The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-31
FLETCHER CAPTURES CENTURY AUTO RACE
GOES HUNDRED MILES IN sS
 MINUTES, AND 24 SECONDS. u

Believed That Time Will stand as n Worlds Record for some Time to COme-FIeteher Drove 0. F. Thomas
 Eishty-Horse Power aIachine-Not
 Picked as a Winner by the Experts Tine Starters and the Order of Finish.
 ormond, Fla, Jan, SO.--H. W. Fletch- CT, in an SO-horsepower machine to- day won the 10O-mile race over the ormond-Daytona Beach course in IS
 minutes and 24 seconds. The course had seven turns, and it is believed the time made will stand as worlds rec ord for some time to come. The winner
 was not picked out by the crowd as likely to head three or four of the oth- CT starters. There were a number of accidents to machines, trifling for the time being, but of sufficient importance
 to put them out of the running.
 Ten cars lined up for the start,
 which was at the two-mile post near
 Mosquito Inlet The course then lay fourteen miles up the beach, where the turns were made, then back and forth between the fourteen mile stretch for three and one-half laps,
 finishing the last six miles back to the club house. The cars were started one
 minute apart, leaving in the following order:
 Arthur P. Macdonald, driving his 9O- horsepower; A. Le Blanc, driving B.
 M. ShanIey, jr.'s, 90-horsepoWer; M. c. Bernin, driving w. Gould Brokaw's 60- horsepower; Paul Sartori, driving Al Hired c. Vanderbilt's 9O-horsepoWer; William Wallace, driving his sO-horse-
 power; Charles De Plus, driving Jos. H. Heller's S0-horsepoWer; Samuel E.
 Stevens, driving his 9O-horsepower; Walter Christie, driving his 60-horse- power; Charles Canault, driving R. E.
 Jarriges 45-horsepower, and H. W. Fletcher, driving o. F. Thomas, SO
 horsepower. In the first twenty miles the cars held their relative positions.
 The turn at the Ormond end was a
 good point of vantage and hundreds of spectators assembled there to witness
 the approach and hair-raising turns.
 Macdonald displayed great skill iii turning, as did also MT. Wallace and Sthe two professionls, Sartori and Ser. min. When the machines reached the 16rnile post on the second turn they | had travelled forty-six miles.
 MT. Mcdonald was still leading,
 but MT. Wallace had gained one minute or more. MT. Fletcher in his heavy l machine had outstripped the lighter
 ones, and MT. Christie was looming up
 as strong possibility. After going i about sixty miles, Macdonald stopped some distance from the club house. He
 was then in the lead, but he was done l for, as he had punctured 8 tire. It then looked as though MT. Wallace
 would win, the only other man pushing
 him being MT. Fletcher in his big car
 yet there was plenty of remaining dis tanee to be run. l During the latter half of the race
 accidents happened to most of the ma chimes. MT. Stevens scared cylinder
 so bad that he had to drop out; MT. Sartori iopened 8 leak in his gasoline l tank and had to stop long enough to plug it, and there, was other minor troubles. Meantime MT. Wallace and
 MT. Fletcher were plugging along
 smoothly and swiftly, with Bernin and
 Sartori close in the rear. MT. Wallace
 got into trouble with only sixteen miles
 to go. He burst an inner tube in his tleft front tire, yet he kept pluckily at
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