Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-10
WHEN WILL THE
RECORD BREAKING
REACH A LIMIT?
STEARNS SKATERS THE MILE
RECORD IN 377-10 SECS.
sTEARNs, AS USUAL, PLAYS FlD-
DIE IN BACK ROW
Chevrolet Breaks American Record
for 100 Miles in 1:24:s,71, and
Makes chalmers=Detroit
Eat Dust
tBx Associated Press.l

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 9.--Louis Chew
rolet, the sturdy Swiss pilot of Buick
cars, who has leaped into race promi-
nence within the last year, annexed
another hard-earned victory here to-
day when he captured the 20O-mile
stock chassis race, averaging about
seventy-two miles an hour.
Chevrolet's victory came as climax
in a record-breaking contest with
which Atlanta's new two-mile speed
way was opened.
Two of Barney Oldfeld's records
were lowered, one of them by Louis
Strang, who reduced Oldheld's one
mile mark of 43.1 by more than five
seconds. To do it, Strang used the big
200 horsepower Fiat, which made
worlds record of 28 seconds over the
three and one-half-mile track at
Brooklands, England, last summer.
Oldfleld got the limit speed out of his
hitherto unbeatable Benz and took
nearly three seconds of his own pre-
vious record.
Fastest Car In the World
"Strang has the fastest car In the
world at present" Oldfeld declared
after the race.
TWO cars of greater power than
Strangs are said to be in course or
construction abroad-one in Italy, the
other in Germany.
The second of Oldheld's records to
vanish was beaten in the ten-mlle
handicap, when John Aiken in Ma
tlonal sixty, starting from scratch,
forged ahead to third position IN the
field of eight cars in :0S:02:n. Old
field, who made the distance in Indian
apolis in :OS:15:09, also started from
scratch in this contest but broke
steering knuckle in the first lap and
was compelled to withdraw.
Robertson's Hard Luck
Georee Roberts, who was to have
anneared in two events with his Fiat
sixty. broke an oil pipe before coming
to the mark and was out all day. IN
practice before the races he made the
two miles lap in 1882, showing that
would have made him competitor IN
the big car races. ooo ii.
Chevrolet's winning of the 2oO-mlle
race in 2:46:4S was a brilliant eXploIt, p..
lowering Burman's record OF 3:24:l5
4-10 made in a Buick at Indianapolis
Chalmers Eats Buick Dust
The big pilot stopped but once in the
100 laps and then only when MS ma
chine caught fire. Chevrolet assumed
the lead in the first lap and increased
miles. Two Chalmers-Detrolt cars
for a time took his exhaust at DIS
tances that seemed to increase only by
inches, but in the first ten laps these
inches had multiplied into almost
mile.
AS the sturdy Swiss Mashed past.
the trained eye of Harding, the Apper-
son driver, who was in the press oox,
detected what escaped the lay observer.
lav Of qhnnrd which
drowned all other sounds, Harding
cried in his excitement:
Chevrolet's Car on Fire
you're on fire; you're on fire.
Louisp
Chevrolet was ignorant of the fact,
but when he had gone about a mile,
the smoke belched into his face. Then
he experienced his only delay. The
few minutes 1t required to extinguish
the blaze, sufficed for Dlngley to re-
gain the lost laps and he took the lead
by about thirty yards. His triumph
was short lived, for Chevrolet over
took him in the next lap. He was
never again in danger.
No serious accident marred the days
sport The nearest approach to such
an accident occurred in the eighty
fifth lap when Harry Stillman, whose
delay, ran into the inner gutter of
the track. Neither he nor his assistant
was hurt beyond a few bruises.
Loses Three Wheels
Three wheels flew off the car, one
Of them rolling 200 yards At this time
Stillman seemed certain to beat out
the Chalmers Detroit drivers for sec
ond honors, having worked to the fore
of the machines while one was replac-
ing a tire and the other was renewing
its fuel.
Stillman's withdrawal left the two
Chalmers Detroits to fight it out for
second place. Chas. Basle's Renault
stayed hopelessly to the finish, many
miles behind, but the other cars had
gradually been eliminated.
Summary of Races
One mile time trial-First, Fiat (Strang).