Altoona Board Track

First, we want to thank the curator of the Paul Sheedy collection, who follows First Super Speedway, for this terrific contribution.  Sheedy, who managed Altoona Speedway for a time, appears in the foreground, wearing a flat hat, glasses, and all in white, including knickerbockers.
 
What you see here is the Altoona, PA board track speedway and experts like Chuck Ruddy, Jr. helped me identify this race as track's September 1, 1924 "Fall Classic." The winner of that race was the man known as "The King of The Boards," Jimmy Murphy, who won the 1922 Indianapolis 500 and the 1921 French Grand Prix.
 
As for the cars that can be identified by number in the image, #16 is Ray Cariens (Miller), #10 is Ernie Ansterburg (Duesenberg), #3 is Bennett Hill (Miller), #4 is Harry Hartz (Miller), #5 is Tommy Milton (Miller), #8 is Earl Cooper (Miller). Note that this was a stellar field with four Indianapolis 500 champions entered, including Milton, Murphy, Joe Boyer, and Peter DePaolo.
 
Notes from Bud Miller: The great Altoona Board Speedway..was built at a cost of a 1/2 million dollars…using 4 million feet of Lumber..back then lumber was not treated..and didn’t last too long…in 1928..they replaced the racing groove with…chestnut wood..at a cost of $30,000 dollars…after closing in Sept. 7, 1931 the wooden track burnt down…May 19, 1936..the last races held there were .mid 50,s..on a smaller 1/4 mile dirt track…which years later…I drove around in my Cad…not a piece of the wood left.
 
Notes from Carl Schulz: I guess we have to acknowledge this was the race we lost the great Joe Boyer in the same Duesenberg in which he won the Indy 500 for the Team a few months prior. Ernie Ansterburg in the #10 Duesenberg on the outside pole was lost the following month practicing at Charlotte for their inaugural race and driving Boyer's former winner. A bad year for Duesenberg which