The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-27
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! race for the Elgin cup here today, but the glory of his triumph was overshadowed tonight in the minds of thousands of spec tators by an accident during the race which cost the life of a competitor Dave Buck and Bucks mechanician. Sam Jacobs.
 Harry Grant in an Alec was second and Hugh Hughes with his Mercer third in the race.
 Buck a veteran Chicago racer was | within II laps of the finish. and going | at the rate of 64 miles an hour on the | back stretch, when his right forward wheel threw tire. The machine turned complete somersault Jacobs was killed instantly, his neck being broken. Buck g | back was broken and he died this even l ing.
 Another accident, in which 30 persons were hurt, occurred while the first lap of the race was on Several sections of | the insecurely built circus seats fell, but the thousand or more persons were not preclpitated to the ground. When the | supports to the seats gave way the boards sprang out like a pack of cars carelessly thrown on table. The spectators were shunted into hud- dle at the bottom. Four of them sustained broken legs. among these being daugh- ter of Senator Lorimer but the others escaped with cuts and bruises. The in- jured were cared for at the field hospital. A number of women and few men left the grounds after the accident afraid of a repetition of the stands crashing. The ten cars on the course were stopped after the fall of the stand, as soon as they reached the repair pit. A new start was made 30 minutes after the hour at which they originally sped on thir way.
 Ralph Mulford, last years Elgin win ner, whose Lozier was the last away to- day, set a terrific pace immediately For , miles he drove at the rate of 69 miles an hour, leading the field by a good six minutes. On the next lap, however, he went out of the race with a burned-out connecting rod bearings. This placed Zen gel in first position with Grant two min utes behind him. It was about in this relation they finished, although Grant lost two minutes more when he stopped to mend tires. Zengel made only two stops, both for gasoline and lubricants. Hughes, who won the Kane county cup yesterday, ran another consistent race finishing third. He stopped once for gas oline and was closely pressing Grant for second place at the finish. He lost second place by Il seconds.
 Zengefs time averaged for the race four miles an hour faster than that set by Mulford last year Grant and Hughes also averaged nearly that much better.
 Mulford got the prize fer the fastest lap, covering the eight and one-half miles in seven minutes, seconds.
 Ralph DePalma and Spencer Wishart, Sim pleX drivers. went out of the race early, the former in the second lap with broken fly wheel and the lstter in the fifth with broken rod.
 Aiken, at the sterrins point of a Ma tional, retired at the third lap with cylinder trouble. Buck had tire trouble from the start, and dropped steadily behind until his fatal accident. Sum mary:
 Elgin National trophy, for cars under 600 inches displacement; prizes and cash valued at $500 to winner-distance 305.05 miles, lap 1-2 miles
 First-Len zengel (NationaD. time 435.39.
 Second Harry F. Grant (Alco), time 4:41.58.
 Third-Hugh Hughes (Mercer), time 4:42.09.
 Fourth-Frank Lee (Alco), 271 miles, time 4:45.26.
 Fifth-Dave Buck Pope- Hartford), POS miles. time 3.5S26.
 Sixth-Harry Hartman (Alco), 169 miles, 2:45.44.
 Zengefs average, 66.45 miles per hour.