The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-01
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 Motor Parkway. Long Island, Oct. 1.-After, three lives had been sacri- feed and more than a score of parti- cipants and spectators desperately in jured, Harry Grant, in an Alec car, was the winner of the Vanderbilt cup race here today, duplicating his vis- tory last year in the same event, with the same car. His time for the 278.- O8 miles, was 4:15:5S:34, an average of 65 1-1O miles per hour. Joe Daw- son, driving a Marmon car, was sec ond just 25 seconds behind the vic tor and Joe Aitken, in a National, was third.
 The two other races run simul- taneously, the Wheatley Hills Trophy won by a F'al car and the Cole '3O'' respectively.
 Despite the appalling list of casual ties William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., don or of the cup, announced that the big international race, the Grand Prix to be run on October 15, will not be in- pressed the belief that today's race. which was witnessed by between 400,- 900 and 5eO:ooo persons, was the the annual contest for the cup.
 The desperate chances taken and the hair-rais1ng exhibitions gwen m participants in today'S contest, served to draw one of the largest crowds that mas ever IhrOnS00 Cn0 AOlOT Parkway, and from last midnight un- til daybreak today a procession of auto parties from New York to the course was practically unhroken. Alp proximate1y 10000 cars were lined up along the course when the race stared at o'clock.
 An early morning rain served to make the course soft and dangerous and at the sharp turns, ruts several feet deep could be traced.
 The first death occurred when the car owned by Ferdinand D'Ziuva, on it's way to the course with a party of spectators, became unmanageable and overturned, killing 1DZiuVa and injuring his wife.
 The next addition to the death list was made when the Columbia, driven by Harold Stone, of Los Angeles, go- ing 75 miles an hour, crashed through the railing of a bridge at Meadow brook and plunged 50 feet into a jured and his mechanician, Walter Bacon, almost instantly killed. Both men were taken to the Nashua Hos pital where for some time there was confusion as to whether Stone or Bacon was the dead man.
 The third fatality occurred well to- Louis Chevrolet, one of the leaders in the race, driving a Buick car, at tempted to negotiate one of the dan geFouS turns on two wheels. The car skidded and running far out of the roadway, crashed into touring car filled with women. Charles Miller,
  between the two cars and crushed, apparently every bone in his body being broken.
 Although scores of Pinkerton de- tectives and deputy sheriffs patrol1ed the course the morbid interest of the spectators drew thousands to every dangerous turn where fatalities were 1ikeliest and it was at these points that most of the injuries to specta- tors occurred.
 Grants victory was the result of the same sort of a plugging contest as he drove last year when he was also the winner of the big event. During the early stages of the race his car did little in the way of spec tacular stunts but he reeIed off lap after lap with perfect consistency and at the eighth lap took the lead and held it to the end The Marmon car finished just 25 seconds behind the winner and in the opinion of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and other officials of the contest the finish was the clos est that has ever marked long dis tance event of this ma gnitude
 Conditions at the Nashua HosDitaI l where most of the injured were ak en, were chaotic. Injured were brought in promiscuousIy from vari- ous parts of the track with no record of how they sustained their injuries 1 Identification of several of the vic | tirns was difficult.