Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-12
HAUPT WRECKS HIS CAR,
BUT ESCAPES INJURY
Contest for $4,000 Purse and
$4,000 Cup Is Nearly
Finished.

thrilling finish, during the remaining
four laps.
With fourteen of the fifteen cars
that started still valiantiy fight
ing for victory, the grand prize race
at the end of the 200th mile had its
result in about as much doubt as when
the race began. Speeding at rs miles
an hour on the average. Willie Haupt,
in a Benz, was in the lead, holding only
II seconds over Nazzaro's Fiat, who
was second. Then came Wagner (Fiat),
Hemery BENZ, De Palma (Ftat),
Bruce Brown BENZ. Grant (Alco).
Others apparently were distanced.
Haupt, leading in the thirteenth. went
out of the race. The machinist was
hurt. He car struck a tree while
rounding a turn IN Montgomery cross
road, and the car turned over.
Order of Starters.
The fifteen cars got off in the fol-
lowing order:
Marquette-Buick, A. Chevrolet
driver; Lozier. Milford; Pope-Hart-
ford. Basic; Alec, Grant; Marmon,
Dawson; Benz, Hemery; Fiat, MAJ
faro; Lozier. Koran; Pope-Hartford,
Disbrow; Marmon, Harroun; Benz,
Brnce-Brown; Fiat, Wagner; Mar
quette-Buick Burman; Benz, Haupt;
Fiat, DePalma.
First to round the course was Chew
rolet. who retained the advantage OF
his start. He made the lap in Ia min
utes and 1e seconds, but Hemery was
next behind him in n second less
time. His was the fastest time for the
lap that was made. The sloweSt was
Mulford's 20 minutes and % seconds.
Hemery's pace figured out as TN miles
an hour, which, if maintained, prom
Used a fast race. AS Hemery rounded
the grand stand turn on his first lap a
shout went up that he was in trouble,
at SO low a speed did he take it. What
ever the cause, It must nave been re-
moved Immediately, for he gathered
speed as he stretched away for the
straight run and passed with waving
hand to show that all vas we'll.
On the second lap Hemery showed
that he was out to win, making 1t in
13 minutes and 81 -econds. He was
showing a speed average of seventy"
four miles an hour. A spectacular
burst for the delectation of the stand
was shown Just in front of 1t by Null
ford and DePalma, the Fiat passing the
Lozier as the crowd whooped it's APP
probation.
Nazzaro, passed Grant. Completing
the third lap, fifty miles, Hemery had
a lead of thirty seconds over Wagner,
who was second, with half a minute
to the good over Chevrolet. Bruce
Grown was just four seconds behind
Chevrolet. The first stop at the pits
was made by Wagner, who quickly
readjusted a tire and was off again.
On his sixth lap NeHzaro jumped into
second place II was showing he fast
est laps that were being made. Hem
cry still led by a minute and a half.
Chevrolet developed more tire
troubles and lost a full minute.
With 100 miles left behind them the
leading contestants showed the follow
ing order at 1875 o'clock: Hemery,
Nazzaro, Wagner. Haupt, Bruce Brown,
DePalma and Grant. No reports on
Dawson had been received since he
finished his fourth lap.
Burman, in his seventh lap, wrestled
once more with a bad tire, changing it
at the pits and making a quick get
away. Dawson went out of commission
with a broken shaft on the backstretch.
No one was hurt. 1t was the first car
out.
Nazzaro's wild chase after Hemery
was interrupted when he stopped by
the roadside to change q tire. He was
off again in about a minute. For a
fourth time Burman stopped to change
tires, but despite that he was in the
lap with the leaders.
Hemery, in his ninth lap, made his
first stop, Nazzaro having stopped also,
but in the backstretch. Both changed
tires.
Nazzaro took the lead over Hemery
by two minutes and twenty seconds
through the tire-changing.
Cars Closely punched.
In his tenth lap Burman changed an
other tire-the fifth. 1T the end of
that lap Wagner was leading; Nazzaro,
second; Bruce-Brown, third; Haupt,
fourth; Hemery, fifth. Wagner in the
eleventh took on gasoline and water.
So close stood the race at this stage
that every lap meant a change in order.
Haupt took the lead in the eleventh,
going from fourth place, after negotiat-
ing the lap at about s~eventy-fve miles
an hour.
Chevrolet went put of the race in his
ninth lap. The crank shaft was broken.
Grant went out of the race with gear
out of order.
Contention was started for the dis
qualification of Wagner because he had
left oil cans on the course at the pit
Protestants were overruled. however,
because he had left them within reach
of his pitmen.
Disbrow went out of the race after
finishing the eighth lap. Some trouble
developed in a cylinder.
Narrowed Down to Four.
At the end of the fifteenth lap the
race apparently had narrowed to four
eontestants-Nazzaro, De Palma, Bruce
Brown and Hemery. Five minutes COW
cred the difference in time between the
first and the fourth.
In the seventeenth lap De Palma took
the lead by nearly a minute over Mar
faro. The race then had gone nearly
200 miles. Nazzaro was second, Bruce
Brown third, Hemery fourth.
AS the cars entered Upon the twen-
tieth lap De Palma still held h lead,
having 81 seconds on Bruce Brown, who
was making the strongest bid for the
leaders place. Two minutes behind
Bruce Brown was Hemery. Ten cars
are still running.