Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1905-10-14


teams representing Germany France,
Italy and America started in the w. X
Nantlerbilt. Jr., international automo-
bile cup race here this morning at y
o'clock The German team had but
four mea. All accident TO the car or
Clarence Dinsmore and failure to sub
stirute another racing car has ellm1-
mated one of the German teams. L u.
Bowden was substituted in the Chr
man position. but was unable to pres
pare his machine.
Mineola and the surrounding countr
is crowded by more than 20,000 peop' y
who are distributed along the coursebof
2S.3 miles.
The race is bitter contest between
America on one side and France, Ger
many and Italy ON The otlser. If the
American motorists fail to win this
year the cup will go over to Europe
and must in future be raced for on for
egn soil.
There is not much money exchanging
hands on account of the uncertainty OF
! the race, but Lancia, Jenatzky, Szisz
and Hennely are the favorites. One /.
bet Of $1,000 to $4,000 has been laid oni
4 the Pope Toledo cars which plngiey7 /
and Lytle will drive. Cedrin0, who will
drive one of the Flats for Italy, Is as I
hopeful as any contestant although he !
is saying nothing He was married |
only lately and has brought his bride !
from Italy TO see him win the race.
The course is guarded by 300 consta-I
bes and 145 deputy sheriffs These
men are spread out over the cleaver-I
like course, which covers 2S.3 miles.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and his
daring driver, Sartori, We're hurled +
from Mr.. Vanderbilt's big ninety (
horsepower Fiat. narrowly missing !
tgs2 and a telegraph pole, during trial
spin over. the Vanderbilt cup course on !
Long Island.
MI Vanderbilt and Sartori were
saved from serious injury by falling in
n bank of soft loan. Otherwise they
could not have escaped being severely
hurt Both he and Sartori were COW
/ ercd with mud and badly scratched ana
bruised when they got back to the
start.
/
A large number of automobiles
passed through here yesterday after
noon and last night on their way to
Long Island to the course of today's
road race for the Vanderbilt Cup.
There was steady stream of them
and there was nearly always IfUQ-
her of them waiting at the ferry ton
cross to Staten Island. They came
/ from places in the lower part OF
New Jersey and also other parts or
the state They were of all shapes,
sizes and makes and their owners
were all en- route TO witness today's
stirring contest.
In the crush at the foot of Smith
street at one time when seven or
eight autos stood there, local coal
wagon crashed into one of them,
breaking a lamp.
The limit of four in each trip of
the Warren was maintained. One
special trip was made last night.
There were about sixty or seventy
carried across In all.
One party of three young men
I from Princeton, in a big auto car,
paid $25 to get from South Amboy
to this city on their way to Long
! Island TO see the cup race. They
/ had been misdirected and landed at
South Amboy. Not wishing to go
| back to New Brunswick and lose so
much time, they went to the railroad
officials at South Amboy and hired
an engine and fiat car to make .
special run TO this city.
Shortly before o'clock this after
noon the automobiles which pass
ed through this city on the way to
Long Island yesterday afternoon 70
witness the race for the Vanderbilt
cup, commenced to return home.