The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
GREAT RACE Won
BY YBRUCE-BROWN
Captures Grand Prize Race at
Savannah i'm Rec0rd-Break-
ing Time.
NEW. AMERICAN ROAD
RECORD ESTABLISHED
Victor Hemery Finishes Second
and Burman Is Third;
the Details.
By Associated Press.

/ SAVANNAH. Nov. .2.-The New York
| hoy, who, four years ago, ran away from
| home TO become a driver of racing auto
/ mobiles. today saved the reputation al
! american drivers in the grand prize race
, he blue ribbon event OF automoDhe CON
! tests David Bruce Brown won by ut
| tie moro than q second at the end OF
'4i52 Q heart breaking miles. Tie flashed
across the electric timing wire l,2 sec sec
onds ahead @ or Victor o Hemspy, Sn,rs '5s "a
minutes, S.77 seconds. setting a new
American road rccord-7o' 90 miles an
: hour.
Both men drove Benz cars. so that The
foreign machines triumDhed over the
American made racers The consolation
ia having an American at the wheel OF
wild Bob" Burman In an American car;
the Marquette Buick, which fnish9o
third getting third money and an add.
tionRl thousand dollars for the first
car
Plan of Americans.
Before the raco the American team
planned to set q pace In the early stages
which would burn the tires Off the big
foreign machines. securing an advantage
trick. and II nearly succeeded. FOX, most
of the foreigners were either stalled or
wrecked before the finish. but the for
cgners were too numerous.
"
OF the gamest. His daring nearly COST
him his life and that OF his mechani-
clan, Louis Ferrow. On the back stretch
while coming down small hill at TOP
for tho fraction of a second one OF his
frcnt wheels striking a stone cuiVert,
crushing he wheel and throwing the car
on its side for IL slide OF flfty feet into
the trees.
Ferrow was shot into the top branches
Of a twenty-foot willow, which cauEht
l. I'm
car. beside which Wagner was lying with
machine oil pouring about him from
broken tnnl5. The driver got up with
the aid OF his niechanician and walked
to the German club nearby. Later he
was taken To hospital. where II was
reported he was not seriously hurt.
Bruised and Scratched.
Willie HAUNT ono OF the Benz drivers
sliddcd Off the road at the end OF a
long straigbtaway, side-sulping a giant
into some bushes fIe and H. Feyble.
his mcchanlcIan. emerged with feassur.
ing expedition though somewhat bruised
and scratched.
Fifteen cars started in the race. In
side of twenty-fiv miles the three Flats,
driven by Wagner. De Palma and Ma
2arro and the three Benz, stecrcd by
Hemery, Bruce Brown and Haupt, had
left the Americans we'll behind, Hemery
took the lead at about thirty miles and
held II until the 10th mile. when
change of tires allowed four of the other
foreign cars 10 rush past him.
Meanwhile Navarro holder Of The
worlds record OF nbout 75 miles IN hour,
was doing the fastest laps OF the day In
an effort to catch Hemery. Nazarro's
best time for single lap WAS 1872 sec
orlds which was ISL miles an hour. For
over no miles he laid out tho pace. when
Wagner took the lead for about forty
gasoline tanks. When the 2Oo-mlle mark
Was well in the rear and the race more
than half over, these big cars we're still
hinchad and dongs some of the most
thrilling driving in the annals of auto
mobile racing.
a srant three minutes separated the
first four or five, Willie 4 second only
marked the difference in some of their
laps.
Haupt Leaves Course.
Willie Haupt was the first to- go crash
ing from the course. Sixty miles farther
on Wagner sent his car rolling into the
ditch. Then Nazarro, rcputed to he the
worlds most careful driver bent his rear
nxle irreparably and was out of it. For
the next serenty-dve miles there was a
battle royal between De Palma's Fiat.
which had taken the lead. and Bruce
Rrown and Hen1ery in the Benz racers
Bruce Brown. running second with De
Palma few yards behind him. hut two
and half minutes ahead on actual run
ming time, tried 10 shake off the latter.
De Fainla reialiated with reckless efforts
ing his car at the grand stand corner as
he skidded around this right Tangled turn
twenty yards behind the Benz.
When Bruce- Brown rounded the turn
and shot into his last lap. De Palma WAS
nowhere to be seen He had stopped on
the back stretch, out OF the race with
broken cylinder. When Hemery few
across the finish a few minutes LATER IL
was a question. until the timers hung out
the numbers. whether Bruce Brown
could get In quick enough 10 beat him ON
running time.
Bruce Brown had started three minutes
later than Hemery.
Following Is table of the standing OF
the contestants:
.-a, IaYid T,1, Bruce Breyn, driver. Benz car.
Victor HemeIy. driver Benz second
Bob Bnrman. driver Marquette Buick,
Ralph Mulford. driver Lozier. fourth
Time. s:2s.12-
Joe Koran. driver, Lozier. fifth Time
Joe Dawson. driver. Marmon. sixth.
Time. 8:30:22.
Ralph De Palma, Fiat. out at 80 miles;
broken piston.
Louis Wagner Fiat out at so5: up
Willie Haupt. Fiat. out at e1o: up
Harry Grant. Alco out at 1so: engine
trouble.
Arthur Chevrolet Marquette Buick. out
= at 14Is broken crank
Louis Baslc- pe-Hartford out at goo.
leaking pipe.
Louis Disbrow. Pope Hartford. out at
las: engine trouble.
sbroken shaft
Felix Nazaro. Fiat, out at s2O; axle
and tire trouble.
sLater Dawson replaced Ray Harroun
in Marmon. - - -
Bruce Brown won the grand prize gold
cup; Burman won about $4,000. Which in
cludes the $1,000 for being the first Ameri-
can to finish In am American car.
Driver Is Killed
By Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Noy. I2-Tobin