Arizona republican., 1912-10-02
Wealthy New Yorker and His Mechanician Are Killed While Driving Fiat at Speed of Ninety Miles an Hour
WAS TRYING FOR
 NEW WORLD RECORD
Although But Tw enty Years Old He Had Won Many Events Including Two at Savannah in 1910 and 1911
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH


 MILWAUKEE, Oct. l. - David Bruce Brown, a wealthy New York sportsman. who though only twenty years old, was one of the best known automobile race drivers in the coun- try, was killed and his mechanician, Tony Schudalari was fatally injured on the new Wauwatose automobile road course today on the eighth running of the Vanderbilt cup race. Bruce Brown was driving his highpower Fiat car at ninety mile an hour speed, when the rear left tire blew out. The heavy car swerved into the ditch and a second later the men and machine were cata- pulled diagonally across the road. in- to the field. The men were thrown clear of the car. which was hurled high in the air and then smashed into a heap of wreckage.
 Browns skull was fractured, his left juries. Surgeons said his death result ed directly from a hemOrrhage of the brain. The top of Schudalaris' skull was crushed, his right arm broken and his body seriously torn. Brown died in a hospital three hours after the acci- dent. having partially regained con- sciousness for a few minutes The surgeons had trephined his skull on both sides in an unavailing effort to save his life. The hospital authorities withheld the news of his death for an hour.
 Bruce Brown, according to Caleb Bragg, met his death in a desperate effort to keep the swerving car on a comparatively narrow roadway after the explosion of the tire. Bragg said the course was dangerously narrow He asserted Bruce-B Brown could have saved himself under the same condi- tions on a wider road. Exception is however taken to his statement by of ficers of the Milwaukee automobile dealers association under whose aus pices the races are being held.
 The accident was unavoidable, Referee A. R. Pardington said, the track was in no wise to blame. It IS in excellent condition. The casting of a tire would upset any machine travelling at that speed, no matter how excellent the course
 The wreck occurred whie Bruce Brown was racing a few yards behind Teddy Tetblaff Bruce Brown had just driven the fastest lap of the day and was tuning up for the trial for new record over that of five minutes three and eight -tenths seconds for the 1.86 mile course He was endeayoring to better the record and was just at tempting to pass TetZlaff when the crash came.
 Bruce Brown was greatly interested in preparing the grand prize race and this was the only event in which he had entered. He had won the Ameri- can grand prize twice at Savannah and hoped to win again this year, which would make him the holder of the American grand prize cup. Bruce Brown began racing in 1907, winning his novice race at the Empire city track In 1908, he ran away and was selected as mechanician for the late Emanuel Cedrino at Ormond Beach Florida.
 Here Bruce Brown beat the one mile amateur straight away record held by Wm. K Vanderbilt Jr, the yOungter's time being 8 3-5 seconds.
 The same year he won the single hill climb at New Haven, Conn, anC in 1909. lowered his own amateur mark to B flat at Ormond Beach there he won an event that drew th' cup and broke the worlds ten mile straight away record. He won tht Giants Despair Hill Climb the same season. In 1911 he was third in thu 800 mile race at Indianapolis. Hi! two most brilliant victories were thu grand prize race at Savannah in 1911 and 1911, the former he won in { Benz car and the last with the sam' Fiat in which he met death. In th' French grand prize this year. Bruce Brown won the first leg of the two days event and finished third, bu was disqualified for taking on gaso line outside the regular station. Il 1910 he was obliged to turn profes sional in order to drive with fas company.