| This is an incomplete list but it is the one put out on Wednesday evening. Winfield Daily Courier Friday, July 4, 1913 - Front Page MOTOR RACERS ARRIVED Came Thursday to Get Ready for Speed Contests Breed of Emporia Brings Favorite Buick Two of the autolsts who are going to contest in the races Friday afternoon are in the city tuning up their cars. Others will arrive later. Glenn Breed, who is the local favorite, came in Thursday morning about three o’clock. He lives at Emporia and left that city Wednesday evening traveling through the night, stopping at Wichita for a short time. He says that he has been working hard on his car and has it in better shape than ever and expects to win the races. He was the winner of all the races last year and expects to duplicate the feat Friday. He will race the same Buick that he had while he lived in this city and is well known here. He knows this track well having raced on it several times. W. W. Brown, of St. Louis, Mo., came in Thursday at noon. He left Kansas City at 9:00 A.M. Wednesday and made the trip in about twenty-four hours. He made the trip on eleven and a half gallons of gasoline which is very economical. Brown has the same car that he used last year in the races. It is a Buick of about the same build as that driven by Breed. He has one new feature on his car that has never been seen in this city before, using wire wheels on his car which makes it lighter and ride better. He raced in the races last year with Breed but was beaten both races. He was having considerable trouble with his transmission at the time and says that he can do considerable better than he did at that time. Just before the race began last year, he ripped his transmission badly and did not have time to get his car in shape before the races began. He says that he expects to win the races Friday and will show that he has a better machine than people were made to believe last year. B. T. Barber, of Iola, who will race with a Ford, had not arrived in the city at noon Thursday but he has notified the management that he will be here all right. Nothing is known of his racing ability but it is very (un)likely that he would have entered in these races, knowing that the other two men were entered, had he not had a good car. The fact that the three mentioned above are going to race means that it will be a good race and will be well worth seeing. Winfield Daily Courier Saturday, July 5, 1913 - Front Page FAST RACES AT FAIRGROUNDS Everything Went Off According to Program With No Accidents Autos Made Good Time In spite of the hot day Friday, the races held at the Fair Grounds were very fast. Each race was very exciting and most of them were very close. No serious accidents happened during the races which is very fortunate considering the time that was made in some of power races. By actual count, there were 224 autos on the grounds Friday at one time and it is estimated that there were between 60 and 75 motorcycles. Cars were there with banners showing that they were from Wellington (Kansas), Ponca City (Oklahoma), Arkansas City (Kansas), and many other places. The auto race was won by Glenn M. Breed of Emporia. He had no trouble winning this race and was not pushed hard at any time of the race. The race was run in five heats of three miles each, Breed winning the first three. Second place was won by W. W. Brown of St. Louis, and B. T. Barber, of Iola, won third with a Ford. First and second places were won by Buicks. T. N. Blondefield, of Lyons, driving a Buick, claimed a foul from the Ford and refused to race while Barber was on the track. Breed had been counted on to win this race on account of the way in which he raced last year. He was Bob Burman’s mechanic for three years and knows all about racing. There was considerable feeling in the race as it was for the championship of Kansas and Missouri with Kansas winning. Breed is the champion of Kansas and Brown of Missouri. The crowd seemed to be very pleased with the races offered and no critisms were offered. Some trouble was experienced in keeping the people off the track during the races but no one was hurt so that the management feels very fortunate. The management is to be congratulated upon the way which the races were handled. Results - Best three out of five races: First Heat - 3 miles (6 laps) - Starting positions unknown: |
| INDEPENDENCE DAY Friday - July 4, 1913 |
| Arkansas City Daily News Tuesday, July 1, 1913 - Page 4: THE FOURTH AT WINFIELD League Baseball Game and Automobile Races That Day |
| Winfield will celebrate the 4th of July with a baseball game between the Winfield and Ponca City clubs of the Kansas-Oklahoma League at League Park and automobile and motorcycle races at the Cowley County Fairgrounds as the chief attractions. There will also be miscellaneous attractions at Island and Hyatt parks and Winfield expects a good celebration crowd this 4th of July. |
| William Wayne Brown
(c1886-1958) was nicknamed "Cockeyed" Brown although he most
commonly went by his initials "W. W. Brown". He was
a noted car owner and engine builder as well as being a driver.
He attempted to qualify a DuChesneau for the Indianapolis "500"
in 1915 but failed to make the race. He returned to Indianapolis
in 1919,
qualified 17th but finished in 32nd place. Just 13 days after competing in this race at Winfield, Brown drove his 1910 Model 10 Buick "Bear Cat" racer to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. The Model 10 Buick which had a 92 inch wheelbase and a 165 cu. in. 4 cylinder engine that developed 22˝ horsepower, sold new for $1,000. Glenn Milton Breed was born on May 4, 1881 in VanBuren County, MI and moved to Kansas around the turn of the century. He raced automobiles professionally on dirt racetracks all over Kansas before moving to Austin, TX around 1918. He returned to Michigan in 1948 and worked at the Gobles Auto Supply in Gobles, MI. He also worked as an engine rebuilder for the Troy Motor Company in Paw Paw, MI. Glenn died on November 11, 1960 at Paw Paw, MI and is buried in the Robinson Cemetery at Gobles, MI. Thomas Nelson "Nels" Blondefield (1886-1964) grew up at McPherson, KS and eventually moved to California. He is buried in Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Sacramento, CA. Phillip A. Dautschman (1886-1936) was a life-long resident of Winfield, KS. Bob Burman competed in the first five Indianapolis "500" mile races (1911 through 1915) and held the world land speed record of 141.732 m.p.h. from 1911 until 1919. |
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| The ad at right appeared on page 5 of the Arkansas City Daily Traveler Monday, July 7, 1913 |
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| W. W. Brown |
| DRIVER Glenn Breed W. W. Brown B. T. Barber T. N. Blondefield - |
| Winfield Daily Courier Saturday, July 5, 1913 - Front Page MADE RECORD TIME Breed Drove to Arkansas City in Fourteen Minutes A record that will probably stand for several years was made Friday night when Glenn M. Breed, winner of the auto race Friday afternoon, drove to Arkansas City in fourteen minutes. He had as passenger, Phil Dautschmann and one other man. He made the trip in the same car that he drove in the race. This is a little better than sixty miles an hour as it is a little more than fourteen miles to Arkansas City. This would make it necessary for him to make considerable more than sixty miles an hour on the long stretches as he would have to slow down for the corners. W. W. Brown, who won second in the race Friday afternoon, also drove down after the races and, when he returned, said that he could not keep in sight of Breed. |
| FROM Emporia, KS St. Louis, MO Iola, KS Lyons, KS - |
| Third Heat - 3 miles (6 laps) - Starting positions unknown: |
| CAR Buick Buick Ford Buick Buick |
| FINISH 1 2 3 4 Did Not Start |
| Second Heat - 3 miles (6 laps) - Starting positions unknown: |
| Glenn Breed W. W. Brown B. T. Barber T. N. Blondefield - |
| Emporia, KS St. Louis, MO Iola, KS Lyons, KS - |
| Buick Buick Ford Buick Buick |
1 2 3 Did Not Start Did Not Start |
| Glenn Breed W. W. Brown B. T. Barber T. N. Blondefield - |
| Emporia, KS St. Louis, MO Iola, KS Lyons, KS - |
| Buick Buick Ford Buick Buick |
1 2 3 Did Not Start Did Not Start |
| Winfield Daily Courier Thursday, July 3, 1913 - Page 6 FAST RACES TOMORROW Fastest Drivers in Kansas Will Appear in Cars on Winfield Track Tomorrow Sharing the program will be motorcycle and horse racing. The cars will run five-mile races, best two out of three. Entered are: |
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This is a copy of
a photograph in the Cowley County Historical Society Museum, Winfield,
Kansas. It was taken at the Cowley County Fiargrounds probably
during the July 4, 1913 racing program as the dark colored car leading
is almost certainly a Buick Model 17 just like the one that Glenn Breed
raced on that day. The car by the inside rail is thought to
be an early Buick as well. The car at left could be a third
Buick but the rock guard on the radiator makes it difficult to tell
for certain. While Breed also raced the same Buick Model 17
at Winfield in 1912, there were only two known Buicks in that race
while four of the five cars that raced in this race in 1913 were Buicks.
Zoom in on the race car at left. Zoom in on the grandstand at left. Zoom in on the horses and cars on the infield of the racetrack at right. Zoom
in on the automobile on the extreme right in the infield. |
