The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-11-13

Savannah, Nov. 12.-Today dawned
clear for the grand prize race, the
biggest event of the year in the au-
tomobile world. The weather was
ideal for the great test of speed and
endurance of the cars and skill and
courage of the internationally famed
drivers. Fifteen cars were entered
bringing together brilliant array Of
Knights or the steering wheel.
The foreign and American ma
ehines represented the best in aut y
mobile construction. Among the driv-
ers there are four or five whose
tongues. There was Nazarro. Wagner.
Hemery, Bruce, Brown, Burman, De-
Palma and other masters of their
craft. Betting on the result was
brisk. and scratches last night reduc-
cd the starters to Is.
The Start.
The Is cars got away In the follow
ng order:
Marquette-Buick, Chevrolet, driver;
Lozier, Mulford; Pope Hartford,
Baale; Alec, Grant; Marmon, Daw-
son; Benz, Hemery; Fiat, Nazarr,;
Lozier, Horan; Pope Hartford, Dis
brow; Marmon, Harroun; Benz, Bruce
Brown: Fiat, Wagner; Marquette.
Buick, Burman; Benz, Haup; Fia7,
DePalma.
Tho dicfQnnn m, hn nrs1
race is 4152 miles, or "a times around
ahe course of 17.3 miles.
The prize was a $4,000 gold cup
and $4,000 cash to the winner, with
smaller cash prizes for those finish.
ing second and third.
At the end of the two-hundredth
mile, speeding rs miles an hour, Will
lie Haupt, driving a Benz, was in the
lead, holding only II seconds over
Nazzaro, driving Fiat and running
second. The came Wagner, Nia;;
Hemery, Benz; DePalma, Fiat; Bruce
Brown. Benz; Grant, Alec. The 9TH
egs apparently were distanCed.
Mechanician Injured.
Haupt was still leading in the 18th
lap, hut went out of the ra2e when
his car overturned. His mechanician,
III. w. Feyhl, was injured and taken
to hospital. Chevrolet went out in
the ninth lap, his crankshaft being
broken, and Marmon driven oy
Dawson, also broke driving shalt
and dropped out. The trouble caused
considerable loss of time to some
drivers, notably Burman. Grant went
out of the race with his gear out Of
order. NaZarro took the lead in the
18th lap, when four minutes covered
IRE distance between the first FIVE
ia the race.
Narrows Down to Four.
Disbrow went out of the race while
finishing the eighth lap. At the end
of the 18th lap the race had narrow
ed down to four contestants--NA-
varro, DePalma, Bruce Brown and
Hemery.
In the 18th lap DePaima took the
Head by nearly a minute over Naza:-
no. the race had then gone nearly 300
miles. Nazarro was second, Bruce
Brown third and Hemery fourth. len
cars were still running.
Wagner's Car Overturned.
Wagner's car overturned In no
;ap, and both he and his mechar'
tcian. Louis Ferro, we're thrown out
and injured. Two years ago Wagner
won the grand prize race here. 1t
was announced that both Wagner and
Ferro were badly burt and they wei e
taken to the hospital.
Brown Wins.
DePaima and Bruce Brown, the
Readers, passed the grandstand in the
z1st lap abreast, but DePalma had a
lead of two minutes over Brown and
booked winner, barring accidents.
Burman, finishing his goth lap and
leading the American cars, stopped
again, to put on a rear tire. Burman
was working hard for the $1,000 that
went, to. the American car finishing
ursk
They entered the last lap with
Bruce Brown and Hemery leading.
DePalma evidently had met with