The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10
ROBERTSON WINS
 AUTOMOBILE RACE Daredevil Driver Makes Course At Breakneck Speed CONTEST IS VERY CLOSE Robertson Makes Speed of Nearly eeventy-five Miles an Hour But
 Four Others Finish In
 Fine Time.
 
CONTEST IS VERY CLOSE

Philadelphia, October S.-Big George Robertson, who grins like the boy he is when he is driving racing motor like field, made himself still more famous to- day when in one of the best races of his career he won the second annual Fair mont Pa, park contest at 2O25 miles.
 In Simplex stock touring car Michael in-shod, he covered the distance in s3S:5S 4-5, which means that he averaged about 75 miles an hour over a little eight mile course. hilly and winding and far from speedy.
 He led home Bert Dingley in a Chal- mers-Detroit, Hugh Harding in an Apper- son, Joe ParISins in Chadwick and Lewis Strang in an Isotta, which quartet were really the only contenders.
 Robertson won a cash prize of 5000. Other cash prizes ranged as follows: $1200; s50oS $25o, and $10o
 It was a splendid race. It was so close at all stages that the winner was by no means certain There was no ac- cidents to cars or drivers and thanks to a force of 5000 policemen and militiamen that lined the eight-mile circuit, there
  he recovered from it in time to yell: "Oh, you, George" at the finish
 The first car was sent away at noon, by which time 350,000 Quakers who had lost neither their sleep nor their break fast to get there, lined the grass slopes l, which edge the roadside.
 And the Riddles and Drexels and Cad | walters and other fashionables were in 1 the grandstands
 The r0artnn ba m a cbineq xverp an many that they had to be lined up one | at the time, one every 30 seconds. Rob ! ertson was No. and he got a real rous- l ing cheer for he it was who won the race last year. Louis Chevrolet, in a Buick 1 got off with the 1 80 tally attached to his machine. He too was cheered but the crowd was with Robertson. There were l two Americans, two Simplexes, two | Bucks, a Thomas, an Acme, two Chal- mers, an Apperson, Lozier, a Columbia, a Palmer Singer, an Isotta, two Chad l wicks, a. Welch and a Seldon, which lat | ter had the facetious 23 tag. By the time the last machine was away the tele- phone had already reported "car com- ing within a couple of minutes of the home stretch.
 Robertson whizzed by in second place. having passed two cars and being led only by the American, which started ahead of him.
 Then Chevrolet in the little white Buick whirled along in seventh place. having passed six competitors, and made the fastest lap. It then looked like Robert I son would go down to defeat but the next lap the latter forged ahead and the Frenchman was never again dangerous competitor. After several rounds the Chadwick car was compelled to with draw from the race.
 Bert Dingley and the Chalmers took up the fight against the red Simplex, which was running with the regularity of an old town clock. But the best he could do was to give plucky and vain chase.
 About the middle of the race an cpl. demic of trouble struck the rear brigade and no car except the leading five was running constantly. One of the Ameri- cans glanced off telegraph pole and the crew was thrown out, but no one was even scratched The Acme cast a tire while making 60 miles an hour in front ] of the erandstand,