The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-28
The PeliCans Yellow AS Usual
Beach Automobile Races
Begin And Two Men Already Dead

Brighton Beach Autodrome, August H.
Louis Cole. mechanician for the Stearns
car in the 2O0-mile race, was Killed. and
the driver, Laurence Gross. was fatally
injured in a collision with the Acme car
shortly before midnight. Patcheke and
Maynard, the crew of the Acme, were
only slightly injured. Both cars were
wrecked
Gross and Cole were thrown from their
car In the collision. Cole was almost in
stantly killed. Gross spine was broken
and he cannot recover
The race stopped, but was resumed in
10 minutes.
Less than 10 minutes later, to avoid an
other collision at the same point Van
tine, driving the other Acme entry risked
death by steering his car straight through
the heavy infield fence. Both he and his
mechanician escaped injury, and his car
was damaged only slightly. losing front
wheel. The machine started again in
few minutes with a new wheel. A short
time before the accident in which Cole
was killed, Driver Hughes of the Al
len-Kingston. was seriously burned when
his clothes caught fire from blaze which
started near his gasoline tank.
The A-hour race, with 10 drivers of
national reputation competing, started
over track which four weeks Of careful
work has made as hard as the most ex-
acting racer could demand. Fifteen thou
sand spectators witnessed the start from
the stands, which line the home stretch
Of the great mile circuit, while 800 auto
mobiles were packed in the spaces about
the clubhouses and around the starting
point. The preliminary events of the day
included a one-hour motorcycle race won
easily by Walter Goerke, who covered 6512
miles, and a six-hour race for low-priced
cars, won by the Hupmobile, after the s.
P. o. No. l had been disqualified. In
one-mile time trials, DePalma in the Fiat
Cyclone circled the track in SIS 1-5, and
Christie in his new $50 horse power races
made the mile in 81 As seconds. The con-
testants in the 24-hour race who expect.
with favorable weather conditions, to
break the present record of LII miles, got
away at 1901 o'clock They left the
post in the following order:
No. 1-Renault, Basic and Raffalovitch.
No. 2-Palmer-Singer, Lescault and
Howard.
No. 3-Acme, Patcheke and Maynard
No. Acme, Vantine and Kayouh.
No. 5-Losier. Helms and CODE.
No. 6-Stearns, Gross and Milford.
No. 7-Houpt Robertson and Poole.
No. s-Allen- Kingston, Hughes and Egg
ioli.
No 9-Ffat, DePalma and Parker.
No. 10-Rainer, Disbrow and Luck.
At the end of the first hour the two
Acme cars had leaped into the front. They
were both credited with total of So miles
for the hour, equalling the record made
by Robertson on the Brighton track last
October. Score for first hour:
Acme No. 8. SO miles; Acme No. 4, So
miles; Renault No l. 50 miles; Fiat No. 9,
SO miles: Rainier No. 10, 50 miles; Stearns
No. g. 80 miles; Palmer-Singer No. 2. 46
miles, Loser No. s, rs miles; Allen-King-
ston No. s, a miles, Haupt No. Z, %
miles.
The six-hour race was won by the Hup-
mobile No. 4, distance 226 miles; s. P. o.
No. 8 was second with 1872 miles, Mitchell
No. 2, third, with 1872 miles, and Allen
Kingston No. 8, fourth, with 1923 miles.
The S. P. o. No. l, leading by 81 miles,
was disqualified 30 minutes before the end
of the race for foul driving.
The five-mile free-for- all, first event
of the evening, started with a bad spill.
While making a preliminary circuit OF
the track the Green Dragon, driven by
Gilhooley, baked at the sharp curve and
went through the fence. The car was
wrecked, but Gilhooley escaped uninjured.
The event was won by a Fiat Cyclone,
driven by DePalma, in STA 3-5.
Walter Christie, in his new $50 horse
power racer, did an exhibition mile in
81 As seconds