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

 

 

 

Archie Powell

Wood Collection

Jimmy Trainor

Harold Osmer Collection

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Curley Young

Jeff Adams collection

Leo Young

Christine Logan collection

 

 

 

 

*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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