TWO NEW RECORDS SET HERE SATURDAY

Checking Up Speed Made in Elimination Trials Shows Old Time Cut Down.

BRAGG'S MARKS BETTERED

Burman Goes Four Miles in 2:29.33 and DePalma Travels Five in 3:04.62.

Two world's automobile speed records now are credited to the Des Moines Speedway on the books of the American Automobile association. It was discovered yesterday morning, in checking up time records for the elimination trials Saturday afternoon, that new marks for both four and five miles on a mile speedway had been set.

Bob Burman now holds the record for four miles, dispossessing Caleb Bragg, and DePalma's five miles was the fastest ever traveled on a track in the class of that here. Bragg also held the five mile record before Saturday.

The official time for Burman's four miles was 2:29.33, or at the rate of 97.29 miles an hour. Bragg made his four mile record on the Los Angeles track in May, 1912, doing the distance in 2:33.37, at an average rate of 94.73 miles an hour.

DePalma traveled the five miles Saturday in 3:04.62, at the rate of 98.1 miles an hour. This is considerably better than three miles an hour faster than Bragg's time for the same distance. Bragg's time, also made on the Los Angeles track, was 3:11.75.

The Speedway management announced yesterday that six drivers remain to qualify. These are Scott (Anderson Special), Clark (Firestone-Columbia), Lombardi (DuChesneau), Barndollar (Clergy Special), Donaldson (Mulford Special) and Henderson.

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