Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1911-06-03
HARBOUR WINS
BIG MOTOR RACE
Captures 5OO-MlIe Contest In
6 Hrs, Al Rini., 5 Secs.
MILFORD IN SECOND PLACE
One Man Killed and Four Injured In
Bitterly Contested Struggle at In.
dianapolis.

Bitterly Contested Struggle at In.
dianapolis.
Ray Harroun. driving n Marmon 80,
is the winner of the International
500-mile automobile rate at Indian.
apolis. Ind. and when Starter Joe
Wagner waved his dag over Harroun
ms he passed under the wire. thus de.
clarlng him the winner. the crowd
went wild. rushed out on the track.
took the driven from the car and car
rled him about the course on their
shoulders.
Ralph milford. in a f.ozicr. was a
close second. and David I,rucc-Brown
In a Fiat was third Wishart in a
Mercedes. was fourth: DE Palma. in a
Simplex. fifth: Charles Mcrz, In Ma
tional. sixth. w. NJ Turner. in AM
pick. seventh; Harry Cobe. in Jack
son. eighth: Fred Betcher. in Knox.
ninth; Hugh C. Hughes. in Mercer.
tenth: Lee Frazer. in Firestone. elev.
enth. and Gil Anderson, in Stutz. was
twelfth.
The time for the 900 miles was
GALS. an average of close to seventy
FIVE miles an hourfor the ehtire race.
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. lie lost his life in an
tieth mile of the race. Greiner sus.
tanned several broken ribs and frac.
tured arm. He Is expected to re-
cover.
The accident was due TO the car
casting front tire. Greiner could not
hold the car to the track and il skid
ded to the infeld and whired com.
pletely around, tearing off both back
wheels. Dickson was thrown twenty
feet against fence His body was
terribly cut and bruised. Grener was
hurled to the track.
Bruce-Brown, in his Fiat, who was
leading at the end of the first $50
miles, but who was displaced soon
after. established record for the dis
lance, 1912. The old mark was
201.00, set by Dawson at Atlanta last
year.
The cars We're strung out behind
the leaders all around the 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 a
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
tSimplex) second. and Wishart (Mer.
cedes) third
At the end of fifty miles Aitken held
the lead. His time was II minutes and
Z seconds. Bruce Brown was second,
De Palma third.
Dave Lewis. mechanican in a 10.
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 uniniurcd and
the crew Of the Pope.Hartford also es-
caped. 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.
In a mix-up of Lytle's Apperson,
Knights Westcott and Jagersberger's
Case, directly in front OF the grand
stand. Joh.. Glover. Knights mechani.
clan suffered an injury TO the spine
The others OF the three crews escaped
anything more serious than bruises by
n wonderfully fortunate set OF circum.
stances.
The throng in the grand stand rose
to its feet when it appeared that the
crews OF the cars must be crushed to
death In the crash. A woman sitting
In 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 "A full
minute while cars darted by at either
side Of him. Then he unsteadily rose
TO his feet and staggered hIndly. The
crowd screamed at him Look OUT"
The man then steaded himself and
llmped TO the side of the track.
G.aall.As E.ia...i.