill Brown

Wichita, KS

 Bill Brown

 Wichita, KS

 Willys

 

 

 

A Feature - 30 laps – Time: 6:26.2

1

19

Ted Parker

Ft. Worth, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

2

13

D. A. Clem

Wichita, KS

 D. A. Clem

 Wichita, KS

 4-cyl. Menasco

3

 

Art Rhodes

Dallas, TX

 Walter D. “Pop” Allard

 Ennis, TX

 Ford V8-60

4

C4

Emmett Taylor3

Wichita, KS

 Emmett Taylor3

 Wichita, KS

 Ford V8-60

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 D. A. Clem set a new one-lap track record in time trials with a time of 12.29 seconds in his front-wheel-drive Menasco powered midget.

 

2 The Australian Pursuit started the fastest ten cars from time trials in single file with the cars that had turned in the fastest times starting toward the rear.  .Any car that was passed by any other car was eliminated until the midget driven by Mike Applebee was the only car still running.  One source states that Ted Parker was credited with second place in this race but that is probably incorrect.

 

3 Emmett Walter Taylor (1910 – 1963) is buried in the Wichita Park Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.

 

 

 

Unless otherwise noted, all of the photographs on this web page are from the book One Tough Circuit, Midget Racing in America’s Heartland by Bill Hill

 

 

 

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