The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-15
Blue R|BB0NEvENT
To BRUCE BROWN
New York Boy Captures
Grand Prize
At SAVANNAH AUTO RACES

saved the Day for the Americans Over
sff MISREPRESENTATION Hemery, the
Fccnchman, Was a Close Second
ny.s,n Drove Il Benz Car-Tilc Race
MAS "A Most Thrilling Event.
(By the Associated Press.)
Sa\anah, Ca. Nov. 1.-THE New
Y0ga boy who four years ago ran
away from home to become a driver
OF racing automobiles, today saved
she reputation of American drivers
from o~bIiteration at the hands of for
eiguers in the Grand Prize race, the
hI:1 ribbon e Of automobile con-
tests. Speeding faster and farther
than man ever went before in an au-
9omobile road race, this young man.
David Bruce-Brown won the Grand
prlze by barely more than a second
al the end Of 1852 miles-heart-
breaking miles. He flashed across the
ectric timing wire 1:42 seconds
ah,a al Of Victor Hemery. the French
man. His time was 5 hours SIS mn
utas 81 seconds, setting a new Amer
5r2u a record of 7o.55 miles an
hour.
Both he and Henery drove Benz
.t.S- 50 tilaI tIIc foreign 1nacl1loS
crjumphed over the American-made
racers. The consolation IN having an
American at the wheeI Of the winner
Vas increased by the feat of wild
Bob Rurman, driving the maddest
race Of his career in an American car,
the MarCuette-Buick, which finished
third, getting not only third money
Tut an additional thousand dollars for
The first American driver to finish IN
an American car.
Fefore the race, it was said thai the
American team planned to set q pace
in the carly stages which would burr
the tires of the big foreign machines
thereby securing an advantage ove
them. Apparently the Americans trfet
this trick, and It nearly succeeded
for most Of the foreigners were eithel
stalled or wrecked on the track before
the finish: but the foreigners were to-
numerous. Two of their cars. tn,
winning Benz machines. still remainet
IN the track at the end of the race
All the other inishers were American
cars.
Behind Rurman were the derelic
cars Of some of the worlds most IA
on drivers, who had failed to max,
thCir speed machines last through tn.
terrific strain of "A laps Of curyin'
r~oa6ways. These foreigners went {
tt|'dt IgItInS oafieIN. anu III SOill
Instances recklessly.
Wagner. in his big red Fiat, wa
one Of the grittiest, his daring neari.
costing his life and that of hi
hanician, Louis Ferro. On tn
lack stretch, while coming down
small hill at top speed, Wagner los
control OF his car for the fraction Of
second, one of his front wheels strik
ING a stone culvert, crushing the vince
and IN RI wine no - q on jfC side or
81 de Of so feet into trees bordering tn
speedway. Ferro was literally sho
into the top branches of a 20-foot vii
low, which caught him and broke h1
faIl. He ran to the car, beside WhIc,
Wagner was lying, with machine OF
2oGfing about him from a oroht;
tank. The great driver got up, wit
she aid of his m~echanician. an
walked to the German Club near by
later he was taken to a hosp1ta
"here it was reported that he was no
seriously hurt.
Willie Haupt, one of the Benz driN
@rs, skidded off the road at the en-
n q long straight-away, side sWlpe
. giant live oak and then plunge
with his car and m~echanician into
lump of bushes so thick and SO ia
t0at they apparently swallowed nm
hiding him from view of the breath
les spectators. He and Il. w. y
MS mecnanlclan, emerged from "a
woods with reassuring expedltlol
though somewhat bruised an
scratched.
Fifteen cars started the race. II
side OF twenty-five miles the thre
5ials driven by Wagner, DePaim
and Nazzaro, and the three Benz car
steered by He1nery, Bruce-Brown an
f1aupt, had left the Americans we
behind. Hemery TOO the e
about thirty miles and held 1t unit
me 14Oth mile when a change
dres at the pts allowed -four of tt
other foreign cars to rush past Mn
Meanwhile Nazzaro, holder OF tf
worlds road record ofabOut 70 mil
an hour, was doing the fastest iaps
the day IN an effort to catch Hemer
Nazzaro's best time for a single Ia
was 1892, which was at the rate