The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-30
Parker, in a Fiat, Second,
Five Minutes Behind
Victor.
ONLY FIVE CARS LEFT AS
CONTEST is CALLED OFF
Marion Car Passes Grandstand
in Flames-Matson Captures
Massapequa Trophy.
Leaders at Finish
of Vanderbilt Race
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, !,

GRAND STAND. MOTOR PARK
WAY, Oct. 3O.-Harry f. Grant, driv-
Ing 60-horsepower Alec car today
won the fifth Vanderbilt Cup race, COM
pleting twenty-five circuits of a 1854
mile course in hours % minutes AZ
seconds Edward III. Parker, at the
wheel of 45-horsepower Fiat, was see
ond, minutes and 16 seconds behind
the winner.
William Knipper, driving a 40-horse-
power Chalmers Detroit, was In third
position when the race was declared
ended by the officials. Only two other
cars. the Mercedes. driven by Wishart,
and the Atlas, driven by Knox, were
on the course to the end.
The race was conceded by all to be q
fizzle and a mockery ON those OF former
by frequent break downs made the con
test Disappointing to the great crowd
Of 250,0 900 gathered at the course.
Not until the beginning of the TWEEN
tieth lap, when the Fiat dislodged the
Chalmers Detroit for first position anu
was itself passed in the back streth by
the Alec, did anything like genuine
enthusiasm manifest itself. For a
brief period it seemed then that a
clos finish would be witnessed, but in
the twenty-first and twenty-second laps
Grant widened the gap that separated
him from the field and finished practi-
oally alone.
The time made by the winner was
equivalent to a 60h piles per hour aver
age for the entire distance of 27s.0S
miles.
One man was killed and another man
and woman were probably fatally
hurt while bound for the race, when an
auto In which they were riding got be
yond control on the steep hill at High
land boulevard and Jamaica avenue,
East New York, and crashed into tile
wall OF the National Cemetery.
Dead Man William Burnett.
The dead man was said BY the injured
woman before she became UNCONSCIOUS
10 be William Burnett address W
known, employed by Arthur Day, d
1851 Broadway.
The injured, who are expected to die
at any time, are Mary Crawford, II
years old. of / Montgomery street Jer-
sey city, and August Halfman, 20, ol
the same address.
The automobile was going at a very
fast rate of speed down the Highland
Boulevard Hill. As 1t approached
Jamaica avenue, Burnett, at the wheel.
tried to turn into the avenue, en- route
to the scene of the big automoote
races Sergeant Attwater, of the Lib
erty street station was some distanea
away and lie says he saw the maeh,a5
fail TO respond to the wheel and .su
denly dart straight across Jamaica ave
nue. toward the high wall around ths
cemetery
There was "a cry and then a crash
as the machine ran almost head-on mo
the wall and turned turtle. Other auto
mobile parties heard the crasn and
quickly arrived on the scene.
One Of the first TO stop was a party
In which there were two women, Buf-
nett was found under the car, so every
member of the auto party, including
the women. sprang to the overturned
auto and, aided by Sergeant Attwater,
lifted the machine off Burnett.
was Instantly Killed.
He was carried into the automObiie
by the women and men and the ma
chine rushed off to the Bushwick Hos
pital.
Burnett was terribly crushed and
was thought to have been dead when
he was taken from underneath the ma
chine His body was sent to the Lib
erty street station, where II awaits
positive identification.
The twenty-five cars entered in the
three races were sent away in three
detachments. The first of these con-
sisted of SIX cars, ranging from twenty
TO twenty-five horsepower. and COM
petlng for the Massapequa trophy. The
entrants for the Wheatley Hills sweep
stakes. four in number, followed next,
in class of their own. The fifteen con-
testants for the Vanderbilt cup made
up the third division.
Full List of Cars and Drivers.
The starters in the three events were
as follows:
Massapequa Sweepstakes, Class
distance, 10 laps, 126.40 miles,
Position and car. Driver.