Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-06
FRENCHNAN WON
VANDERBILT CUP
Completed Distance Of 297.l
Miles in 290 M. 10 2-5 S., Bet
ter Than Mile a Minute.
BUT FIVE CARS FINISHED RACE
Very Hard 10 Keep Crowd ON the.
Course---Number OF Accidents
One Man Killed.

Finish Lines, Vanderbilt Cup Course,
oct. 6.-Louis Wagner, In 10 horse
power French car today won the third
internal automobile road race for tho
William X Vanderbilt. Jr., cup, COM
plotting the distance Of 297.l miles in
200 minutes 10 2-5 seconds. or at the
rate Of moro than mile a minute,
Vincense Lacia. in a l2O-horse power
Italian car was second In 293 minutes
% As seconds.
Antoiuuc Duray, in t20-horse pow
err French ear, was third in 300 minutes,
A as seconds
Albert Clcmenun 1OO-horse power
French car. was fourth IN 3Ol minutes
SO As seconds
Camille Jenatsey, In a EO-horse pow
err German car WAS nth n 3O4 minutes
81 seconds.
Lancla actually finished the course
about three minutes ahead OF Wagner,
who, however, started six minutes later
than his rival and had that much mar
sin at the finish.
Only live cars finished the race, but
they We're IA Of the II cars that started
running al the time the race was de-
Clarcd OF, which was done as soon as
Clement had won fourth place.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
the crowds We're kept back from the
course during the last lap. Without re-
gard TO personal safety they swarmed
over the roads, giving way only when
the fast lying racing machines were
100 yards away.
While France carried away premier
honors OF the race, Joseph Tracy OF
the American team had the satisfaction
| of registering the fastest lap made. On
his fifth round Tracy drove the 29.'
miles in the remarkable time of 20
minutes q seconds, Tracy suffered Sc
/ verey from tire trouble IN the first few
! rounds, and this cost him dear. He
was on his ninth lap when the race
was called of
Wagner, who held the lead from the
| very first round came very near TO
losing the race when 20 miles from
| the finish one Of his tires exploding.
| He had u delay Of about seven minutes
at the time, changed tires and man
aged TO win by approximately three
minutes. Lanoia, Duray and Clement
went through the race without mishap.
The race was run under leaden skies
and tho start scheduled for a, m. was
/ utlbNcu 10 minutes IDT ucdNN luz M
ter this had lifted there were OCCASION
al riffs and bursts Of sunshine, but the
finish was in drizzle. The inclem-
ent weather had no effect whatever on
the crowd, II is estimated that fully
| 100000 persons lined the course.
or the II cars that started, the first
to come 10 grief was the Italian racer
| driven by DR. Weilschott. His steer
| Ing gear broke and the car went over
| an embankment The machinist Co
| lombo was severely hurt Lawelle
| of tho American team. dropped out
! after the fourth round. He had all
manner of difficulties.
Elliott Shepard ran into a spectator
at krug's corner and fatally Injured
him. Shepard then broke a crank
shaft and dropped out on the seventh,
lap, when he was running sixth.
OF the Ia cars that were running
at the time the race was called off,
all had completed the seventh round.
IL had completed the eighth. eight
had completed the ninth and five fin
ished the tenth and last.
When Wagner was declared the win
ner the crowd surged about him and
cheered. The band played the Mar
sellaise
There we're many minor accidents
on the great crush leaving the finish
line. The times OF the cars that fin-
ished the ninth round. IN addition to
the Ave which finished the race, wero:
Navarro, Italian. 292:5s 3-j.
Camno, Italian, 8062S As.
Leblon. American. 312:96 2-5