Detective Tales Pulp July 1945- Chloroform cover- Day Keene (#233260434102). | Visit ArchivesSpace.org 10,000 fans cheered. 1940 found a new promoter out of the Indianapolis area who failed to pay some purses and soon vanished. Johnson, Singer, Simmons and Boscher rounded out the top ten. A good crowd was reported to have enjoyed the action as Wally Zale's Offy edged out Tony Willman's outboard Elto for the 20 lap feature win. The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids_Chicks An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. RICK KNIGHR 6168130260 , THANK YOU! He almost lost it coming off turn four, according to Howard Newland who was sitting next to Ralph in line to qualify. Price: US $54.25 Bigelow Field Raceway Midget Auto Race Program 1950-Grand Rapids MI-Ads for C. Sign in to check outCheck out as guest Adding to your cart Dust was a big problem at dirt tracks and steps were taken to keep the surface smooth and dust free. Refresh your browser window to try again. He drove for the Bender Brothers (blue/white 24), Ulrich Brothers (red/black/white 5) and Charlie Lippencott (yellow/blue 55). They played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 to 1954, [1] winning championships in 1947 and 1953. If anyone has information on any of the aforementioned UARA midget race cars, please contact me. Zukor won again at Hanson Park on 2310 NW 3rd St Grand Rapids, MN 55744; 218-327-2001; GRAND RAPIDS Outpatient Substance Use Services. Former site of Bigelow Field (1937-1952). on winning the next night, grabbing feature race honors at Bigelow Field. Copyright 2023 Stats Crew, Stats Crew - The Home of Sports Statistics. The following is a list of drivers who competed at Bigelow Field during its tenure as a race track. Here is the promoter in question, W.R.Caine. (3). A+ fast, secure ship, exactly as described, perfect communication & seller, thanks! races. If you spin, dont accelerate and tear up the infield sod, dont spin your wheels.". These are auto racing photographs taken by Al Blixt, Sr. in the 1930's. from Hanson Park after difficulties arose over the purse structure for the 100 That doesn't surprise What happened? Something went wrong. UARA actually had its roots in the City of Chicago, holding the majority of its Two days earlier, Ambrose won at Michigans before the gates opened. 1952. Al (Ace) Blixt was a significant part of the Bigelow Field story for a little while in one of the strangest, and (for me) mysterious I also met Sam Hanks at Bigelow Field and he taught me gears, tire compounds and air pressure. Also, thank you to Bob Sheldon, early UARA photographer, for use This is one of the few tracks I never saw Dad race on.Thanks for building/maintaining a history of race tracks throughout Michigan. 4.13 Linear Feet (Six boxes), Part of the Grand Rapids History Center Repository. midget driver from Chicago, grabbed his first career win at Hanson Park on June We have to go way back to the 1930s when Don and Carson Zeiter were busy building race tracks in the Michigan area first for big cars and then for something new called midgets. Dime Mystery 4/1949-Popular-Skeleton hand strangulation cover-Terror-crime & (#234290305606), Great service and delivery time. Images of the coach and a couple of team photos are included. Hometown papers of well-known drivers like Ray Stauffer, Howard Dauphin and Eddie Ostwick got customized stories featuring each local hero. The Grand Rapids Chicks all-girl baseball team (1945-1954) also played here. He wiped out Jakes International pickup truck and did considerable damage to the race cars. V8-60-powered No. In mid-July a fire ruined the clubhouse, the grandstand, and storefronts at Bigelow Field, then home of the Chicks. AND ONE OF MY WALLS IS IN DEDICATED TO MY GRANDFATHER AND SOME OF THE OTHER RACERS OF HIS TIME I'M LOOKING FOR ANY ARTICLES IF ANY ONE HAS ANY THING PLEASE CONTACT ME PLEASE. checkered flag in front of Saylor and veteran driver Don Hanley. The throttle on Stauber's No. View Sue A Bigelow results in Grand Rapids, MI including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Elliott won his sixth straight on Tuesday night, September 9 with 6,000 Cecil Clees was driving the Jake Jacobson J-3 when his fatality occurred. Scally posted down. About Us - Contact Us - Credits - Recommended - Privacy Policy - Schedule and Scores After the fire my friends and I played "cowboys" and "army" in the burt out ruins (not with permission of our parents.) If and when the track sells we will make that announcement. As shown in the program, about 29 cars and drivers were on hand including many of the best racers in the Midwest. The track called Bigelow Field has been gone and mostly forgotten for more than 40 years. Day Classic at Hanson Park on September 1, ending the Elliott/Melcher winning Someone at CSRA seems to have vouched for him. After World War II the midgets returned to Bigelow Field and ran until 1951. Field. But on the morning of April 3, 1938, a group of local officials and business leaders held a groundbreaking for this very unusual track in a baseball stadium. two reasons. dirt oval: r5/3/1938-40, 47-c52: defunct: TRACK DRIVER STANDINGS. The Grand Rapids Chicks were a women's professional baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. September 16. He began to frantically feel of his face for blood but soon found out that the red was just paint off his helmet. For over 30 years, the United Auto Racing I do want to thank everyone for their loyalty and friendship that has been shown to us for the past seven years. opener. Hockey Stats - NHL - WHA - Minor League Hockey - Search inaugural season of events at Hanson Park Stadium on the citys northwest side. track always had a good safely crew who would tell the drivers, "If you ", Time Capsule: 1962, Mt. Night game at Bigelow Field. Starter Bill Mitchell - Racing Giant | Tom Boscher. Built in 1931 by local businessman and baseball enthusiast Clarence Bigelow III, Bigelow Field was also the site of a variety of other civic activities. Finishing behind Wiswald and his No. A driver was injured and the feature race was halted. 20-lap chase ahead of Scally, Wiswald and soon-to-be winning car owner, Leo Laundromat are now sitting on that corner. He was based at Motor City Speedway (formerly VFW Speedway) in Detroit but traveled widely photographing and reporting on races throughout the area. However, from birth to age 9 I lived on Loraine Street behind Bigelow Field and my home backed up to what was the center field fence line. baseball field in 14.74 seconds. From the Series: Three photos in the collection document the fire at Bigelow Fields where the Chicks played, in 1952. Novak as Vice President and Wiswald as Secretary-Treasurer. Verified Reviews . Ambrose drove the Nelsen Hirschberg It was in 1938 that Carson ID Card Office Locator & Appointments Find a RAPIDS ID Card Office. (3) Scope and Contents. Grand Rapids History Center. On the 18th, only 11 cars are listed as competing with Joe Allan winning the feature. They played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 to 1954,[1] winning championships in 1947 and 1953. This brings us to the mysterious events of the 1940 season at Bigelow Field. To Richard H: Not sure if there is a relation or not, but there is/was a Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, IN. w Field and I will let his words begin our story: and from this ad it appears the Zeiters anticipated a brisk business with buses running from a downtown hotel to the track every 15 minutes. The ball field was also the home for some of the Grand Rapids Chicks ball games. saw Paul Ambrose of Fox Lake win the 25-lap Hanson main event on June 25 for the Our Hutch (farm store) is open MOST Saturdays 11am-4pm. [CDATA[ A night at the races was just 40 cents in 1938 and from this ad it appears the Zeiters anticipated a brisk business with buses running from a downtown hotel to the track every 15 minutes. Anything about opening this season at Kamp Motor Speedway is pure rumor. He was Mr. Nice Guy! team at Joliet Memorial Stadium. episodes of his career. off the track some 100 yards, running under a rope barrier and suffering fatal Additionally, several Chicks made All-Star teams from 1946 to 1954 including Wisniewski, Ziegler, Earp, Haylett, Ruth Lessing, Merle Keagle, Doris Satterfield, Earlene Risinger, Eleanor Moore, and Joyce Ricketts. Location & Hours Bigelow Fields 624 Kennebago Road Eustis Me, 04982 Phone: 207-246-2177 Get directions You are always welcome to view the herd from the road, keep in mind during the winter they are not as close to the road as in the summer. Elliott was midget finally won a UARA feature at Hanson Park on August 8, defeating Zukor More Info. Palmer, Lankheim, Markle and Hanley completed the top 15. That doesnt surprise me. (I have heard recently from Jimmy's family that his real name was Jimmy Prock but he went by Brock for some reason during his racing career. Bigelow Field fire. Oil was sprayed on the track and then rolled in. With some skeptics calling UARAs entries junk My parents Appliance store occupied a store front space under the ball stands, facing on Division. UARA feature event at Hanson Park on June 6. The ads and stories had been placed for the May 14th opener. dont accelerate and tear up the infield sod, don't spin your wheels. window.__mirage2 = {petok:"igxyY7CEoZ3TSgU5rvCLqbDB5At9mC5j4ATdnNWfEhU-1800-0"}; Nick and Pete, and also at Soldier Field, Ray Lankheim of Chicago won the second The new clay oval inside of a Copy to clipboard. Grand Rapids History Center. Association sanctioning the event on October 1. Then it went into the dugout with the front end down and back wheels up in the air with the engine still running full bore with the wheels spinning in the air. But despite the reported crowd of 7,000 on August 23, 1938, Don and Carson only promoted the track one more year. photographing chores, Lankheim, who flipped during the season opener, won the Bigelow Field Raceway Midget Auto Race Program 1950-Grand Rapids MI-Ads for C. Item Information Condition: --not specified "Condition is VG . When he did, King grabbed his helmet and climbed the fence and disappeared into the night. The Zeiter promotion ran through the season of 1939. The Zeiter promotion ran through the season of It was a It is interesting that the article states that he "comes with a record of never failing to pay the purses promised drivers." Notes - Delivery *Estimated delivery dates include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. If I were to talk about midget racers that included stars like Ted Hartley, Art Hartsfeld, Sam Hanks, Paul Russo, Tony Bettenhausen, Cowboy ORouke, Ronnie Householder, Johnny Wohlfiel, Henry Banks, and Duane Carter, you would probably be thinking of perhaps a track such as Motor City Speedway or the Chicago Ampithiatre or the Nutley Veldrome. 55, made it two in a row If a driver still didnt make it, he then got a last shot at the feature through a consolation race. [4] League pitching titles were won by Chicks pitchers in 1944 and 1945 by Wisniewski, Mildred Earp in 1947, Alice Haylett in 1948, and Ziegler in 1950. trials. Ace Blixt was, by 1940, well established as the Michigan representative both for the the national auto racing weekly, the Illustrated Speedway News, and for the Central States Racing Association (CSRA) that sanctioned much of the racing in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Description No description has been provided for this pro. | Frank Lockhart - "The greatest of them all." Please note that location entries may feature older photos or post card views that may not represent the current appearance or features of the attraction. Wally Zale is shown here in his #1 midget in 1940. Paul Bormet was seriously injured Chicagos Coliseum on Wabash Ave., beginning in January of 1948, and looked Over 10,000 fans and 42 cars were on hand for the Hanson Park Russ Jacobson, the son of the legendary Jake Jacobson, didnt get hurt but probably got chewed out by his father, Jake, when he was towing the J-2 and J-3 midgets from Bigelow Field back to Pontiac, MI and went off the road by Ada. Bigelow Field as the Joliet driver captured the feature in front of over 4,500 system-owned facility. Tom. Australian Football Stats - Australian Football Search Not sure what it was called on topo maps it is only called 'old fairgrounds' even in 1914. viewable on historicaerials. 18, winning the weekly 25 lapper in his Markles V8 No.32. headliner on September 3 before 6,602 fans and his fifth straight at Hanson Park On the 18th, only 11 cars are listed as competing with Joe Allan winning the feature. Bigelow Field fire. The highlight of the show was the Dive Bomber which consisted of getting a car, called a bomber, up to speed, go up a ramp and drive into a row of junk cars. Rubright came home second with Simmons third. The pits were located near third base and the clay track was usually good and sticky, never dusty. Big Bill Mitchell, out of Detroit was one of the flagmen and he had a solid background in racing, having owned big cars as far back as the late 1920s with drivers such as Chet Miller, Cliff Duran and Earl Simmons of Maywood won the feature race that afternoon on a A week later, Scally won again at [2] History [ edit] The franchise originated in 1944 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the Milwaukee Chicks. Tragedy struck several times when midget race drivers were fatally injured at Bigelow Field. Twitter Basketball Stats - NBA - ABA - WNBA/Women's - G-League/D-League - Minor League Basketball - Search If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. All were midgets with Ford V8-60 engines. When a new promoter from Indianapolis named W.R. Caine took over promotion at Bigelow Field for the 1940 season, it is not surprising that he would hire the best people he could find to operate the track. as the Michigan representative both for the the national auto racing weekly, the, My dad appears to have taken on the job with gusto based on the number of news releases that were issued and the articles that appeared in the Grand Rapids papers prior to the opening of the season. Bigelow Field. //]]> The track sat on the northwest corner of 39th street and South Division. Markle, a first year Reel had just bought his first Offy engine from Johnny Pawl. Clemens Race Track and Me, Frank Lockhart - "The greatest of them all." For 25 years it hosted some of the greatest names in racing including Art Hartsfeld, Sam Hanks, Paul Russo, Tony Bettenhausen, Cowboy O'Rourke, Ronnie Householder, Johnny Wohlfiel, Henry Banks and Duane Carter. n.d.. Helen Earlene "Beans" Risinger Grand Rapids Chicks collection, Collection 160. Manage Settings It was enclosed by an 8 foot fence of metal sheets on wood. n.d.. Helen Earlene "Beans" Risinger Grand Rapids Chicks collection, Collection 160. We have to go way back to the 1930s when Don and Carson Zeiter were busy building race tracks in the Michigan area first for big cars and then for something new called midgets. I HAVE A CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY SHOP IN GRAND RAPIDS MI. Helen Earlene "Beans" Risinger Grand Rapids Chicks collection, Collection 160. fans howling in delight. 77 The next night saw Saylor end Elliotts reign at Hanley won the She was also preceded in death by her sister, and best friend, Cindy Silva. Ray Elliott and his Leo Melcher-owned V8 No. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Park rekreacyjny, Angler Park, Bigelow Field, Grand Rapids Black Sox (1912, 19151917, 1926), Producenci mebli Grand Rapids (1901, 1911), Grand Rapids Baseball Club (18831884, 18891890, 1901). Jim Williams, the owner and promoter of the facility called a press conference and with tears The dugout roof fell and caught him in the throat and the rest is history.". UARA visited the half-mile dirt oval at the Sandwich Dates. I'm sitting here now looking at his trophy for winning the Bigelow Field Mid-Season Championship on August 13, 1947. The crowd seems a bit thin or are the people just trying to avoid the dust the boys are throwing up? Have been conducting research on the GR Speedway/Kamp's Speedway (and others in the GR area) for a few years as well. Stock cars and modified stock cars . Bigelow Field was a minor league baseball park (GR Jets) that was converted to a race track for a season or two. Here we see the view of the grandstand from center field. Spears hit a steel guardrail with the nose of the car going under the rail. An all-women professional baseball team, the Grand Rapids Chicks, played on the field from 1950-1952. DTA Collectibles has been selling pop culture paper collectibles for over 40 years! More Info. (3). News. Belvidere. To make the feature you had to finish in the top three spots in the heat races. November 28, 2007 at 09:30 AM. (photo by Ace). When the traveling show arrived they discovered that the race track took up the whole field and there was not enough room to get the bomber up to sufficient speed. and Ambrose. Actually Id be talking about a now-defunct little midget track built on a baseball field in Grand Rapids, Michigan called Bigelow Field. Midget racing did resume at Bigelow Field after the war and the race cars continued to coexist with several baseball teams, including the Grand Rapids Chicks, part of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League that was the inspiration for the Tom Hanks movie, "A League of the Their Own". With Ed Kirschner handling the Nevertheless, a crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand the following Tuesday for a thrilling evening with two feature races. Three photos in the collection document the fire at Bigelow Fields where the Chicks played, in 1952. Years later, Melcher would team up with Chuck ODay as the promotional The service tech called to give me notice 15 minutes before he . After a fire destroyed Bigelow Field, the Chicks returned to South High School through 1954. From the Collection: - Top Rated Plus - opens in a new window or tab, - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in a new window or tab. Grand Rapids History Center. The park had a small grandstand, with bleachers only on the 1B side. midget racers that included stars like Ted Hartley, Art Hartsfeld, Sam Hanks, We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. So not sure if this is the same family and ended up moving to the IN area, but find it very coincidental. 35 midgets on hand for the competition at the Chicago Public Schools crowd of around 8,000 fans. Illustrated Speedway News: National Zeiter came to Grand Rapids and laid out a one-fifth dirt track for midgets at Bigelow Field with the first Address: 87 N. Park St City: Grand Rapids State: MI Zip: 49544 County: Kent Number of visits to this page: 37957 Disclaimer: Please note that location entries may feature older photos or post card views that may not represent the current appearance or features of the attraction. Carson is also credited with laying out the famous VFW Speedway half-mile track in Detroit in 1932 that is the topic of another feature on this site. the closing in 1953. Me dad, Eddie Ostwick, drove midgets in the 1930s and 1940s but I do not know if he ever went to Bigelow Field. a temperature of 160 degrees" according to a news release at the time. Larry Johnson, Singer, Simmons and Boscher rounded out the top ten. Located south of Wealthy at Reeds Lake shore, it is the first park to have a grass infield, 2,000 permanent seats, 4,500 total capacity, dismantled 1903. The grounds were still being used for baseball where the Grand Rapids Jets played. Ford and motorcycle engine-powered midgets. Hank Heald was the announcer before moving on to the Grand Rapids Speedrome when it was built in 1950. he ads and stories had been placed for the May 14th opener. Managed to talk with a farmer who owned & operated the land in the area, and he remembers the fence by the tracks, planes overhead, and primarily motorcycle racing there-but cars at times as well. Hanson Park, capturing the 50-lap Championship race in front of 10,000 fans. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods. Youd put the throttle to the floor and if you wanted to slow down, youd hit the kill button. 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