The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-10-06

additional award of $4,000 in gold
TO the winner and a special award of
the donors trophy for permanent
ownership. Manufacturers also con-
ditionally offered 81, 400 in cash prizes.
The Wheatley Hills and Massapequa
Sweepstakes each carried a trophy
and $1,000 to the winner.
Shortly before O'Clock word was
flashed to the stand that Harold Stone.
in Columbia car No H. had been
killed and his mechanicIan, William
Beacon, fatally injured when their fly
ing car skidded and overturned.
Stones Bride There.
Stone came to New York from Los
Angeles, Cal. with great expectations
of winning the Vanderbilt race. He
brought his bride along with him.
Also herbrought a fine reputation as
a fast auto driver In California. The
Columbia people thought he would
make their car a dangerous contender
they hired him. When he started out
this morning as No. IL his bride sat
in the grandstand.
Another accident came in the
Wheatley Hills event shortly after the
start, when the Mercer car, driven by
c. II. Frey. burst a tire and swerved
into a telegraph pole.
Frey kept his nerve, however, and
so guided the machine that it side
swiped the pole instead of hitting it
The car skidded dangerously near
the crowd at a sixty-five-mile clip, just
before II struck the pole.
c. M. Tripwell, Frey's mechanician,
was thrown out, while Frey was PIN
ned in the machine. Both, however.
escaped with slight bruises. The ma
chine was wrecked and Frey had to
retire.
The next accident occurred at
Westbury. Thomas Miller, twenty
eight years old, one of the thousands
of spectators at that point, stepped
upon the course and was struck by
Jack Fleming's POpe-HartfOrd ma
chine and hurled twenty-five feet.
Several women in the crowd faint
ed. Miller's skull was fractured. a
leg broken and he was internally in
jured. He was taken TO a hospital
in dying condition.
Too Fast to Make Turn.
William Knipper. driving car No.
81. was going too fast to make the
Massapequa turn in the seventh lap.
His car swerved into a machine own
ed by j. Mullen, contractor, living
at Jamaica.
Morris Levenson, of New York. was
pinned in between the two cars and
one of his legs was broken.
The Chevrolet accident occurred to-
ward the finish of the race. Chew
rolet, who had led at the beginning.
10 make up the distance. At Hicks
vile he was going at an eighty mile
an-hour clip when he hit a large
touring car. Chevrolet was thrown
twenty feet out of the car, which was
wrecked. His mechanlcian, Miller.
was imprisoned in the wreckage and
terribly mangled.
Chevrolets car telescoped the tour
ing car. He had to retire from the
race.
William Hall. mechanician for Bob
Burman. was injured at the Massa-
pequa turn when the driving chain
1roke and part of it struck him.
Massapequa Sweepstakes.
summary OF the Massa pequa sweep-
stakes is as follows:
First-EndicOtt. in a Cole so, 8
iours Is minutes.
Second-Monte Roberts. in an Alb
bott-Detroit No. So, 2 hours and %
minutes.
Third-Louis Edmunds. in Cole
so No. So. hours and 27 min
utes.
The winner only was posted and
announced for the Wheatley Hill race.
With three races going at one time
on the same course the confusion
made the judging and taking of re-
cords almost impossible. The win
ner OF the Wheatley Hill sweepstakes
was not announced until long after
the big race was over.
he was j. +. Gelnow, driving Fal
car No. 40. His time for the 1896
miles was hours and Is minutes
The second and third men were moi
announced.
Endicott, in a Cole 80. won the
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