The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-11-15
AN AMERICAN
Won RACE
BRUCE BROWN DRIVING BENZ CAR
CAPTURED GRAND PRIZE
AUTO RACE
BROKE AMERICAN RECORD

savannah, Ga, Nov. 14.-The New
York boy who four years ago ran
away from home to become a driver
OF automobiles, Saturday saved the re
putation of American drivers from
obliteration at the hands of foreign
ers in the grand prize race, the blue
ribbon event of automobile contests.
Speeding faster and farther than
man ever went before in an auto
mobile road race, this young man,
David Bruce Brown, won the grand
prize by barely more than a second
lat the end of 1852 miles-heart
breaking miles. He flashed across
the electric timing wire 1:42 seconds
ahead Of Victor Hemery, the French
man. His time was 5 hours SO min
ultes a.35 seconds, setting a new Am
lerican road record of 1856 miles an
hour
Drove Renz Car.
both he and Hemery drove ROM
cars, SO that the foreign macbino.
tflumrhed over the American1nln5s
racers. The consolation in havino on
american at the wheel of the win
..v nvr was increased by the feat of
"iiu LOB Burman, driving the
'nauuest race of his career in an
A!e,icah car, the Marquette Buick
mHicn hn1shed third, getting not only
th1ro money, but an .addition.I +bo,'
SAND collars for the first American
or1ver to finish in an American oar
before the race 1t was said that tho
american team planned to set nace
IN the early stages which would turn
ttne tlres off the big foreign machines
tierepy securing an advantage over
them. Apparently the Americans
| lrled this trick, and it nearly suc-
jceeded for most of the forei .ners
We're either stalled or wrecked on the
track before the finish, but the for
Ieisners were too numerous. Two of
tnelr cars, the winning Benz ma
Ichines, still remained on the track at
Ine end OF the race. All the other
nnlshers were American cars
Fifteen Cars Started.
Fnoeen cars started the race In
SIDE OF % miles the three Flats d,.iv-
en- bysfWagner. De Palma and Naz-
zaro, and the three Benz cars. steer.
eu by Hemery, Bruce Brown and
Haupt, had left the Americans well
pehlho. Hemery took the lead at
iaDout 50 miles and held it until the
l4Oth mile when change of tires at
Tue plts allowed four of the other
IIorelgn cars to rush past him. Mean.
while Navarro, holder of the worlds
road record of about Is miles an
hour, was doing the fastest laps OF
tne DAY IN an effort to catch Hemery
Nazzarro's best time for single Ian
was 1882, which was at the rate of
Io.1 miles an hour. For over a hun.
area miles he clung to this clip until
the tire trouble gave him teTnnor.
ary setback.
wagner then took the lead for
about 40 miles,, but lost it in fi1line
MS Oil and gasoline tanks at the pits.
FOR the next 70 miles there was a
battle royal between De Palma's Fiat
which had taken the lead. and R17,ce
Brown and Hemery in the Benz
racers, Bruce Brown, running sec
ond. with De Palma a few yards be-
hind him, but two and one-ha1t
minutes ahead on actual running
Tune, tried to shake off the Brooklyn
italian. De Palma retaliated with
reckless efforts to pass Bruce Brown
once nearly overturning his car at
the grand stand corner, but when
Bruce Brown rounded the turn and
shot into his last lap De Palma was
nowhere to be seen. Thousands of
watchers in the densely packed grand
stands slowly licked off the two and
"a half minutes of Deb Palma's want
tage, while his helpers stood on tip
toe or climbed scantlings in their
pit, peering vainly to catch a sight
OF him. He had stopped on the back
stretch, out of the race with a broken
cylinder.