New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-15
At THE IS" CURVE.
Hoo the Cars Took the Worst Turn
ON the Course,

Just past the second grade crossing of the
course was what known the IS" curve.
1t the worst along the entire course, ard
here Foxhall P. Keene and Chevrolet came to
grief. The road comes up straight from the
railroad track to the turn. then it goes off at
a right angle turn, which is repeated after d
straight stretch of ten twelve yards.
Then the road shoots off at obtuse angle.
Opposite the centre of Willetts-ave. at the first
of the triple turns. is oak tree about a
foot and a half in diameter a score of PAGES
away is a telegraph pole followed by three
others at similar Intervals. If a in skid
ding round the curve. missed the tree or one OF
the telegraph poles. he stood a good chance of
hitting one of the others.
At this point there were some seven or eight
hundred persons gathered to watch the
The greater portion of them had to this
point because it was the most dangerous of the
entire course. The drivers had to slow down to
negotiate it. and the railroad crossing at AL
bertsons more than half mile away, gave the
drivers more worriment There the machines
would leave the ground for clean forty fifty
feet for there a small rise in the road just
before the crossing. The machines after hit
ting that, did not land until they were clear of
the track
The first accident to excite the crowd there
the dropping of Lytle's mechanic at the
Guinea turn, where the machine abolished
Newfoundland dog Mr. Vanderbilts automo-
bile speeding back over the course to the aid of
the supposedly injured man, created all sorts of
wild rumOrs, which We're lulled by the reappear-
ance of the Pope-Toledo with the mechanic on
board the next lap. He had been fixing
some portion of the machine as II swung around
the turn, two miles from the turn, and had
been dropped off. He uninjured.
ChevrOlets accident happened when the
Frenchman on the seventh lap. He came
up the Willetts-ave. stretch from the railroad
fifteen miles to negotiate the turns safely. As
he turning into the first turn his left front
wheel Crumpled up under him suddenly. Run
ming on one whole wheel and two inches of the
spokes of the other, Chevrolet steered his ma
chine off the course just where Mr.. Keene hit
the telegraph post, past it and into the field
Everybody thought the Frenchman would be
killed but he cleared the two dangerous poles
between which he steered by the narrowest of
margins.
Christie car, on it's third lap, flashed by the
awkward turn. Scarcely had they passed when
il became known that there had been some ac-
cident close to Willetts. few furiongs further
LanCia had stopped at the gasolene station
there to put new set of tires. AS he
backing out into the road to resume the race
almost a lap ahead. Christie smashed into the
rear end of Lancia's machine, but did not do il
much damage. Christie and his machine
were not injured materially. Heath had a mar
he having been hanging on the skirts of the
Christie machine for several miles. When they
went around the curve they were not more than
thirty feet apart
This curve was taken by all the drivers at
low speed. Away In the distance there would
be heard a w,nirr, broken by the jumps at the
railroad crossing and the little rise which came
few rods before.