The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-13
MONEY MAKES
The MARE GO
MiIIIonaires go Fast in Automobiles
Also and One Of Them
Now Holds the Worlds
Record.
YOUNG BROWN WINS
Ran Away From Home to Take Part
In the Big Races and He
Captures tho Grand
VI Prize.

[Gate City Leased Wire Service.1
SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov. 12.-David
Bruce Brown, a young millionaire Of
New York, driving a Benz car, estab-
lished a new worlds long distance
record and smashed all American rec
ords today by winning the Grand
Prize for the Ais miles in S hours
SO minutes, six seconds, an average
speed for the entire distance OF 7O.e
miles per hour.
The race was not only one OF the
fastest, but the closest In the history
of automobile racing. AS Brown
thundered past the finish, his time
was only l and 12-10O seconds better
than that of Victor Hemery Of Ger
many, also driving Benz car. Bur-
man. plotting Marquett Buick car,
was third, winning the special prize
of $1,000 offered for the first Ameri-
can car to finisk
The grand prize cup Of the Automo-
bile club Of America goes to the Benz
club of Germany. The last moments
of the race, when the powerful cars,
which had been driven around the
course at terrific speed for hours,
were let loose to do their utmost,
We're without equal in point of ex-
citement in the record of American
4 racing.
! Ralph DePalma hugged close to
Brown UP to the last lap when he
I dropped out Hemery who headed
|, the race in the early stages also drop
ped to fifth place. With Wagner and
4 Navarro, both in Flats, the Ave lead
i ers, were less than minute apart
when Wagner's car turned turtle and
Navarro broke chain. When De-
Palma disappeared on the last lap,
!, the fight was left to Hemery and
Brown. The two big cars quickened
their pace. AT the beginning of the
final lap Hemery was almost two min
utes behind Brown, but the throbbing
racer let out for the final squirt. grad
ually shortened the gap, as the two
: men swirled on at almost Incredible
speed. At the stretch he led Brown
3 to the lap but Brown has the advant-
= age in time, as he had started flf.
q teenth, while Hemery got Off IN ninth
e place.
+ Hemery had hardly crossed the fin.
!, fsh line, flashing by with thunder
+ GUS roar, when the crowd, silent under
r the terrific tension saw Brown plunge
n toward the grand stand. On the
stretch the car seemed to leap for
/ the final burst and under Browns
). skillful hand swirled over the line a
a winner by little more than a sec
q ond. Burman, in the Buick, came II
!, third, followed by Mullard, driving {
, Lozier.
a There were only two serious acci
4 dents. Louis Wagner and his me
chanician, Louis Ferr, were badly in
1ured when their car turned over
Willie Haup and his mechanician. H
W. Feyhl, were slightly injured whel
7 their car skidded and ran into tree
: turning turtle. David Bruce Brown
), the winner, is the son OF million
aire and millionaire himself In hi
own name He began his racing ca
reer when he ran away from hom,
with Lancia to Ormonde Beach HI
mother telegraphed Senator Morgan
% manager OF the meeting to proven
him from racing, but Brown elude
:. the senator and served as Lancia'
:. mechanician. Since that he has fis
- ured prominently in many big races