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By: Mark Dill

Below is a collection of articles about the great American driver Joe Dawson who won the second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race in 1912. Also check out this article on Joe from Vanderbilt Races.

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Earl Kiser was one of America's early professional auto racing drivers and a chief rival to his much more well-known contemporary, Barney Oldfield. Kiser succeeded Oldfield on Alexander Winton's Bullet II race car when Barney and Winton had a falling out. Kiser was also a colleague of Indianapolis Motor Speedway founder Carl Fisher.

This article was published September 7, 1916 and summarized entries for the September 9 Harvest Classic at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Two of the more prominent names were Ralph De Palma (Peugeot) and Louis Chevrolet (Sunbeam). De Plama's entry was significant because he missed the May Indianapolis 500 (in 1916 the "500" was scheduled for only 300 miles) when he played games with Speedway management in negotiating for appearance money as the defending champion.

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