Automobile Races

On the Historic Half-mile Racetrack at the

Kansas State Fairgrounds

 Hutchinson, Kansas

Saturday, July 4, 1925

 

 

Promoted by – Murl Wilson and Bill Bryant 

 

Attendance – 3,000 paid admissions

 

 

Delbert Ging Robert Ging collection

Fred Lentz Hutchinson Gazette photo

 

 

First Heat Race – 6 Laps

Ging led the first heat race from start to finish.

Crow’s Hudson Special was owned by race promoter Bill Bryant.

McFadden’s Ford Special suffered “engine trouble”.

Algenrind’s Essex Special crashed through the fence in the south turn on two different laps.  He was not injured and his car suffered no damage but he elected not to restart the race after the second excursion off of the racetrack

 

 

Second Heat Race – 10 Laps

 

 

Stock Car Race – 1 Lap

 

 

Classic – 30 Laps

Ging led from the start until the tenth lap when he was passed by Fred Lentz.

 

 

Also on the program were a number of novelty events including an auto polo match between two teams of inmates from the Hutchinson reformatory.

 

  

 

 

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