The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-11
M echanician Meets In
stant Death on Grand
Prize Course.
OF CAR
BADLY INJURED
Onrushing Machine, swerving
from Course, Crashes Into
Tree, Then Tears Into
Barbed Wire Fence, Final
ly Turning Sornersault.
Had Premonition.


Savannah, Ga, November 1o.-speed
mania collected it's first toll of life In
the Grand Prize automobile course to-
day. Albert Fuchs, young mechanl-
clan, met instant death, and w. Fl.
Sharp, driver and owner of the car
bearing his same. was seriously injured
when the powerful machine swerved
from the road and crashed into
barbed wire fence.
Sharp had his car on the course for
practice. He had made several laps
at high speed when the accident oc-
Cured, All seemed to be well With
is mystery. Only Sharp. 1T is thought,
may be able to shyd any light upon it.
and he is lying in hospital, unable Ia
talk one theory is that Sharp took
a curve on the back stretch in Fer
guson Avenue at too high speed, thus
losing control. Another is that tire
blew out, causing the driver to lose
control. The latteS theory is supported
by the fact that the left front tire was
stripped.
Tangled In Darbcd Wire.
For fifty feet along the side OF the
road the car plowed its way. then leap
ing a ditch and striking a small tree.
Seemingly the tree, though bent 10
earth and swept its entire length by
the onrushing machine. impeded its
course but little. a few yards further
the car struck a thick post of the fence
extending along the road. On 1t sped.
knocking down post after post and
tangling posts and wires in its mech
auism and about It's wheels. 1t wns
this tangle that finally brought the car
to a standstill, first throwing 1t into
the air for somersauIt. driver and
mechanician falling as twas thrown.s
Fuchs struck upon his head upon
log. Sharp fell clear. but apparently
sus stained injury to his abdomen by
striking against the steering wheel.
When a tagman on the course and two
convicts who were working on the road
reached the scene they found Fuchs
dead and Sharp helpless. Efforts were
made to flag other racing cars as they
sped by in practice. but without result
until word was telephoned to the
grandstand, several miles away. Then
two OF the racers stopped on reaching
the scene and brought the body of
Fuchs and the injured Sharp to the
grandstand,
Fuchs. aged twenty-four years, lived
at Trenton. n. j. Men at the Sharp
training camp say he had premoni-
ton that the course held danger for
him to-day He sought to be relieved
from duty but no substitute was at
hand.
Sharp is we'll known as manufac-
turer and driver. His factory Is at
East Stroudsburg. Pa. His ,accident
eliminates him and his car from the
Grand Prize race, in which he had
drawn first place for the start.
Meet Opens To-day.
The meet will open tomorrow at 10
p,clock with seven entrants In the
Savannah challenge cup race. The
competitors will start at thirty-second
Intervals. to be followed an hour later
by the eight starters in the Tiedman
trophy race.
1t is estimated the race will be fln-
ished by 8 o'clock Entrants for the
light car race, 27s,s miles, are:
Falcar, driven by Hughes; Marmon,
driven by Heineman; Mercer, driven by
Roebling: pullman, driven by Gillard;
Falcar, driven by Gelnaw; Marmon.
driven by Dawson: t'alcar, driven by
Pierce.
Light car entrants for the 19o.s-mile
race for the Tiedman trophy are:
f. NJ. f.. driven by Cohen; Maxwell,
driven by Wright; Cole, driven by
knight; Lancia, driven by kntpper;
f.. NJ. F., driven BY Witt; MAXWELL
driven by Doerly; Cole, driven by En-
dfcott; Maxwell, driven ~ Costello