LEWIS AND GALVIN WIN IN RACE MEET

Crawford Driver Captures Fifty Mile Feature in Thrilling Race on Speedway Track.

Dave Lewis and Frank Galvin, speed demons, shared honors Monday afternoon in a series of short distance contests for speed on the Des Moines speedway track with Ralph Mulford, winner of last year's big 300 mile race a poor third.

Contests for fifty, twenty, ten and five mile distances were held with five of the drivers who participated in Saturday's meet competing. Eddie Rickenbacher and Pete Henderson, Maxwell drivers, were forced to leave owing to another engagement, and Ralph DePalma, who was scheduled to try for a new record on the speedway was track, was called to Chicago by a telegram last night.

DePalma's Mark Stands.

In none of the events were the drivers able to exceed the speed mark set by DePalma in the elimination trials preliminary to the Saturday races, but the hotly contested races provided real thrills for the enthusiasts of the speed game.

There was some conflict over the time made in the five mile race. G. Decker French, representative of the American Automobile association, claimed a world's record for Lewis in the five mile race. The time originally announced was 3:12.20, but later French announced that Lewis' time was 3:02, bettering the previous record made in 1912 of 3:11.

Lewis who drives a Crawford Special, and who finished fourth in last Saturday's meet, copped the big honors in the fifty mile event after a neck and neck race with Hughie Hughes in a Devlin Special, Ralph Mulford in a Hudson Supersix and Frank Galvin in his Sunbeam racer. Lewis averaged about ninety miles an hour. Last Saturday Rickenbacher negotiated the distance at a ninety-four mile clip. Hughes was forced to quit on the forty-third lap owing to a broken connecting rod and Galvin finished second with Mulford third.

Galvin Wins Two Races.

Lewis drove a pretty race coming from behind after the twentieth lap and gradually overhauling the leaders. His time for the distance was 34:08.59.

Galvin in his Sunbeam captured the twenty mile contest after a pretty fight with Mulford and Lewis in 13:02.45, his average being 92.10 miles an hour.

Galvin came right back and finished ahead of Lewis and Mulford in the ten mile race by circling the track at a ninety-mile an hour gait. His time for the distance was 6:20.16.

Although driving a skillful race, Mulford was unable to capture a single event. He started out strong in the five mile contest, the final event on the program, with Lewis running easily in the rear. The latter quickly overhauled Mulford's Hudson Supersix and grabbed first honors with a time of 3:12.20.

A broken piston rod prevented Earl Cooper from participating in with his Stutz racer. Cooper circled the track in a trial spin when he met with the accident.

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