Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-27
De Palma Drops Back
to Second in Wander
bilt Race.
HUGHES WINS CUP
FOR LIGH T CARS
Tiedeman Trophy Goes to
Witt, with Evans in
Second Place.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Nov aT.-Under
a smiling autumn sun fourteen bel
lowing racing cars sprang out on the
Grand Prize course at II Al 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 thirteen re-
naming cars left at thirty second in
tervals.
Ralph De Palma in a Mercedes made
the fastest time of 1888 in the first
lap of the Vanderbilt cup race
De Palma led the field in the third
lap in the record time of 1916. making
total elapsed time of 4003.
The fourth lap ended with De Palma
IN the lead, with time of 5S:72. wis
hart, also in Mercedes, was second,
with time of 54:55. Ralph Mulford,
in a Lozier, was a close third, with
54:56
Mulford jumped into the lead in the
fifth lap. with 6S:42. De Palma taking
second, with 1926 Bob Burman, driv-
ing a Marmon, showed into third place
with $3.50.
Hughie Hughes, driving a 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 SOW
enth at 1885, but was pushed hard by
| Burman at 972S. DePalma was third
with 1910
The jackson entry, driven hy Harry
1 Cobe, retired on account of engine
trouble
Victory in the Vanderbilt race is to
the winner worth about $1,000. This
Includes the handsome cup, valued at
$1,000 donated by William K. 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 $1,000, in ad-
dition to special manufacturers prizes.
The first Vanderbilt cup race was
won on the Nassau race course by
Gearge Heath. an American amateur,
representing the French team, at all
average speed of fifty-two miles per
hour. In 1905 Hemrnery, in a French
car. took the race at an average speed
of sixty-two and one-half miles an
hour
! In 1906 Wagner of France, captured
the trophy in a Darracq There was
1 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 p Grant. in an Alec, won the
! eth Vanderbilt In the record time of
/ 62.s miles an hour. He also took the
sixth in an Alec on October /. 1910
The seventh Vanderbilt cup race run
today under the jurisdiction of the
American Automobile Association was
open to cars in class C, with q piston
/ displacement of 301 TO $50 cubic inches
snd 45t 10 500 inches displacement
The course which is 1714 miles
around, was required to be circled sew
enteen times for distance of 2s135
/ miles
hughes Wins Savannah CUP.
Hughie Hughes, III q. four cylinder
Mercer. won the Savannah challenge
trophy race of 222s3 miles His time
was 1876 81, an average of 6s.35 miles
an hour Joe Dawson won the race
last year in a Marmon. svera ging 60 90
miles an hour.
Heinemen, in Marinon, finished
second. His time was 2o1;41
Frank Witt driving an. z M F..
Thirty, won the Tiedeman trophy race
Of 17140 miles Wits time was 1863
Robert Evans in an e M. p, finished
second, and Jack Tower. also in an
e NJ. F., finished third. Evanss time
! was 1912. and Towers 1873. The
winners average was 5s 81 miles an
hour Billy Knipper won this race
last wear in Lanier car with. an aver
age time of 5s.A miles an hour