Racers!!!

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Tommo was kind enough to share some great clippings of racers from 1919 !!! I figured they justified a new thread......

Albert "Shrimp" Burns

Wells Bennett

Roy Artley

Red Parkhurst

Ray Weishaar

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Here's another of Wells Bennett that I've been meaning to post....

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...and Ralph Hepburn!!

[big jesus 151]

Great Pics

Thank you very much Tommo, Carl Pusherman Racing !!!

[Tommo]

The Red Parkhurst discussion made me go looking for a magazine cutting of him that I knew was around here somewhere and I came up with quite a few pictures that Dad had got from Maurie Hendry. Maurie had got them from Geoff Hockley who in turn had got them from Floyd Clymer.
If there's any interest I see if I can lean on Cory to put some more up.

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Dad was quite the visionary. Who knows what might have become of this stuff had he not got his hands on it. Thanks very much for taking the time to share it Tommo!!

Bill Leuders in St. Louis 1914


Joe Walters Savannah 1915


Ran Sprouse 1924


and last but not least Dynamite Scott Stroudsberg 1924!!!

[LouieMCman]

Looks like Joe Walters had a rouge day in Savannah......

[dlm32]

Birmingham Raceway

Birmingham AL. Fairgrounds Raceway 1915 or 1916. Can anyone ID the racers?

[Tommo]

All these images are either magazine or newspaper cuttings.
Written in pencil on the back of the Joe Wolters one is;
Quote;
"Joe Wolters after finishing second in the great Savannah Road Race. If Wolters had not lost his rear tyre he would have won easily."
Unquote;
I presume this notation was put there by Floyd Clymer before he sent the cutting to Geoff Hockley.

[Harleyson's]

Savannah Road Race

November 26th 1914

The second 300 Mile

27 Laps over an 11,5 Mile Circuit


1.
Lee Taylor
Indian 8

2.
Joe Wolter
Excelsior

3.
Irvin Janke
Harley-Davidson

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Thanks Tommo!!!