The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-01
EDWIN PULLEN
 WON GRAND PRIZE
MADE RUNAWAY EVENT OF THE CLASSIC OF THE WANDER
 slLT RACES ON COAST.
Accident Puts Marquis, His Hot Competitor, Out of the Running and Victory Is Easy.

santa Monica Cal. Feb. 2S.-Ed- win Puiien won the firth interaa. tional grand prize race over 4S laps, or 4o3 miles of the Santa Monica course today. new record of TIP miles an hour was established. it also was the first time in the his tory of the event that an American ear flashed first at the finish
 The winner gained his place by a serious accident the first in the an nals of the Santa Monica course, which jeopardized the life of Driver J. B Marquis when his car turned turtle at turn and crushed him. Threafter it was no race Pullen was forty miles ahead of the second car at the finish and fiftyfive mics ahead of the third.
 Ralph Depalma, who won the Vanderbilt cup Thursday was fourth Oldfield. his most persistent oppon ent the other day, was eliminated by a bad motor ten laps from the finish.
 Pullen covered the 403 miles in hours. 13 minutes. setting a new mark of TIP miles an hour. against the record of 7445 established by Caleb Bragg at Savannah in 1911. Guy Ball second finished in 5;53:23, | making a speed of 6S4 miles an hour E. Taylor took third place when Gil Andegson's ear broke down and lost second place six laps from the finish, His time was 6:0S:29. DePalma, who had held the lead for several laps. was declared out of the race on tine thiry-iifth lap but got back in time to limp over the finish line and claim fourth money Marquis was far in the lead in the thirty-fifth lap when he took a turn at too high speed and the machiae slddded and turned over several times. The accident occurred at a turn known as death curve, although no driver ever has been killed there. The machine. a big English car ! stopped rolling and rested on the ; drivers body. It was reported ot| first that Marquis was fatally iu jured and he remained unconscious for two hours, but surgeons tonight declared he would recover
 Pullen was with the same car in which he dashed into an iron bacri cade Thursday while leading in the Vanderbilt race lie barely escaped similar mshap today when a spec tator walked out on the track and forced him sto swerye into a curb ripping off two tires Pullen re newed his wheel sand re entered the race with a loss of but few min utes
 Teddy Tetzelaft who set the course record of 1S.72 miles an hour which atiu stands. was out of the race early. lie covered several laps to- day at the rate of S7 mles an hoar. Tire troubles and the baking cf motor bearings forced him to quit.
 The wholesale elimination Of ears began in the twentieth lap A pace | of close to so miles an hour appar ently was too much for many of them Engine troubles developed | rapidly and one by one the cars dropped out
 Pullen began his climb to first place in the thirteenth lap He WIS fourth then and going 79 miles dn hour. Marquis. who held the lead until his accdent the thirty.fifh. set the pace and Pullen successiyely passed Anderson and DePalma
 Pullens prize money was $2,0oo. The two next prizes went to Los Angeles boys, BaA and Taylor who drew S2.000 and $l 500 respectively l DePalma added s100o to the money he won Thursday
 Taylor plugged into third place with a car which he said the had picked up as junk and bought for $250
 This was TaYor's second race with the old machine and his time for the last ten laps averaged 05 miles an hour
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