Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

ing them to track work. The only acct
dent at all serious was to Mechanician
Lamond> in Driver Miller's car, con-
tending in the Garden City sweep
stakes. He was thrown out and sus-
tained a lef fracture. The driver tooE
| a. spectator to the seat and continued
in the race.
| The weather was clear with a raw
wind which made fur coats necessary
for comfort. SO that the stands were
slow in filling.
The new nine-mile section of con
crete promised great Possibilities fo
speed.
The roadway is twenty-five fee
! wide and the greatest nicety or muscle
and eye will be necessary when three
cars get side by side.
Strong wire fences set thirty-flve fee'
| back, shut in the course on either Side
and within the enclosure are parking
places for cars.
The repaired section of track. four
| teen miles, is wider and has been put
| in prime condition by rolling, and
nearly $4,000 gallons of oil has been
used. The entire circuit is practically
dustless.
Just before 9 o'clock the cars for the
various sweepstakes were lined up back
of the starting point, ready for the
series of half minute sendaways of the
| five classes.
| OF the cars entered all reported ex-
| cepting the Pennsylvania, Moon. Car
ford and Cleveland.
| The eight small Nassaus were sent
away first; next went the seven Je-
rchos, followed by the Garden City
group of seven cars. Next went the
Meadowbrooke and at 9:20 a. m. the
| big cars of Motor Parkway entries
| started on their 250-mile grind.
| The smaller cars held their own for
| the first lap and Buick had the honor
of being the first car around the
course, covering the 23.45 miles in the
excellent time of 80 minutes 53 seconds.
A Stoddard-Dayton lost the other
| cars several minutes at the end of the
first twenty-five miles.
The Issotta was the first of the ma
chimes in the big race to make the cir
cult, being closely followed by Re
vault
The first accident happened at 1926
a. m., when a Stoddard turned over at
Jericho and was out of tie race. No
one was hurt.
Ray Howard, in p S.. was making
excellent time during the early stages,
but met with an accident before the
completion of the third lap and pulled
out of the race.
Before the fourth round P. Little's
Isota had increased the lead in the big
race to nearly five minues, while
Strang had driven his Renault into
second place. The leading American
car was the Hotchkiss. Lemon, me-
chanic of the Stoddard, was badly
shaken up and one of his arms broken
in the accident at Plainview. A &C.
Miller, the driver. escaped with slight
injury, and as the car was not badly
damaged it continued with Miller
| driving.
MOTOR, Pickway. L. l., Oct. TO-
Two men were hurt at the Jericho
| Westbury turn by q piece of flying
metal from one of the cars. The names
| of the injured were given as Myron
| Algin of Oyster Bay and Elbert Mat
| thewson of Hampstead. Albin was said
| to have suffered fracture of the
| skull and Matthews a severe scalp
wound. Both walked quarter of a
mile to an ambulance and were taken
| to the Nassau hospital.
J The only exciting race of the day was
the Meadowbrook sweepstakes, which
was won by S. H. Hughes In an Allen
Kingston in hours As minutes. L. A.
| NisbroW finished second in a Rainier
| 2 minutes and As seconds behind the
winner after a keen struggle through
out the greater part of the 225 miles.
The first race the Nassau, was won
by Easter (Buick), completing the 100
miles at 1105 a. m. in 2;7:50. A Cam
| eron was second.
| Burns, during a Chalmers-D Detroit,
won the Jericho sweepstakes; time
3:2:36. A Chalmers was also second.
Sharps Arrow won the Garden City
sweepstakes; time 3:19:34.
| Lytle, in an Issota, won the Motor
parkway sweepstakes, the big race of
the day. His time was 3:3910.
Strang was second; time 3:50:20.
| Leichlener, In Gala, was third;
time 413:9. Lescault's Simplex was
J fourth; time 4:16:41.