The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-07

drivers back, which he gave each In turn as
the starting signal.
With q jump the red Thomas car In out
eastward and the race was on. That car
simply exploded down the strstch to Jericho.
The inexperienced had expected ut least
some delay in starting. but before they
could get their minds down TO h was
happening lie Blon was making the very
slight turn east OF the stand. His thick
brown jacket, and that Of the mechanic
beside him. had begun to belly out like the
thin silk blouse OF a jockey. Bat never
did a racehorse light out-Dossibly for the
hereafter-like that red racer Of metal.
Without a moments delay Heath had
brought his Panhard to the tape and again
Starter Wagner went through the back
ward counting to the acco Impairment OF
the banging OF the exhaust and the stabbinS
horizontal Jets Of flame. Another 60!
another leap and Heath was humping and
bouncing forward to risk destruction in a
wild whirl around the hairpin curve. he
acute angle at Krug's corner and the per1ls
Of Manhasset hill. And the onlookers
knew that these wild foreign drivers would
take the turns at a speed that would blanch
the face OF the steadiest nerved spectator.
Car after car drew up to the line without
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minute intervals except Cagno's car Itala,
No. -. which did not get the word to go
until two minutes had elapsed after the
starting Of its predecessor-this because
J there was no number II starting. owing to
the absence OF Foxhall keene.
WAITING FOR THE PIRsT ROUND.
When Fabry had got away with his No,
10 ITALIA, the last on the programme, the
grand stand thousands sat back and began
to breathe again. All they knew now was
that some place around Nassau county
seventeen gnomes were chasing one another
fiendishly with no thought for life and
limb, with seemingly no care for death.
There was a buzz along the stands for a
few minutes and gradually the chatter
ceased and the eyes were all turned up the
stretch toward the west to await the nash
ng by Of the first man to make the circuit
with akin whole, tires unpunctured and
cylinders banging.
All the time Announcer prunty was busy
with his megaphone telling the stands
what was happening along the circuit.
On a great map over the grand stand an
other young man pinned tickets at places
along the route to show the position OF the
various cars. soon the numbered tickets
we're tapping in spots and the b~lackboard
became a thing upon which to devote brain
power if one wanted to follow the race.
The our told Of this car working
badly at one place and OF another having
been stopped for new tires some place else
NO. Q Tracy stops to put on non-skids'
droned the mega phone, and later, NO, .
lost tire at Willetts road" This was the
beginning Of the misfortunes OF Tracy, the
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sung out by the Everything
worth recording en- route was announced,
and 80 the blackboard watchers were able
to follow the racers mentally at each point
of importance. All that happened during
these runs and subsequent laps is told
elsewhere in the detailed story Of the race.
Up the course in the direction from which
the racers had come to take their positions
for the start one could see by the growing
light a black mass standing on a little curve
about t~hree-ouarters OF a mile west of the
stand. Through that mass Of standees that
seemed to be packed almost in the centre
of the course would soon shoot like a bullet
from a gun the first car to make the circuit
OF Twenty-Five miles. One caught himself
wondering how many would be killed II a
car coming at more than express train speed
should skid even slightly while rounding
the little turn.
FIRST CRY OF can COMING
Those that could see that black mass on
the course at the turn suddenly saw a red
flag raised above the heads Of the distant
crowd. Directly in front of the stand a
trumpet rang out. The cry that was TO
become 40 familiar, Car coming, during
the hours following was heard simultane-
ously with the trumpet.
There was a roar, a blur on the oiled
road and Jenatzy had come and gone,
Excited girls whose positions did not per-
nit Of a view up the course had braced
themselves to see that first car fash by
The blur had skipped across the limited
view of the road and with a sputterinR
roar was barking itself away in the dis
lance before the spectators Of limited view
came to themselves and realized that they
we're staring blankly at a bare brown road
where a noisy shadow had passed. That
was all they had seen-a shadow eXplod'
ing by.
sWho-who was it?- gasped the specta
tors.
"Jenatzy." answered those that had beer
fortunate enough TO catch the big humble
3 on the car.
We'll, they shouldn't say Cal coming
| after that said a tall girl with a greer
parrot cs a hat decoration. They shout,
say Car gone"
FOUR CARS CLOSE TOGETHER.
Another roar and a flash and Lancia hai
, gone by. Then came Tracy, who stoppe1
; his car in front 81 the Vanderbilt box for
moment to complain Of the way the standee
we're crowding on the course. The crow
. a moment later got it's first big thrill whe
along tipped four cars only a few second
apart, Wagner's, Shepard's, Lawwell's an
NaZarro's.
l. That's what we came to see!" yelled tn
n stands with delight.
And after this something happened
Enthusiasm died. except among the cor
q frmed bugs The spectators who Ia
: lost sleep to see these men joke with deaf
n suddenly realized that only the pronounce
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