Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23
AUTO RACING HUGE JOKE
WITH 'HEINIE' ALBRIGHT
Newly Arrived German MeChani-
clan Wins 1o0-tO-1 Bet
from DiSbroW

Here are a couple on Louis A. Dis
brow, likewise his new imported mech
anician who are to drive in the grand
prize race at Savannah November IL.
In the Vanderbilt cup race, in which
Disbrow driving a National scored q
splendid fourth place in the field OF
forty-tWo cars, this pilot for the first
time rode with "Heinie" Albrecht, late
of Germany. Disbrow had picked him
| because of the fact that he seemed i'm
pervious to fright and was not in the
least sensitive physically. The six
foot-four mechanic appeared to take
racing as a sort of huge joke and pas
time. His one fault was that he would
neglect to hold fast at crucial mo-
mentS, coming very near being thrown
out several times in practice spins.
The morning Of ten Vonderbilt Dis
brow warned the Teutonic boy that he
would "beat him up If he fell out of
the car during the race, for Louis had
q premonition that Heinie would leave
the seat too hurriedly at the wrong
moment Heinie bet him 100 to 1 that
he would stick to the job.
In the sixteenth lap at the Meadow
brook turn the crowd swarmed over
the course, and Disbrow, then in sec
ond place and about to overtake the
winner, was obliged to slam on his
brakes so hard that he ripped and
blew out two tires and skidded into
the crowd, grazing a woman who for
tunately was not hurt and got up
laughing. By the time the National
was stopped it had run against an
embalkment.
THE last 1 saw of Heinie before
stopped was his two big feet flying
backwards out of the seat. When |
stuck with my heart in my mouth and
Jumped out to look for poor Heinie,
mortally injured, perhaps, hundred
yards back, I received a genuine shock
to see him not off the car but perched
on the spare tires on the tail end. His
long legs had caught in them as he
flew through the air. But what got
me was that instead of being fright
ened to death, he sat stock still, grim
ming: Aha! You couldn't throw me
off I win
That was not Heinie's only brilliant
piece of work that day.S Near Hicks
vile, while hitting an eighty-seven
mile an hour clip on a straight stretch,
a front tire burst on Disbrow's car
causing the car to skid and careen into
a ditch and out again and all but
upset. When the driver got it under
control and brought it to a full stop,
naturally he expected his mechanic
to make some remark ABOUT d marrow
escape or else a compliment on the
way he handled the car. All the grim
ming mechanic said was: Gee! didn't
we throw lot of dirt on them people. ;"
Talkini further of Heinrich, Dis
Draw remarked a few days ago: II
used to employ a garage hand whom
we called Dutch Charley A short
time back Heinie made his acquaint-
ance. About the middle of the race
for the cup, while taking the Hicks
vile corner at about the fastest speed
I had ever tried to curve, Heinie sud
denly slapped me on the back and
yelled 'Hey!' so loud I thought rear
wheel must have dropped off. I
slammed on the brakes quick enough
to melt the drums and slowed around
almost to a dead stop, asking what the
matter was. Heinie coolly replied:
Say, dit you see Dutch Charley stand
in on der corners?