Ray Eddy, racing superstar?

My dad told me once that my grandfather used to "disappear for months at a time."



"Huh?"



"Yeah, he'd get depressed and hit the road. That's why I spent summers in DC with Uncle Clifford..."



[grasping for relevance] "Was he drunk?"



"No, he'd just get low and take off."



?



I know very few things about my grandfather: he died of some sort of stroke at about 58, he drank a lot, and he loved motorcycles. So much so that my dad can remember there not being a family car, but rather a family Indian motorcycle with sidecar. My grandfather also once held some sort of motorcycle landspeed record for the state of Ohio, or maybe just the county...or his street.



So, my brother calls me the other day, in the midst of his busy day, to say that on some google search or other he came across the name Ray Eddy as a motorcycle champeen in the 30's in San Francisco and other parts of CA.



My question is, is it him? How many Ray Eddys were there who were reknowned for motorcycling?



I could ask my dad, but he'd just say "What?" and then hang up the phone in my mid-sentence, figuring the call was over.



Here is a pic of the 1938 whatever champion (I neglected to save the link and don't care THAT much), and some runners-up. These guys could have known my grandpa! He PROBABLY owed them money!