Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-25
LOZ|ER CAR WINS
BIC RACE; MAKES
70 MILES IN HOUR
TetzIaf, Los Angeles Driver, Also
Victor in Another Event; AC-
cidentS Forcing Two Out
NO SERIOUS CRASHES OCCUR
TetzIaff Wins Auto Trophy and
One Speeder and Mecha-
nician Have Close Call

After a might of Revelry,"
successfully planned and carried
out by the master of ceremonies,
Dick Ferris, the several divisions
of the great Santa Monica road
races were started early yesterday
and brought to successful con-
clusion before the middle of the
afternoon.
Owing to dense fog it was not
possible to start the first race at
E o'clock, as planned, but an hour
later three cars in the first di-
vision and eight cars in the second
division lined up before Starter
Fred J. Wagner, and at 7 7:0l the
Maxwell No. /, with Fancher
driving, started from the tape, fol-
lowed at half-minute intervals by
the Oakland and Staver-Chicago.
The Staver stripped it's cam shaft
half way round the course on the
first lap and was withdrawn from
the race. The Oakland was
forced to retire in the third lap
because of mechanical trouble.
The Maxwell was a consistent
performer throughout the dis
tance of 101004 miles, and fin
ished the distance in l AZ 81.
In the second division Maxwell
car No. 2 was first to get away,
followed by the Mitchell, Mercer,
Buick, Petrol, Duro and Cutting
| in the order named. The Buick,
driven by Louis Nikrent, was the
first to complete lap in this
class, the other entrants coming
up in good order, with the excep-
ton of the Cutting, which, on the
bad Nevada avenue turn, ran off
the boards and, colliding with a
fire hydrant, overturned, but
without injury to Driver Clarke
or his mechanician, McNay. The
car was wrecked and later towed
into the city.
In the next lap the Mercer
forged into second place, with the
Buick third and Mitchell fourth.
The Buick dropped to fourth
place in the third lap, and it was
plainly seen that they were in
trouble, and in the fourth lap the
car was retired.
For the next several laps it was
a contest between the Mercer and
Mitchell, both cars setting fast
pace, which evidently overtaxed
their ability, for the Mercer was
withdrawn in the eighth lap with
valve trouble, and the Mitchell
quit in the ninth lap because of
mechanical troubles. With the
Maxwell, Petrol and Duro the re-
naming contenders, it developed
into a pretty race between these
three, but McKague stolidly
drove the Duro, clipping a few
seconds off each lap, finishing the
race in good shape, three minutes
ahead of the Maxwell and win
ming the Shelter trophy COR its
class. Time, l Al :O4 2-5.
BIG CARS ARE CHEERED
Naturally the most interest was CEN
tered in the race for the large cars,
and when, at 9:15, they were started
for eighteen laps to cover the distance
of 151 500 miles there was cheering up
and down the line
Jimmy Ryall. driving the Apperson,
in which Eanshue last year won the
big race, was the first to get away,
followed by the Pope Hartford, Lozier,
Knox and Franklin. The Pope was
apparently the public's favorite at the
start but it was only a few minutes
before the Lozier began tearing off
laps in record time, and it was evil
dent that it was but a question of a
third of the race to be over when 1t
would forge to the front and keep the
position to the end. This happened in
the sixth lap, and from that time the
Lozier was never headed.
The Apperson had trouble from the
start and was withdrawn in the third
Ian The Knox was forced to With
draw in the sixth lap, having broken
it's water connection. AT the end of
the fourteenth lap the completed time
of the Lozier was 1:09.10. The race
was finished by the Lozier in 2:04:10 4-5.
and Tetzlaff and his car won the
plaudits of the crowd for his victory,
which carried with it the Dick Ferris
trophy.
In this race some remarkable time
in tire changes was made by Michelin
experts, the fastest time being IS rs
seconds, which is doubtless worlds
record.
1t was 1906 when the open event
or free-for-al was called. The pre-
vious races had whetted the spectators
appetite for thrills, and thousands
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