New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-04-25
ONECAR TURNS TURTLE
SHARP Turns at EastUie1C Scene Of
Too accidents.

About an hour and a half after dawn yesterday,
when blue mist thinning out over the mills
of Tarrytown, the attention of crowd OF twenty
thousand persons assembled at Eastvtew was
turned to a small army of young women marching
down a ravine from Miss c E. Masons school
The merry students blew upon horns, and the noise
Of their advent shut off the buZzing of Simplex
car No @ that along the course on its first
lap at terrific speed. Nineteen cars had taken
safely at snail pace the grooved uphill right angle
turn at Eastvew without accident. and the parade
of the merry villagers from TarrytOwn was for
the moment paramount to the way William Wat
son put the 50-horsepower Simplex around the turn.
Those spectators who had kept th2r eyes rivetted
to the oncorning car were surprised when Watson
failed TO shut off his power at the accustomed
place and one man shouted the crowd. Get
back there everybody! He will through you!
He will never make that turn"
The words were hardly uttered when Watson put
on his brake but it too late The Simplex
skidded until the front and back wheels the
left side sank into the deep hard groove made in
the road by the cars that had preceded it. and
bounced ahead fully fifty yards. The groove kept
the racer from skidding. and with a somersaut not
unlike the dip death" exploited the circus
the car leaped into the air. falling side and
bottom side up Women screamed and hid their
faces with their hands. Men dumfounded
with horror. A mad rush for the overturned car
was suddenly halted. and for a moment the
and the men under It were unmolested. Every one
thought that the unfortunate driver and his mech
anician dead, but when the
ageous attempted lift the they found that
Watson and his meohancian unhurt. The
high back Of the Simplex and the fact that there
was slight depression in the spot where the car
fell protected the occupants The accident hap
pened in about three seconds, but Watson and his
rnechanician had time crouch and protect them
selves as the Simplex went over.
Finding that the men in the car were unhurt
big crowd surged about the racer forgetting that
the shouts of car coming" had announced dozen
times that Bernn, in the No. IA Renault. was COM
ing up 10 make the turn. Fortunately for the
crowd that formed black elbow of the most dan
gerous position of the Eastview turn, of the
few ma rshals who intoxicated raised the
yellow flag the stop signal, and halted the Renaut
Bernin looked At the damaged Simplex sheered TO
the right and shot along top speed the grand
stand at Briarclf Manor The Simplex, with dam
aged steering gear pushed off the course and
the incident soon forgotten by the enthusiastic
crowd.
One of the most sensational attempts 81 one car
TO pass another occurred a the doWnhill
a mile to the southeastward of the grooved turn
az Eastview- There is a nasty bit Of rough and
crooked roadway before the is met, and down
this incline a fairly good speed came the 80
horsepower Stearns car No. .. with Leland the
throttle Within three lengths behind Leland
came car No. 10 the Austrian Maja. Murphy,
the driver, bent upon passing the Stearns. but
could make it the rough grade. Leland
slowed down. described d wide arc. and Murphy,
knowing that the Stearns bound TO swerve
back and leave him wide BERTH attempted to pass
Leland the The Maja skidded into
three foot ditch and the left front wheel broke into
bits. The Maja. which this part of the
held sixth place in the fourth lap, served as vsi-
bic incentive for the of the that passed.
Each mechanism looked at the disabled Maja
and shouted into the of his driver. and the
latter, smiling. would put more power.
turn on the fourth lap the mechancian leaned over
in his seat and. looking the heads Of the
crowd about the Maja made out the number. and
shouted to De Palma that the Austrian was
out of the race.
Barney Oldhei in the Stearns No 10, Guy
Vaughn in the Stearns no. and LyttIe in the
Appe-son No received much cheering as they
passed Eastview. but in the excepting
Strang the winner perhaps, received en-
thusiastic shouting and encouragement than did
the plucky Watson. driver Of the overturned Sim
pick No. 2. and his mechanician when they came
tearing along great speed after absence from
the of two hours.
The Simplex was thought 10 he out of commits
sion permanently. and thousands of persons threw
their hats into the when it learned that
Watson had repaired his STEERING gear and was
attempting 10 make up for lost time.
On the second lap the Lozer car. No g. caught
fire at the turn a mile southeast of EastView and
Milford and his mechanician compelled to |
leave the and fight the fire with sand After
slight repairs they jumped into the and CON |
tinued in the until the fourth lap. |