First Annual Max Madison Memorial

Modified Jalopy Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

 

Sunday – April 27, 1969

 

Promotional Company – Merrick Racing Promotions (M.R.P.)

Race director – Jack Merrick of Dodge City, Kansas

Flagman / Starter – Al Alexander of Wichita, Kansas

 

Track condition – “miry”

 

Hutchinson News

April 23, 1969 - Page 13

 

First Heat Race – 8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Ken Myers

Wichita, Kansas

4:00.0

2

Don Hardin

Oxford, Nebraska

 

3

Gerald Grady

Dodge City, Kansas

 

 

 

  

Second Heat Race – 8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Herb Copeland

Dodge City, Kansas

3:57.0

2

Jay Schrock

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

3

Terry Kowalsky

Great Bend, Kansas

 

 

 

 

Third Heat Race – 8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

  1

Dale Reed

Wichita, Kansas

4:54.0

  2

Harold Leep

Wichita, Kansas

 

  3

Dick Hendershot*

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

 

 

 

B Feature – 12 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time

1

Alan Herbert

Dodge City, Kansas

 5:50.0

2

Myron Rust

Wichita, Kansas

 

3

Garry Abell

Beloit, Kansas

 

4

Bill Martinson

McPherson, Kansas

 

5

Pat Woodard

Maize, Kansas

 

 

 

 

A Feature – 15 Laps

Place

Driver

From

Time 

  1

Herb Copeland

Dodge City, Kansas

6:28.0

  2

Ken Myers

Wichita, Kansas

 

  3

Jay Schrock

Hutchinson, Kansas

 

  4

Terry Kowalsky

Great Bend, Kansas

 

  5

Don Hardin

Oxford, Nebraska

 

 

 

 

  

Jay Schrock

Bob Mays collection

Gerald Grady

Walt Wimer photo from the Raceway Magazine web site

Pat Woodard

Bob Mays collection

Alan Herbert

Dodge City Globe

 

 

 

Dale Reed

Bob Mays collection

Ken Myers

Bob Mays collection

 Harold Leep

Bob Mays collection

Dick Hendershot

Bob Mays collection

 

 

 

Herb Copeland

Bob Mays collection

Terry Kowalsky

Racing from the Past website

Myron Rust

Racing from the Past website

Garry Abell

Deen Woods collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max Kelton Madison, Sr.

1923 - 1967

 

Max, a former driver and racetrack official, played Peanuts the Clown at racetracks around Kansas for many years entertaining the crowd between races.  He died of accidental asphyxiation and is buried in the Maple Grove cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas – McCoy collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Richard M. “Dick” Hendershot (1925-1976) was fatally injured in a racing accident at Salina, Kansas.

 

 

 

 

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