The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-11-15

- miles an hour. For over a hun
iniss ne laid out the pace when
wagner took the lead for about far+n
Iniles. out lost it in filing his ri, ans
eaeollhe tanks at the pits.
When the 200 mile marker wae ,pa,,
III the rear and the race more than
iialf over these big cars were still
nuiiEneu ana doing some of the most
thrliilnS driving in the annals Of an
tomoplle racing. A scant three min
utes at tnese separated the first four
OF l'e' SECONDS only marked the diff
ference III some of their laDs. The
drivers caught the infection and OMEN
Cd their speed levers wider and the
lS1ng wheels at last refused to stav
on the track at the turns.
Willie Haup was the first 70 90
crashing from the course. sixty
miles further Wagner, too, sent his
car rolling into the ditch. Then
Navarro, reputed to be the worlds
most careful driver, bent his rear axle
lrreparably and was out Of it. For
the next IS miles there was q battle
royal between DePalma's Fiat which
had taken the lead and Bruce-Brown
and Henery in the Benz racers,
Bruce-BroWn cunning second, with
DePa<faa q few yards behind him, but
two and a half minutes ahead on &C.
tuai running time, tried to shake off
the Brooklyn Italian. DePalma re-
ta1iated with reckless efforts to pass
Bruce-BroWn. once nearly ~verturnin
his car at the grandstand orner but
when Bruce-ProWn rounded the turn
and shot into his last lap, DePalma
was to be seen. Thousand
of watchers in the densely packed
g~randstand slowly licked off the two
and a half minutes of DePalma's want
| ge, while his helpers stood on tip
toe or climbed seantlings in their pit
peering vainly to catch sight Of him
He had stopped on the back stretch
| oout of the race with a broken cy-
Under.
When Hemery rOared across the
finish d few minutes later it was q
question whether Pruce-BroWn could
get IN quick enough to beat him or
running time.
Bruce Brown had started three min
utes later than Hemery.
Bob Burnnau was a lap behind tn
SEM men at the finish. More thar
anyone else n the race, he had SUI
fered from the burnine-up Of tires
stopping nine times and putting or
ten new tires. IN the last hundret
miles. however, bad luck let him alon,
and he ran into an easy third position
Harry Grant, winner Of the Wander
hilt cup this fall. led all the American
in his Alec until the seventeenth mile
when engine trouble stopped him dea,
on the track at q remote turn.
Arthur Chevrolet, in q Marquette
Buick, did fast work for about Is
miles. where a broken crank Sfaf
stopped him for good.
The Iozier par, Joe Koran ~
/ Ralph milford. both Of whom fn!she
the race, held a duet Of their ow
about fifty miles in the rear OF tn
leaders, the electric timing machin
showing them 70 be tied to the frac
ton Of a second at the 2f2-miln mari
Koran. winner Of the $4,000 speedWa
grand prize at Atlanta on Monday G
this week, dropped slowly penn
Milford. who finished about four min
T utes ahead of him. Muiford wa
fourth and Koran fifth, while tWen'
= seconds behind Koran was Joe DaW
:. sons Marmon car, which almost over
, took Koran in the last lap. DaWso
q, was the last man to finish. AL IN
starters being out Of the race wit
broken engines. Fully sixty thouSa1i
c,1o+.torc w tho race