The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-10-02
HAROLD STONE
BADLY INJURED
MANY OTHERS WERE ALSO HURT
DURING GREATEST CONTEST
ON RECORD.
Death Rides With Daredevil Racers,
Fernandina D'Zuh'a, New York
Manager of Pope-Hartford Co., Be-
ing Crushed While Lives of Rid
ers and Onlookers Are Imperled.

Long Island Motor PARKWAY, OCI. 1.
Harry F. Grant, driving an Aico,
won the Vanderbilt cup race, mis-
time being 4 hours, IS minutes,
So 3e-10o seconds.
Joseph Dawson. in Marmon,
came second; his time being hours,
IS minutes, 20 and fraction sec
onds.
John Aitken, in a National, third,
his time being 4 hours, II minutes,
20 and a fraction seconds,
The winners time for 27a.o8 miles,
the length of the course over which
he made an average speed of So is
miles an hour, marks new Ameri-
can record.
The race was marked by a series
of fatalities second only to the mem
orable Paris-to-Madrid race, and
from d sporting standpoint it was
thrilling. 1t will be recorded in au-
tomobile annals as the most hotIy
contested Ione-distance event ever
held over open country roads.
Long Island Motor Parkway, oct.
Harold Stone, driving a Columbia
car. in the Vanderbilt cup race, which
began at o'clock this morning, was
perhaps fatally injured, and his me-
chanician was picked up unconscious
when his car turned turtle. Stone was
at first thought to have been killed,
but later showed signs of life and
was rushed to the Mineola hospital,
where it was found that both his
legs had been broken and that he had
sustained internal injuries. His re-
covery is very doubtful.
Many Injured.
The Abbott-Detroit car, entered in
the Massapequa race. one of the two
minor events for cars of comparative
ly low power, struck telegraph pole
near Westerbury, throwing out the
driver, V. Padula, and his mechani-
clan, John Barker, seriously injuring
both
Car No. IT, rounding a curve at
Westbury, struck a spectator, Thorn
as Miller, who was seriously injured.
He was rushed to a hospital, where
his leg was amputated.
Car No AZ, a Mercer, entered in
the Wheatley Hills race, the other
minor event, struck telegraph pole
at the Meadow Brook bridge, injur-
ing the mechanician, possibly fatally
New Yorker Killed.
Fernandina D'Ziuba. New York
manager of the Pope-Hartford Auto
mobile company was killed while on
his way to the races, and five 9th
ers in the car with him We're more
or less seriously injured, among the
numt er being Mrs D'Ziuba. The au-
tomobile struck a telegraph pole near
Westbury, and was completely
wrecked.
No. 20, the Marquette-Buick, with
the daring Frenchman, Louis Cheyro-
let, as driver, left the course two
miles west of Hicksville and crashed
into touring car parked along the
roadway, Mechanician Charles Miller
was instantly killed, but Chevrolet
and the other occupants of the tour
ing car escaped with minor injuries.
A Lancia car, driven by William
Knipper, turned over at the Massa-
pequa lodge. Knippers left arm was
broken but his mechanician was not
injured.
Police Poweriess.
Stones bride of few weeks sat in
the grandstand anXiously awaiting
his passing, but news of his injury
was kept from those in the stand.
The accident to his car was due to
the bursting of a tire While crossing
the Meadow Brook bridge, a cement
arch, and the car pitched over the
side of the bridge turning over twice
in midair before landing.
Police arrangements to guard the
course proved to be entirely made
ouate, and drivers complained that at
various points the crowds overflowed
into the roadway.
Thousands lined the course at many
points, and scores of onlookers mar
rowly escaped death and injury from