The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-03
AMONG YHE AUHOMOBLEHS.
DRIVERS PRACTISE OVER CUP
COURSE ON SLIPPERY ROADS.
wagner wakes Fast Time In an Old TAI
lie DlOn Meets Win MlsliaDS -sJenaiIy
credited Win . Trip in n Minutes
-FONhaII keene Nlsy Not start -tiOsslp.

--IONhall keene Nlny MOI start -e'Ossip'
A drilling rain which began at midnight
on MOnday and kept M for several hours
leTt the NASSAU county circuit so muddy
and slippery yesterday morning that the
expected PUSHES OF racing cars over the course
did not niHlrrialiZr, though wagner anu
Jenatzy did some driving that could scarcely
be termed conservative. Eleven ma'liheS
Wrrs out, Of which one wa+ the ~ horse power
Durracq with which Ilemrry Won the an
derbilt cup last October. wagner GROVE
the old DarruCQ, as his cup racer had not ar
rived at bs quarters at GlenwOod, wagner
d rove up to krug's a few minutes aiter .
O'Clock und the spectators we're snrprlsrn
when they saw he was driving the old ear IN
81 cad OF one Of his newer racers. The machine
stlIl bears mum Der ~, painted ON each side OF
its Rasolene tank. aud is the same car mat
DemegeOt won the San Crlstobal ROAD race
with in Cuba last winter. After II Few minutes
conversation with some acquaintnnces AZ
Krugs Wagner swung around the corner
and WAS OF on his first trip around the course
in "A racing car. In a few seconds more thah
20 minutes he was back at krug's again.
with his face and that Of his mechanic very
much spattere d ny with oil, as another sprlhk-
ling Of oil had been spread over parts OF the
course on Monday. He stopped again anu
asked how fast his round had been and when
told about the time he had made said thai the
TOAus were very HhDINtN NV
effects Of the oil and water. Albert Clement
went over the course lel-urely in a touring
car with =. d. Bowman and when the young
! Fren IN stopped at krugs he sald wagner
had passed him on the North Hampstead
Turnpike going about seventy-iNe OF eighty
miles an hour aud that his car was swinging
from one side Of the road to the other because
Of its great speed. For himself, Clement said.
he did not care TO take his racing car ont
when the going v US so bad, nor If he had ven
tured out with his racer would he have taken
any such chances as Wagner did, because the
oiled road surface had not allowed the rain
TO soak in and there we're IA great many pud-
dies.
Elliott +. shepard. with his 100 horse
power HOtchkiSs racer, was the nrst driver 70
pass krug'., leaving there Just atter nan
Dast s. lie made two rounds of the course in
as and ~ minutes, lie Blon, WIN the re-
painted ii0 mo bhpt NE rdid not get back to
KruR's until an hour and twenty,three minutes
had elapsed. as he had been held up near me
grand stand'at MpstbuTy by a short Circulted
spark coil. The anti-skid band Oh his right
rear tire had torn badly while he was driving
over the first part Of the course and this was
responsible for some more OF his lost time.
lie Blou's car has its cup race number. l..
painted on the radiator very pr9minrmuIE,
since the trial race. Frank lAMNel, Win
W. j. Miler's ITO horsepower trayer-Ml!rr
was out for the first time Yesterday since tne
elimination trials and made one round IN 30
minutes. His car Was without it, cup race
number Iuttgen WAS out with George
McKpSson Browns Mercedes and\ made one
round of the course but took an hour and
1o', minutes 10 complete II. swinging around
into the Jericho turnpike the second time
after : o'clock. Jenatzy made but one round
with Robert Graves's Mercedes. which mad
auti-skid tires. % minutes elapsinR between
the times he passed krug'S. Some Of the
other drivers SAID that 1t was ar lmpossibli "
FOR any car to make such fast time as that
when the roads were as bad a. they we're
Yesterday, but lauetZy was safd TO nave
asserted that he had covered the fun course.
Toe Tracy made one round, so Tar as passing
Krup's was concerned. being timed in asa
minutes with the 81 horsepower LoCoinoblle.
Duray passed Krug's once IN, his Lorraine
Dietrich racer, but he evidently did not like
the Condition OF the course. for the next time
he came around he was IN the tonneau OF a
touring car. Cagno. who was the only
Italian out, made one round with one Of the
Itala emergency racers. taking the turns
very carefully and making the round In 4o'1
minutes. John ". Haynes, with a long cigar
irnIy clutched in his teeth, took the Haynes
racer out for its first practice since the ellmma-
tion trials and made one round IRON krugs
in 80 minutes.