The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-03
TWELVE CARS IN
DIZZY AUTO RACE
Special Officer Fatally Injured
While Watching-FaSt and
Furious From Start.

Brighton Beach Race Track. y. Y, Oct.
Twelve cars, representing three ma
tionalities. set out tonight upon their
dizzy night and day journey of twenty
four hours for glory and cash prizes of
$500, with the cheers of 5000 devotees of
motoring to spur them on in their efforts
The starters were:
No 2-Muiford and Cobs, Americans
No: S-DePalma, Capra and Hawley,
No. 4-Laurent. oldfield and Marquis
American.
No. 5-Strang and Basic. French.
No 6-Robertson and Lescault, Ameri-
can
No. 7-Patchlfe and Rodg, s. American.
No. S-Roberts and Winters. American.
No 9-Chevrelet, Miller and McMann,
American.
No. 11-Rippengill LathWeu and PepDer-
day, American.
No 12-Martin and Blanchard, Ameri-
can.
No IEBloch and Clement, French.
No. 15-Post and Gatjen, Italian.
Cars Nos. l and 10. the American en-
tries of Kitchener and Lynch and Young
and DOty respectively. did not start both
cars being injured in a collision during a
praeuce SPIN preliminary to the races.
Officer Fatally Injured.
Almost in front of the grandstand
where the crowd was watching the TWEEN
tN-LOuT HOur dutOmODlie race tonight. NJ.
t1ckert. special officer employed by the
motor racing association. was run down
by one of the racers and was so seriously
injured that 1t is not believed he will live.
t1ckert was struck by car No 6. one of
the American machines. which at the time
was being driven by Robertson
cars Nos and 4 We're racing down
from the home stretch of the race track
When t1ckert attempted to run across the
track to the paddock gate 1t was impos-
sible for Robertson to keep from hitting
the man. F'ickert was tossed twenty feet
away and fell to the ground unconscious
tomobile and brought the machine to a
standSull so suddenly that car No. 4
crashed into his machine The headlights
on No. were smashed TO pieces.
Furious Race From the Start.
The race was started at SAG O'Clock.
From the very beginning a furious pace
was maintained, and the twelve death
daring drivers took reckless chances
AS the cars We're unleashed. Lescault
IN the Inflated No. car, shot to the front
with Roberts. driving No s. hanging
Wheel TO wheel. and Laurent, No. 4. close
up They spun around the mile circular
track with Roberts creeping into the lead
inch by inch. At the third mile he passed
Lescault. but only had the position for
four laps. At the seventh mile the order
had again been reversed and Lescault led,
but with a fine burst of speed Roberts cut
INTO the lead again at the ninth mile and
from then on to the twenty-first mile he
showed his tail lights to Lescault
At that point a slight mishap forced
Roberts to retire for lap, however. and
this gave Lescault a lead which he main
tain ed the first two hours, breaking all
records.
End of Fifth Hour.
The score at the end of the fifth hous
was: No. >: 265 miles; No. 3, 237 miles;
No. s, 236 miles; No. g. 81 miles: No. ?. On
miles: No. II. 221 miles, No. 6. 9O6 miles:
No 10, ia miles; No. r. 15S miles; No. !
l4S miles; No. 4, lSl miles; No. H. 12S miles
The best previous record was .45 miles.