Jalopy Stock Car Races

Grant County Fair – Ulysses, Kansas

Friday Afternoon – August 26, 1955

 

Sponsor – Charles B. Hart American Legion Post 379

Races Sanctioned by – Grant County Racing Association 

Race Director – Ernest Mann of Ulysses, Kansas

 

Attendance – “A record breaking crowd”

 

 

 

 

Nut Cokeley

Cokeley collection

 

Bob Champlin

Jim Edwards photo from the Tim Cornelius collection

  

Scott Talbert

Cokeley collection

 

Bob Elliott

Cokeley collection

 

Chuck Arnold

Dutch Davis collection

 

Bob Murphy

Cokeley collection

 

Harvey Main

Huddleston & Peoples photo from the Cokeley collection

 

            An eight–event program was run on this afternoon during the county fair that included a 20-lap A feature race.  A break was then taken so that spectators could visit other parts of the fair.  That evening, the fans reassembled to watch the “special 50-lap A feature race”.  The first eight races paid a total of $300 in prize money while the purse for the “special 50-lap A feature race” added another $200 to that bringing the total prize money paid out to $500.  All 21 competitors were eligible to race in the “special 50-lap A feature race.”  To date, nothing has been learned about the time trials, the three heat races, and the consolation race that were run in the afternoon.

 

 

 

 

Trophy Dash – 6 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Bob Champlin

Wichita, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B Feature Race – 15 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Bob Elliott

Ulysses, Kansas

 

Clarence “Nut” Cokeley

Liberal, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Feature Race – 20 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Harold Farthing

Ulysses, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special A Feature Race – 21 Cars – 50 Laps

Place

Driver

From

1

Harold Farthing

Ulysses, Kansas

2

Bob Champlin

Wichita, Kansas

3

Charles “Chuck” Arnold

Ulysses, Kansas

4

Bob Murphy

Ulysses, Kansas

 

Bob Elliott

Ulysses, Kansas

 

Clarence “Nut” Cokeley

Liberal, Kansas

DNF

Harvey Main

Ulysses, Kansas

DNF

Scott Talbert

Elkhart, Kansas

          This race had to be stopped before the first lap was complete when the cars driven by Main and Talbert collided near the pit area.  There were no injuries.

          Farthing collected a total of $90 from the purse by winning first place in both A feature races.

          Clarence “Nut” Cokeley only collected $5 in tow money as he did not place in any of the races in which he competed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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