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Died. Wilbur Shaw, 51, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, three-time winner of the 500-mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race; in a private-plane crash; at Peterson, Ind. Born near Indianapolis, Racer Shaw learned his trade on dirt tracks, surprised veteran drivers by finishing fourth in his first Indianapolis race, when he was 25. Besides his three Indianapolis firsts (1937, 1939, 1940), he also got three seconds, a fourth and a seventh in his 15 years of big-time racing. Legend had it that he was indestructible. He suffered a skull fracture, broken ribs and smashed vertebrae...
From the dock of his waterfront restaurant in Freeport, L.I., Bandleader and Boat Racer Guy Lombardo climbed into a small boat with two outboard motors on the stern. As he started up one motor and raced about the water, there was the ear-splitting racket that has come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves...
...been involved in several heated discussions with other racing enthusiasts over the cylindrical-shaped cover on the hood of the Cunningham Racer as depicted on the cover of the April 26 issue of TIME. Some of us think it's a sort of radarscope to be used in the fogs at Le Mans; others believe it's an air velocity generator - while some say it's a centrifugal stabilizer. Which guess is correct - and if none are, just what...
...Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, Road Racer Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping...
...micros are the latest fad in auto racing, an ever-growing sport that drew an estimated 23 million spectators last year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own auto-repair shop at El Centro, Calif. Swarthout promptly built the first one in the Imperial Valley. Since then, micro-midget racing has spread as far east as Pennsylvania. Reason for the popularity of the micros: they can be built for as little...