Automobile Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Saturday, September 18, 1915

 

 

Races sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association (I.M.C.A.)

I.M.C.A. Representative for Kansas – W. S. Thompson of Hutchinson, Kansas

Race promoter - Louis Disbrow of Indianapolis, Indiana

 

Attendance – 8,000

 

 

 

Louis Disbrow in the Jay-Eye-See Case

Horey collection 

 

 

Time Trials – 2 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile		Time
1	Johnny Raimey**	Case Comet		1:07.4
2	Eddie Hearne*	Case #8		1:08.6
3	Louis Disbrow*	Gray Streak Case #2		1:10.4

 

Match Race for Cars with Engines of 231-CID to 300 CID – 4 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile	Purse	Time
1	Tommy Milton*	Mercer	$75	2:33.2
2	Johnny Raimey**	Scat	25

 

Exhibition Run for Time - 2 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile		Time
1	Louis Disbrow*	Jay-Eye-See Case		1:10.4

 

Class “C” Race for Cars with Engines of 301 CID to 450 CID – 6 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile	Purse	Time
1	Eddie Hearne*	Case #8	$75		3:48.2
2	Johnny Raimey**	Case Comet	25
3	Joe Cleary	Scat
4	Tommy Milton*	Mercer

 

Exhibition Run for Time - 4 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile		Time
1	Louis Disbrow*	Gray Streak Case #2		2:19.4

 

Novelty Race – 3 Laps with Tire & Wheel Change

Place	Driver	Automobile		Time
1	Eddie Hearne*	Case #8		2:42.0
2	Louis Disbrow*	Gray Streak Case #2

            Hearne’s crew changed his wheel & tire in 15.0 seconds.  Disbrow’s crew only took 14.0 seconds to change his wheel & tire.

 

Australian Pursuit – 10 Laps

Place	Driver	Automobile	Purse	Time
1	Johnny Raimey**	Case Comet	$75	6:01.6
2	Joe Cleary	Scat	25
3	Tommy Milton*	Mercer

 

Free-For-All – 6 Laps

 

 

 

 

 

*Eddie Hearne (1887-1955), Louis Disbrow (1888-1939), and Tommy Milton (1893-1962) have all competed in the Indianapolis “500”. 

 

**John R. “Johnny” Raimey (1880-1964) was from Cincinnati, Ohio and later moved to Memphis, Tennessee.  He drove racing cars for 20 years before turning his attention to promoting automobile races in the Tennessee area.  Johnny lost a leg in 1931 when an errant racing car struck him after it had run off of a Memphis racetrack.

 

 

 

 

 

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