Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-26

this was patrolled today by 100 police
men. The remainder of the course Will
be under actual martial law. with 600
state troops thrown around the roads.
Each soldier will be provided with ten
rounds of ammunition and given au-
thority to prevent any person from
passing upon the speedway set apart
for the contestants.
The cars in the race today, weighing
about one-third as much as the burly
contestants In the grand prize, under
took the task of driving 1876 miles at
top speed. 1t was expected the race
would be finished at o'clock.
The course, a perfect rectangle with
straightaway stretches of four miles on
each of the sides and with mile
stretches at either end, has but four
turns, all to the left, and banked suffi-
GENTLY to call for but slight siacken-
ing of speed at the end of the straight
away flight.
With the exception OF about three
miles, the c-urse lies over roads in
cluded within the Grand Prize" Cir
cult of a fraction more than twenty-five
miles. The small course measures just
9.S miles, twenty laps being necessary
to make up the total distance.
The $2500 trophy becomes the perma-
nent property of the entrant of the
successful car.
Three foreign and two of the Ameri-
can cars were in the lineup for the
French car S. p. o., which was so
badly wrecked last Saturday. The lit
tie car was practically entirely rebuilt
in three days.
The order of the start was arranged
as follows:
No. Is. P. O.. Corners.
No. 2--Lancie, billiard.
No. 3-Chalmers- Detroit, BarBdon.
No. Withdrawn.
No. cameron, Cameron.
No. 6--Isotta, Poole.
No. Withdrawn.
No. S-Buiclr, Burman.
No. 9--Maxwell, See.
No. Northumberland, Lorimer.
No. 11-Buick. Hearne.
No. 12-Maxwel, Costello.
No. 13-Chalmers-Detroit, Burns
No. 14-Buick, Easter.
No. 15-Maxwell, Munweiler.
No. 16-Buick, Jeffers.
No. 17-Maxwell, Kelsey.
All of the cars are American except
the S. p. o., French, and the Lancla
and Isotta, both italian.
The cars were started. here minute
apart. Promptly at II o'clock the little
S. p. o. went tearing away from the
line to pilot the way around the first
turn, and down the long stretch of
White Bluff road, the crowd jumped
to its feet and sent up a great cheer:
Fifteen seconds later the Lancla, NO.
2. went flying after the leader. 1t was
11:0S when the last of the fifteen start
ers had been set into motion.
When the last little member of the
Maxwell mosquito fleet" the rear
guard of the fifteen racers, had been
sent away without the semblance of a
hitch anywhere, the crowd cheered
again.
The first car around the course was
the Lancia, No. 2, which had passed
the S. P. o. four and half miles from
the start.
The first accident reported was to
Chalmers-Detroit car, No. 10. which
ran into a tree after turning out of
White Bluff road. No one was report
ed hurt.
At the end of the fifth lap, with one
fourth of the race covered, Burman's
Buick was leading, with the Lancla
second. Time in the fifth lap: Buick,
No. 8, 54:3O; Lancia, 56:55.
Burmans Buick at the close of the
sixth lap held the actual lead, as well
as the lead on elapsed time.
At the end of the seventh lap Bur-
man had increased his lead by about a
quarter of a mile over Lancia. The
Buick was maintaining an average OF
about 53.4 miles an hour. ELAPSED time
Of leaders, seventh lap: Buick, NO. 8,
1901: Lancia, 1892.