The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09

the timing wire. Close behind was No.
5. piloted by Erwin Bergdoll, million
ARE sportsman of local prominence,
This was Immediately christened the
"Brewry Benz" because from beer
came the Bergdoil millions. In po,nt
of time the German machine ran first.
completing the lap in eight minutes
thirty seconds, which is far from bad,
when 1t Is considered that much of
the course Is steep up grade Jack At
klns's big blue National. which made
such splendid showing in the Wander
bilt, was a close third. Every other
car was doing nicely
Turns and hills bothered mono OF
them, since Chief Tim OLeary's police
kept the course wide open,
In the grandstand were the elite of
the town. 5000 strong Mayor Rey-
burn, who was one of the big bosses
of the race, sat in a private box. with
a private telephone in front of him. to
inform him OF incident or accident.
his public safety director and his blue
coated directors were In instant touch
with him. Strung over the eight and
fraction miles were all the towns
people that could get away from home
or business. They were of number
look like lonely, shipwrecked party
on an island Ropes kept them back.
Every few feet was q policeman with
4 night stick.
Cheer for Milford.
milford and his Lozier We're given
a rousing cheer as they swept across
the line ahead in the first lap. Car
and man are both Paramount favorites.
George Robertson, who won the two
previous park races, led the yell that
sounded from the grandstand.
Lap after lap-again reminiscent Of
the Vanderbilt--the Lozier held the
actual lead, with the Benz running
second, the National third and the Otto
Ia car which nobody seemed to know
much about--a steady fourth. They
were all in different classes None OF
them, actually, was racing the other
one. Each was in It's own class. But
in the popular mind, 1t was. big
free for-all, and not q class race.
At the NTH lap the Brewery Benz
wrested away the place OF honor from
the white I.ozier and held it with
regularity until the fifteenth. when
The engine of young Millionaire Berd
doll went wrong in the back, stretch
and the sorrowful newsFwas phoned to
the stand.
Len zengle, in Chadwick No IL.
meanwhile lad been creeping up
gradually. at the completion OF the
sixteenth lap he was running second to
the Lozier, which had again taken NO.
place on the road and was in point
of time only two minutes back.
On the nineteenth lap--with only
six more to so--the Loaier stopped for
a tire, oil and. fuel. When it got Off
again It's lead over tho Chadwick,
which shadn', stopped Mt all, was re-
duced to only about forty seconds. a
splendid scoring service let the spec
ia tors know this instantly, and the
srandstand crow got upon its feet then
to witness The prettiest duel ever put
up anywhere between two racing ma.
chimes. XII
Tells the Tale.
The twentieth lap told the tale--o,
part of II, anyhow, aensle spurted In
his big chadwfck,"an when Mulrord's
Lozier, No 4, passed, and then the
Chadwick, No. II, the scoreboard read;
Iengle, 1876 minutes 80 seconds: Mul-
ford. 1866 minutes 90 seconds,
With more than N60 miles covered.
only three seconds separated the lead
Ing cars, And the blue National was
not more than a couple of minutes back
Of, both. on the tWenly-first lap Zen
gle again rushed" his Chadwick to
its top speed and took all sorts OF gam
.hler's chances on the curves. Mulfosd.
however, was more cautious, maintain
Ing his even pace. Tho result was
zepgle now led by eleven seconds,
AT the Lozler repair nit the coaches
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