The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-01


in the Vanderbilt cup race, the po-
tsitions Of the leaders were:
No. IS, Alec, Grant.
No. 10, National, Aitken.
No. 6, Simplex, Beardsley.
No. 2, Lozier. Kilford.
No. IT, Pope-Hartford, Fleming.
No. II, Benze, Hearne.
No. %, Marquete-Buick, Chavrolt.
On the completion of the twentieth
Zap, the position of the leaders in the
Vanderbilt race were as follows:
No. IS, Alec, Grant.
No. 10, National, Aitken.
No. Z, Simplex, Mitchell.
y No. IT, POpe-HartfOrd, Fleming.
Contest for Position.
All unconscious of the fatal accident
10 Stone, when his car overturned at
Hicksville, the crowd in the grand
stand cheered and eXcitedly clapped
gloved hands as milford in the Lozier
and Dawson in the Marmon fought
out a duel for the lead, Burman hav-
dng abandoned the race when victory
seemed almost sure.
On the 18th lap Dawson succeeded
in disIodging Milford and q great cry
went up from the grandstand. His
advantage was short lived however,
and on the thirteenth lap Milford
was again ahead and sufficiently con-
Hdent of retaining it to stop at his re-
pair pit to replenish his supply of gas
oline and water.
Chevrolet who limped around the
circuit on the eleventh lap made a
lightning change of driving chains on
his next trip around and again doomed
up dangerous.
The accident to the Columbia it was
learned later was due to the bursting
of the rear tire as the car was cross
ing the Meadow Brook bridge.
The car pitched over the side and
turned over twice in midair before
striking the ground.
Car Hits Telegraph Pole.
Just before stone was injured car
No. At, a Mercer, in the Wheatly Hills,
collided with a telegraph pole and
Mechanician c. S. KittreII was injured
His condition is critical. The third Sc
rious accident Of the race occurred at
Westbury, where sharp and danger
Gus turn was crowded with spectators.
Thomas Miller of College Point, L.
l., rushed out on the course when a
passing car dropped a tire shoe. AS
he stopped to pick up the shoe. Elem
ing's Pope-Hartford slid out of a cloud
of dust and hit him squarely. Miller
was thrown half way across the course
with a fractured skull. a broken leg
and internal injuries. The car which
hit him was uninjured and swept on
down the course without stopping.
Spectators picked Miller up and he
was rushed to the hospital at Mineola
for the amputation of his leg.
While the big cars were reeling off
the miles at better than seventy miles
an hour the smaller fry in the Wheat
ley Hills and MassaDequa classes were
passing by almost unnoticed, making
laps in 3 and IA minutes. The race
continued thrilling in its rapidly
changing aspects, one car gaining the
lead one lap only to lose it again on
the next. Harry Grant in the No. 8
Alec, winner of last years Vanderbilt,
who had run steady and consistent
race from the first, maintaining an un-
changed pace Of 5 to sc miles an hour
and avoiding all sensational and spec
facular bursts slowly creDt into the
airst place, dislodging Chevrolet. For
nine laps Chevrolet averaged 1874
miles an hour, but repeated stops to
change tires and adjust a balky car
bureator again and again set him back.
The 81 starters in the Vanderbilt
had BIZ this time been reduced to 10,
sne eight in the Wheatley Hills had
0windled to four and five in the Masse-
-pequa to three.
Stone Not Killed.
The report that Harold stone of Los
Angeles had been killed while driving
his car in the Vanderbilt cup race this
morning is erroneous.
He is at Mineola hospital. Both mis-
legs are broken. He has also suffered
internal injuries and his recovery is
Aouotful.
Accidents Are Many.
Accidents to cars and drivers contin-
ued frequent. In the accident to the
E,ancia a Massa pedua race COntenStant.
driven by Kuipper, which left the road
and turned turtle, Knipper was held
under the overturned car and dragged
some distance, one leg broken. His
Rnechanician escaped with a few bruis-
es. The Lancia was, leading at the
Siuue and looked like a sure winner.
Next to come to grief was Boards
leys No. Simplex, which broke its
steering gear while making the nine
teenth round in third position.
Almost at the same moment the No.
Benz, driven by F. Helm, caught fire
near the Hicksville turn and was fore
ed out Of the race. The police arrange
ments to guard the course proved in
adequate and driver after driver com
planned on stopping at the pits for re-
pairs and supplies that at various
points the crowd had overfowed into
the roadway and could not be kept
back.
Joe Dawson, driver of No. %, Mar
mon, stopped in his fourteenth round,
his nerves utterly unstrung and tears
coursing down his cheeks. At the time
he was under the impression he had
struck one of the spectators at the
Westbury turn. Later he was told he
had merely grazed a boy. inflicting no
hurt of consequence and he resumed
the contest in a more cheerful frame
Of mind
When Knipper, in the Iancia, came
TO grief, his car crashed into two au-
fomobiles and a crowd of spectators
Knipper saw the car was getting away
from him and damned on the brakes.
His sudden stop saved all but one
spectator. Morris Levinson of Man
haitian, who had his leg broken and
was thought to be internally injured.
Almost at once the inadequacy of
EHhe precautions taken were tragicalIy
made plain. On the first time around
Harold Stone, driving the No. u Col
.umbia, met serious ii not fatal injury
under his overturned car, his me-
5 chanician, Matthew R. Bacon of At
lanta Ga. at the same time suffering
sInturies from which he died shortly
! aSterWard Those naaK at tha time