The sun., 1908-10-11


the starting hour the spectators were
ready for something TO happen. Peter
Prunty appeared with his megaphone and
sannounoed Number Twenty-three will
not start This was Moon car which
had been entered by G. A. Duoer. who had
named F. j. Davis as his driver. The only
other cars that failed to start were Penn
s,ivtpia In the Jericho Sweepstakes and
the Garford and the Cleveland that had
been entered In the Meadow Brook Sweeps
takes. 30 that thiYty-three cars began the
race out OF the thirty-seven machines that
ad been formally entered.
The course In front of the grand stand
was about twice as wide as the Parkw
stretch. The dirt had been rolled down
+ and sprinkled 30 as 10 afford plenty OF
room In front Of the sunken supply sta.
tions The dirt road there was ground
up by the tires OF the cars and the spec
( tators had opportunity OF watching
Chairman Thompson. MIR. Vanderbilt and
& Colgate Hoyt display their skill as WELD
ers OF gprinkling hoses, whilea dozen or &C
SNAPSHOT men fell over each other trying
TO get pictures Of the sprinklers.
In order that the spectators might have
no trouble in Identifying their cars and
telling what class they were in, the mum,
bers painted on the cars were preceded
by the initial Of the class in which they
were entered. the Motor Parkway having
sP,s Meadow Brook. M; Garden City.
-Gs; Jericho. y, and Nassau. m
4 Colgate Hoyt. Henry Sanderson. Harry
PAYNE Whitney, C. Al Singer. H. Rosster
Worthington, Alfred Reeves, Harry Fos-
!, dick. H. B. JOY, Detroit; Truman H. New
A berry, Assistant Secretary Of the Navy;
4 Robert Lee, Morrell. Hugh Chalmers
z 4 =, n DaNw - III n a
man, e. H. Broadwel, Carl II, Page,
Percy Owen, r. NJ. Owen. H. E.. Coffin.
Detroit; g. H. Gillette. Hartford E. Lille,
Robert Graves, Paul Lacroix, NJ. j, Bud
long. +. d. Hover. S, A. Miles, G M.
Hamilton, g. F, Stoppani, Henry U.
Wis; G. G. Stoddard, Dayton; John T.
Rainier and r. H. Salmon, Rochester:
The cars in the Nassau class, the low
est priced ones. were the first to begin
theS Journey Olneys Mitchell, which
was numbered l. starting away promptly
az 0 O'Clock after S. NJ. Butler and c. j.
Dieges of the New York Timers, Club
told Starter Wagner that 0 O'Clock had
arrived. The cars in the Jericho class
began to leave at five minutes after nine,
those in the Garden City class began to
start at 9:10, those in the Meadow Brook
at ei5 and those in the Motor Parkway
division began to go at 9:2o. the cars
in each class following each other at
half minute intervals.
After the italia, No. AZ, had dis
tappearedl up the parkway stretch the
fspectators waited for developments. TAX
y, ing mild interest in the performance
of the band, to which no one had paid
sany particular attention up to this time.
In a few minutes, however. there was
Ia good deal of attention paid to the band.
for when Announcer Prunty began his
work the spectators had a great deal OF
difficulty hearing what was being said
tbecause the band made 80 much noise.
81 During lull in the music Prunty told
,the crowd that No. IA. the Stoddard..
dayton, driven by Carl Wright. had turned
tover at Jericho and was out OF the race.
"a few minutes after this Buick. No. 8,
driven by Ewing Easter, the smallest
driver in the race, went by the stand.
having earned the proud distinction OF
being the first car TO make round on the
1908 Vanderbilt Cup circuit in a contest.
fOlney.sein the Mitchell, No. 1. was the
second man around, and W. r. Burns. in
Carl Pages little Chalmers-Detroit, one
Of the, Jericho class. was the third car
Ray Howard, in a Palmer & Singer,
was the first OF the Garden City class to
tcomplete one round. being the fourth
driver to pass the stand. OF the Meadow
Brook class Hughes, in the AK, was first
iaround. being the fourteenth driver TO
Herbert Lytle was the sixteenth driver
to complete the first round, being the first
one of the Motor Parkway division and
first in point Of time for the first round,
none OF the others being any nearer to
his time for this round than twenty
nine seconds. the difference betw cen his
time and that made by Basle with the
big Knox for the first round. Tho big
Hotchkiss six cylinder machine stopped
when it reached it's supply, depot and the
mechanic who bad started the race was
replaced by another Titus in the Buick
No. 7'stopped at the end Of his first round
10 put some fresh tires on the tire rack
behind the rear seat.
Frank Lescaut did not appear With
the Simplex that won the Brighton Beach
twenty-four hour race until more than
thirty minutes after he started. He
stopped in front Of his supply station to
get two fresh tires to replace those he had
had to change during his first round Of
the circuit. He was ratified when he was
unstrapping the punctured tires from the
tire rack on his car and pitched one OF
the damaged tires at his mechanic instead
Of throwing Y into the supply station.
Little Easter in the Buick was first
around again at the end Of two laps. He
stopped for some time at his supply sta
ton. which was below the tape, before
driving away from the sight Of the spec,
tators in the grand stand, so that he did
not begin on his third lap until half a
dozen others had started around the
Course for the third time. Lytle gained
some more in the second round and was
nearly four minutes ahead Of Strang in
the Renault in elapsed time for. two
rounds, Strang being in second place In
the class for the high priced cars,
INtle was the first to complete three
rounds, finishing the third round about
eix minutes after the Simplex did it's
second round. Just before Strang ended
his third round it was announced that the
Palmer & Singer car, driven by Ray How
ard, was out OF the race and laid up at
Plainview. Alexander Petersen completed
hia second round q few minutes after
Strang finished his third and caused some
excitement by starting OF again from his
supply station while his mechanic was
standing upon the tire rack Of his car.
sLescault stopped at the end Of his third
round again to get some more tires. Soon
afSar this the No. Mitchell went by with
the mechanic wiping blood from bis face
TIE next car to show up was the Selden
FounRs, who was driving the Seldeu.
bad been trying to prevent bytle from
passing him on the Jericho Turnpike, and
the car turned over during his unsuccess-
fpl attempt to prevent the Isotta getting
by.
The driving shaft was twisted out OF
line by the accident. and the bearings
were heated so badly by the time the
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