Automobile Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Friday – September 19, 1930

 

 

Sanctioned by – International Motor Contest Association (I.M.C.A.) 

Promoter – Al L. Sponsler 

Flagman / Starter – Barney Sullivan of Daytona Beach, Florida

 

 

 

 

Archie Powell

 Wood collection

Jimmy Trainor

Harold Osmer collection

 

 

 

Entry List

 

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

 

 

Swan Peterson

Detroit, Michigan

400

Dreyer Special

 

 

Gene DeMont

Memphis, Tennessee

10

Chevrolet

 

 

Clarence “Curley” Young

Denton, Texas

500

Frontenac

 

 

Jack Johnson

Aurora, Missouri

H – 8

Stutz Special

 

 

Carl Brady

Los Angeles, California

20

Duesenberg

 

 

George Lyons

Chicago, Illinois

B – 6

Peugeot

 

 

George Mandeloff

Chicago, Illinois

D – 3

Laurel Special

 

 

Archie Powell

Galesburg, Illinois

3

Frontenac

 

 

Racine Hoffman

Joliet, Illinois

S – 5

Wisconsin Special

 

 

Pete Alberts

Vincennes, Indiana

C – 1

Clemmons Special

 

 

Jimmy Trainor

Los Angeles, California

B – 1

Burton D. O. Frontenac

 

 

Lew Irwin

St. Joseph, Missouri

X – 3

Lawhon Special

 

 

Emmett Avery

Hutchinson, Kansas

H - 3

Frontenac

 

 

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

 

 

Leo Young

Chicago, Illinois

V2

Frontenac

 

 

 

Time Trials – 1 Lap

Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

Archie Powell

Galesburg, Illinois

3

Frontenac

30.0

2

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

30.4

3

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

4

Bray Special Frontenac

30.8

4

Jimmy Trainor

Los Angeles, California

B – 1

Burton D. O. Brontenac

31.4

5

Emmett Avery

Hutchinson, Kansas

H – 3

Frontenac

32.4

6

George Mandeloff

Chicago, Illinois

D – 3

Laurel Special

32.8

7

George Lyons

Chicago, Illinois

B – 6

Peugeot

32.8

8

Clarence “Curley” Young

Denton, Texas

500

Frontenac

33.0

9

Gene DeMont

Memphis, Tennessee

10

Chevrolet

33.2

10

Jack Johnson

Aurora, Missouri

H – 8

Stutz Special

34.2

11

Racine Hoffman

Joliet, Illinois

S – 5

Wisconsin Special

34.4

 

 

 

Featured Dash – 3 Cars - 1 Lap

Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

Archie Powell

Galesburg, Illinois

3

Frontenac

31.6

2

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

 

3

Jimmy Trainor

Los Angeles, California

B – 1

Burton D. O. Frontenac

 

            This race consisted of the fastest three cars from time trials.  Powell started on the pole and lead all the way while the other two cars ran close behind. 

 

 

 

First Heat of the International Title Point Race – 7 Cars - 7 Laps

 Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

Archie Powell

Galesburg, Illinois

3

Frontenac

3:36.8

2

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

 

3

George Lyons

Chicago, Illinois

B – 6

Peugeot

 

4

Emmett Avery

Hutchinson, Kansas

H - 3

Frontenac

 

5

Jimmy Trainor

Los Angeles, California

B – 1

Burton D. O. Frontenac

DNF

            Powell and Bray pulled away from the rest of the field from the beginning.  Powell had started from the inside position and led on every straightaway of the race only to lose out to Bray on every turn.  Powell broke a piston on the last lap and could not muster as much of a lead on the final straightaway but held on to win by a wheel in record breaking time.  Trainor held third place for the first four laps before dropping out of the race with engine trouble.  Avery finished close behind Lyons but both were far behind the leading dual.

            Bray had entered two Frontenac racing cars in these races.  One carried the #4 and the other #7.  He ran one of those cars in this race and the other in the next race but it unknown which car he drove in which race.

 

 

 

Second Heat of the International Title Point Race – 7 Cars – 7 Laps

 Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

3:43.6

2

Clarence “Curley” Young

Denton, Texas

500

Frontenac

 

3

Emmett Avery

Hutchinson, Kansas

3

Frontenac

 

4

Gene DeMont

Memphis, Tennessee

10

Chevrolet

 

            Young lead the first lap before being passed by Bray who went on the win the race with Young in a distant second place.

 

 

 

Consolation Race – 5 Laps 

 Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

George Lyons

Chicago, Illinois

B – 6

Pegueot

 2:58.2

2

Jack Johnson

Aurora, Missouri

H – 8

Stutz Special

 

3

George Mandeloff

Chicago, Illinois

D – 3

Laurel Special

 

          Johnson pushed Lyons all the say but Lyons “noised him out” for the win.  All of the cars that started completed the race and each was in contention from the beginning.

 

 

 

Sweepstakes – 7 Laps

 Place

Driver

From

Car Number

Automobile

Time

1

Rea Bray*

Hutchinson, Kansas

7

Hill Special Frontenac**

3:46.4

2

Gene DeMont

Memphis, Tennessee

10

Chevrolet

 

3

George Lyons

Chicago, Illinois

B – 6

Peugeot

 

            Archie Powell’s car had thrown a rod in the last race it ran so he did not start this race.  Bray pulled away to a big lead and won by “almost a hundred yards.”

 

 

 

Curley Young

Christine Logan collection

Leo Young

Christine Logan collection

 

 

 

* Rea Clyde Bray (1902-1941) worked as a policeman while he lived in Hutchinson.  He took time trials in two different cars and then selected the faster of the two for the races.  He later moved to California where he died in a racing accident at Oakland Speedway in Oakland.

 

** The #7 Hill Special Frontenac was owned by Russell Darius “R. D.” Hill (1901-1984) of Arkansas City, Kansas.

 

 

 

 

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