Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-06-03
WINS MOTOR RACE
harrOun Finishes First in
5OO-MiIe Contest.
TIME, 6 HRS, Al MIN, 5 SEC.
B. P. Dickson Was Killed When
Amplex Car Casts Tires and
Four Others We're Injured
in Contest.
TIME. 6 HRS. Al MIN, 5 SEC.

hdFrOun, in MS Marmon car, won the
| 500-mile motor race, wsich cost the
life of one man and injured four 9TH
ers here. His time was 6 hours Al
minutes and seconds.
Second came Ralph Milford, in a
Lozier, and behind him finished Bruce
Brown, in his Fiat.
The thousands who packed the
| grandstands cheered themselves
hoarse as Harroun shot under the
wire the winner after long and bit
terly contested struggle
In the last stages of the race the
drivers, especially those in the lead,
took chances they had SHE'D at be-
fore.
They drove their big cars at top
notch speed, which was scarcely les
| sened in sweeping around the curves.
Eighty miles an hour was made at
| times.
| For nearly the entire distance of
500 miles. 1t is said, Harroun, the vic
! tor. maintained a naverage speed of
seventy-seven miles an hour.
AS the contest drew to close only
twenty eight of the forty cars which
had started remained in the race. One
after another they had become dis
abled and dropped out
! The man who was killed in the race
was S. P. Dickson, mechanician for
Arthur Greiner, of Chicago, driving
an Amplex car. He lost his life in an
upset on the back stretch in the thir-
E, tieth mile of the race. Greiner sus-
| tanned several broken ribs and a frac-
! tured arm, He is expected to re-
cover
The accident was due to the car
casting a front tire. Greiner could not
| hold the car to the track and it skid
ded to the infield and whirled COM
| pletely around, tearing off both back
wheels. Dickson was thrown twenty
feet against a fence. His body was
! terribly cut and bruised. Greiner was
! hurled to the track.
Sets New Record.
Bruce-Brown, in his Fiat, who was
leading at the end of the first $50
miles, but who was displaced soon
after, established q record for the dis
lance, 1912. The old mark was
| 2.01.00, set by Dawson Atlanta last
year.
The cars were strun out behind
the leaders all around tn course. The
scorching pace burned out the tires
and most of the cars had stopped one
or more times at the pits for tire
changes. Several of the older drivers
apparently preferred to keep up
steady grind two or three laps behind
the leaders. There were few sensation
al brushes for leadership in the field.
Aitken, in National, was the first
to get away. In the first lap the cars
strung out all around the course. Ait
ken held the lead. with De Palma
| (Simplex) second, and Wishart (Mer-
cedes) third.
At the end of fifty miles Aitken held
the lead. His time fas Al minutes and
Z seconds. Bruce-Brown was second.
De Palma third.
After the fifty mile mark was pass
ed Bruce-Brown slipped into the lead.
The first car to stop at the pit for
repairs was the Buick, driven by Ar
| thur Chevrolet. He had tire trouble
! and lost a few minutes making a
change. Wistar (Mercedes) blew a
| front tire and went to the pit. He was
| off again in minute.
Harry Grant, twice winner Of the
Vanderbilt. was forced to withdraw his
Alec car at the end of the 10Sth mile
because of burned-out bearing.
| Dave Lewis, mechanician in a Lo-
zier car, driven by Teddy Tetzlaff,
sustained a fractured leg when the
car blew a tire in the home stretch
in the 10th mile, and ran into a Pope
Hartford. Tetzlaff was uninjured and
the crew of the Pope-Hartford also es.
capped, Louis Disbrow was driving the
Pope Hartford.
| The LoZier was overturned and the
rear truck was torn off the Pope
Hartford in the collision. Both cars
were taken out of the race.
Mix-Up In Front of Grand Stand.
In a mixup of Lytle's Apperson,
Knights Westcott and Jagersberger's
Case, directly in front of the grand
stand, John Glover, Knights mechani-
clan suffered an injury to the spine
| The others of the three crews escaped
anything more serious than bruises by
a wonderfully fortunate set OF eircum-
| stances.
| The throng in the grand stand rose
| to its feet when it appeared that the
rrews of the cars must he crushed to
death in the crash. A woman sitting
In a box dropped from her chair In a
faint.
Wagner, the starter risked his own
life by running out on the track and
directing the trailing drivers out of
the way OF the wrecked Case. Lar
sonneur. the mechanician, lay dazed
in the center of the track for full
minute while cars darted by at either
| side of him. Then he unsteadily rose
to his feet and staggered blindly. The
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