The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-10-06
VANDERBILT CUP COURSE.

VANDERBILT CUP COURSE,
Il. l., Oct. 1.-Three dead. three
fatally injured and a score of 9TH
ers hurt, was the tale of disaster
In the great Vanderbilt cup race
this morning. Driver Harold
Stone, OF Columbia car No. 10.
was hurt and his mechanician.
William eBacOn, was killed,
when their car swerved from the
graph pole.
The mad, all-night rush of
thousands of autOists to the
course was responsible for an
other OF the deaths and several
or the injured. Before daylight
Dig touIInS ,ar, ,.rINen 10y Eo.-
dinand D'Zuiba, New York man
ager for the Pope-Hartford Au-
tomObile Company, and contain
ing his wife and five other pas
sengers, crashed into n telegraph
pole on the Wheatley Road and
was demolished.
D'Ziuba was killed and all the
other occupants seriously injured.
AT Garden city, l.. j., another auto.
containing several persons, was wreck
ed and two of the occupants were in
jured.
Wrecked ut Abrupt Turn.
DZiuba's car had engaged in one
or these races through the dark and
was speeding along at a terrific clip
down the long Wheatley Hill. three
miles from the course, when an abrupt
turn threw ii from the roadway and
sent II hurting like a bullet into a
telegraph pole. The big auto coll
lapsed like an ACCORDION and ell of
the occupants except the driver were
hurled out
D'Zubia was pinned in by the steer
ing wheel and was frightfully man
Sled IN the Wreckage. He died in an
ambulance from the Nassau Hospital
which reached the scene within a few
of the accident.
A man named Summers, assistant
manager in Hartford, of the Pope
Hartford Company; Edward H
Brown, an employe of the concern.
a man named Smith, the manager of
the Hartford establishment; a Miss
of New York, and two other
were in the car.
summers and Brown were Internal
ly injured. Smith and Miss Holden
ana the two other passengers, whose
verely bruised. Mrs. DZubia was
found some distance from the car
with broken leg and other injuries
which, II is feared, may prove fatal
She was not told of her husbands
death.
AZ GdIuSn Clly an Automobile con-
tanning several persons skidded at a
turn and all of the occupants were
thrown out,
Several were injured, but none Sc.
riously, it was believed.
AL Livingston was the first of the
racers to get started over the 1864
mile course and a mighty cheer went
up from the mass of humanity in and
around the SIdndstand when his giant
National racer shot off like dart
Heavy clouds hung low and a little
ram fell at intervals, but the more
than twelve miles of humanity mass
ed about the twisting circuit refused
to have its spirits dampened and
continuous roar of applause followed
the flying dust-hidden machines in
their course. The original plan of
the cars, fifteen seconds
apart, was adhered to, and il required
seven and three-quarter minutes to
get them all under way.
Drive for Sweepstakes.
In addition to the Vanderbilt cup.
which called for twenty-five laps. or
21S.S miles, in the shortest time, the
Hills sweepstakes sand the
sweepstakes also were
scheduled to be under way before s
CLOCK, making a gigantic merry-go-
round of racing machines. The
Wheatley Hills event was to start at
Z CLOCK and the MaSSapequa at 1870
The course was policed more thor
oughly than ever before In addi-
ton to a Gordon of Pinkerton men,
zoo special officers kept the crowd
out OF the danger zone.
1t was estimated that nearly 300
GOO people lined the course at the
start. The cars with even numbers
occupied one side of the starting
point and those with odd numbers the
other.
The chief trouble of the contestants
was with the crowds that lined the
course.
The turns at Massapequa, Hicksville
and Westbury were hard propositions
and so were the bridges and ruts. but
worst of all was the crowds that
stood up to the danger zone and were
only kept from the course itself by
the strenuous efforts of Pinkertons
and special officers.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., the do
nor OF the cup and referee, appeared
at the starting line before O'Clock
and was in conference with Starter
Wagner up to o'clock, when the big
event was on.
Just before the start IL was an
nounced that car No. 4, in the Wheat
ley Hills trophy. a Garcia, had been
and would not start. Liv-
lngston and Mulford, the latter In
Lozier, lined up for the big cup event
at b:b6 on their cars 1 and ro