imca, 1920 part three

The end of this IMCA installment features the only time the touring group visited Vancouver's Hastings Park. During the first day of racing a challenge race between a pair of racers from the IMCA and the AAA competed. Jack Ross, representing the AAA won.

This installment also features the beginning of a number of years that the IMCA was part of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). Although this blog is intended to cover the west we'll include T.O. (Toronto) as being on the eastern fringes of the best part of Canada (tongue firmly in cheek).

So:

Saturday, August 28, 1920, Toronto, ON, CNE, 1/2 mile

--3 miles--1st, Louis Disbrow (Essex); 2nd, H. Dempster (Paige Special); 3rd, R. LaPlante (Wisconsin Special)--time, 3:39

--2 miles--1st, Rowe Brainerd (Duesenberg); 2nd, L. Disbrow (Briscoe); 3rd, Sig Haugdahl (Essex)--time, 2:24

--5 mile pursuit--1st, Louis Disbrow (Briscoe); 2nd, H. Dempster (Paige); 3rd, Ted Rick (Stephens)--elapsed time, 6:18 4-5--winner’s time, 6:03 4-5

--Dominion Sweepstakes--15 laps--1st, R. Brainerd (Briscoe); 2nd, H. Dempster (Paige); 3rd, L. Disbrow (Essex)--time, 8:54


Monday, August 30, 1920, Toronto, ON, CNE, 1/2 mile

--1st race--3 miles--1st, Disbrow (Essex); also ran: Brainerd (Briscoe); LaPlant (Wisconsin)--time, 3:39

--2 miles--1st, Haugdahl (Essex); also ran: Brainerd (Auburn)--time, 2:31

--5 mile record run--Haugdahl (Fiat)--time, 5:26 (new Canadian record)--$500

--5 mile handicap race--1st, Dempster (Auburn); 2nd, Disbrow (Briscoe)--time, 6:58--$500, $200)

--match race--1st, Haugdahl (Essex); 2nd, Rowe Brainerd (Wisconsin Special)

--5 mile race--1st, Disbrow (Essex)--time, 6:00--$1500, $750, $250


Friday, September 17, 1920, Vancouver, B.C., Hastings Park, 1/2 mile

--event no. 1--light cars--five miles--1st, Dodge, No. 2; 2nd, ONO, No. 5; 3rd, Oakland, No. 10--time, 6:41 2-5

--event no. 2--5 miles--1st, Fred Horey (No. 44); 2nd, Toots Reynolds (No. 1)--time, 6:44 2-5

--event no. 3--light car race--8 miles--1st, Toots Reynolds (No. 1); 2nd, Fred Horey (No. 44)--time, 11:41 1-5

--event no. 4--special match race--10 miles--1st, Jack Ross; 2nd, Henderson--time, 12:00

--event no. 5--pursuit handicap--7 laps--1st, Henderson (No. 43--scratch); 2nd, Meyers (No. 24--started first)--time, 4:35

--event no. 6--1st heat--5 miles--1st, Horey (No. 44); 2nd, Hoffman (No. 9)--time, 6:40

--event no. 7--Dominion Sweepstakes--2nd heat--1st, No. 43; 2nd, Reynolds (No. 1)--time, 7:12 3-5


Saturday, September 18, 1920, Vancouver, B.C., Hastings Park, 1/2 mile

--event no. 1--consolation race--five miles--drivers who did not win Friday--1st, Hoffman (No. 9); 2nd, Maley (No. 17); 3rd, Meyers (No. 24)--time, 7:27

--event no. 2--match race--2 miles--1st, Henderson (No. 43); 2nd, Horey (No. 4)--time, 2:24 1-5

--event no. 3--light car race--15 laps--1st, Meyers (No. 24); 2nd, Reynolds (No. 1)--time, 9:35 3-5

--event no. 4--Dominion Sweepstakes--final heat--5 miles--1st, Henderson (No. 43); 2nd, Fred Horey (No. 44); 3rd, Hoffman (No. 9)--time, 6:13

--event no. 5--novelty race for commercial travellers--1st, Ernest Bulmer; 2nd, Norman Lindsay--time, 1:20--Henderson drove the winner.

--event no. 6--free-for-all--10 miles--1st, Henderson; 2nd, Hoffman--time, 13:18--dead heat at end, toss of coin won