New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
Nothing but Minor Accidents
Mar Long Grin 1T Brighten
Res ch.
scosF Fos A.HouR AUTO RACE.

GYheu the tWenty-foUr-hour automobile
race finished. at $50 O'Clock at the B.p-h-
TON Beach track last night, sixteen new
norld's records had been mace. The
Siearns car. driven by Cyrus Patschke and
Al Poole. who hao never been headed since
the pistol sent them off, held them all
These records we're as follows: First hour
fl wenty-four-hour race. 81 miles: 1866
mile record, IL hodrS minutes IS - sec
ends: and every mari. for the hours be
ginning with the eleventh hour The dis
lance fo- the twenty-foUr hours was l25S
miles. being fifty-Seven miles more than
the Loz;cr record OF l,l96 miles. made in
October, 1899. at Brighton Beach and
Istschke was alternate driver with Null
ford in that ride.
Another curious coincidence is shat ~
Poole. WHO was the Stearns driver up at the
finish, was also the finishing alternate III
tie twenty-four-hour race in May when lie
drove a Simplex
The 1iathcscn entry. which Charles Basle
EEd Neil Mhalen. second AZ eleven
miles and the Houpe was third. Stanley
Martin up with 964 miles. Only these three
cars survived the long grind out OF field
of seven who started The awards were
s. go first $500 second and S4oo third.
After the Stearns entry had snapped
drivers and young Poole got up he seemed
20 put new blood into the race, which had
come 10 be mere grind About o clock
Nally owen. who had come fresh TO the
Marion car, relieving Marcel Basic, started
out at a terrific pace. He was carrying d
mechanician named Williams. He had
hardly got warmed up when the big Marion
car went through the fence at the identical
spot where its sister car went through with
Lewis Strans and poor Bradley in the May
race.
When Williamss wife. who lad been
standing against the fence reached him
she found that he had heen thrown out of
tie machine and vas not very badly in
jured But owen was imprisoned under
tie ponderous mass and il took some time
10 gel him out.
The crowd rushed across the track in the
dawn light. the officials being powerless to
stop them and helped lift the car from
owens tody. He was badly bruised and
c1t and trst the surgeons OF the field
hospitals thought him internally and seri-
ously injured. But later in the day it was
szid that he would probably be out in
DAY or two. This put the Marion car out
Of the "a e, and as the Allen Kingston car
had dropped out about o'clock With d
lopelessly twisted shaft only five cars re-
NAMED
Al had their minor troubles with tires
and adjustments and were frequently off.
But in the twelfth hour the Stearns entry
surprised every body by breaking the
worlds record for the distance, made BY
Ralph Mulford in the Lozer car on Octo-
Der = and 10 1908 Each hour the Stearns
Car added to its gain above that record.
II was an astonishing performance after
being 50 far behind the record in the ear
Eer hours OF the race.
Cnul the end of the race the Stearll. en-
try- with Patschke and Poole alternating
ar the wheel was beyond the record The
Stearns car turned the one thousand miles
IN II hours minutes and is - seconds.
being hours minutes and IS :s-5 seconds
ahead of the best previous one-thousand-
mile record. which was made in May last
The Matheson car. with Charles Basle
and Neil NhaIen. did remarkably consist
ent work. 1t was off the track less than
the others. with the exception of the
S1earns. and hung on 10 it's place At sec
ond without trouble Its mechanical per
formance vas even end perfect Probably
never before ir the history Of tweflty-four-
/ our racing have two ears maintained the
Same relative positions for SO many hours
as the Stearns and the Jatheson did in
this contest.
The fight for third place between the Cole
end Houpt entries began TO be feature
Of the race about the tenth hour
The Cole. driven by Bill f1ndicott and
Louis Edwards, kept doggedly on. with
the brown Houpt. its i'll luck seemingly at
last overcome. giving il battle at every
tU1n- This kept up all the morning, and
each camp figured that surely the other
must retire for some time. when its own
entraut would have a chance to slip in.
Fut this chance never came until II o'clock,
~hen the Cole Was forced 10 seek the pad
cock where the little green car stayed an
-Four For another hour il maintained its
place al third. then at so O'Clock another