Lots Of Flames And A Long-Lost Trophy Marked Cincinnati’s First Automobile Race

Toward the end of 1951, a customer walked into the East Hills Plating Company in Bellevue, Kentucky, with a box full of old silver items for repair, replating and sale. Among the assorted objects, proprietor George Grainger spotted an impressive and substantial trophy cup of solid silver. It was engraved for presentation to one Emmet P. Gray by the Cincinnati Automobile Club. Mr. Grainger…