The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-31

Elgin, H., Aug. 31-.With the dawn of second perfect racing day for the Elgin road race meet, drivers were tuning up their cars today. confident that within a few hours all the stand ing track records would be shatter- ed.
 In the free-for-all events, such driv- CTS at Tetzlaff, Hughes. Mulford, De- Palma, Merz and Wishart promised to break the records for a lap of s1-4 miles and for the average miles an hour
 Today's events drew monster crowd to the course at 10:3O o'clock Couriers oTls.~ motorcycles were sent around the course and bombs were set off notifying guardsmen and spectators along the track that the race was on.
 Mark Luz, one of the track officials, was knocked down and slightly hurt by car on the track near the, start ing line, just before the start of the race He was cared for by the phy- sician on duty at the course.
 The following cars were scratched before the race: Bruce-BrOWn, Fiat; Hastings Falcar; Trussell, Falcar. and Whalen,s National.
 Tetzlaff, it was finally decided, could not drive the Fiat because of d tire contract. Herne will drive in both races. The two races on today s program were run simultaneously, the drivers who were entered in the long CT event continuing around the course after the finsh of the shorter race. Ralph Malford started first, Ii minutes after the scheduled starting time. He was followed at 30 second intervals by Clark, Mercedes; Roberts, Mason Special; DePalma, Mercedes; Herne, Fiat, and the rest of the field.
 Mulford made the first lap in 7:15, which is only two seconds below his own record on the Elgin course. De- lap making the s 4 miles in min utes flat.
 Mulford made the second lap in 7:06. DePalma's time on the. second lap was 7:17. Hughes. on the first lap. registered 7:36.
 Bergdoll, Benz, took the lead on the second lap. His time for two times around the course was 14:04
 The second lap was made by Berg doll in 6:55, a new track record.
 George Hill, Tetzlaff's mechanician, took Hearn's place at the wheel of the Fiat '"700' at the end of the third lap.
 the third lap, in 21:26, with DePalma second in 21:35.
 DePalna was back in the lead at the end of the fourth lap in 2S:45. with Mulford second in 28:53.
 Hearn's hands were blistered in three laps and he refused to drive longer.
 Clark, in his Mercedes ran off the course and into a parking space at the north end during his 7th lap. No one was hurt. Clark went out of the race.
 BergdoH was leading at the end of the fifth lap. He had increased his lead at the end of. the sixth lap, hav- ing made 50 miles and 4,434 feet in 41:58. Mulford was second in 43:22 and DePalma was one second behind him. At the end of the seventh lap, both MuIford and DePalna stopped for tires.
 On the 20th lap, the race was be- tween Bergdoll and DePalma. Berg dolls time for 169 miles, 2.460 feet, was l44:14. and DePalma's 145:22. Mulford had lost time on account of tire trou- ble and had made the 20 laps in 150:32.
 Wheaton, Ills, Aug. 31.-One man was instantly killed and his two brothers probably fatally injured, when the automobile in which they were riding, en route to the Elgin races, was struck by an electric car, near here and was hurled down 8 20 foot embankment. The dead: H. B. Landon, South E1gin, Ills. The in- iured, E. K. Landon, Syracuse, N. r., fractured skull; c. E. Landon, Elgin, IlIs internal injuries.