Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-06-20
Result Of Western Vanderbilt Feature
Auto Race IN Doubt 10
Last Minute.
CAR AFTER CAR WITHDRAWN
Turns of Roadway Literary Cut to
Ribbons by Two Days Running, and
Trouble characterized the Event
From start--Aversge Speed Only
1926.
lny Associated Presal !.

(|y. Associated Press).
CROWN POINT, IND. June ia
IBL lex 40 horsepower ear. driven by
Louis Chevrolet. won the Cobe cup.
, the major event of the Western Van
derbilt, over the 1886 miles of the
Grown Point-Lowell course today by
the Embarrassing margin OF one minute
aud FIVE seconds.
Bourque, controlling Knox, who
captured second honors. made so des-
iRrate a bid for victory that not ur-
I'll the winning machine flashed over
! the tape was the result at all certain
to the frantic spectators.
lit was eight hours, one minute and
thiity-nine seconds after Starter Wag-
ner had uttered the word Co to the
, ultimate victor that he crossed the
line for the last time. Owing TO the
fact that he was the tenth entrant
in field OF twelve. and that Bourqra
crowded so perilously close TO him In
the final laps, the Knox car. number
On the list, was the first to pass the
tape. his time being S:02:4I. At this
| time Chevrolet was somewhere near
the beginning OF the long south
stretch. with eight minutes ia which
to seize the prize. AS he flashed by
the stations along this part of the
+, course. the news of his location. trans
F., mitted by wire to the judges stand
and through them to the watchers.
raising them TO climax of enthais-
lasm. The intense anxiety attending
D., his movements to the last foot was
| due in the main TO lively sense OF
the possibility of a disaster evolved
4 by a multitude of rough experiences
cnaracterizing the day.
Wins on hree Cylinders.
In the eleventh lap Chevrolet broke
a valve in a cylinder II could not
be replaced and he was forced to run
the rest of the day with three cylin-
ders. The skill with which he and
his mechanician handled the oil cans
during a stop at the repair pit In
Spectacular competition with the teams
of another racer. gained him time Of
immense value later.
The race. which showed an average
OF 40 20 miles an hour. was unusually
slow for cars Of the sixty horse pow
or class. This was even slower than
that Of the Light power machines In
the Indiana trophy event OF yesterday.
which reached an average speed OF
81 i-2 miles The trouble which as
sailed cars and drivers from the very
beginning today, and the fact that
the roadway at the turns was literally
cue TO ribbons by the almost continu-
| nous performance of the two days rae
/ ing upset all calculations.
1 The most conspicuous feature OF
today's race from a technical point OF
/ view was the wonderfully consistent
1 performance of Chevrolet. From the
start, when for SIX laps he ran neck
to neck with Denison, in a knox. his
average scarcely varied eighteen sec
/ onds. DensoE icing put out the run
ming. Robertson in Locomobile, ran
a close second TO the Buick for three
laps. jumped into tae lead in the tenth
and held II twice around again, while
Chevrolet fell back.
chevrolet's Load Ct Worry
! For the next three rounds Chevro-
/ let wrestled with a load Of worry.
summoHing up all his falling strength.
he sprung into the lead In The four
teenfh lap and was never thereafter
4 beaded.
BOurque's performance. while not 50
spectacular. was steady and consist
cut. At no time was he worse ihan
|, fourth.
George Robertson. plotting one Of TIE
\ T,ocomobiIe entries. lost his race
gamely. he ran consistently. He was
never worse than fifth in point Of re-
lapsed time. When Chevrciet's cy-
Hinder valve got out. Robertson as
r1med the lead ard maintained q IN
III the thirteenth when his magnetic
troubles began. At one time he had
a lead Of "a minutes and u was gener-
ally conceded TIA; barring just shat
id happen. he could not D. beaten
Hslf Out Before Finish.
Trouble resulting in tie withdrawal
Of car after car charscterized the race