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Corum’s Race Car Wreck

Picture of 1925 Indianapolis 500 winner Pete De Paolo, sitting in his car (Duesenberg, number 12). 5 men stand behind the car.

News of First Serious Accident of Speedway Season

Thrill for Throngs Arriving Early for 500-Mile Race—Driver Uninjured.

DURAY’S SPEED BURST STANDS AS RECORD

Noted Personages Here to Witness World’s Greatest Motor Classic

Bricks Cool and Experts Predict New Mark.

By Blythe Q. Hendricks

First serious accident at the Speedway this year occured today when L. L. Corum crashed into the wall in one of Ralph De Palma’s cars Which he was to drive in the 500-mile race Saturday.

Corum was not hurt. The car will be out of the race.

News of the accident provided an advance thrill for the throngs arriving early for the race.

The accident occured shortly before noon at the first turn. Corum was driving at better than 100 miles an hour when his car, De Palma’s “Bobtail” Miller Special, skidded and turned completely around, stradling the inside retaining wall.

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Flu, Indigestion And Minor Injuries Are Ruth’s Troubles

New York, Apr. 9 (By A. P.)— Babe Ruth was resting comfortably in St. Vincent’s hospital tonight, suffering from influenza, acute indigestion and minor injuries suffered when he fainted and fell to the washroom floor of his private car, as the train was entering Pennsylvania Station shortly after 1 o’clock this afternoon.

Early reports from attending physicians said that Ruth had a slight concussion of the brain and a possible fracture of the skull, but these were later denied at the hospital by Dr. Edward King, the New York American League doctor, who gave the home run slugger a thorough examination upon his arrival.

“Ruth is resting as comfortably as can be expected and is in no danger,” said Dr. King immediately after the examination.

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De Gaulle’s Cheer Halts Bike Race

COLOMBEY LES-DIUX EGLISES, France, July 16(AP).—President Charles de Gaulle brought an unprecedented. temporary halt today to the Tour de France bicycle race—possibly the greatest sport event in this country. The 81 cyclists, in the next…
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4,000-Mile Bike Race is Captured by Frantz

Nicholas Frantz, winner of the 1927 Tour de France

PARIS, July 18 (AP).—Nicolas Frantz of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg today won the annual longest bicycle road race of the world, covering 4,000 miles, which started June 19.

The race is called “tour de France,” and skirts the entire frontier and coast boundaries of the country.

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Perfect Sport for the Tired Spectator

By Crosby S. Noyes, Foreign Correspondent of The Star

Cartoon of Tour de France spectators

PARlS.—After a number of years of more or less serious spectating, we have finally discovered what we consider the ideal spectator sport.

The Tour de France rates, we are given to believe, as a national sporting event in France almost in the same way as the World Series rates in the United States. But there’s one great difference between the great annual bicycle classic and most other national sports.