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DE PALMA WINS AUTO RACE
Publication: The New York Times
Date: 20 July 1925 |
Takes $4,000 in Prize Money at Denver—Duray is Second.
Denver, Col., July 19 (AP).—Ralph De Palma won the 100-mile automobile race here yesterday, which ended a two-day program sponsored by the Denver Automobile Racing Association, taking $4,000 in prize money. Leon Duray was second and Fred Comer was third.
De Palma negotiated the 100 miles over the one-mile dirt track in 1 hour 21 minutes and 26 3-5 seconds. George W. Lewis of Oilton, Okla., won the Rocky Mountain race.
Duray won $2,000 in prize money and $1,000 went to Comer. Twenty thousand saw the race.
Earl Devore finished in fourth place, and “Doc” Shattuck, California driver, was fifth. Seven started.
