The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-28
Marquis Killed on
Santa Monica
Course
NO-Death Record of Pacific
Coast Track Broken When
Motor Driver Meets Instant
Death While Leading Grand
Prix.
[By Leased Wire to E,cninr Herald. !


santa Monica, Cal. Feb 2S-J y.
MARQUIS, driving an English car In
the hith International Grand prix
race. was fatally injured today ON the
SANTA Monica road race course Tie
was leading the racers at the time.
going so miles an hour at turn,
when his car keelcd over and pinned
him beneath b. crushing his body and
skull. His mechanician WIS only
slightly injured
This wns the first serious accident
In the history at the santa Monica
course. Marquis car crashed against
an iron harricade. He was pinned
down, the weight OF the car resting
upon his stomnch and hip. His head
had struck the paved track with such
Impact that his skull WIS fractured.
Marquis was 81 years old. Tie
saihed his experience as mechanician
for Louis Stnng
standing Tor thirty lnps.
Marquis. 9.1O:3t
Anderson. 3.ll:0g
De Palma. s:12.OG.
Pullen. 3.t2;2S.
Average speed 7g.4 miles per hour.
'fMH tfAHAfNNNH WIN set NnR NHNIAA
Monica course record of 1872 miles
per hour. made the first lap today at
si miles an hour hut In tho FIRST three
laps had to stop twice 10 change fiat
tires.
WisharL going 50 miles an hour
led az the end of eleven laps. Ver-
beck, driving No. IS. was officially
declared out on account OF engine
trouble.
Positions al the end OF eleven laps
were Wishart. Pullen. Anderson and
Tet1lan. lncessant tire trouble seemed
to have ruined Tetzlan's chances
Cooper was having trouble with en-
gine valves and seemed hopelessly out
of the race
Wishart in the fteenth lap was
going 50 miles an hour The grand
prize record is 74.ts miles per hour.
TetElan broke connecting rod IN
the eighteenth lap and was forced out
of tho race A similar accident put
Goode, No !. out in the seventeenth.
Ninth. 80. ~. west out OF the race IN
The thirteenth lap.
oldfield, who had not showed for
seventeen laps. drove into second
place In the twentieth lap. Pullen,
who was second before that. WAS
forced 20 stop al the pits for repairs.
De Palma Is again running steady
race. Anderson was third
Pullen lost his place when a civil.
war veteran stepped upon the track |
az the Sawtelle soldiers home turn
and the racer swerved into a curb 10
save The old mans life. The swerve
caused Pulien's machine Ia skid and |
throw two tires.
In the twenty-second lap OldfIeid |
went back 20 fourth place Anderson
took second. Wishart led the field
by eleven miles and kept up a speed
OF nearly 50 miles an hour
De Palma took the lead in the
twenty third lap ON elapsed time.
Wishart, after leading by eleven
miles In the twentieth lap, went out !
uf the race in the twenty-third with |
a burned bearing
Engine trouble eliminated Dave |
Lewis driver OF the car which Killed |
"a man last week during practice. lie /
covered twenty laps
Al the end OF goo miles The leaders |
stood thus, De Palma. 2.3S.37. Mar
quis. 2;3s.os; Anderson. 2:3s:27.
Huntley l.. Gordon. No o. and Tony |
Jnnettc. No. 49, were eliminated In
The twenty-third lap. both retiring |
with broken machinery. This left |
only ten OF the original seventeen
starters In the race.
Marquis took the lead IN the thir-
lieth tap with Anderson second aud
Pullcn third, according to elapsed
time
DE Palma stopped nj the pits In the
ihiriy-hrst lap, Ia the first stop made
oy him either to-day or Thursday when
mis- nonstop record won for him the
cup. He and Oldfieid left
he pits together, roaring down the
track neck and neck