New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-07
At BULLS HEAD.
Mule Team on the Course Nearly
Wrecks Clements Racer.

| The sharp right angle turn at Bulls Head, which
| many prophets had picked as a likely place for
| accidents. attracted crowd of nearly two thou
sand persons. 1t orderly crowd and was
we'll handled by squad of determined looking po-
licemen and deputy sherifTs. who showed the spec
tators long the started that they meant
| business.
All went well at Bulls Head until 1892 a m.
| when a drunken teamster far obstinate than
the pair of balky mules hitched to his wagon.
! dashed onto the course from the yard of Breen S
| Hotel. making a complete blockade in the path of
| the
Every one knew that Paddy Burns drunk.
| but none dreamed that he would attempt 10 take
| the road until the race was over. The yard he
| came from is a small bluff the west side OF
| the road from the Hairpin Turn
Just as the fagmen waved the red squares and
| shouted Car coming Burns whipped up his mules
and jolted his big wagon right angles across the
| road.
! Suddenly the cracking of coming terrific
| speed burst upon the of the crowd. My
| God' shouted man in touring car Get that
team out Of the way, thereI be slaughter here
| in two minutes
The rushed for the team and tugged at the
bits of the plunging mules. He could easier have
| moved telegraph pole. The situation grew alarm
| ing. Women shrieked and turned their heads in
horror
The fagrnen became confused and despite the
shouts of the yellow flag. the stop
signal. they frantically brandshed the red One
| man rushed under the ropes and snatched the yell
| low signal from bewidered hagman and waved II
to Clement. who had just rounded the last slight
curve the North Hampstead Turnpike on his
seventh lap.
Clement heard the shouting but the cracking Of
his cylinders made it impossible for him to catch
the warning word "Stopr'
The one yellow flag waving among half-dozen
red ones confused him and he increased his speed
Tho crowd shut off his view of the team around
the corner Fortunately for Clement. he described
1 hiry tn alt
rear end of the wagon by an inch. Several persons
say he scraped the taiIboard in passing.
Meanwhile, dozen fought with Paddy
| Burns to get the reins He held on with the
the seat. By this time the greater part Of the
crowd surged onto the course. They forgot for
formed an admirable target for the steel devils"
VINO did no lose aebPH s wits He was T the r
the Hampstead Road and. actually dragging him
the wagon and with one blow the jaw forced
PADDY" Burns to drop the reins. seaman's
toward Old Westbury George seaman aao h rqd
lin until the team turned into a side read.
Severa! men jumped from their touring and
both 'Paddys" eyes were black and closed and
brow, he turned to Seaman saying:
ea guess he he's got enough to keep him quiet"
He had not released his Clutch on PADDY BuTnss
throat when. without warning of any kind. Lutt-
wh L%neia not twenty Yards behind him The
when Luttgen passed.
Luttgen shifted to the left with Jolt that nearly
upset him and passed safely. Lancia saw the team
and coolly stored for the left bank
When Seaman released Paddy" the latter want
ed to night and the crowd again surged onto the
course. Tracy, who was hard upon the heels of
I-anca, went through the crowd like rocket.
Seaman saw this, and cleared the course as quick
team. 1890 Va N -
Tracy. was the favorte with the people of Bulls
HEAD lie blon and Lancia came In for much cheer
ins th but every time the Locomobile discerned
In tne distance the crowd became like madmen
When Tracy stopped at Bulls Head with tire
IIouole all Kinds OF sympathetic expressions were
pronereo' indeed. the anxiety of the small boy
70 assISt IN replacing the tire became annoying
Tracy loSt seven minutes the Bulls Head stop