Jalopy Stock Car Races

Grant County Fairgrounds

Ulysses, Kansas

Friday Night – September 9, 1955

 

Sponsor – Charles B. Hart American Legion Post 379

Races Sanctioned by – Grant County Racing Association 

Race Director – Ernest Mann of Ulysses, Kansas

 

Purse – $300

 

 

            High winds and a dust storm blew in just as time trials were getting underway but the storm subsided just before the races were to be canceled.

 

 

First Heat Race – 8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Clarence “Nut” Cokeley

Liberal, Kansas

          Cokeley collected $10 from the purse for winning this race.

 

 

Nut Cokeley

Cokeley collection

 

Darrel Harms

Cokeley collection

 

Chuck Arnold

Dutch Davis collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second Heat Race – 8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Glen McDonald

Montezuma, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Third Heat Race –  8 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Charles “Chuck” Arnold

Ulysses, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trophy Dash – 6 Laps

Trophy donated by the Gray & Rosel Store, Ulysses, Kansas

Place

Driver

From

1

Dean Lewis

Dighton, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolation Race

Place

Driver

From

1

_______  Carson*

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

B Feature Race – 15 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

_______  Carson*

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Feature Race – 20 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Darrel Harms

Dodge City, Kansas

          A six-car pileup on the north turn eliminated three of the cars from competition but none of the cars involved have been identified.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Please contact Bob Lawrence if you know anything at all about this Mr. Carson from Wichita, Kansas.

 

 

 

 

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