The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-02
STANDING OF The TEAMS
PULLEN Wins
auto CLASSIC

Los Angeles, Cal. March 2.-Edwin
grand prize race over forty eight laps
or 403 miles of the Santa Monica course
per our was established. It was also
the first time in history of the event
that an American car flashed in first at
the finish and there were several other
features.
Three American Cars. -.
Three of the cars that finished were
of American make. Pullen drove a
Mercer, for which Ralph De Palma
drove until recently; Balls car was a
Marmon and Gil Anderson's a Stutz.
De Palma has returned to his old car,
the Mercedes. 49,
Pullen Sets New Mark.
Pullen covered the 403 miles in five
hours, thirteen minutes, setting a new
mark of 77.2 miles per hour, against
the record OF 74.45 established by Caleb
Bragg at Savannah in 1911.
Guy Ball was second, with an elapsed
time of 5:53:23. and a speed of 6S.4
miles per hour. d.
B. Taylor took third place when Gil
second place six laps from the finish.
His time was 6.0S:29. ,
., Marquis Dangerously Injured.
The race was marked by the first Sc
rious accident in the annals of the
Santa Monica c~ourse-which jeopardiz-
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when his car, the most dangerous for
eign motor, in the contest, turned turtle
at a turn and crushed him.
Thereafter it was no race. Pullen
was forty miles ahead of the second
car at the finish and fifty-five miles
ahead of the third.
Ralph de Palma, who won the Van
derbilt u Thursday, was fourth be-
seventeen starters. Oldfield, his most
persistent opponent the other day, was
eliminated by a. bad motor ten laps
from the finish.
De Palma, who had held the lead for
several laps, was declared out Of the
race on the thirty-ffth lap, but got
back in time to limp over the finish
line n claim fourth money.
Turns Over Several Times.
Marquis was far out in the lead In
turn at too high speed and the ma
chine skidded n turned over several
times. The accident occurred at a turn
known as death curye although no
machine, a big English car, stopped
rolling and rested upon the drivers
body. Marquis was picked up badly
crushed. 1t was reported at first that
he was fatally injured and he remained
unconscious for two hours, but surg
cons declared that he would ecove
Pullen won with h same a In
which he dashed into an iron barricade
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bilt race.
Close Gall for PulIen.
He barely escaped a similar mishap.
when an old soldier walked out upon
the track and forced him to swerve
into a curb. which ripped off two tires.
Pullen managed to renew his wheels
and re-enter the ace with the loss Of
but a few minutes.
Teddy Tetzlaff, who set the curse
record of 1879 miles per hour, which
still stands, was out of the race early.
Fast Lap ny TetzIaff.
He, however, made several OF the
fastest laps in the race covering sew
eral at the rate of eighty-seven miles
per hour. Tire troubles, however, and
finally the baking Of motor and bear
ings forced him to quit.
The Wholesale elimination Of cars be-
gan in the4twentieth lap. pace of
close to eighty miles per hour appar-
emily was too much for many of them.
Engine troubles developed rapidly, and
one by one the raj stopped in the
pits, and their drivers thereafter were
spectators.
Pullem Gets $4,000.
Pullen began his climb TO first place
in the thirtieth lap. He was fourth
then, and going s~cventy-nine miles an
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