The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-13
GRAND PRIZE
RACE is WON BY
BRUCE BROWN
In Doing So He Srnashes
All A m erican
Records.
AVERAGES 1855
MILES AN HOUR
Savannah Course Is Scene Of
Longest, Best and Fastest
Automobile Race Ever Run
in the Wor1d-Winner
Millionaire Speed
Enthusiast.

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Savannah, Ga. November i2.-David
Bruce Brown, young New York mil
who drives automobiles from
the mere love OF speed, won the grand
prize race here to-day in a German
Benz car. when he defeated the pick
of American and foreign drivers IN
the longest. best and fastest automo-
bile race ever held In the world.
Speeding faster and faster than man
ever went before In an automobile road
race, this young man won the grand
prize by barely more than second,
when at the end of 1852 heart-break-
ing miles. he rushed across the electric
timing wire l:4s seconds ahead OF VIC
tor Hemery. the Frenchman. His
time, hours So minutes So seconds,
setting new American road record OF
7055 miles an hour. Both he and
Hemery drove Benz cars. SO that tina
foreign machines triumphed over thu
American made racers. The consolation
In having an American at the wheel of
the winner was increased by the feat
of Wild Bob Burn1an, driving tho mad
dest race OF his career in an American
car, the Marquette Buick. which An
ished third. getting not only third
money but an additional $1,000 for
the frst American driver to finish IN
IAN American car.
Plan Nearly Succeeds.
Before the race 4. was said that tina
American team planned to set pace
In the early stages which would burn
the tires Off the big foreign maehines
thereby securing an advantage over
them. 4Appai ltly the Americans tried
this trick, and 1t nearly succeeded. for
most Of the Foreigners were efthcl
stalled or wrecked on the track before
the finish. but the foreigners were tod
numerous. Two of their oars, the VIM
ming Benz machines. still remained on
the track at the end of the race, All
the other ffnishers We're American cars
Behind Burman We're the derelict
| RS Of some of the worlds most H..
nous drivers who mad failed to make
their speed machines last through tho
terrific strain of twenty-four laps OF
curvinS roadways. These foreigners
| Were still lighting gamely and In some
instances recklessly.
Wagner. in his big red Fiat, was one
of the ,rittiest. his daring nearly cost
ing him his life and that OF his
mechantcian. Louis Ferro. On the back
stretch. while coming down small
l1ill at top speed. Wagner lost control
OF his car for the fraction of a Sec
stone culvert, crushing the wheels al
throwing the Car on Its side for u
silde OF fifty feet into the trees Dor
uerinS the speedway Ferro was lit
eraily shot into the top branches Of Il
twenty-foot willow. which caught him
and broke his fall. He ran to the car.
beside which Wagner was lying with
machine oil pouring about him from a.
broken tank. The great driver got up
win the aid Of his mechanician and
walked TO the German Club nearby.
Later he was taken to a hospital.
where it was reported he was NOT
seriously hurt
Willie Haupt, one OF the Benr driv-
ers skidded off the road at the end or
a long straightaway. side-swiped a
giant is i've oak, and then plunged with
OF bushes so thick and so tall that thew
apparently swallowed him. hiding him
from view of the breath1ess spectators.
He and n. w. Feyhle, his meohanician.
surfing expedition, though somewhat
bruised and scratched.
Fifteen Cars start.
Fifteen cars started the race. Inside
of Twenty-Five niles the three Flats.
driven by Wagner, De Palma and Naz-
faro. and the three Bena cars, steered
by HemerS. Bruce-Brown and Haupt.
had left the Americans well behind.
Henery took the lead at about thirty
miles and held it until the fourteenth
mile. when change of tires at the
pits allowed four Of the other foreign
cars to rus hpast him.
Meanwhile. Nazzaro, holder of the
worlds road record of about seventy
five miles an hour. was doing the fast
est laps of the day In an effort to casch
single lap was 1852 which was at
the rate of T6.1 miles an hour. For
over 100 miles he laid out the pace.
when Wagner took the lead for about
forty miles. but lost y IN tiiling his oil
When the a0o-mile mark was we'll
In the rear, and the race more than
half over, these big cars We're still
punched and doing some OF the most
thrilling driving In the annals or auto,
mobile racing.
A scant three minutes at times sep
arated tho first four or I'VE, seconds
only marked the difference In some OF
their laps. The drivers eanght the In
wider, and the dying wheels at last
refused to stay on the track at the
turns.
Willie Haunt. was the first to ga
crashing trom tne course to sn SiSi bis nar
rolling into the ditch. Then Navarro.
reunited to be the worlds most care
ful driver, bent his rear axle irrepara-
bly,. and was ONT OF II, M
FOR the next seventv-fve miles there Z
was a battle royal between De Pal
mas Fiat which had taken the lead.
and Bruce Brown and Hemery IN tins
Benz racers. Bruce Brown running sec-
ond. with De Palma few yards be-
bind him. but two and half min
,,tas' ahAad OF actual rurninu time.
tried to shake oft the Brooklgn Italian.
De Palma, retaliated with reckless ct
forts to pass Bruce Brown, once near-
ly overturning his car at the grand
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