Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-11
CHEVROLET WINS LONG RACE
Two Hundred-Mi Event Goes to
Driver Of Buick Car.
ATLANTIC SPEEDWAY IS FAST
Two Record Previously Help Up
Barney OIdfieId Are Broken
Aiken wins Ten-NIile
Handicap.

ATLANTA. Ca, Nov. 1O-Louis Chevro-
let, the sturdy Swiss pilot of Buick cars,
who has leaped into racing prominence
during the last year, annexed another
hard-earned victory here today when he
captured the 20O-mile stock chassis race,
averaging about 70 miles an hour.
Chevrolet's victory came as a climax in
a record breaking contest in which At
lanta's new two-mile speedway was opened.
Two of Barney Oldfield's records were
lowered one Of them by Louis Strang,
who reduced Oldfield's one-mile mark Of
O:43:01 by more than five seconds. To 10
IT Strang used the big 200 horsepower
Fiat, which has had a worlds record Of
2S seconds over the 3h-mile track at
Brooklands, England, last summer. Old
field took the limit out Of his hitherto
unbeatable Benz and took nearly three
seconds off his own previous record.
'Strang has the fastest car In the world
at present." Oldfield declared after the
race.
Two cars Of greater power than strang's
are said to be in course Of construction
abroad, one in Italy and the other in Ger
many.
The second Of Oldfield's records to vanish
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John Aiken. in a National sixty starting
from the scratch, forged ahead to this po-
sition in the field Of eight cars in S:02:h,
actual running time. His elapsed time for
the race, which included 70 seconds handi-
cap, was 9:12:41. Oldfield, who made the
distance at indianapolis in 8:15;O9, also
started from scratch in this contest, but
broke a steering knuckle in the first lap
and was comDelled to withdraw.
George Robertson, who we. to have APP
peared in two events with his Fiat sixty,
broke an oil pipe before coming to the
mark, and was out of the game all day.
In practice before the races he made the
two-mile lap in 1882, a showing which
would have made him a competitor in the
big car races.
Two Mile Race.
Chevrolet's winning of the 200 miles in
2:46:4S was a brilliant exploit, lowering
Burman's record of 3:24:1S9S, made in a
Buick at Indianapolis. The big pilot
stopped but once in the 100 laps. and then
only when his engine caught fire.
Chevrolet assumed the lead in the first
lap and increased 1t slowly, but steadily,
for seventy-two miles. The two Chalmers
Detroit cars took his exhaust at distances
which seemed to increase only by inches,
but in the first ten laps these inches had
multiplied into almost a mile. AS the
sturdy Swiss flashed past the trained eye
of Harding. the Apperson driver, who was
in the press stand, he detected what es-
capped the lay observer Ignoring the
thunder of cheers which drowned all other
sounds. Harding cried in his excitement;
You're on fire, you're on fire, Louis!"
Chevrolet apparently was ignorant of the
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about a mile the smoke belched into his
face. Then he experienced his only delay.
During the few minutes it required to ex-
tinguish the blaze. Dingley regained the
lost laps and took the lead by about thirty
yards. His triumph was short-lived, for
Chevrolet took after him and passed him
during the next lap. He was never again
in danger.
No Serious Accidents.
Nc serious accident marred the lays
sport. The nearest approach to such an
accident occurred in the eighty-fifth lap,
when Harry Stillman, whose Marmon had
not experienced a single delay, ran into
the inner gutter of the track. Neither he
nor his assistant were hurt beyond a few
bruises.
The accident occurred on the back stretch
when an overstrained rear tire softened
and sent the car into the ditch. Three
wheels flew off, one of them rolling ZN
yards before its impetus was lost. AT TINS
time Stillman seemed certain to beat out
the Chalmers-Detro drivers Tor second
honors. having worked to the fore of the
machines, while one was repairing a tire
and the other was renewing It's fuel
stnlman's withdrawal left the two Chal-
mers-Detroits to fight it out for second
place.
Charles Basle's Renault stayed hopelessly
to the finish, many miles behind, but the
other cars had gradually been eliminated
in the fireceness of the struggle.
Both Nationals, Cllcquot, Renault and
the Rainier had been gradually worn down
and cult. Summaries:
One mile. time trial: First, Fiat (Strang)
O:37:7; second, Benz COldfield), O:4O:lS
third, Christie (Christie), O:4S:S2; fourth
Stearns Rucherford), 0:5O:S5.
Ten-mile stock Chassis, 451 to COO cubic
inches piston displacement: First, Ma.
Kinkaid), S:27:n; third, Apperson lizard
ing), S:50:65. Renaualt, Fiat Stearns' alse
Ten-mile race for light cars: First, Chal
mers-Detroit CMarmon), 9;49:46; second
Chalmers-Detroi (Knipper). 9:49:S4; third
Buick Nelson), 9:50:lS. White, Fuller, also
Ten-mile. free for all handicap; First
Marmon (Stillman), 6;54;So; second mar
mon Harroun), 1855; third, Nationa
Niken), 9:12:n. Renault, Freeres, Rainier
Knox, also ran.
Two-mIle. free for all: First, Fla
(Strang), 1:31:61; second, Benz (Oldfield)
1918; third, National (Aiken), l:43H2
Christie also ran.
2OO-mile stock chassis race: First, Buick
OChevrolet), 2:46:4s; second, Chalmers-De
trolt Dingley), 2:53:SS; third, Chalmers
Detroit norimer). 2:55:1R. Renault Rasle)
Rainier Marmon). Renoult (ClicquoO, Ma.
tionaI CAiken), National tKinkaid), also
ran.