New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-22
DE- PALMA CAPTURES
CODE TROPHY RACE
Mercedes Car Just Noses
Out Anderson'S StutZ
on Elgin Course.

Elgin. M. Aug 21.--Palpn Dc Palma,
driving Mercedes car, hard pressed
by Oil Anderson i0 7fuz, won 'ne
CODE Cup automobile ra-e t1-1ap
finishing the 305 m les In 400. an ly-
erage of 1916 miles on hour. Anderson
finished forty-four seconds later, 10.
loved by milford, with a felgeot. I'M
4:O8:i6. and Oldfcld. with q ~u.7. u
4:l5:23.
De Palma was -he winner ~ tte same
race In 1918, when bis average speed
was Gf8 miles an hour Hls tas-ert
lap to-day was sos, an average ol -21
miles ar hour Only nine ~ Che
twenty-five drivers who started .r.
race we're on the course o. rho finish
Spencer Wishart took the pace earl.
and led almost Throughout running
until the eighteenth Jap without
stop. re continued in FIRST place T'r-
out accident until tho tver'F-hrst .ar,
when he blew a tire. De Palma BOO Zr-
have taken the lead then oIt for "a
similar accident
With a seemingly safo lead ia ,ts
tWeuty-siXth lap WlsHart'H Tue. farf
started % leak, and two laps later h.
Was forced 20 quit the race
Anderson had crept up or che lcs.-
crs, and shortly after HI-rar.e
hap he passed De Palma From f-.I
ON b. was either drivers race. A..
though Anderson was not quite able .H
get the lead from hIs victorious or.
poncut. his hard drive forced De Palma
into race that p"erea record .0-
many laps.
De Palma By mis- victory to-day -s.
came a tavOrite for the tlgr rarnra.
race tO-m0rrON. another If-.4r con.
test. Anderson and milford, nf.
finished second and third to-day als
also entered for the E.g.n event. Each
has won one leg Of the trophy. WISH
art was repairing his car tonight art
expected 90 be ready 20 enter
ODounell, Fountain, Hearns, Walker.
CaiIeutte and Burke are tomorrow ?
entries who did not appear Do -o-da7.s
event. Olddeld, TetzlaF, Pg.er.
Chandler, Roberts and He.1cmaln, o.
to-day's starters, also are iu tGe E.g.H
national. The race tomorrow .s over
the same distance and starts az taa
same time
The eight-and-a-qrarter-mils oiled
course, hardened by a heavy rain. vas
like concrete when the cars lined W
this orning. The start was witnessed
by az least ten thousand persons. and
there were thousands Of Others a.
every important point the course
away from the graudstands Bob Bur
man vas forced % withdraw his entry
owing % an accident BOZ practice yes.
terday He broke cylinder, and Fas
unable 90 make repairs 10 time 90 start
Dearborn. driving a Stutz. and Teddy
Tetz.af. driving Maxwell. fasrci
over the starting line AZ IN O'Clock.
and the twenty other cars that started
were sent of IN pairs A. haIE-url.e
intervals, as follows:
Pullen, Mercer, Rickerbacher. . ..
seuberg; De Palma. Mercedes ODD
STUFF; Alley DeuseuOerg. Grant SUM
beam, Tidemarsh. reat Western.
Shrunk, White; Wishart Mercer. Hu'-
ford. Peugeot; Roberts. That's; Arler.
son. Stutz; Orr, Maxwell; Ue~r,r-.
Mercer; Wilcox, Gray Fox; N0r-
Sunbeam. uelrCmaun. Marm0l. Cham.
der, Braender Bulldog.
Rlckenoacher went )ut on -he second
lap with broken gear shaft Grant
Sunbeam went out m the third Iar H.t.
a broken oil tank
AZ the end Of the first fftv miles
Wishart Mercer was leading. with pe
Palma Mercedes second and NiIo..
Gray Fox third. Wishart's time war
4l:02, an average % s0.7 miles an ho.-
Tetzlaf's Maxwell went out or the race
on the ninth lap with a broken axle