The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-02

taking the chances OF mad men
Cutting corner finally, they skidded
off the cement course and crashed into
touring car that was standing along
side OF the road. Miller, low-crouched
over his pressure pump, was hurled
forward headfrst. The racer over.
turned on top of him. aud he was life.
less when taken out. Chevrolet. with
broken collarbone and fun OF cuts
and bruises. was tossed thirty feet.
Ferdinand D,zivua, genera, SALES
manager In New York for the ,'ops
Hartford Automobile. died for speed,
too. but was not granted the mercy
of an immediate end. His company had
two machines entered in tie contest
Starting out from town in his own
touring car, with his wife and friends
to cheer his entrants. he drove
overcast to get In a good post
ton by the grandstand But the
road was strange to HIM. At West
bury he encountered an unexpected
turn. He could not make it. Ills ma
chine struck telegraph pole and waa
overturned. He was crushed and man.
gled beneath 1t, and died in agony In
the Nassau County Hospital thirty
minutes afterwards. D'zivau's wife and
friends were wounded. some perhaps
fatally.
by Narrow Margin.
AS race. the sixth Vanderbilt cup
contest was one OF the most exciting,
and certainly the closest, ever run
since men began to take their lives
In their hands at the wheels OF the
speeding monsters. Only twenty-five
victory was Harry Grants margin OF
victory for his long black raced. Just
that little space behind him came Joe
Dawson IN the bright yellow Marrnor,.
Grant and HIS helpers at one critical
moment made tire change more
quickly than Dawson and his men
could accomplish the feat. That won
Tor him.
In front of both of them mashed ,hs
Dig blue National. piloted by Jack
Aitken. But 1t had started perora
them. and owed them time. FOR min
ntes there was turmoil OF shouting
bH the admirers of all three cars.
So close were they that no inexper,
spectator could tell when had won
The National. when it was figured out,
ran third. sixty six seconds behind the
Marmon. No big automobile speed
contest has ever had more thrilling
finish
But even in the minds OF the ap.
parently calloused enthusiasts there
arose the question on the weary way
was ~ W VI III w iiilc.
i've had enough" said many
spectator.
An air OF general depression. in vivid
contrast to the gaiety and license OF
the night before. seemed to pervade
the returning crowd, both the motor
parties and train loads. Unless In two
weeks they forset-which may be pos
s.ble-not great number of New
York's speed fanatics will go to wit
ness the grand prize race, scheduled
to be held over the same course. only
with faster cars and even more reck-
less drivers, on October Is.
The Race Starts.
When Starter Wagner, standing be-
side William X. Vanderbilt. Jr., donor
of the famous cup, gave the word TO
start at precisely s A. NJ, the grand
course were crowded with spectators.
The thirty cars went away at intervals
of fifteen seconds. so that the first car
was far away when the last one went
over the line.
A slight sprinkle of rain Just before
the start had threatened to mar the
spectacle but as the last car went
away the sun broke through the clouds
and the race was run under perfect
weather conditions.
AS the cars dashed past the stands
on their wild flights the pace told and
several limped into the repair pits
pefOre the NTH lap.
At 1880 o'clock two cars had COM
pleted but one lap. No. s. Oldsmo-
bile, driven BY Joe Nilsson. did not
start because of an accident to its
shaft on the way to course. No. 10,
the Columbia, driven by Harold stone.
did not complete its first lap, and word
was passed about quietly that it's me-
chanician had been killed when his car
crashed into fence near the Westbury
turn.
No official announcement was made
of the accident from the stands. and
the leading officers of the race refused
to deny or confirm the report. Car 10.
Jackson, driven by Schiefer, broke a
race.
At 5 O'clock there were thlrty-nne
cars competing in the Vanderbilt cip,
Massapequa and Wheatley Hills sweep
stakes the two smaller races having
started at 100 and $50. With the
course measuring less than thirteen
miles to the circuit, there was con-
unuous procession OF racing cars pass
ing the stand. which materially helped
in sustaining interest in the speed con-
test. The cars rushed past in groups
OF twos. threes and tours, and many
thrilling brushes for the lead took
place directly in front of the long line
of wooden tiers laden with their
speed-craaed humanity.
Crowd. on Out Vivc
The scenes'when..o il smudged driv.
ers hurled theft cars up TO the repair
pits for minor changes or for supplies
of gasolene and water kept the crowds
on the qui vive. Drivers and mechan-
clans worked at top speed while the
pit men helped as far as the racing
rules permitted Tools and tires We're
raised and laid on the edge Of the
pits, and as car after car roared past
the stalled racing monsters were
ripped open. lacked up, liquid supplies
poured into tanks, and then. amid q
great throbbing and clouds of smoke,
the racers slipped back into the race,
while the crowds roared applause.
The tenth lap found Dawson's Bur
man No. Is in the lead. The average
dropped to seventy miles an hour with
an elapsed time of 1 hour 40 minutes
rs seconds. Louis Chevrolet jumped
into second place, with ! hour "a min
nutes II seconds elapsed time. Twelve
seconds behind roared Ralph Milford $
No. 2, with Grant fourth and Beardsley
fifth.
Louis CHEVROLET Bob Burman and
Dawson We're the stars OF the race up
to the eighteenth lap, when the head
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