The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-23
ANOTHER BUIAUCLIFF SMASH
CAR TUMBLES down RUNWAY
RESIDE ARMONK BRIDGE,

Campbell the Driver. Gets Jaw Fractured.
but Expects 10 Drive the Car In the Race
slight Hurt 70 DO Palma, His Me-
chanlc. Robertson In Trouble, Too.
A. G.. Campbell and George Robertson,
two Of the drivers scheduled to drive cars
in the Briarclih trophy automobile con-
test in Westchester county tomorrow,
met with accidents yesterday while prac-
Using over the race circuit before ! O'Clock
in the morning. Neither was seriously
hurt. Both drivers expect 10 start in to-
morrow's international struggle,
On the course about two miles from Mount
Kisco there il a hill with a narrow road
leading over it. The ascent is not only
narrow but sharp, and the road surface
is very rough. with soft mud on each side
NJ the roadway. A rise at the apex Of the
hill gives TO cars surmounting the top OF
the grade a sort Of bump as they are
Strengthened out for the downward drive.
Robertson's big Panhard swerved 10 one
side az II went over this bump, the oar
! landing in the soft mud with the wheels
sinking in up to the hubs. Neither Robert
, son nor his mechanic was injured.
Several other competing cars were fol-
lowing rather closely behind Robertson, and
their drivers stopped their machines and
helped Robertson get his car back onto
the road again, Roberts, the Thomas
driver, Kitchener and milford, the Lozier
| team, Vaughan and Leland Of the Stears
trio, Poole Of the lsotta-fraschinl team
and Seymour NJ the Simplex pair turned
in 10 help Robertson.
Tho whole team then proceeded along
around the course and presently Campbell
came up behind the procession, falling IN
behind Poole and the sOtta-Fraschiui, who
was preceded Ivy Leland's Stearns and
SeymOur's Simplex. Misfortune overlook
Campbell about siy miles beyond Mount
kisco as he approached a low bridge near
Armonk. The clouds Of heavy smoke that
were being belched from the exhaust pipe
Of Poole's car blinded Campbell and his
Allen-Kingston machine ran Of the road on
the left side down a runway leading down
TO the stream that flows under the bridge.
Campbell tried TO twist his steering wheel
far enough 10 the right to regain the road,
but The car smashed into a stone Hhutmeni
Of the bridge. The force cf tho collision
broke the right wheel ana the steering
gear, the car turning completely over ~
As it fell into the shallow stream, plnning
the mechanic, Ralph De Palma Of Brook
lyn. partly under It a. u landed. Camp
bell was thrown out onto q pile Of stones.
He landed face downward. and a bad cash
was cut in his forehead, apparently by his
goggles. The Cut extended from the mid
die Of his forehead around to his left tenn.
pie. and his iswbone on the left side was
fractured. De Palma's left arm was Sc
vcreiy strained.
Campbell and De Palma were taken seven
miles 10 the hospital a. White Plains in An
automobile and afterward were removed
to their training quarters At tho Carpenter
House. II was reported last night from
his quarters that Campbell expected 70
be able to drive in tho race tomorrow,
but in case he is not able TO do 50 the car
NAV be driven by Walter c. Allen Of the
Automobile Club Of America, selling agent
for the Allen-Kingston. Campbell has been
a racing driver for several years and fin
ished Fifth in the 1904 Vanderbilt cup race
on Long Island with S, b, Stevens's Mer-
ce1es racer.