Arizona republican., 1906-10-07
THE FRENCH GAR WON
 THE VANDERBILT CUP
The Third Straight Victory Over the Ma
 chimes of All Other Nations
Speed of More Than Mile a Minute for Nearly Three Hundred MiIes--O One Curious Spectator Was Instantly Killed.

New York, Oct. 6.-France today won the third international automobile road race for the Wm. K Vanderbilt. Jr., cup, completing a record of three straight victories in this event. which is run over the turnpikes of Long Island, the center of the course being about twenty miles from New York City. Italy was second in the race: France filled third and fourth places while Germany furnished the fifth car
 Only these five machines completed the tenth and last lap of the course, which was 29.71 miles in length. The total distance of the race was 297.I miles, and Louis Wagner. driver of the winning car, made the distance in 2gO minutes, 10 2-5 seconds, a speed of more than a mile a minute for the entire distance.
 One Of the more than 900 specta- tors who lined the course paid with his life the penalty of a too great curi- Osity. He was near the dangerous turn in the course known as Krug's corner Two cars had flashed by when the man ventured out in the road to get a better view of the others coming. With the rush and roar of throbbing engines, the French car, driven by FL liOtt F. Shepard. an American. dashed onto the man, who in the view of thou sands was hurled high in the air When picked up many yards from the scene of the accident he was dead. His skull had been fractured, both legs broken and he was frightfully crushed.
 After a few minutes he was identi- fled as Kurt L. Gruner of Passaiac. N J. Shepard plunged ahead at ninety miles an hour along the straight stretch leading to the judges stand. He was completely unnerved how ever and did not finish his seventh lap. It was given out that he had broken a crank shaft. Shepard was running sixth and was in a -cOntending posi- tion when the accident occurred.
 Joseph Tracy. in his American car. crashed into a crowd of men ana boys. and seriously injured Sylvester Bald win, a boy of NOrwalk, Conn. Several others were slightly hurt Tracy held to the course. Dr. WeiIschott. an amateur driver of an Italian car. lost control of his big 120 horse power ma chine on the very first round. He ran down two boys on a bicycle, then plunged down a thirty-fOot embank- ment Both the driver ana his me chanic were picked up unconscious but were quickly revived. Several per sons were run down by touring cars in the crush going to and returning from the races
 It was impossible to keep the thrOng off the course. They swarmed upon the roads. breaking down the danger fences. although they were built strongly. The blare of the bugle and the cry of 'car coming had no effect upon the crowd They held their posi- tiOns on the course until the OncOrl- ing car was within a hundred yards. Then like the opening of an inverted wedge, the crowd gave way with re- luctance leaving barely room for the rushing car with its powerful engines splitting fire and flame and roaring like a battery of small caliber artillery. to dash through. One false motion of the hand clutching the steering gear and an accident like that of an express train crashing into 100 people would have resulted. The accidents that did