New-York tribune., 1906-09-22
READY FOR AUTO RACE.
CROUD GATHERS EARLY.
Marcel Racer Wrecked, and Tour
ing Car VIII BE Substituted.


Garden city Long Island. Sept. 21.-Thou-
sands of persons pouring in here tonight
by train and automobile for the purpose OF see
ing the automobile elimination trials tomorrow
70 select an American team for the Vanderbilt
Cup race on October 6. All the hotels are crowd
ed. and sleeping accommodations are al pre-
MUM. II is estimated that fully two hundred
thousand persons WIN line the course. when ths
race starts AZ o'clock
The course presented lively scene this after
noon hundreds OF persons coming down from
New York IN automobiles. A look over the
course before the day OF the battle was one Of
the frst things thought OF, and as result the
touring cars were thick flies IN molassesL
The weighing IN OF the cars to-day marked the
last act OF preparation for the race. This took
place al Frank Bray's. one block south OF the
railroad station The weight limit was 2.2ox
pounds. and few OF the racers barely got under
this mark. The weighing IN OF the cars started
at 10 a. m and LASTED until after sundown- q.
NJ. Miles, George Dupuy and z e. Birdssn wsrs
The officials.
The Frayer-Miller car which VIII be handled
By Lowell. was overweight when IL irst got On
the sozles but IL took only q short tine TO dis
pose Of parts not needed. and the figures finally
given out were 2.2o3 pounds. Another Frayur-
Miller car, 20 be driven By Lee Miller which
starts No. s In the trials. was q pounds ovr-~
weight, but it was quickly reduced 20 the proper
limit
Ernest Ksel4r. IN the Oadanep1le was ono of
shs 6rst 20 arrive al the scales. The car regis
t~ed l.sso pounds with everything on. but -
xssisr cic not have the wheel 30 be used in The
reoat he was compelled to have the car weighed
,ss~ IN the day. when II again showed Will
under weight The other cars came up TO ens
rcufremens.
Only i've OF the rsoers ware "a, sns co,,r.. ,A,.
morning Tor a final prsoeos sp1n ana the Mar
vcti car. driven by waiiy Owen. met with an
sondsnt that VIII pus me eight cylinder machine
out Of the elimination trials. stripped tourins
car OF 4o-horsepower VIII be substituted "a SIS
place This car has made circuit OF ths courss
IN So minutes.
The accident 20 ths Maxwell oar OCCURRED On
the North He-rostsad turnpike tvo midas from
East Norwich. orenhsuser. the meohanicisn.
leaned out over the motor % make an ADJUST
nent and dropped a wrench. which got 3aynmed
IN the gear and made a general wreck OF sur
rouncins parts. While going 20 the scene Of the
accident FOR the purpose Of lending a helping
hand Walter c. White and party OF Newspaper
men had narrow escape from running into
Walter Christie. who was tuning up his car.
A number - autoniobiIsts anxious 70 see The
disabled rscer were hurrsing 20 the scens Of tho
socidsnt Christie had made the turn at Bulls
Head and was going at full speed by the Maoxay
estate. lie had 20 swing out for a car going In
the opposite direction. when White came tear1nu
I'D. and collision was narrowly averted Some
OF the occupants OF the touring car were thrown
out, but not injured. Christie kept righ. on
making the circuit in 81 minutes.
II. y. Harding, IN the 6O-horsepower Haynes
car, made two circuits OF the course. He cow
cred the first mile IN S6lk minutes and the sec
ond In 30 minutes, which speaks well for the
car.
Joe Tracy. in the Locomobile. was out. but ala
not make a full circuit OF the course Ernest
keeler. in the oldsmObile. made one lap IN 35
IL IS doubtful whether Ralph Mongini win be
able 10 drive the MathesOn car Tomorrow Mon
gini sprained his hand Badly on wednesday
that II is feared II win keep him out OF the
race. In case Mongini is unable TO pilot the
machine. II is likely that Tom Cooper will oc-
perience, and az the recent Atlantic city races
drove 5D-horsepower Matheson touring
mile over the sand course, carrying seven pas
sengers. IN 501-5 seconds.
The cup commission made public this morn
Ing novel scheme for letting every one around
the Nassau circuit know when the elimination
race starts and ends. A large hot air balloon
win be sent up 1000 feet ten minutes before
the fret car Is 20 be sent away When the
initial starter is given the word a bomb viii
be sent up The same method OF signalling will
announce the finish Of the race.
The race viii start from the grandstan6 on
The Jericho Turnpike. about a mile from the
Westbury railroad station. The course Will fol-
low lle turnpike 10 seflcnO, where q turn will
be made into the East Norwich Road. At East
Norwich Is a sharp southwesterly turn into the
North Hampstead Turnpike giving a compara-
lively straight run 10 Bulls Head Corner. Here
comes the southeasterly turn through Ola west
bury, the famous hairpn turn az the latter place
eetnS one OF four difficult turns The road then
leads into Mineola avenue. going under the rail-
road track below ROslyn and up Manhasset
Hi through a narrow but tolerably good road
the hin having q grade OF from TO u per cent
Returning 20 the North Hampstead Turnpike
there Is good road until the cars switch around
into the Lalsevtlie Road. again making a curve
az LasSeville, near w. X Vanderbilt, IRIS, es-
tate az Lake Success. Several winding turns are
met as the cars enter the Wilets Road. The
next sharp turn comes at Searington, giving a
straight southerly run down Mineola avenue 20
the right-angied turn at Krug's Corner, where
the Jericho Turnpike is regained. and about two
miles beyond the circuit is completed at the
grsnostsnd The elimination race win be ten