The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-10

in the first lap and increased 1t slowly
| but steadily for 70 miles. The two Chal-
| mers-Detroit cars took his exhaust al
| distances which seemed to increase only
| by inches, but In the first ten laps these
inches had multiplied into almost mile
| AS the sturdy Swiss flashed past the
trained eye of Harding, the Apperson
! driver who was in the press stand, de-
tected what escaped the lay observer
! Ignoring the thunder of cheers which
| drowned all other sounds, Harding cried
| in his excitement:
you're on fire. You're on fire, Lewis!''
| Chevrolet apparently was ignorant of the
! fact at the time. but he had gone about
! a mile when the smoke belched into his
| face. Then he experienced MS only de-
| lay During the few minutes that it re-
| quired to extinguish the blaze, Dingley
| regained the lost laps and took the lead
| by about 80 yards. His triumph was
| short-lived for the Buick man took after
him and passed him during the next lap.
He was never again in danger.
| No serious accidents marred the days
| sport. The nearest approach to such an
accident occurred in the eighty-fifth lap
! when Harry Stillman, whose Marmon had
not experienced a single delay, ran into
the inner gutter of the track. Neither
| he nor his assistant were hurt beyond a
few bruises.
The accident occurred on the back
stretch when an overstrained rear tire
softened and sent the car into the ditch.
Three wheels flew off, one of them rolling
200 yards into the paddock before its
impetus was lost.
At this time Stillman seemed certain
to beat out the Chalmers-Detroi drivers
for second honors, having worked to the
fore of these machines while one was
replacing a tire and the other was re-
| newing its fuel.
Stillman's withdrawal left the two
| Chalmers Detroits to fight 1t out for
second place. Charles Basle's Renault
stayed hopelessly to the finish many
miles behind, but the other cars had
gradually been eliminated in the fierce
| ness of the struggle. Both nationals
Clicquot's Renault and the Rainier had
been gradually worn down and quit
' Summaries.
One mile time trial-First Fiat
| (Strang), 0:37:7; second, Benz odd
| field. O:40:13; third, Christie (Christie)
o:43:s2; fourth, Stearns (Rutherford),
| O;50:S5.
Ten mile stock chassis, 451 to 600
cubic inch es-First. NATIONAL (Aiken),
S:27:22; second, National tKincaid),
S:27:71; third. Apperson (Harding),
S:50:6g. Also ran, Renault, Fiat,
Stearns.
Ten mile race for light cars-First,
Chalmers-Detroit (Matson). 9:49:46;
second, Chalmers-Detroit (Knipper1.
9:4954; third, Buick (Nelson). 950;1S.
Also ran, White gasoline (Fuller).
Ten mile free for all handicap-First,
Marmon (Stillman), S:54:56 second,
Marmon (Harroun), 1885, third, Ma
tional (Aiken), 9:12:41. Also ran, Re-
nault, Freres. Rainier, Knox.
Two mile free for all-F'irst, Fiat
(Strang). 1881 63; second. Benz odd
field, 1:37:18; third. National (Aiken)
1:4v:72. Also ran, Christie.
zoo mile stock chassis race-First,
Buick (ChevroleD, 246; second, Chal-
mers-Detroit (Dingley). 2:53:33; third,
Chalmers Detroit Gorrimer), 2:55:15.
Also ran, Renault (Baste), Rainer
(Marmon), Renault (CliquoD, National
(Aiken), National (Kincaid).
Louis Cliquot, driver of a Pope-To-
ledo car in the 200 mile event. will be
out of the game for several days at
least Cliquot was cranking his car
preparatory to a trial run after the
races this afternoon when, In some
manner, the crank slipped and his arm
was broken.