Automobile Races
On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the
Kansas State Fairgrounds
Hutchinson, Kansas
Monday September 15, 1930
Sanctioned by International Motor Contest Association (I.M.C.A.)
Promoter Al L. Sponsler
Attendance: 5,000
Purse: Each race paid the first three finishers
Time Trials 1 Lap
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
Rea Bray |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
7 |
Hill Special Frontenac* |
30.8 |
2 |
Jimmy Trainor |
Los Angeles, California |
B 1 |
Burton D. O. Frontenac |
31.6 |
3 |
Leo Young |
Chicago, Illinois |
V 2 |
Frontenac |
33.0 |
4 |
Clarence Curley Young |
Denton, Texas |
500 |
Frontenac |
33.2 |
5 |
Swan Peterson |
Detroit, Michigan |
10 |
Chevrolet |
34.0 |
5 |
Emmett Avery |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
H - 3 |
Frontenac |
34.0 |
5 |
Jack Johnson |
Aurora, Missouri |
H 8 |
Stutz Special |
34.0 |
8 |
Archie Powell |
Galesburg, Illinois |
3 |
Frontenac |
34.2 |
8 |
George Lyons |
Chicago, Illinois |
B 6 |
Peugeot |
34.2 |
|
George Mandeloff |
Chicago, Illinois |
D 3 |
Laurel Special |
NT |
|
Carl Brady |
Los Angeles, California |
400 |
Duesenberg |
NT |
|
Racine Hoffman |
Joliet, Illinois |
S 5 |
Wisconsin Special |
NT |
North American Sweepstakes, Part 1 6 Cars - 7 Laps
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
Archie Powell |
Galesburg, Illinois |
3 |
Frontenac |
3:46.0 |
2 |
Jimmy Trainor |
Los Angeles, California |
B 1 |
Burton D. O. Frontenac |
|
3 |
Jack Johnson |
Aurora, Missouri |
H 8 |
Stutz Special |
|
|
Rea Bray |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
7 |
Hill Special Frontenac* |
DNF |
Trainor closed in on Powell near the end of the race and took the lead with two laps to go but Powell noised his way back by Trainor on the final straightaway. Bray dropped out of this race with a piston went through the side of his engine block in the #7 Hill Special and he had to go downtown to get his own #4 Bray Special. He returned in time for the final race of the afternoon.
Three Cornered Race 7 Laps
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
Clarence Curley Young |
Denton, Texas |
500 |
Frontenac |
4:02.6 |
2 |
Leo Young |
Chicago, Illinois |
V 2 |
Frontenac |
|
3 |
George Mandeloff |
Chicago, Illinois |
D 3 |
Laurel Special |
|
Leo Young lead the first five laps before his brother, Curley Young, swept by him for the lead. Leo Young mounted another try for the lead that fell just inches short at the finish line.
Consolation Race 3 Cars - 5 Laps
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
Carl Brady |
Los Angeles, CA |
400 |
Duesenberg |
3:03.2 |
2 |
Racine Hoffman |
Joliet, Illinois |
S 5 |
Wisconsin Special |
|
Hoffman ran right behind Brady for the entire race. Only the two cars completed the distance.
Second Heat Race 5 Laps
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
George Mandeloff |
Chicago, Illinois |
D 3 |
Laurel Special |
3:02.0 |
2 |
Leo Young |
Chicago, Illinois |
V 2 |
Frontenac |
|
3 |
Racine Hoffman |
Joliet, Illinois |
S 5 |
Wisconsin Special |
|
4 |
Jack Johnson |
Aurora, Missouri |
H 8 |
Stutz Special |
|
.Young led the first four laps before Mandeloff forged ahead. The two cars then ran side-by-side for the remainder of the race with Mandeloff winning by a wheel.
North American Sweepstakes, Part 2 6 Cars - 9 Laps
Place |
Driver |
From |
Car Number |
Automobile |
Time |
1 |
Archie Powell |
Galesburg, Illinois |
3 |
Frontenac |
4:53.2 |
2 |
Rea Bray |
Hutchinson, Kansas |
4 |
Bray Special Frontenac |
|
3 |
Leo Young |
Chicago, Illinois |
V 2 |
Frontenac |
|
|
Jimmy Trainor |
Los Angeles, California |
B 1 |
Burton D. O. Frontenac |
DNF |
Trainor was in second place on when he developed trouble on the third lap and dropped out of the race. Bray took over the runner-up position but never got within 20 yards of Powell.
*The #7 Hill Special was owned by was owned by Russell Darius R. D. Hill (1901-1984) of Arkansas City, Kansas.
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