The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-06
one KILLED, & HURT
BY RAGING AUIOlsTS
Victorious Frenchman Drives 297
Miles in Less Than Three
Hours.
TIRE BURST ON LAST LAP
BUT NERVY MAN WON OUT
Americans Fail to Get a Place.
Tho Tracy Makes Best S
Lap Record.
ACCIDENTS OF RACE

| Herbert Baldwin of Norwalk,
! Conn.,, boy spectator, run down by
Tracy south Of East Norwich. iione
leg broken, ankle fractured and
may have suffered internal injuries.
John Brooks, a boy, hurled twen-
ty feet and seriously injured when
Weilschott' S car runs off the course
at the Manhassett hill Two men +.
were bruised and Weilschott and
his mechanician, Colombo, painfully
hurt.
One man killed and another in
jured by spectators automobile
! on way to race.
Oct. 6.-Louis Wagner, in f1o-horse.
power French (Darracq) ear, today
won the third international automo-
bile race for the William K. Wander
bilt, Jr., cup, completing the distance
of 297.l miles in 900 minutes 10 2-5
seconds, or at the rate of more than
a mile a minute.
Vincenzo Lancia, in a 120.horse.
power italian (Fiat) car, was second
in 293 minutes % As seconds.
Antoine Duray, in a 20-horsepuwer
French (De Dietrich) car, was third
in 293 minutes A As seconds.
Albert Clement. in a 100-horsepower
French Clement Baird) car, was fourth
in 30l minutes 50 As seconds
Camille Jenatzy, in 120-horsepower
:, German Mercedes car, was fifth in
304 minutes 38 seconds.
Only. Five Cars Finish.
Lancia actually finished. the course
about three minutes ahead Of Wagner,
who, however, started six minutes later
than his rival and had that much mar
gin at. the finish.
Only five cars finished the race, but
there were fourteen of the seventeen
cars that started running at the time
the race was declared off, which was
| done as soon as Clement had won fourth
Iplace. s5
| It was with the greatest difficulty
! that the crowd was kept back from
the course. during the last lap. !, With
swarmed over the roads, giving way
only when the fast-fying machines
were a hundred yards away.
| Tracy Made Fastest Lap.
= While France carried away, the pre-
mier honors of the race, Joseph Tracy
/ OF the American team, in a 9O-horse-
power Locomobi1e, had the satisfaction
Of registering the fastest lap. made.
/ On his, fifth round Tracy drove the
4 twenty-nine and seven-tenths miles in
the time OF 26 minutes q. seconds.
! Tracy suffered severely. from tire
troubles in the first few rounds and
this cost him dear. He was on his ninth
lap when the race was called off.
| Wagner Came Near Losing.
! Wagner, who held the lead from the
1 very first round, came very near to
losing the race when twenty miles
from the finish, one Of his tires explod-
ing. he had lead Of seven minutes
at the time, changed tires and managed
to win by approximately three minutes.
Lanc1a, Duray and Clement went
thru the race without mishap.
The race was run under leaden skies
and the start, scheduled for am. was
delayed fifteen minutes by heavy fog.
/ Plunges Into Ditch.
After this had lifted there were 90.
casional riffs and bursts of sunshine.
but the finish was in drizzle.
The inclement weather had no effect
whatever on the crowd. It is esti.
mated that fully 100000 persons lined
the course.
OF the seventeen cars that started
. the first that came to grief was the
Italian racer driven by Dr.. Weilschott
His steering gear broke and the cal
went over an embankment The ma
chinlst, Colombo, was severely hurt.
Lawell of the. American team dropped
out after the fourth round. He had ali
manner of difficulties.
. Spectator. Fatally Injured.
Elliott Shepard ran into a spectator
!, at Krug's corner and fatally injured
! him. Shepard then broke a crank Shat,
and dropped out on the seventh lap
when he was running sixth.
OF the fourteen cars that were run
ming at the time the race was callei
off, all had completed the seventh
round, eleven had completed the eighth
3 eight had completed. the ninth, AMI
3 five finished the tenth and last.
sMarseillaise'', for Wagner.
| When Wagner was declared the win
!. ner the crowd surged about him AMI
/ cheered. The band played the Mar
seillaise. There were many mino
accidents in the great crush Ieavin,
the finish line.
The times Of the cars that finished
the ninth round, in addition to til,
five which finished the race, were:
Navarro, italian, 292:58 3-5: Capnu
italian, 306:28 4-5; LIE sBlon, American
: 312:26 2-5. .7
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