Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-08


ed crashing into "a big tree boy loss than
"a foot HaWloy quickly guided the
machine back into the road and %
sped away on It's journey The narrow
escape caused momentary excitement
among the spectators.
No. 4 blow out "a fuse while passing
Queens. EHyor Webb stopped and put
IN new fuse aud started of AGAIN,
after % delay Of about two minutes
Car. No 49, WOrmscrs Car, broke a
tire while rounding "a curve at Jericho,
and after a delay of 30 seconds 10 was
on a nat tire.
A few minutes later, Frank Crokers
ear met whit similar accident at
the same place Croker dlled new
tire. and this, together with some
slight trouble with his engine cost him
is minutes,
At Mineola, GabWcls car passed
across the Long Island railroad track,
almost directly IN front of a moving
train, missing the pilot Of the engine ~
less than 80 feet The train had betn
stopped by the s'gna'man stationed az
the crossing but the engineer claims
that the flag against him had been
raised before he started Gabriel who
led az the end OF the first lap, main.
taIned his advantage in the second. COW
erlng the course the second time at an
average speed of g. miles an hour The
end Of the third lap also saw the French
driver leading the procession but IN the
next round Heath's car No T. shot 20
the front leading Gabriel by "a little
more than four minutes
Tho machines entered by r. r. Thorn.
az and W. q. Brokuw were out Of the
race before the end Of the fourth lap
the FIRST from broken springs and the
second because Of shattered axle
Although many miles behind some W
the cars. the real leader IN the race up
TO the end OF the third lap was the
imported car No 10, driven by Teste
Starting 26 minutes after the first car
got away the machine circled the coursu
az remarkable speed The first three
laps (9092l were covered In iG minutes
and 20 seconds The second lap was
covered IN 25;4S,
Alfred G. Vanderbilt's car No. 10,
which was unable 10 start with the 9th
era because Of a slight accident, was
repaired and sent away more than two
hours later.
The Vanderbilt car was started with
no hope that il would be n real factor
IN the race, but 10 go after a speed rec
ord for the course The car was stop
ped at the end OF the FIRST round how
ever on the ground that a flying start
was not permitted In a speed trial
The objection TO the flying start was
finally withdrawn and the Vanderbilt
caF was allowed To- continue The first
round was completed In 20 minutes fat,
The first serious accident of the race
occurred ON the stretch between the
turn az Queens and Westbury when
the tires slipped from Arents machine
and he and his chauffeur, Carl Men
eel were thrown violently TO the
ground Arents was not seriously in
jurcd. but the chauffeur was badly
hurt Both We're taken tOIa hospital.
Mcneil died later
Heath took the lead from Gabriel
early IN the race, and maintained u
steadily. having a good lead over all
the competitors up to the finish OF the
sixth round. Up TO that time Gabriel
had held second position. but an acci-
dent put him temporarily out Of the
race and Clement driving his own
took the position next behind
the leader
Clement made the sixth round In 81
In the circuit Of the course
Heath experienced considerable hard
luck, taking ASH To cover the course.
Technically this meant loss Of a.
points 20 the leader and left Clement
looking only 10 points Of the LEADING
position
At that point Heath and Clement
were well In the lead. and both were
pushing their cars to the utmost
Gabriel had a second thrilling escape
from a collision with a train, This
Tine IL was at Queens A passenger
train had stopped at the station, and |
lnlCaded It's passengers and had re- |
'eved the signal to go ahead. The |
station Is only about 100 feet from the |
roadway on receiving the signal that |
he track was clear the engineer start /
ed up ana the locomotive had reached |
.he middle Of the race course when Ca
)rItns car rushed down the road A
'hou! went up from the crowd gathered
II the crossing and the signal was
waved frantically 10 the engineer 10
Jack the train. The lever WAS prompt
y reversed. and AZ the locomotive
slowly backed on the course the ma
'hine flashed by missing the cows
.atcher by less than two feet.
Heath's bad luck pursued him IN
he seventh round his tire was pune
ured at QUEENS. almost at the spot
where Gabriel got IN trouble few
minutes before. Clement continued
o gain and drive his machine at lts
ighest speed I'm an effort TO cut down
he lead held by Heath's disabled ma
hine
An explanation OF many mishaps ON
he Jericho turn pike came TO light
rhen W0lly owens a chauffeur found
large quantity Of nails scattered
long the course short distance below
he grand stand Many pieces OF
roken glass was also found on the
Dad at this point.
Heath suffered "a long delay az a re-
ult OF his accident on the seventh |
ound, and before his broken tire had
cen replaced. Clement had taken the
,ad. The eighth round was covered
y Clement I'm 1906, and he flashed past
he grand stand with a clear advantage
( "a minutes over Heath. h's nearest
ompetitor AZ that time Gabriel's !
Machine was sull reported IN trouble
nd II was thought be was h0polcssly !
ut Of the race
Heath wins the race and the William !
/. Vanderbilt, Jr, cup by one minute
ma 36 seconds and n is believed that
iany records We're broken. Heath
lyered the last and tenth round I'M %
llnutes and five seconds. Albert Glenn
nj was second and Lyle third
The machines to finish drst and sec
nd m the race were Imported 30 horse
over cars The third was y horse
over machine of American make.
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