Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-09
zENGLE THE VICTOR FIRE SW[ERS TOWNS
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Beats Out Milford in the ZOO Thirty Deag ODE Thousand
Mile Automobile Race Homeless in .Annesota.
IN A #A'a-RAIsne FINISH BIG MILLS ,o5s1RorED
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Margin Bodies of Victims Found Cana
Less Than Six Seconds dian Northtrn Railway Tracks.
IMMENSE CROWD AT TRACK FLAMES SPREAD VERY RAPIDLY
Half Million People Fairmon Woods Burn Easily Ground Being
Park, Philadelphia, % Dry
in Speed Contest Big financial Loss
Beats Out Milford in the ZOO
Mile Automobile Race
IN A HAlR-RAISING FINISH
Prize Goes to Winner by q Margin
Of Less Than Six Seconds.
IMMENSE CROWD AT TRACK
Half Million People in Fairmont
Park, Philadelphia, to See Cars
in Speed Contest.

PHILADELPHIA. October S.-Len
Zengle in a Chadwick car won the third
annual o-hundred-mile road race of the
Quaker City Motor Club. over an eight
mile course in Paramount Park this after
noon In hours, 30 minutes, Z SS-ln
seconds. snatching the victory from Ralph
milford, who drove a Lozier. by the mar
row margin of 42-lO0 seconds.
Tobin dc Hymel, the Aztec Indian,
finished third, in standardization
His time was :; hours. 81 minutes, AZ
a5-1O0 seconds. John Aiken. in Ma
tiOnal, who finished among the leaders in
the Vanderbilt cup race a week ago.
was fourth. in = hours. ~ minutes, ~
1J-1OO seconds. and w c. Jagersberger,
driving Mercedes. was fifth, in :; hours,
43 minutes, IS 711OO seconds Harry
CODE, in a Jackson, was sixth; Harry
G.. knight. in a Wcstcott, was seventh:
Ernest Gilliard, driving a Pullman. was
eighth. and the last TO finish before the
race was declared ended was George T.
Dawson, in an Apperson.
Zengle Breaks the Record.
The time made by Zengle breaks
the record of 3 hours. rs minutes, IS 40
seconds made by him in 1905. The time
for the eighth-and- mile course
was lowered from al made by Zengle
last year. to 1-3S. made OH the twelfth
lap today. by Ray Harroun, in Mar
mon car. Harroun dropped out of the
race on the twenty-fourth lap.
Zengle receives S2.JOD for winning the
race and $1,000 and a cup valued at 500
for making the best time i'm his division
The thirty-two cars entered i'm the race
were divided into five divisions according
to piston displacement. Zenges car
had a displacement of 7O1. milford re-
ceives $1,tOn and a four-hundred- dollar
cup for making the best time in his tiivi-
sion. Aitken won $3.50 and foilr-hun-
dred-dollar cup for the best time in the
division In which he was entered; Gill
hard won $1,000 and a four hundred dollar
cup in the division in which lie completed
and Vincent Padula. in an Abfctt-De-
troit, was awarded S1.GO and a four-hun-
dred-dollar cup for being fartheSt ahead
In the division for light cars. Padula
was stopped in the twenty-third lap. as
he was then far ahead and the crowd had
begun to surge over the course.
Half Million at Track.
Today's race was one of the greatest
ever run in this vicinity. 1t was esti-
mated approximately half million per-
sons were massed along both sides of the
eight miles of roads through picturesque
Paramount Park. Not serious acct
dent was reported from the great crowd
due to the racing machines. but there
were numerous mishaps incident to the
gathering OF great cOncourse Of people.
The arrangements were perfect and the
$500 policemen who lined the course al
lowed no one on the track while the race
was on.
The race itself was quite free from bad
accidents to the contestants. the most
serious being that which befell Simplex
car on the dangerous curve at Sweet
Rriar. Ralph Beardsley, the driver took
the turn at terrif1c speed and ran into
Q railroad bridge. The car was upset and
both he and his mechanician were thrown
some distance. The mechanisian." Gienn
Ethridge. sustained fractures of the arm
and leg, but is not otherwise badly hurt.
Beardsley escaped with severe bruises.
Struggle a Thrilling One.
and milford was thrilling, and every
time they passed the official grandstand
where their time was being posted they
were given an enthusiastic cheer Null
ford took the lead at the start and held
II for four laps, when he was overtaken
and passed by Erwin r. Bergdoll.
wealthy Philadelphia amateur driver. who
drove a Benz car, and who maintained
the lead until the sixteenth lap.
Bergdoll's engine developed trouble on
this lap and gave out In trying to climb
a hin on NELL drive The Philadelphian
made a great effort to get his car going
again, but was compelled to declare him
self out of the race. After this ii was
a fight between milford and Zengle. che
former led on the seventeenth. eighteen n
and nineteenth laps and on the twentieth
he was compelled TO stop for supplies. !.
Zengle led on the twentieth lap by
three seconds. by eleven seconds on the
twenty-ffrst and by seven seconds on
the twenty-second. The twenty third
lap found milford In the lead by the
narrow margin of one second, and the
crowd stood up and cheered as the daring
drivers came around the twenty
fourth The electric timing clocks on the
finish of this caught milford at I99 min
utes % seconds and zengle at 1879 minutes
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