Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-31
Thirty-Three Miles to Good at
O'Clock.
RAINIER IN SECOND PLACE
Bad Going on Brightwood Track
Keeps Down Speed.
sTEARNs CAR IN HARD LUCK
Capsizes on Turn, but Operators
Escape Without Serious Injury
and Machine Still in Race.

NEW YORK, July S1-George Robert
son. first away from the starting line n
the rush for pole position in the big TWEEN
ty-four-hour automobile race at the
Brighton race track at a:05 o'clock last
night was leading again at o'clock this
afternoon. having held the lead since
o'clock this morning.
His first splurge yesterday kept the Sim
pick car in front for few miles. Then
the car had a varied career. having 10
leave the track several times for small re-
pairs. Crosse shot ahead with the Stearns
only to be passed by de Palma in the Fiat
car in the twenty-third mile.
From that point on to the end Of the
seventh hour de Palma held the lead. At
4 O'Clock the Simplex overlook him and
passed the Fiat.
A loosened bolt which fell into the ma
chnery few minutes later compelled the
Fiat car to go to the infield for repairs
1t was out of the race for eighty minutes.
The Rainier car then got into second
place.
The score at o'clock. the end of the
eleventh hour, was as follows:
Simplex. 5s9 miles: Rainier. 313 miles:
Fiat. 1876 miles: Palmer & Singer, Az
miles: Lozier, 371 miles: Stearns. 3s2
miles: Acme. 80 miles, Haynes, LA miles
Record for eleven hours, $50 miles.
The Haynes car. which was out Of the
race for several hours. went on again
about 8 o'clock, after having a new hub
adjusted.
Simplex Behind Record.
The Simplex. which was fifteen miles
behind the Renault's record for nine
hours. finished the 45Oth mile In 9.l1:3o.
The worst accident which has occurred
thus far in the race was the sensational
spill of the Stearns car a few seconds
before midnight. when 1t capsized on the
turn out of the back stretch. II was
rumored that Marquis and Lang were
seriously injured.
The report was exaggerated Both men
were around the Stearns camp this morn
ing. The car was out Of commission for
over two hours.
Hard luck seemed to follow the Stearns
car. At 7:20 o'clock, when the Stearns
was making good Roadway with Laurent
Crosse at the wheel. the steerins knuckie
broke and the car was run off the track
near the turn into the back stretch.
A corps OF mechanics Immediately set
to work on 1t. No one was hurt by the
mishap.
The Acme car. which had been in the
back on the track at 1918 o'clock.
Bad Going on Track.
Every driver in the big race is complain
ing about the state OF the Brighton track.
1t has become rough and lumpy. which
causes a great deal of jolting and conse-
quent annoyance to the car crews. The
conditions Of the contest do not permit
Of an interval as in former years. during
which the track was rolled and dosed
with glutin. The drivers and mechan-
iclans all show the effects of their rough
travelling.
Simplex, the leader at II o'clock, was
just thirty miles behind its own record.
made over the same course last October.
and Robertson says there is no chance OF
equaling his previous effort, owing to the
bunny going.
The score at ! O'Clock, the end of the
sixteenth hour, was:
Simplex, 765 miles; Rainier, 742 miles:
Fiat, 67S miles: Palmer-Singer. 66S miles:
Lozier, 597 miles: Stearns, $50 miles.
Acme, 81. Record for sixteenth hour,
SO miles.
The Haynes car was compelled 10
leave the track during the fifteenth hour
owing to the breaking of the crank shaft
and crank case.