The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
AMONG HE%lUTONOBlLISTS,
FRENCH DyCER WRECKS A VAL
ABLE CAR.
Henr, DoryAu. Who VIII Drive n. l.. VI.
I...SIn Vanderbilt Cup Contest.
m,wr into Telephone POle-Arrange-
- for Elimination T~rlaIs-GOsslp.

w..,, into Telephone Pole Arrange
me- for Elimination TrisIs-GOssIp.
H. bolbeau Of Lyons. France. who was
49, n few DAYS ago aS driver for the
~ IN. Vanderbilt cup candidate. wrecked
~torse- pow r Mercedes touring car early
Srday morning. when he was accom-
lied by one OF his employers. Mr.. Lawrence
the Brecse, Lawrence a Moulton con-
fern. The accident occurred on the Jericho
turnpike near Westbury. where the car
struck q telephone pole when travelling about
slxty-miles an hour. Both occupants OF the
machine were pitched out. though DOlbeau
did not travel a. far through the air RS Mr..
Lawrence did. because his hold on the steering
wheel broke the force OF the collision. The
road makes a gradual winding curve leading
IN to the place wherc the pole stood and Dol
beau asserted that the steering gear locked 80
that he could not avoid running into the pole.
Dolbeau's only injury seemed to be a slight
cut on his head. and Mr.. Lawrence escaped
with a severe shaking up. The car struck the
pole with force enough to snap IL in two, and
the front axle and one wheel we're driven 100
feet away from the pole. The seats were
sent flying across the road into a field and one
Of the rims was projected yards away on the
same eide Of the road the pole was on. The
collapse OF the pole put the telephone service
OFT OF commission for moot Of the day. While
Mr.. Lawrence and Dolheau were being driven
TO Wcstbury In a passing automobile. some
needless onlooker dropped a match into the
gasoienc that had escaped from the broken
fuel tank and when a truck arrived on tho
scene to remove the wrecked car the flames
had reduced the expensive imported car TO
what one prominent racing driver styled
THE most completely burned automobile l
ever saw
Fifteen candidates for the Ave places on
the American team in the Vanderbilt cup
race will draw for their limination trial
numbers next Saturday night at o O'Clock
at the Garden City Hotel. This was one
OF the matters decided yesterday afternoon
az a meeting OF the racing board Of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association. held at the
headquarters OF the Automobile Club OF
America. which was presided over by Chair
man jefferson De Mont Thompson, the other
Members present being W. X. Vanderbilt.
Jr., =. NJ. Butler, Frank G.. Webb and A. @.
Batchelder. A. X. PardingtOn. chairman in
1904. was alsO present. The cup course
has been surveyed and measures 20. II miles,
which will make the distance OF the elimina-
ton trials and cup contest 297.I miles. W. X.
Vanderbilt, Jr., the cup donor, will again act as
referee for both contests, and Robert Lee
NIorrell and A. r. Pardington will act as
associate referees. There will be a motor
cycle patrol for both contests. az there was
AhCN y ~ "a inv A@Shs 'AeAAN ANtAAAC "N " ~
station fiagmen at the grade crossing at
Mineola. A wire fence will be erected on each
side OF the road for 200 feet west OF the
grand stand and for about 200 feet east
Of the stand. Wire fences will also be erected
at most OF the turns. There will be seven
teen telephone stations on the course, in ad-
dition 10 those at each five mile point. Work
is being rushed on the gra nd stand and IL Will
probably be completed to-day or tomorrow.
Tom Cooper received word last night that
Ralph MOnRini started yesterday to drive
Wilkpsbarre TO this city. Mongini will make
the lOs mile Journey from the factory to the
cup course by easy stages, but expects to
reach there some time to-day, so as to be
ready 10 begin practice early tomorrow
for some time and has been thoroughly tried
out on the roads near Wilkesbarre.
Ernest Keeler brought his 60 horsepower
Oldsmobile Vanderbilt cup candidate to
New York yesterday and expects TO drive IL
down to his training quarters on the Nassau
county circuit to-day. The machine will
weigh far below the international limit Of
2.2O4 pounds. as unusual efforts have been
made 10 cut down the weight by boring holes
in parts OF the machine that would not be
weakened by the process.
Joe Tracy said yesterday that he expected
to have the other m racer on the
cuD course in two or three days. Ii is q dupli-
cate OF the one he drove from Bridgeport
last week. He will try both Of them out
will use the one which makes the better