Automobile Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Friday, September 21, 1917

 

The attendance at the races was estimated at 25,000.  Fair officials credited the large turnout for the state fair overall to the automobile races.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Three-Mile Race – 6 Laps

 

 

 

Three-Mile Class Race – 6 Laps

 

 

 

Match Race – 10 Laps

 

 

  

Australian Pursuit – 10 Laps

 

 

 

Ajax Trophy Race – 25 Laps

                Hawkins’ carburetor clogged up and an ignition wire dropped off of Cline’s Scat causing both cars to drop out of the race.

 

 

 

Consolation Race – 6 Laps

             

 

 

 

 

* Jules Ellingboe (1892-1948) and George Clark (1890-1978) have both competed in the Indianapolis “500”.

 

** Floyd Lee Willard (1878-1952) was said to be the biggest man in auto racing at the time.  Newspaper reports list him as standing 6’ 6” tall and weighing 228 pounds although photographs suggest that may have been somewhat exaggerated.

 

*** Ben Giroux was an alias used by Ben Gotoff who raced professionally with IMCA from 1916 to 1922.

 

 

 

 

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