The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-12
Captures Savannah Challenge
Trophy in His Marmon;
ROebling Is Second.
FIRST DAYS RACES ARE
A BRILLIANT SUCCESS
Billy Knipper in His Lancia
Racing Car Wins the
Tiedeman Trophy.

SAVANNAH. Ca. Nov. 11.-Savannah
challenge trophy. 16 laps of 1888 miles
each. 276.s miles:
First. Joseph Dawson (Marmon). 4
hours. 2s minutes and 3saS seconds. sec
ond. ". a. Roebllng, Jr (MerceD. 4
hours. 35 minutes and 25 seconds third.
Jiughe Hughes (FalcaD, 4 hours. 80
minutes and 1884 seconds.
riedcman trophy. II laps. 1909 miles;
Is minutes and 2277 seconds; second. f.
y. Witt CJ. NJ. F.. 2 hours 70 minutes
and 3422 seconds: third. Thomas Cos
tcllo tMaXwelD, hours, 80 minutes and
1906 seconds.
Neither death nor injury OF driver or
mcchanician marred the first day of the
races OF The Savannah Automobile club,
held under the auspices of the Automo-
bile Club of America The day did not
pass, however, without levying Its posi-
bic toll of life. but the casualty was in
cidental William Rice, IL years old.
by falling sisnpost, He Is reported
dying
Promptly at 10 o'clock the six starters
in the Savannah challenge race and the
eight In the Tiedeman trophy race were
called 10 the mark by Starter Fred Wag-
ner at the same time. First on the line
was Hughic Hughes In his Falcur- At
trants for both 'ccs were off.
First TO show ~ the end OF the first
lap WAS Lou Hcinncmann in his Mar
mon.
Passes Hughes.
Starting second he passed Hughes. In
quick order they came, with Dawson
showing the fastest time, Is minutes and
20 seconds for the first lap. The start
he got in that lap was never lost, main
tanning his advantage to the end OF the
race.
Soon it was clear that the trophy,
barring accident. would fall to Dawson,
Frank Gelnaw in his ITalcar or Roebling
In MS Mercer.
The ninth lap saw the elimination OF
Gelnaw. His steering gear went bad on
a turn, he lost control and his car went
ri tremendous speed along the soft
ground at the. edge Of the road. blowing
through one bank, leaping upon another
and only coming TO stop when II had
been battered almost TO pieces. lie and
his mechaniciaD escaped injury.
~ Gelnaw's mishap left Roebling as Daw
sons chief competitor. Roebling lost
nearly a minute by stop for fuel and
was going strong until the last lap.
when his car skidded crashed into tree
and damaged the gear and control. I'm
daunted, they sent the crippled car OIL
finishing second after being reported out
of the race.
Hughes Is Third.
When Hughes finished third. IIcine-
mann was on the back setretch of the
fifteenth lap The race was then de-
clarcd finished. Another contestant, w.
III. Pcarce. In n Falcar, had broken an
axle in the ninth lap, after some spec
iacuar speeding,
Al about 2:35 o'clock the winner of the
Savannah trophy finished. Nearly an
hour before Knipper had finished in front
of his competitors in the Tiedemann race.
From the first lap he had kept lead
and. without stopping once for trouble
Of any kind, finished with margin he
might have made much wider had he
cared
Witt in his little z. NJ f. was going
good. but never had Knippcr uneasy. The
best he could do was second. with a
good lead over Costello in a Maxwell,
Only seconds separated Costello and his
,eam-mste. Wright. also driving Man
we'll.
Knipper averaged 5S.A miles an hour
and could have done better TWO years
aSo Lancia OF the same power OH this
course showed only 81 80 miles an hour.
In the Savannah race. With higher
power cars than In the Tiedema mn race,
Dawson showed average speed OF 62.6S.
which considerably more than il
thought would be shown by any
car in the race.
drove before the Srandstand. where they
vcrc presented with bouquets by Gov
ei1,or Brown of Georgia.
With fair weather. though a hit cooler
Than today. predicted for tomorrow the
Grand prize is expected TO prove OF thrill
iuE interest. Scratches have reduced the
starters TO fifteen. but among them are
eu-no OF the most famous cars and dTiV-
ars of the world.
The race is To start promptly at 2
o clock. The distance Is 4lJ.2 miles.