The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-09

Finish Line, Vanderbilt Cup Course,
October 6.-Louis Wagner, in a 10
horse power French car today won
the third International automobile road
race for the William K. Vanderbilt Jr.,
cup, completing the distance Of 2971
miles in 29O minutes 10 and 2-5 seconds
| or at rate of more than a mile a
minute
Vincenzo Lancia in 102 horse power
Italian car was second in 293 minutes
| % and As seconds.
Antoinene Buray, in 12O horse
power French car. was third ia 293
minutes Al As seconds.
Albert Clement. in a 100 horse power
French car. was fourth in 301 minutes
SO As seconds.
Camille Jenatzy, in 12O horse power
German car, was fifth in 3O4 minutes
| 80 seconds.
Lancia actually finished the course
about minutes ahead of Wagner, who
however, started six minutes later than
his rival and had that much margin at
the finish. Only five cars finished the
race, but there were IA of the II cars
| that started running at the time the
race was declared off, which was done
as soon as Clement had won fourth
place.
| 1t was with the greatest difficulty
| that the crowd were kept back from
the course during the last lap. Without
regard to personal safety they swarmel
over the roads, giving way only when
the fast flying racing machines were a
hundred yards away.
| While France carried away the prem
| Ter honors OF the race, Joseph Tracy,
of the American team had the salts
faction of registering the fastest lap
made. On his fifth round Tracy drove
the 29.7 miles in the remarkable time
of 26 minutes 21 seconds. Tracy snf-
fered severely fro mtire troubles in
| the first few rounds and this cost him
| dear. He was on his ninth lap when
the race was called off.
Wagner, who held the lead from the
| very first round. cine very near to
losing the race. When twenty miles
from the finish one of his tires
exploded. He had a lead Of some
seven minutes at the time. changed
tires and managed to win by approx
| imately minutes. Lancia, Duray
and Clement went through the race
without mishap.
| The race was run under leaden
skies. and the start scheduled for a
NJ. was delayed Is minutes by heavy
fog.
After this had lifted there were oc-
casional riffs and bursts of sun shine,
but the finish was in a driZzle. The
tnclement wea ther had no effect what
ever on the crowd It is estimated
that fully 100000 persons lined the
course
OF the II cars that started, the first
to come to grief was the Italian racer
driven by Dr. Wedlschott. His steer
ing gear broke and the car went over
an embankment. The machinist, Co
lomho was severely hurt Lawwell. OF
the American team, dropped out after
the fourth round. He had all manner
OF difficulties.
Elliot Shepard ran into a specsatol
at Krugs Corner and fatally hurt him
Shepard then broke crankshaft and
dropped out on the seventh lap wher
he was running sixth
OF the IA cars that were running al
the time the race was called of, al
had completed the seventh round; elev'
en- had completed the eighth, eight hat
completed the ninth and five finishet
the tenth and last.
When Wagner was declared the win
ner the crowd serged abouA him an;
! <hoorod Tho hand n1avo1 the "M2r
seillais''
There were many minor accidents IL
the great crush leaving the finish line
The times of the cars that finishe;
the ninth round, In addition to thu
five which finished the race were:
Nazzare, italian, 292: 58 3-5.
Cagno, Italian, SOC: % As.
LeBlon, American, 312: 26 2-5.