New-York tribune., 1910-11-11
DEATH ON AUTO COURSE
Fuchs Hurled from Car in Prac-
tiCe for Grand Prize.
MR.. SHARP ALSO INJURED
Fatal Accident Casts Gloom Over
Big international Race at
Savannah.
IB7 Telegraph to The rribuns. !.

Savannah Nov I0-AlDsrt FuCns. mo-
cbanic for william RI. Sharp and driver %
a 40-horsepoWer Sharp-ArrOw racing car
that was entered for the Grand Prix roaf
race here on Saturday. was killed this
morning when the machine overturned on
Ferguson avenue. Sharp was also in
fured and is now in the Savannah Hospital
At the hospital II was reported that
Sharp was suffering from shock. out tnat
the first examination had disclosed 10
broken bones. While me first reports had
il that he had been injured internally. ths
hospital authorities said there were no IN
dications that such was the case
The fatal accident occurred about =
O'Clock. when the Sharp was making its
first daily trip around the circuit The
car was Just entering a slight gradual
bend to the right after having gone over
an appsrently straight level stretch. when
II swerved off the road TO the left.
rlouRhed up about fourteen Feet OF tho
ditch. Knocked down seven heavy fencs
posts and turned over
Ar Poole. the racing driver VINO ~
here 20 watch the races. was one or the
early arrivals az the scene Of the accident
4 negro convict who had been working On
/ the road near by told Poole that Fuchs had
said something to S.arp Just before the
accident Sharp had turned 70 look back
along the course. and then. the convict SAN
the car swerved of the road. The lefc
, front tire was torn from the wheel and sx-
p1oded as it was torn or the rim
IT is practically certain that Fuchs vas
| killed instantly Coroner Goette said that
his spinal column had been broken a. the
waist line. his skull fractured az the back
/ Of his head his left arm broken below the
| shoulder and his right leg broken above
| the ankle Fuchs was married and for
merry lived in Trenton, y. j.
| There had been some uutterings OF dis
/ content among some Of the drivers OF the
big cars entered for the Grand Prix race
over the acceptance Of the Sharp entry
sharp has had very little experience with
| a racing car and lot Of the drivers SAN
il was dangerous to permit him 20 COM
I pAte. His machine appeared to BE- top
/ heavy and to be too light for the power Of
/ its engine. He had drawn first position IN
! the allotment OF numbers for Saturdays
7 race
The nrar+fce today vas productive OF
/ the fastest time vet made on the course
| Bruce Brown rushed over one lap or thS
I173 miles course in 13 minutes % seconds
/ or at the rate OF seventy-s1x miles an hour-
/ The drivers have been trying 70 determine
| on a speed which was safe for their tiFes
without burning OF the shoes On tns
| Ferguson backstretch, clear road OF nse
miles straight as the bee heads TOT us
/ hive hewed out Of the forest for the drst
! Grand Prize race two years ago. they
end that thev cannot go much above
eighty miles an hour without literally burn
ing up their tires.
WAGNER also drove fast lap. jumping
his car up TO seventy-twO miles an hour.
while Hughes. Chevrolet. Disbrow and
Basic fairly flew over the course.
The entire city has gone race mad Tbs
streets are filed with people talking times
and cars and the rush TO the course to wit
ness the light car race tomorrow already
has begun
! There are innumerable makeshift grand
stands along the entire course and the
night before scenes are not unlike thOss
for the Vanderbilt cup race on Ions
Island.
Too much praise cannot te given tbs
I Savannah men and the Savannah Auto
mobile Club for the work done in the
twenty-eight days since it was decided TO
hold the race here. They have built ths
most perfect course for an autOmooile race
ever seen in this country. they have ar
| ranged TO police II with militia they haNa
/ erected warning signs Of every turn FOR
the information OF the racing drivers and
big arrows at the actual turns, and they
have also indicated the sof. and dangerous
spots by blue flags. Beyond all TINS. the
grandstand is ready tonight for the lb~0
persons il will accommodate 10 walk IN
and seat themselves tomorrow. Inis Is
some job" and II has been done we'll
res-T Nr,rL-
under the management OF the Motor
| Rscinz Association. arrived to-day. II
carried about sixty persons from Ne" forS
and Philadelphia. many Of the most en-
tbusisstic motorists of those two cities.