Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26
De PAL N A
WINS CUP
RACE
Has Hard Contest With Barney
0Idield for Vanderbilt
Trophy,
SANTA MoNIcA RACE
COURSE, CAL, Feb. 26.-RaIph
De Palma won the Vanderbilt cup
race.

SANTA MONICA RACE COURSE,
Feb 26.-With 100000
persons packing the grandstand and
lining the race course, chiefly at the
most dangerous turns. Harry Grant,
in big Izetta car. got away prompt
ly at 10 o'clock to-day in the Van
derbilt Cup Race. The red foreign
car was followed at intervals of 80
seconds by the other fourteen en-
tries in the biggest auto race ever
staged on the Pacific Coast.
AS the motors of the big race cars
were popping and the starter was
waving away the entrants in order,
Mrs. Barney Oldfield, wife of the vet
eran driver, who was the sixth to
start. pushed q ten inch cigar between
the lips she had just kissed and leaV-
ing the track waved goodbye as his
car nosed up to the starting line.
Oldfield is the fsvorite in the betting
and with the crowd in to-days race.
At the end of the first lap Spencer
Wishart, the young millionaire Mer-
Ger driver, was leading. having nego-
tiated the eight and fourtenths miles
in six minutes and twenty seconds.
Gil Anderson in a Stutz took second
place a few seconds behind him. Ed
Pullen in Mercer was third and
Barney Oldhed fourth
The Entries.
Car. Isotta; Harry Grant. driver;
Emilio Jandelli. mechanician.
Car, Mercer; Spencer Wishart, driver;
Jack Jenter, mechanician.
Car Stutz; Gil Anderson, driver; Tom
Rooney, mechanician.
Car Mercer; Ed Pullen, driver; A.
Vollman, mechanician.
Car, Mason; B. Richenbacher. driver;
Eddie Arnett. mechanician
Car, Mercer; Barney Oldfeld, driver;
George Hill. mechanician.
Car, Stutz; Earl Cooper, driver: Both
mechanician.
car, Fiat; Frank Nerbeck, driver;
Henry Moller, mechanician.
Car, Mason; Dave Lewis, driver;
Eddie Aulert mechanician.
Car, Apperson; Frank Good, driver;
George Storck, mechanician.
Car, Mercedes; Ralph DePalma, dri-
yer; Tom Alley. mechanician.
Car. Sunbeam; J. B. Marquis, driver;
Harry Haugh, mechanician.
Car, Marmon; Guy Ball. driver; Harry
sohner, mechaniclan.
Car, Touraine; George Joerimann,
iriver
o.. A.. ,r,,,,,. ra,ot4, dri,-ar. Rert
Hooper. mechanician.
First Accident.
The first accident of the race. &c
,urred when Edwin Pulen, Mercer
lriver who was leading the field with
4 good margin, crashed into the iron
'ence and wrecked his machine. Mel
her Pullen nor his mechanician, \.
Vollman. was hurt but the leader WAS
declared out of the race unless he en-
cred the curve. Pulen was making
he So miles an hour. After the ac-
,ident the police moved the crowd at
he curve back 800 feet. Dave Lewis,
Irving a Mason, and Frank Nerbeck,
n Fiat. were pulled out of the race
IN account of engine trouble, and
Harry Grant, twice winner of the
cup, was forced out for
The same reason The accident to
Pullen's car put Gil Anderson's Stutz
ar in the lead and gave Barny Old
ield second place.
After ming eleven laps Frank
Good in an Apperson car, was de-
lin to withdraw. Good was running
II tenth place.
r.sPaina in Lead.
At the end of 80 miles Anderson was
,nly a few seconds ahead of Oldfieio.
md both were pushing hard on the
traight aways and taking the curves
It a death defying pace.
With the race half over Gil Ander-