The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-25
STRANG WINS AUTO
RACE IN AN ISOTTA

Bianchi entry, drew into place IN
front of Starter Fred P. Wagner. No.
2, the Fiat, with Cedrino at the wheel
was directly behind, with the others
following in the orders given in the
above table.
The Start.
The word was given TO Sartori at
exactly seven minutes after o'clock
His big machine had been throbbing
like a human being. 1t shot away
like an arrow and almost in an in
slant was out of sight to the east
ward.
Almost exactly. at one minutes in
tervals the cars followed like so
many greyhounds let loose. Harry
Kitchener of the Lozier car No. Z, and
his mechanician created a sensation
by appearing clad completely in new
white outfits. BY their odd caps, top
ped by goggles which neither donned
until just before starting, they would
have looked like two crusaders or
Olden times, but for the very modern
machine in which they sat No 9,
another .LoZier entry, was driven by
Ralph Mulford, who also had on
new uniform. They made a startling
contrast TO the sombre black garb OF
Sartori, who led the wonderful pre-
ceSSiOn.
Barney Oldfield' in the Stearns
car, which bore the hoodood number
'13," was grinning and smoking a
cigarette when he came to the
scratch He seemed the most popu-
lar of all the racers and was loudly
cheered by the crowd. Not a single
mishap in the prompt starting of each
of the twenty-five cars and Starter
Wagner, at least of the officials of
the race, had his work well in hand.
He has been the official starter at all
of the big auto events throughout the
| United States. In order of their
starting the cars represented the fol-
lowing countries: United States. No.
8. 5, 7, s, 9, ~. IS, 16, II, q and %.
Italy, No. L, ?, 4, s. IL and 10. France,
| No. IA. Is and IS. Austria. No. 10.
| Germany. No. 20.
Leader of First Lap.
No. A. Isotta, Strang driver, was the
| first to complete the lap of a little
over thirty-two miles in the splendid
| time of 80 minutes and AZ seconds.
| No. 3, APperson, Lyle driver, came
| second, almost immediately. His
/ time was Al minutes fat
Sartori in the Bianchi car, No. 1,
| spreadeagled just west of the stand
| and went into the crowd, which divid
! ed. No one was hurt. Within five
minutes Sartori had repaired a brok
en- tire and was again on his way,
cheerd wildly by the crowd Cedrino,
in the Fiat No. 2, passed next, having
made the lap in 81 minutes and one
| second deducting ten minutes for
| the control at Mount Kisko. Official
| time. III minutes and l second.
Leland, in car No. 5, Stearns, pass
ed the stand at 6:04 and 16 seconds,
official time for lap 43 minutes and
| 16 seconds.
| At Glib the megaphone man an
| nouncad that No. %. the Simplex
car, Watson driver, had Init post at
Eastview- No one was hurt, it was
said. and the Car was continuing on
| its way.
Sartori's elapsed time was an.
| nounced as SO minutes and seconds
| Car No. %, which had the accident
| before referred to at Eastview, was
| in greater trouble than at first re-
ported, and did not get into the race
again until 6.45. when the announcer
/ megaphoned that the car was again
progressing.
Strang. in his IsOtta. No 4. still
was ahead at the completion of the
| second lap. being the first to pass the
| line and begin the third round at
6:54.
Lyle, in his Apperson. No. 3, came
plunging along four minutes later.
Cedrino in the Fiat, No. 2, began
| his third lap at 6:42.
Strang, in No. 4, passed the line
for the third time again first at 1877.
His time for this lap was SO minutes
| and Is seconds, the fastest time per
| lap of the race up to this time His
elapsed time for the three wounds was
1857 %.
Strang Always Leading.
At the end of the fifth lap in the
/ great auto race for the BriarcIiffe cup
i Herbert Strang, bounding along at d
mile a minute clip in his big Isotta
car. dashed by the grand stand at
Briarcliffe Manor, leading the other
| twenty-one entrants by more than
twelve minutes. Lyle. in car No. 3,
was second, being only Is seconds
| ahead of cars Nos 8 and II. which
were tied for third place.
Dan Murphy, driver of car No. 10,
| the Maja, and his mechanician. A. H.
| Uhlrfch, both got nasty spill at the
school house corner, when, according
to the announcer at the stand, a
| whele of their car collapsed and
| caused 1t to overturn. Neither Of
{ the men were hurt, it was said, but
| they and the car naturally had to so
out of the race.
| Sixth Lap.
Strang still led by good margin
! at the nnish of the sixth round his
| elapsed time being three hours. SIS
minutes and 4 seconds.
| While the Allen-Kingston car. en-.
/ tered as No. II, was tearing along
the course at a so mile an hour mace
on its sixth lap, the steering gear
snapped and the car swerved off the
roadway, plunging into several hun
dred spectators gathered behind a
fence, mile from Aronk
The crowd scattered in terror, ard
lust managed to open way for the
big car as 1t struck the fence. dashed
through. sending splinters right and
left and went onward to a creek
where il plunged down the bank and