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Motorcycle Races
Cowley County Fairgrounds, Winfield, Kansas
Unidentified Contestants Exiting the Northwest Turn onto the Front Stretch at Winfield
Photo courtesy of the Winfield Public Library
TIME TRIALS – 2 Laps
Place |
Rider |
Hometown |
Make / Model |
Time |
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Wichita, Kansas |
Harley –Davidson |
1:14.60 |
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Reed Farrell |
Arkansas City, Kansas |
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Roy Rinehart |
Arkansas City, Kansas |
Indian |
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Roy Garst |
Wichita, Kansas |
Harley – Davidson |
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Walter Higley |
Coffeyville, Kansas |
Excelsior Twin |
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Frank Mansfield |
Arkansas City, Kansas |
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Charles Himes |
Arkansas City, Kansas |
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Ernest W. Yount |
Winfield, Kansas |
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Walter Cunningham |
Wichita, Kansas |
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FINAL – 10 Laps
Place |
Rider |
Hometown |
Make / Model |
Purse |
Time |
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1 |
Walter Higley |
Coffeyville, Kansas |
Excelsior Twin |
$30 |
6:39.00 |
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Roy Garst |
Wichita, Kansas |
Harley – Davidson |
20 |
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Roy Rinehart 1 |
Arkansas City, Kansas |
Indian |
10 |
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Sources: May 11, 1915 issue of the Arkansas City Daily Traveler and the May 14, 1915 issue of the Winfield Daily Courier
1Raymond Roy Rinehart, born in 1885 at Arkansas City, Kansas, was one of the few men to race both motorcycles and cars on the half-mile racetrack at Winfield. He moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma in 1933 and passed away there in 1968. Roy is interred in the Riverview Mausoleum in Riverview Cemetery on the north edge of Arkansas City.
In Memory of:
Lawrence Ray Weishaar1890 - 1924 |
Raymond Roy Rinehart1885 - 1968 |
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