The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-06

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considerable track racing and record break
ing. He was a starter II ths 1904 yander-
bit race with n Royal but retired because
of cracked cylinders after one round,
Louis Wagner, h starts tenth with q
French Darracu, was a competitor IN last
years ace, when ne was put outOt commits
sion after three Toundb by engine t.ouoies.
In the Grand Prtx last june ne reured IN
the third lap because OF a broken luDflSaNr
TiEe. In the Ardennes circuit he finished
in eighth place, having 70 his credit the
fastest round during the race. He IL
credited with having made the fastest round\
Of the Nassau county circuit, during the
preliminary practice.
Cagno, who will start eleventh with an
Italian italia, was formerly dryer I2r NE
Queen Of Italy. He finished third IN the
i9oS Bennett race. In the Grand PIX a
broken water pipe forced him to retire IN
the third lap.
II. N. Harding viii start twelfth viii,
an American Haynes, though the SUPPOSE
I hoodoo number has been dropped ana
Harding's car will have IA painted on ls
radiator front, sides and renr. Harding -
a young EnxIishman who has done very
we'll at reach racing and hill climbing, DuC
! had no previous road racing exFerlencs
before the elimination trials. he was NOT
picked to drive the Haynes until the Wednes-
dav before the trials and made two ROUNDS
with the car on Thursday morning and two
rounds on Friday morning, he nnlsheu
third in the elimination trials with ms 90
horsepower machine in Q hours % minutes
80 seconds.
Albert Clement, who will start thirteenth
with a French Clement Bayard, Is q son
of M. Clement, the famous French bicycle
! and automobile manufacturer. He s sew
ing in the French army and had to Obtain
a mrlough in order to compete here to-
morrow. He competed in the hrst Van,
derbilt race in 1904 and in the eighth round
was 8 minutes 8 seconds ahead Of Heath.
who ultimately won the race, Clement
finishing second, only l minute 2S SECONDS
behind.
DR.. Aldo weillschott, who will start four
! teenth with an italian Fiat, il a wealthy
young sportsman who drives a racing car
as a diversion. lie had charge OF the ltal-
ian team of Ave Fiat cars in the 1905 az
derbilt race, He was a competitor IN tte
Grand Prix last June and made one OF the
fastest rounds the first day, but hal Nhe
| misfortune to. overtum in the sixth lap.
Walter Christie, who will start fifteenth
with an American Christie. will dive the
only car in the race employing a front wheel
direct drive. Hs car was invented by
himself and in reality is a stripped touring
machine fitted up for racing. He built a
! 40 horsepower racer for the contest, but
it was wrecked before the elimination
trials by colliding with a telephone pole.
With the racing car he made a straightaway
I I0llt III D . NCNuHuF ~ hNAohiNhS IVY 49, 49,
| the worlds one mile track record Of 50
seconds on the Empire City track. With
his impromptu racer he was in NTH place
in the elimin alton trials when Mr.. Vander-
biIt stopped the race, Christie being on his
! ninth round at the time. He competed in
the 1905 Vanderbilt, race ,Sbut did not COM
plete four rounds, as both his rear wheels
were broken when his car collided with
Lancia's machine.
Duray, who will start sixteenth, with
a French Lorraine Dietrich, is said by the
superstitious ones to be a sure winner OF
this years Vanderbilt cup. race. Ia 1904
George Heath won the Ardennes Circuit
and then the Vanderbilt cup. In 1905 Vic
tor Hemery won the Ardennes Circuit and
then the race for the Vanderbilt Cup. and
this year Duray was the winner Of the Ar
dennes Circuit contest. He has the same
machine with which he captured the big
contest in Belgium and IL regarded as a
formidable opponent by the other foreign
drivers. In the Grand Prix last June Duray
finished eighth. In the 1905 Vanderbilt race
contest was stopped. He is a great mimic.
and last year when chartered at Krug's
Hotel had a habit Of getting up very early
in the morning and growing so realistically
that all the ROSTERS in the ~neighborhood
gave their morning salutes an o or so
too early.
Maurice Fabry, who will start seventeenth
with an Italian ITALIA, is n graduate Of Oxford
University and looks and talks more like
a Briton than an Italian. He started in tbs
Grand Prix, but his car overturned on 8
sharp curve in the first VI
THE COURSE.
The contest will be run over a 20. II miles
course in Nassau county. which is to bc
covered ten times. The starting anc
finishing line is on the Jericho turnpike
about three-fourths of a mile from tbs
yu-.sI.-, gtot;on - tAa IAn- IalopA pail
road, the stand for the officials and news
paper men being erected on thu property
Of Thomas Hitchcock, DR., alongside hi
private training track for Jumping horses
The drivers 90 east on the Jericho turnpike
SIS miles to Jericho, where they turn Il
road, which is followed for , 3-5 miles Il
East Norwich. There another left turn
is made into the North Hampstead u
pike, which is followed for 54-5 miles :,
Bulls Head. A eft turn il made into th'
Back road, which ia followed for 2 rs mile
to Old Westbury, where the famous hair
pin" turn il rounded and a right hand tur1
made into the Old Westbury road. Thi
il followed for ? 3-5 miles to Mineola avenue
the road passing under the tracks OF th'
Oyster Pay branch of the Long IslanC
Railroad. A right turn II made into Min
cola avenue, which IL followed for one mil,
to the North Hampstead turnpike, passing
through Roslyn en- route. A left turn h
made into the North Hampstead turnpike
which is followed for 8 SIS miles to tn,
Manhassett turn, surmOunting the long
Manhassett hill on the way. A left turn
Is made into the Lakeville road, which i
followed for one mile to Lakeville, wher'
Tracy and his Locdmobile are quaTtered
A left turn is made into the /. L. WillettI
road, which ia followed for ? 2-5 miles :,
Albertson's, where the 8 tuTn was situated
On the 1906 course. At AlbeTtson's a RICH
turn is made into Mineola avenue, which
is followed for 1 rs miles to KruR's Corner
At KruR's a left turn is made into the Jerich,
turnpike, which Ia followed for 3 S-iO mile'
TO the starting point. 80"
There are thirteen abrupt turns on tn,
circuit where power must be largely shu
OF and brakes applied. While the hair
pin tYrn at Old Westbury must be roundes
at slower sreed than any Of the other
several race drivers say the turn at Man
hasset from the North HemIstead turn
Pike left Into the Lake file road IL the wors
one on the course. Elliott F. Shepard
Mr.. Vanderbilt cousin, who will try :,
win for France with a HOtchkiss racer, ant
Gustave C~aillois, the famous French driver
who plotted a Thomas in the American
elimination trials, both agree that the turf
into the Lakeville road is the worst one Of
the course as IL Is on a down grade at tn
foot OF a little hill. The roads have bee
rolled during the rast week and have re