Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-04
CELNAW WINS iOO.NILE RACE
Drivers Honor Livingstone's Memory
During the Funeral.
VICTORY IN THE LAST HALF MILE
winner Has Lead Of one Hundred
Yards over knight AZ Finish
Contenders Handicapped by .,
Tire Troubles.

ATLANTA Ca. Nov. "a drama new
to American automobile racing was en-
acted on the speedway Just before the
start Of the 1OO-mile race today.
with the strains OF Nearer My God to
Thee" floating from the grandstand band,
nine big engines lined up at the starting
wire, their engines sulled for fifteen mia
utes while their drivers, with barred heads,
waited for the last prayer to be said in
another part Of the city at the funeral OF
Al Livingstone who was to have started In
the lOO-mile race but who was killed in
practice here two days ago. After the
hymn there was a long silence, respected
by all the thousands in the enclosure.
Suddenly the band started a two-step,
the racing engines coughed and Living
stone, the king OF the dirt track" had
passed forever from speedway events.
New speed kings we're throwing the
clutches into position and the big race
was on
Dawson Jumps Into Lead.
Joe Dawson in a Marmon jumped into
the lead and held it for ninety-eight miles,
when he was nearly two minutes ahead Of
the official record for 100 miles for Class
b cars. Then a shaft broke and he stopped
at the pits for repairs. Six miles behind
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and knights Wescot car, which for more
than ninety miles had been running nose
and nose often with scarcely an arms
length separating them. In the last half
mile Gelnaw pulled ahead and won by 100
| yards from Knight Dawson returned to
/ the race just in time to take third place
| Heinemann's Marmon and Basle's Pope
! Hartford. both contenders up to the sew
! entieth mile. were hOpelessly handicapped
! by bearing and tire trouble respectively.
| Time of winner: 1:26:1762.
There was nothing balmy about the
breeze which blew across the course to-
day. 1t chilled the drivers and things
did not warm up until Joe Matson, left at
the post by a quarter of a mile in the
! ten-mile free-for-all. got sizzling hot un-
der the collar. Joe's temper was evident
| in his actions. He was started finally
by a daring feat of his mechanician, How
ard Hall. Matson's trouble was in stop
ping his engine dead by throwing on the
high speed too quickly. Hall seized the
cranking rod and with the high speed still
on gave the engine it's first turn. His
arm was wrenched painfully by the jerk
from the engine, but this same jerk
helped to toss him to one side out OF
danger as the car leaped forward straight
toward him Matson, still visibly agi-
tated. drove madly passing every driver
except Caleb Bragg in Fiat in the first
mile and a half Bragg's engine worked
badly and Matson won easily. The races
will continue for two days more.
Tomorrow there will be eight events
featured by a 10O-mile race.
One mile time trials: Best time by Fiat
CBragg)' 41!12; Marquette Buick (Burman)
second, 1875; Abbott-DetrOit Montague
ROberts) third, 55:62.
Twelve-mie stock chassis, 151 to 23O cubic
inches piston displacement: Won by 70. NJ
! F. (WitD: Abbott-Detroit (MOntague Rob-
} erts) second; Abbott-Detroit (Mortimel
} Roberts, third Time: 1858.
FTee-for-all, twenty miles: Won by Mar
{ mon (Harroun): Simplex (Matson) second
Lozier (Mulford )third. Time; l5:20T.
Ten-mile stock chassis, go to go inches
! displacement: Won by Marmon (Dawson)
/ Marmon CHelnemann) second; Fal (Gol
naw) third. Time: s:34.7O.
d Ten mile free-for-all: Won by Marquette
D Buick CBurnam) Simplex (Matson) second
Fiat Bragg third. Time: 7:4252.
Twenty-mile stock chassis, $50 TO 60
inches displacement: Won by LoZier (Mul
I ford); ,Lozier CHoran) second; Simplel
i (Beardsley) third. Time: l6:1302
- One hundred miles, class b, 3Ol to ~
7 inches displacement, for trophy and $500
Won by Fal (Gelnaw)b WesCott (Knight
second; Marmon CDawson) third Time
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