The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-25
1llpO AUTOMOBILES
y! FINISH OFFICIALLY.
Shlt
Game Drge Robertson Wins Wander
nbn lit Cup Race, Breaking All
American Records.
LrTTLE, DRIVING 1SOTTA,
IS A CLOSE SECOND
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b nlirter- Million People See Ex-
lshiu citing Contest on Long
Island Parkway.

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AjOToR PARKWAY, L. l., Oct. "a
eaorge Robertson, in a 12O-horsepowe
b,Spmobile, an American-made MA
go,sie. won the fourth Vanderbilt auto
nsa eile cup race on the Motor Parkway
eaena long Island today, and at the same
" created a new American record
will long automobile contests
on. bert Lyttle, driving an Italian
ia, a 50'horsepower car, was sec
hich /, less than two minutes behind the
hang iner. These cars were the only ones
h Of cially to finish the race, the great
rsd hFd of not less than a quarter of q
ks 4 lon crowding on the track after the
hl two cars had dashed across the
bd VI. To avoid serious accidents it be-
be ctSe necessary TO stop the race.
az rsst the time Of the finish William <.
p,rderbilt, Jr. g 110.horsepower Ger.
iiua1 Mercedes. driven by W. c. Lutt.
d BIZ was running third with safe lead,
,ne =. hat it must be accorded third place.
r ni:t Haupt Leads.
le Mt the end of the sixth lap, with the
ish " for the Vanderbilt cup a little
me-; e than half finished, Haupt, No, 4,
sider1s Chadwick Robertson, No, l6, in
a EIDcomobile, and Herbert Lyttle, No.
alfa an lsotta, were making a desper-
b. i light for leadership. Haupt had the
onr at that point, but as he flashed
bat IS the line Robertson was tearing
'swg only thirteen seconds behind him,
Sung his big car TO the limit Of its
an. a. He went past the grandstand
nni. whirlwind, finishing his sixth
in tssat an average speed of almost sew
ht ~ miies an hour. Forty seconds after
inc zerrson came Herbert Lyttle. He
we're Hpushing his machine TO its utmost
The IN effort TO overcome the slight ad-
ellen age Haupt and Robertson had over
De mif
unis drilling rain which started lust as
oul n was breaking, turned n magnifi-
gus Z road surface into ono that made
ext "a. OF the numerous sharp turns an
= hazardous task. Yet the cars kept
TI0y down to work, making up on the
ileA back and home stretches what they
nm at the angles.
: Seventeen Cars Line Up.
syenteen coughing, swapping cars
)cL y up and sixteen went off with a
Ilam nsss,l: ls:ession of pistolshot explosions at
eSr-I % a. n: The "left-at- -the-post" car
no - the Renault, with Strang at the
sn u. Something would not start, so
Feis1ng, with smile on his face, al
on id his car to be pushed aside.
or " the meantime the barking and
nave ing cars were pounding over The
san aens se, the high b-powered cars jumping
siic !, of their weaker brothers. Every
the lincluding the Renault, which
Ee all ne patched up after half an hour s
Q snky. completed the first round, but
TINT the race was a long chaprer
not s.icidents, First, the Mathewson and
1ce ~ Fecond Thomas car, which Gill
20 nau11c: M1c dropped out. Then the Hotchkiss
nos5the Acme retired, and after going
[tRitlse laps Strang gave up. But there
he a. dozen left to make the contest
ling. sing.
ion ssle Gocomobile car, with Florida at
MaaITheel had the honor Of starting the
Nv nou 8 sport, followed s minute later by
eS OF the Knox machines. Then came
"a mercedes. with Stricker driving. The
NS lpiwick car followed, The second
heSfedes, driven by Luttgen, was fifth,
apv'the Isotta, The favorite, left sixth.
- ss Possible Winners.
El.-A aring the first laps dozen of the
by gstill seemed possibilities. Then the
tn! began to narrow. Florida kept
swins1lace at the head of the procession
foms the third lap, when tire trouble
,oa's.ad halt and the Chadwick dashed
ion ig the lead. For three laps Haupt
ITISsnd % with apparently, no regard for
take avn or the machinist s safety, but
hers H2e seventh lap an accident caught
looE nnaeto. Then the unbeaten Isotta
and ss5nvannah, Briar Cliff and IoweIi'
10 eng like a fiend. His big red car
HI p5sheered every time it whistled past
ocor5s pile the speed did not come up to
cogInsl psetations, most OF the leaders
lonla aged between sixty three and sixty.
sSUsl miles an hour, although at times
ee-"sS. mV than seventy miles was attained
rtson drove his Locomobile for
,rstfcS laps at an average Of 66.3 miles
c.oour, making the first at a speed
ns a).3 miles an hour. A bad tire
octs Jed him on the fourth for two min.
inS. dss. but he went on again, and on the
,.m bs5h lap had gone up to first place
nroornll5 came another stop, this time for
iorv...r, but by lively work only minute
% Interest at Finish.
s he;nEsi lap by lap, went the race, the ex
ed SSclent, which had subsided after the
hn,s h,s threo or four laps. reviving as the
" Dhpproaehed, until the great crowd
Ths 4 into cheers az the winner came
6s.a>g down under the wire
the p the end of the ninth lap, the rae,
mt M become hair.raising duel between
ersps s1rtson and Lyttlc. In spite of hav
rely 70 literally plow their way through
lng masses of humanity that only
corjed wide enough to let both hub.
clear, now one, now the other
ing I'd over the course ut a speed o.
s-Is, I'sevon and sixty eight miles a,
Sta!s% AT the end OF the tenth lal
ini s;rtson led Lyttle by four minute
cci,ssr cnSsr Ten seconds, au advantage the leas
enTed ,aeDt would wipe out, and the ten
rG%ye Gpsye was fever heat,
mile p2oertson, Locomobile car, started
10 rOf 200; finished 10:45;4S Is. Time
the
the. .syttle.. Izotta car, started 6;35.oo
az %sned l0:S5;36 2-5. Time, 4:09:3 2.5
ndsSpsSs sSss stance, 25s, ,06 miles. Winners ay