The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-05-31

Starter Wagner let the cars go at 10
o'clock.
Straining on the leaxh the cars made
one slow lap led by GIL Anderson in
the Stutz No. 1, and coming again to
the wire leaped laundering into the
race. pressing together in a binding
cloud of burned gas
FOUGHT FOR THE LEAD.
Teddy Tetzlaff and his Flat and
Ralph DePalma and his Mercedes
fought for the lead in the opening laps
and the others strunp out all hitting
at top speed the high white banks,
where death, lying masked in the sun
shine, had tripped so many daring
drivers. Tetzlaffs time for the first
round, ala miles, was 1:43:49. Then
he lost the lead to DePalma.
DePalma held his lead at the TWEEN
ty miles, which he covered in IA: %,
lettering the old record of 1929, set
by Marquis in an Isotta at Los An
geles.
Spencer wishart, In a second Mer-
cedes, kept at DePalma's rear wheels
with Bruce-B Brown (NationaD third
Ormsby's Opel broke it's gasoline line
and he drew out.
TERRIBLE PACE TELLS.
At fifty miles DePalma still led and
was ahead of the record. Bruce Brown
came into second. and Milford (Knox)
crept into third place. The terrible
pace began to tell on them. Johnny
Jenkins came into the stretch with one
tire of his White whipping the track
like fail. The car swung perilously
but Jenkins held IL true. Zengels
Stutz cast a tire high in the air but
he. too. reached his pit in safety.
NEW 1OO.MILE RECORD.
Worlds records went down through
out the first 100 miles. DePalma lead
ing, set a new mark of 1:13:01 over
Tetzlaff's old record of 1:14:29.
Joe Dawson in a National pounded
into second place and Spencer Wishart
took third.
Bruce Brown withdrew his National
and Harry knight his Lexington be-
cause Of engine trouble.
Beating down worlds records with
every mile, Ralph DePalma, driving
Mercedes car, led the field by a lap at
the end of the first $50 miles. His
time for the distance was 1: 49:02, as
against the record of 1:57:15 set by
Bruce Brown in a Fiat last year.
Under the eyes OF $4,000 people,
watching eagerly the ala mile course,
the twenty-one cars that remained In
the race at the 150-mile mark ground
out the laps with clock-like regularity.
Joe Dawson, in National, was second
to DePalma, with Tetzlaff in Fiat
close third. The field followed, in a
long string.
MARQUETTE HITS WALL.
Turning into the stretch in the sixty
third lap, Marquette's Mcfarland skid
ded and plunged against the retaining
wall. Both front wheels of the car
were broken off, but Marquette and his
mechanician were not injured.
Prayer withdrew his F1restone-Co-
lumbus because of gear trouble.
Tire trouble overlook DePalma's
stopped for a change, but at the two
hundredth mile he kept his lead and
had set a new record OF 2:24:46. The
former mark was 2:39:2S, made by
Bruce Brown in a Fiat last year.
Anderson's Stutz blew a tire In the
back stretch in his S0th lap and the
car switched completely around. An
derson and his mecAanician held their
seats. The car was taken off the
track The Case No 8. driven by
Whallon, relieving Herrick. broke
crank shaft and was withdrawn.
The eighth car to go out was Lie
saws Buick, which broke cylinder
head and smashed the crank case on
the back stretch in its 22nd lap.
DePalma continued to pull ahead at
the $50 mile mark-just half the dis
lance. His time was S:03:34, just
141-4 minutes better than Bruce
Browns time last year.
Tetzlaff was second and Dawson
third at $50 miles. DePalma's aver
age was ST. miles an hour. Hughes's
Mercer ran out of fuel in the 9eth lap
and he and his mechanician pitched 1t
down the home stretch to the pits.
Disbrow's car broke left tire in the
saith lap and quit. Wfshart's Mercedes
also went out with broken water pipe
connection in its Sand lap.