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Winners of Races for Championship Cars, 1920-1929
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Jimmy Murphy, Miller, Indianapolis, 1924
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Driver of the Decade:
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Jimmy Murphy
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Car of the Decade:
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Elgin, Ill., Aug. 28, 1920. Jimmy Murphy, who finished 3d in this Duesenberg, with his mechanic, Ernie Olson.
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Tacoma, July 4, 1920. Murphy, right, with Olson. Murphy led six laps, but finished 6th in the race the next day.
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Jimmy Murphy (12) leads Ralph DePalma on the way to winning a 50-mile race at Beverly Hills Speedway, April 10, 1921.
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Poster for Thanksgiving Day race at the Beverly Hills Speedway, Nov. 24, 1921. Eddie Hearne won the 250-miler.
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Syracuse Motorist, August 1921
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Championship drivers raced on the Syracuse track as early as 1921, but the event was not a national championship race until 1924, a race in which Jimmy Murphy was killed.
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Jimmy Murphy being congratulated after winning the 1922 Indianapolis 500.
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May 7, 1922
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Start of the 1923 Indianapolis 500. Tommy Milton, who won, is on the pole. Next to him in the front row are Harry Hartz and Dario Resta in his last championship race.
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| Eddie Hearne |
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Tommy Milton, first two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, 1923.
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Probably Kansas City, July 4, 1924.
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From "Board Track: Guts, Gold and Glory" by Dick Wallen
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Altoona, Pa., June 13, 1925. Pete DePaolo started 13th and won the 250-miler. Starting in the front row were Leon Duray (28) and Earl Cooper (3).
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Poster for May 11, 1925, 250-mile race at Charlotte, N.C., with pictures of Tommy Milton, upper left; Bennie Hill, upper right; Phil Slater, middle left; Harry Hartz, middle right; Earl Cooper, lower left, and Pete De Paolo, lower right.
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The cutline on this newspaper clipping reads: "Tommy Milton, veteran auto racing driver, won the 250-mile race at the Culver City track in California, averaging 126 miles an hour for the distance, breaking all records for board track racing. This picture shows Milton in the lead, with three other cars seemingly in close (unclear), but he had already lapped them three times." The race was on March 1, 1925. Below, the International Newsreel Photo used as the centerpiece for this illustration.
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Altoona, Pa., possibly Labor Day, 1925. Bob McDonogh won the 250-miler.
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Program for 250-mile race at Culver City, Calif., March 1, 1925
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The race was started on Feb. 22, but delayed because of a crash by Stuart Wilkinson on the first lap, then halted after 25 miles and completed on March 1, 1925. Tommy Milton won.
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Harry Hartz, 2d place finisher, Fulford, Fla., February 22, 1926.
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| Harry Hartz |
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Miami, 1926: A gthearing at the home of Harvey Firestone (center, hat in hand) at the time of the Feb. 22 race at Fulford, Fla. Among the guests were Barney Oldfield (hands on belt, center) and Pete DePaolo (kneeling, hat in hand), who won the race.
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Harry Hartz , second at Indianapolis, 1926
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From "Wall Smacker," by Peter DePaolo
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Culver City, March 6, 1927. Pete DePaolo leads Harry Hartz and Cliff Woodbury.
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Indianapolis, May 30, 1927. The front row, right to left, consisted of Frank Lockhart, Pete dePaolo and Leon Duray.
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From "Vintage and Historic Indianapolis Race Cars" by Dan Owen
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Cliff Woodbury's Indianapolis 1927 car, restored.
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| Pete DePaolo |
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Lincoln used the Indianapolis Motor Speedway pagoda in advertising its 1927 Phaeton
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Altoona, Pa., Aug. 19, 1928. Louis Meyer (8) won the 200-miler. Pole-sitter Leon Duray finished eighth and the outside front-row starter, Bob McDonogh, finished second.
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| Louis Meyer |
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July 4, 1928: Ready for the start of the 185-miler at Salem-Rockingham, N.H. Ray Keech won in a Miller.
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| Louis Meyer |
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Lining up for the 1929 Indianapolis 500. On the pole, Cliff Woodbury.
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Detail from Richfield Oil Co. souvenir blotter.
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Beverly Hills Speedway, 1920. Photo from "Wall Smacker," by Peter DePaolo
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