The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-30

by Chevrolet's record lap in 9.57 VAN
ished with the retirement of the daring
French driver, who was forced to retire
while on his fifth lap, owing to ignition
trouble. Other mishaps of various
character put five others Of the Wander
bilt contestants out of the race before
the contest had been one-third run.
Strang, who had not put in an appear
ance since the finish of his first lap,
crawled to his repair camp after an alb
sence of nearly an hour, with his radla-
tor smashed to bits.
After hasty repairs and despite the
fact that the field had a lead over him
of nearly seven laps, the plucky driver
reentered the contest, however.
Many Forced to Retire.
His teammate, Hearne, was out for all
time, having smashed a crank case.
Athens National was ais disabled,
losing a wheel while making the turn at
Meadowbrook. The others put out OF
the running were Seymour's lsotta,
which gave up in the seventh lap, ow-
ing to a broken clutch: Stillman's Mar
mon. which suffered engine trouble IN
the seventh lap.
After eleven of the fun twenty-five
laps in the Vanderbilt cup race were
completed, after two and one-half hours
of racing, the leadership was all with
the two Chalmers Detroit entries.
Driver William Knipper had a hrst
place from the second lap on and Driver
Lorlmer had worked his Chalmers up
from fourth to second place. Lewis
Strang, in his Fiat, was six laps De-
hind. having been out of the race Tor
over an hour and a half because or a
broken radiator. Harding, in an Ap-
person. had been third UP to this time,
when his car overturned at Massapequa
Lodge Neither he nor his mechanician
was injured.
Lorimer, who gained first position
in the twelfth lap in his Chalmers
Detroit, blew out a cylinder While max
ing his thirteenth lap. and was perma-
nently retired from the race, leaving
Kninner In the other Chalmers Detroit
with a safe lead.
Just before the. eleventh lap was
reached In the Vanderbilt contest one
of the small cars, Massapequa event.
was finished and honors In that, 100
had fallen to the Chalmers-Detroit ma
chine, Joe Matson having made the re-
quired ter circuits of the course, or
1925. 40 miles in l hour 20 minutes 81 20
seconds. Martin Doorley, Maxwell. NO.
46, was second, and Arthur See, Max
well, No. "A, was third.
In the Wheatley Hills sweepstakes OF
fifteen circuits of the course or 1881
miles, which was two-thirds completed
at this time, Ray w. Harroun, in a
Marmon, was leading.
Up to his time there had been no
serious accidents in any of the events.
Willie Haupt, of Chicago, did not
start in tGs Vanderbilt cup race be-
cause of the breaking of a crank
shaft of his American No. 2 yesterday.
which could not be replaced in time
for today's contest.
Mercedes Car Stops.
Wishart's Mercedes, which had
aroused wild enthusiasm by working
up into second place in the sixth zap
came to grief in the eighth lap, owing
to defective carburetion, but resumed
after a delay of twenty minutes. AS
IL this long chain of mishaps were not
enough, Harding, in the Apperson, up
set while taking the turn at Massa-
pequa. Both he and Clifton, his mech
anician, escaped with but slight bruises,
bu the car was sufficiently damaged
to cause its withdrawal.