The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
AMONG THE AUTOMOBLISTS.
CAR CRASHES THROUGH FENCE
AT WAVERLY MEET.

NJ. n. Apgar. After Finishing Third TO Bur-
'rcughs In Long Race, Comes TO Grief
-Schutt Also Has Narrow Escape when
Car Turns Turtle-NO serious Injuries.
But for a couple of accide nts, in neither Of
which any one was seriously injured. the
New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
might have succeeded yeste rday In finishing
up It's election day programme at Waverly
Park, near Newark. Five events were sched-
uled but only two OF these we're finished
before daylight ended. though two special
events were run. a five mile match between
the famous old Reobird and a Buick. and a
three mile motor cycle contest. A ten mile
free-for-all, q special exhibition race and the
i've mile New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club handicap had to be called of because
OF the darkness. The grand stand WAS filed
to its utmost capacity but there we're not any
where near as many spectators present 0s
there were for the election day meet. The
fact that there was no Ernest Eeeler. with
his Vanderbilt cup candidate. to try for records
yesterday as there was last Tuesday night
had something to do with the comparative
scarcity or spectators yesterday. even though
Ave thousand or so enjoyed the free show ut
the pretty little public park.
The worst accident occurred after the final
ten mile heat Of the twenty five mile handicap.
W. II ApAatt . VI W IOpt-Alhlt
that finished third. did not slacken up after
completing the race distance, al he had not
seen the starter waving the red flag that de-
noted the end OF the contest. lie made another
circuit OF the track at full speed, and as he
began swinging around the first turn on
another lap at full speed his car suddenly
swerved to the right. smashed through the
outside fence and was stopped by a small
hill n couple Of yards away from the fence.
Robert Miller ~ yQaFR Old of N untpr6On "a We
nue.. Newark. had been standing at the fence
when the car plunged through and he was
knocked down. One OF his legs was injured
and he was badly shaken up. but no bones
were broken. lie was taken to the City
Hospital in an automobile. NJ. II. Apgar, the
driver. was not injured at all. but Charles
Apgar of Summit. who was acting as his
mechanic. was knocked Off the car and was
picked up in a rather dazed condition. lie
had no serious injuries, for the first coherent
speech he made after the mishap was a re-
quest for a cigarette. The tire on the right
rear wheel was torn of when the car struck
the fence,
The other accident occurred when Is laps
or "a miles had been covered In the second
heat OF the twenty-five mile handicap. Walter
Schutt, who was driving a % horsepower
Buick, Rugged the pole. too closely on the
backstrctch and hit the fence. The left
front wheel of his car struck one of the AKA
it three inches in the ground, The impact
broke the iastenings which held the axle
TO the body OF the car, and after the machine
the two front wheels slid back under the car.
The. front of the machine dropped down
Schntt underneath it. In spite OF the Efforts
OF the police. a thousand or two spectators
ran 10 the spot, When the car was rIghted
tonneau had saved him from injury.
The big race OF the. day was the twenty
five mile handicap. which had two trial heats
nj that distance and "A final heat mt tan mllps
~. j. kochler. % horsepower Buick run
about. with the limit allowance OF two min
II seconds. The second heat had to he
stopped owing to the number Of spectators
cident. but was started over again. c., X.
burroughs, "a horsepower Packard. winning
from, scratch in IS minutes rs seconds. The
nnal heat OF ten miles had six starters. koehier
led until he reached the beginning of the
homestretch on the last lap, when Burroughs
Ovsrhauled him and beat him out in the race
to the tape by less than two feet. VI. II.
ApRar, 2O-25 POpe-HartfOrd, who was on
scratch with Burroughs. had difficulty getting
his clutch engaged at the start and Bur
roughS had gained two-thirds of a lap on
him before he got going, After he did get
Burroughs had gained and finished third
at the end Of the race. about twenty-five yards
behind Burroughs and koehler. ApGaT went
nounCed the time Of the race and so no an
nounccment was made about the finish or
time.
An imprOmptu match at FIVE miles was
arranged between the famous little old record
breaker, the 80 horsepower Reobird and the
% horsepower Buick skeleton that won the
first 100 mile race at the Empire City track.
Dan Wurgis was not present to drive the
Reobird. IL being piloted by +. {. Showers,
while h. j. koehler drove the Buick. koehler
received a handicap Of one lap of the half
mile track, Showers making a standing start
as Koehler finished his first half mile. The
handicap proved too much for the Roebird
aud though Showers caught and passed Koch
Ter after he got going. he could not make up
the full half mile, being about an eighth of
a mile behind at the finish. StOwers's
time for the five miles was o minutes, SO
seconds, and keohler's time was J minutes
l second.
Another special race was a three mile con-
test for motor cycles. J. W. Ward, mounted
on a double cylinder "A horsepower Indian,
competed against Daredevil" Bob Hunter,
on a single cylinder ~ horsepower De Dion
pacing machine which was imported from
France several years ago 10 pace Joe Nelson
quicker starter and soon opened up a big
gap between himself and Hunter. Several
times in the first mile and a half Hunter drew
mp near Ward. but the latter fought him of
in each instance. "a Hunter had trouble on
the turns, where his heavy machine skidded
badly on account OF its long wheel base.
Hunter IL a veteran OF the motor paced style
Of bicycle racing, however. and he soon be-
came accustomed to the turns. He drew up
close to Ward in the fourth lap and very
cleverly took both the pole and the lead away
from his opponent, leading at the end of the
second mile. Ward tried hard TO catch him.
yards to spare in 4minutes ) seconds.