Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-10-01
GRANT is FIRST
IN VANDERBILT
AUT0CUP RACE
Three Persons Are Reported
Killed During the Event
on Long Island.
INJURED IN HOSPITAL
People Run Down But Cars
Never Stop Unless They
Are Damaged.
PARTICIPANTS KILLED
Experts Blame the Slippery
Track Caused by the Re-
cent Rain.
PARTICIPANTS KILLED
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Vanderbilt Cup Course, Long ISL
and, Oct. 1:-After three lives have
been lost and more than q score of
spectators desperately injured.
Harry Grant, in an Alec car, was re-
turned the winner OF the Vanderbilt
cup race here today. duplicating his
victory of last year in the same
event with the same car. He aver
aged COL miles per hour
The two other races, the Massape-
qua sweepstakes and the Wheatley
Hills sweepstakes, were won by q
Cole go" and Fal car, respective
ly.
Despite the appalling list of acci-
dents, William X. Vanderbilt an
nounced at the conclusion that the
big international event will be run
October Is.
Fully 100000 people Witnessed
the race from grandstands and caNzl
and approximately 10000 were lined
about the course when the first car
started. Society, whose interest In
the event took q slump last year.
was again out in force.
Grants time was four hours. fff~
teen minutes and twenty-four Sec
onds. Joseph Dawson, In a Marmon.
was second, being T.. ens y-iive sec
onds behind the winner. John Att
ken, In National, was third.
Experts here ascribed the great
number OF accidents to the rain.
which softened the tracks this morn
ing.
The leading cars OF the Vanderbilt
cup finished the first FIVE laps In the
following ORDER: Ralph Mulford.
Lozier car; John Aitken, National
car; Ralph Beardsley, Simplex car:
Louis Chevrolet, Marquette Buick
car.
AS Chevrolet was the twenty. y.ninth
starter his elapsed time gaze him
first place, unoficiaIiy Burman,
Marquette-Buick car, was second on
elapsed time.
Careening about the tracks at
about seventy-fye niaIes an hour
Louis Chevrolet, In Buick, struck
touring car filled with women throw
ing 1t to one side. The Buick turned
somersault, burying the mechanic
ian, Charles Miller, under the wreck
age and killing him instantly, Chew
roiet and the occupants OF the tour
ing car miraculously escaped.
Driving a Cole go" at d speed OF
more than a mile a minute, "BiifN
Endicott today won the Massapeq u.
sweepstakes Time, 10 laps, hours,
16 minutes and 4 seconds. Mortimer
Roberts, driving an Abbott-Detroit,
was second.
Ralph Mulford, in Logier ear.
took the lead early in the Vanderbilt
cup race and at the end OF the fourth
lap had considerable lead on his
competitors
In the eleventh lap Joe Dawson,
Marmon. flashed by the whole field,
taking the lead and at the fifteenth
lap still held 1t, with Harry Grant, In
an Alec, second; Louis Chevrolet,
third, and Mulford fourth.
William Knipper, driving Lanes
car, in the Massapequa sweepstakes,
overturned at the Massapequa lodge.
Neither Knipper nor his mechanician
was hurt.
In the eighteenth lap Harry Grant,
In his Alec car, took the lead of the
Vanderbilt cup race. Chevrolet and
Dawson fell far back In the seven
teenth. Ralph Beardsley, in a SIM
plex, was forced to withdraw because
of defective stearing gear. Grant
held the lead to the finish, crossing
the line first
Crashing into telegraph pole on
the Vanderbilt cup course, early to-
day, Harold Stone, driving Columbia
car No. 10, was fatally hurt, his
car wrecked and his mechanician,
William Bacon, instantly killed.
Stone had just started In the race
and was making terrific speed.
A spectator was run down and
fatally injured on the Massapequa
road by one of the racers today. Both
of his legs were cut off and he was
horribly mangled, He was rushed
to the Nassau Hospital diving.
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