Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-27
|B|G AUTO RACE ON TARIFF main ISSUE
Savannah Ga Scene of Sew Speaker Carks Forecast of
enth Vanderbilt Cup Event. Work of Congress.
FOURTEEN CARS IN START PREDICTS LONG SESSION
Light Machine District Legislation Likely
marred by Accidents ceive Limited Attention
WITT AND HUGHES WINNERS CONFINED TO REGULAR DAYS
Englshman Next to Tariff
LastY by Joe Dawson Will
for Average Speed. to Strengthened.
Savannah, Ga, Scene Of Sew
enth Vanderbilt Cup Event.
fourteen CARS IN START.
Two Light Machine Contests Un-
marred by Accidents.
WITT AND HUGHES WINNERS
Englishman Lowers the Record
Made Last Year by Joe Dawson
for Average Speed.

SAVANNAH, Ga, November 27.-Under
smiling autumn sun, fourteen believing
racing cars sprang out on the grand prize
course at 11:41 O'Clock this forenoon, and
the seventh running of the Vanderbilt
cup race was on. Starter Wagner got
Harry Grant in Lozier off first The re-
naming cars left at thirty-second inter-
walls.
No accident marred the running of the
big contest. Several of the cars were
compelled to retire owing to engine trou-
BILE. Hugh Hughes, an Englishman, won
the Savannah challenge cup race in
Mercer car at an average speed of 6s.35,
lowering the record of 62s2 made last
year by Joe Dawson in a Marmon.
Frank Witt. In an E. M. F. 80, won the
Tiedemsn trophy race at an average
speed Of 57.34.
Fourteen Speed Kings Start.
Fourteen speed kings tuned UP their
cars for the seventh running of the Van
derbilt cup. Victory in the Vanderbilt
race is to the winner worth about $4,000.
This includes the handsome cup valued
at 5000 donated by William X. Wander
bilt. jr., in January. 1904 as well as $4,000
in cash and manufacturers prizes. The
driver running second wins $1,000. and
the third contestant 81 600. in addition to
special manufacturers prizes. The first
Voy nd M <ha
Nassau race course by George Heath. an
American amateur, representing the
French, at an average speed of 81 miles
per hour. In 1905 Hemmery. in q French
car, took the race at an average speed of
621s miles an hour.
In 1905 Wagner Of France captured the
trophy in a Darracq. There was no race
in 1907, but in 1908 the contest between
George Robertson and Lytle attracted
keen interest. when the trophy was won
BY the American. Harry F. Grant, in an
ord time of 62.s miles an hour. He also
took the sixth in an Alco. October l. l0a0.'
The Course and Distance.
The seventh Vanderbilt cup race run
today. under the jurisdiction Of the Amer
lean Automobile Association is open to
cars in class c, with a piston displace-
ment of 3O1 to $50 cubic inches, and 451
to 600 inches displacement.
The course, which is TIA miles around,
was required to be circled seventeen
times, for a distance of 291.3S miles.
Interest in the Savannah challenge
trophy and the Tiedeman trophy was ex-
ceeded by that. in the Vanderbilt cup
race. Six drivers of well known racing
machines entered in the Savannah chal-
lenge trophy race. In this 22S-mile event
the winner took the cup and cash prize
of $1,000.
The driver running second got $3.50 and
the third prize is $125. Seven cars were
entered In the Tiedeman trophy. The dis
tance was III miles. Besides the cup
was second and third place money. The
distance of lilo miles required the Cir
cling of the course ten times. Manufac
turers' prizes also were offered in these
two races. The total amount of cash
prizes for the races offered by the manu-.
facturerS was $4,000.
The Vanderbilt Race.
Ralph De Palma. in a Mercedes. made
the Vanderbilt cup race
De Palma led the field in the third lap
in the record time of 13 l6. making a total
elapsed time of 1903
The fourth lap ended with DE Palma in
the lead with time of 53.42. Wishart,
also in a Mercedes was second, with
time of 54.55. Ralph Mulford, in Lozier,
was a close third with $3.50.
Mulford jumped into the lead in the
fifth lap with 6s.42. De Palma taking
second with 1925. Bob Burman. driv-
ing Marmon, showed into third place
with $3.50
Hughie Hughes, driving Mercer,
dropped out on completing the fourth
lap on account of engine trouble. Dave
Bruce Brown, winner Of last years
grand prize. retired his Fiat In the
seventh lap.
Mulford kept In the lead in the
seventh at 1856. but was pushed hard
by Burman at 97.2s; De Palma was
third, with 0S1O.
The Jackson entry, driven by Harry
Cobe, retired on account of engine
trouble.
Bob Burman went out of the race
when a flying stone broke the con-
nection to his gasoline tank, disabling his
car at a time when he had good chance
to win the race.
Mulford'S average for 2O6 miles was 75
miles an hour, thereby breaking Herrick' s
record Of 7463 for 2O2 miles. He fin-
ished the twelfth lap in 164:O8. De
Palmas time was 17O:i3, and Grants
1852. The official timing Of Mulford's s
record for 2O2 miles gives his average for
that distance as 74.9.