New-York tribune., 1909-10-31
CAR MISSES CROW D
DANGER ATONE TURN
Warning Of White Flag Ig-
nOrcd by One Drircr.

For heavens sake put up that white flag
and stop those ears that are coming now"
This command came from one of the Van
d"rbit courers at the banked turn. where
the drivers left the parkway for the long
stretch north to HicksvilIe. He shouted
this order as the left back tire Of the
Camers- Detroit car. No Al. in the Massa-
poqua Stakes. opened up like flower and
sped along beside the wheel it had just
left. In an instant Brown, the driver. shut
off his power and threw on his brake, and
No. Il stopped dead in the middle of the
banked arc
The turn had been kept farl yclear by
the regular police. and the rural ephemera
known as deputy sherffs' up to this time,
but the halting of the Bluebird was the sig
nal for an irrepressble rush For mo-
ment it looked as if the we'll gowncd assem-
blage would be moved down by Harding in
the Apperson as he swoopel down the hill
at SiNtY-tive miles an hour The man on
the hill had waved his white Gag. but Hard
ing was driving too fast to see the signals.
and only the crowd on the course around
teh crippled car caused him TO cut down
his power. The loud cracking of his four
cylinders caused the heedless mob in furs
and silks TO part and. with no chance what
ever to see his way or measure his ground.
Harding shot around tho inner circle and
missed his gauge.
The turn was too short Tho Apperson
skidded through the soft dirt toward a tele-
graph pole nicknamed the death post by
the crowd Rather than hit it. Harding
Jerked the Apperson over. and the front
axle and the car itself parted like the in
Clasping of a iackknife. Harding and his
machnist jumped out, and willing hands
helped them push the disabled racer off the
course.
Meanwhile Brown tinkering with his
Chalmers Detroit with as much concern for
the oncoming cars as If he had been miles
off the course. lie tried to put on new
tire. but his wheel came off and to all the
pleading of the race officials to get off the
track he replied. shut up
Before Brown took his car away the
police and the rural deputies decided 10
clear the course. and in their determination
they respected neither race. religion nor
color For the time being they would not
consider the official insignia on the arms
OF the couriers. and it was not until one IF
tn" latter punched deputy whom the
crowd called Rummy'' that order VAS re.
stored
man with an official race badge had il
pIucked from his coat by rural" and by
way of accentuating his authority the
farmer policeman beat his inoffensive
charge severely with his club. riot ba
tween police and civilians was forestalled
by the appearance or Lewis Strang i'm his
F1at lie was not heard from after his
INST lap. and when he came up to tho turn
he Shunted off, coming to a stop on the
main exit from the course The crowd loft
the arbitrary deputy for Strang and even
IL he did not win the race the popular driv-
ers dripping Fiat served 10 keen the curl
Gus from the course. Strang said that =
stone hit his radiator ON the first lap lie
patched 1t up, he said. but it failed him
again, and he had to abandon the race.
There were many brushes around tho
parkway turn for tho north run to Hicks
vile At one time in the early TAR, of tho
race seven cars came over tho hin . fav.