The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-30

the Simplex. driven by Mitchell. which
was doing splendid work until he suf-
Tered broken crank-shaft on the third
round
on the fourth lap. Chevrolet who had
been driving a splendid race i'm the
Buick car, completed the circuit in a.57
setting a record for the course
By the completion of the third round
Chevrolet had forged into the lead
heading knipper Ia a Chalmers-De-
tIoIJs Dy y seconds. LOrimer, I'm q
imers-Detroit. was third, ami Hard
lus, IN the ApperS0u, was fourth.
Even at this stage of the game the
contest was becoming a runaway, and
a nCmoer Of tllu cars. which were stiH
on the track were virtually oUt CT it,
On the sixth lap Joe Seymour, in an
Isotta-E'ranchini. went out OF Jhe race,
owing 10 a broken pivot
Breaks Crankshaft.
Hearnes Fiat wet out on the fourth
round with a broken crankcase.
Strang was put out OF the race on
his second round, and narrowly escaped
death. when a rock, probably thrown
on the track by some mischeviouS. per
son, was hurled into his radiator.
crashing through it. Had the rock
gone few inches higher, it must have
hit either the driver or the mechanician
and would have resulted in certain
death Tor one or the other.
n.
40 his ChalmeFs-DetTOit had moved in
10 flrst place and was driving a splendid
race. L-orrlmer, in Chalmers Detroit.
haC taken second place and was RI
seconds behind the leader Harding. In
the Apperson Jack RABBIT was third,
and MerZ, In q National, was fourth
hnlpper's time FOR. seven laps vas l
hours ~ minutes. and 81 seconds. Chew
rolet had struck a snaS and was out OF
The contest at this stage OF the race
AFTER bringing his machine up to the
nit nd E,sr
up the broken radiator and resumed the
race.
Chevrolet, who was leading at the
time and driving a splendid race. was
put out of the contest on the fourth
lap, when he cracked the cylinder OF the
big Buick.
Aitkin. in his National, lost a wheel at
MeadowbroOk, and quit the race
Jack Rabbit Skids
Harding. in the AppersJn Jack Rabbit.
skidded, and turned his machine over at
the Massapequa on the ninth round.
Although shaken up. neither he nor his
mechanician were seriously hurt
BY the time the eleventh round of
the big race had been reached. the half
way mark on the 2lS-mile journey, seven
o. the fifteen ears had been out COM
pletely out of the running.
n number OF sensational LAPS had been
torn on up 10 this time, the best being
that OF Chevrolet, who negotiated tie
fourth round in 9-57. The EFFORT had
cost him cylinder, however, and pa1t
MIN out OF the contest
On the eleventh lap. knipper in a
NhalmerS-Detroits was first having
gone the 1S9 miles In 2 hours g minutes
and y seconds. LOrrfmer his team
mate, IN another Chalmers Detroit was
- seconds behind him.
Mer2. driving a National, was third /
about ten minutes back, and Parker,
ia the tlats was fourth. three minutes
back OF Merz
he thirteenth round proved an I'M
lucky one Tor LOrTlmer in the Chalmers
Detroit While leading the race with a /
good margin 10 his credit his car blew
out a cylinder head and he was out Of /
the contest.
KIlpper ousted.
AS WisharL in the Mercedes. com
pieted his fifteenth lap. running fourth, 1
knlpper in the ChaImers-Detro
mashed oy, finishing his nineteenth. The /
tWentletn round saw kuIpper, who had I
pee the leader since the fifth Ian
o4Sted from his position.
The Fiat car. driven By Parker which 4
had attempted no spectacular sUeed I
stunts had been driven at an AVERAGE /
Tune OF twelve minOtes to the lap, ard I
now came into first position
Grant, IN his Alec, swept into second /
place, ana the grandstand waited for 4
the details Of the misfortune which was |
evident had put the second Chalmers
Detroit out of the leadership.