The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-02
WEALTHY YOUNG
SPORTSMANKILLED
ON AUTO TRACK
David Bruce Brown Loses Con-
troll of Fiat Machine at
Milwaukee.
DEATH FOLLOWS SOON
Chauffeur Bragg Dec1Eres Mar.
row Road Was Acct
dents Cause.
DEATH FOLLOWS SOON
Associated Press Dispatch

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. David
Bruce Brown, wealthy young New
York sportsman, was killed, and his
mechanician, Tony Scudalari, fatally
injured on the new Wauwutso auto
mobile course preparatory to the
eighth running of the Vanderbilt cup
race Bruce Brown was driving his
high-powered Fiat car at ninety
miles an hour, when a rear wheel
tire blew up. The heavy racing car
swerved into ditch and second
later men and machine were cata-
pelted diagonally across the road and
into field with great force.
The men were thrown clear of the
car, which was hurled high into the
air and they smashed into tangled
heap o. wreckage.
Bruce Browns skull was fractured,
his left leg broken and he suffered
internal injuries. Surgeons said
that death resulted directly from
hemorrage of the brain. The top of
Scudalaris skull was crushed, his
right arm broken and his body badly
torn. Brown died at the hospital
three hours afterwards, having only
partly regained consciousness for a
few minutes.
Fellow Drivers Weep.
Surgeons had trepraned his skull
on both sides In ar unavailing ef-
fort to save the young race drivers
life. Caleb Bragg, Bruce Browns
close friend, Ralph DePalma, Teddy
Tetzlaff and other drivers stood
weeping, in the hospital corridor, as
Brown was wheeled from the operat-
ing room to private ward.
Bragg declared the course was
dangerously narrow He asserted
that Bruce Brown could have saved
himself under similar conditions on
a wide road.
Bitter exceptions, however, were
taken to the statement by officials
of the Milwaukee Automobile Racers
association, under whose auspices
tlif RACES are LD De uetu.
The wreck occurred while Bruce
Brown was racing a few yards be-
hind Tetzlaff, in second Fiat car.
Bruce Brown had Just given the fast
est lap Of the day setting up a record
of 5 minutes 53.S seconds for the
seventh and .8S mile course. He was
endeavoring to better this record
and had just attempted to pass Tetz-
laff when the crash came.
Prominent AS Autoist.
Although only 25 years old, Bruce
Brown was one of the best known
automobile drivers in the country.
He began racing in 1907, winning
his novice race at the Empire City
track in 1908. He ran away from
school and acted as mechanician to
the late Emanuel Cedrino In Florida.
Here Brown broke the mile amateur
straightaway record, held by Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, the youngsters
time being 1915 seconds.
During the same year he won the
Shingle hill climb at New Haven,
Conn, and in 1909 he lowered his
amateur record to 33 fiat at Almond,
Fla, where he also won the third
Thomas Dover cup and broke the
worlds ten-miles' straight-away rec
ord.
In 1911 he was third in the 500
mile race at Indianapolis. His two
most brilliant victories were the
grand prix race at Savannah in 1910
and 1911 The former he won with
a Benz car, and last season with the
same Fiat In which he met death
In the French grand prix, this year,
Bruce Brown won the first leg of the
two days event and finished third,
put was disqualified for taking gaso-
line outside regular station.