The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-14
FIRST MEET AT THE NEW AT LANTA SPEEDWAY WAS
 CLOSED YESTERDAY.
Track Is Said To Be the Safest Track in the World by the Most Prom
 inent Drivers.

Atlanta, Ga, Nov 13--Although American automobile track records were broken right and left, the first meeting on tbe new Atlanta speedway was finished today without the loss of life and without an injury of more than the slightest importance.
 George Robertson, Lewis Strang, H. L. Kilpatrick, John Aiken ana othi CT drivers of nete declared today that tie track is probably the safest in the world The safety lies largely in the asphaltum used in holding the ce- ment and dirt together, and which forms the surface of the track.
 That mptor racing has taken a hold on the fancy of southerners is said to be indicated very plainly by the at tendance, which steadily grew larger from the first day and was at all times greater than was to be expected of a city of the size of Atlanta.
 The climax of the meet came in the last race today a 200 mile contest for stock cars. which was won by L. A. Disbrow, driving Ranier "50" The race finished as follows:
 First, Rainier (Disbaow), 2:53:4S: 32; Second, F. L A. T. (Robertson), 2:57:47:o5; third, Renault (Charles l.. Basic. 2:5S:43:9, and fourth, Re nault (L .Basle). s:l3:41:S7
 Eleven cars entered the contest but those named were the only ones to finish within anything like normal time. The Marmon car, driven by Ray Harround, completed the course long after the others had left the track
 Spectators generally were glad to applaud the victory of Disbrow, as he has had a great deal of i'll luck in be- ing compelled to withdraw from the events in which he was entered. To day his car, which previously had de- yeloped unexpected defects, behaved like another machine and did not stop throughout the entire contest.
 Up to the 162d mile George Robert son, at the wheel of F. I. A. T. "60," seemed a certain winner. He was three laps ahead of all other cars when he broke a chain and before he could resume he had lost fourteen miles. Disbrow had been following him and assumed the lead, followed by Charles Basic in second position.
 When Robertson resumed he quick ly overlook Basic, but the most bril- liant kind of driving which he exhib- tied and the perfect response of his car were insufficient in the time re. nlaining to overcome nis5rows lead, although Robertson drove from thire teen to fifteen seconds per mile fas- ter than the Rainier man. Although he was four laps behind Disbrow when he had repaired his chain, he was bui two in the rear when Rainier pilot crossed the wire.
 Dingley's ChalmeIs-Detroit held third position at the twenty-sixth mile, when he lost a wheel at the first turn.
 At the fifty-eighth mile, Strang, like Robertson, driving a F. I. A. T. "60, z changed tires and dropped to the rear. relinquishing third place in favor of Harding in an Apperson car. On the l20th mile he came in with flat tire and on the next lap withdrew to the paddock.
 The sixty-seconI mile saw the last of the Chalmers-Detroit entades, when Iorimer had engine troubles, joined the fast increasing colony in the pad dock. Harround, the Marmon driv- CT. retired considerably earlier in the race with wheel trouble, Hugh Hard ing was strictly a contender up to the l22nd mile, when a breakage compeik ed him to leave the race
 Chevrolet, the Buich driver, follow ed at Robersons heels for eighty-six miles, when an overheated engine compelled him to withdraw.