Soft Shoulder

For the first time in his high-speed career, squint-eyed "Wild Bill" Cummings, hell-for-leather winner of the 1934 Indianapolis automobile race and many another hard-fought meeting on the roaring road, got into a fix last week from which his sure hand and "heavy foot" could not extricate him.

Driving toward his home on the outskirts of Indianapolis, not in a racing car but in his 1939 Chevrolet sedan, he got off the road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans as were Wishart, De Palma and Rickenbacker before the War. Two days later, as it will to 30,000 far less skillful and less famed motorists in 1939, death came to "Wild Bill" Cummings.

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