The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-03

at the Sheepshead Bay motor racetrack
yesterday. In which Dario Rests, Ralph
do Palma and Bot Burman had q share
of the glory. II was a conglomerate
Of n~ationalities in the matter Of cars and
drivers. Resta. English born OF Italian
parents, won tho 100 mile race for tho
darkness gold trophy and a good slice of
some $la.500. driving a French made
Peugeot car the full distance without a
stop in Sc minutes 55.71 seconds. This
record made by Resta hin self In tho
Astor cup race at Sheepshead last month,
which was 81 minutes &c seconds. but
not as fast as the record made at Brook
lands In England OF 56 minutes 2s.9o
seconds for 100 miles.
Further to add to the polyelot condi-
tions. Ralph dc Palma. American born
Of Italian parents. drove an English
made Sunbeam In n match race with
Bot Burman, American. who had the
~heel Of a German made Benz, the
famous Bitten Benz, considered the
fastest car In the world. and entitled TO
that credit certainly until yesterday. De
Palma drove tho Sunbeam to the from,
In two separate heats. one OF four miles
and one of six miles. once averaging
1i2 miles an hour and he other time
III miles an hour.
worlds Mark for Two Miles.
Burman and the Bitten Benz had no
little share In the days glory. when he
drove an exhibition lap. making the two
miles In G2.e5 seconds This Is at the
rate of l16 miles an hour. faster BY five
miles an hour than Resta's fastest Amer
lean record made at Chicago last sum
mer, and better By six miles an hour
than the fastest hitherto AT the Sleeps
head track. which was done by Resta
in the course OF tho race and also by
Ralph Milford the same day last month.
IL establishes n worlds record as the
fastest trial of the kind. Burman didn't
reach i2o miles an hour. as II was not "A
day to bring out the best In a or
driver. with a gale blowing straight
across the track. but II seems likely that
either his car or The Sunbeam can do
this trick of a lap In a single minute with
all conditions right So. although In one
way the Bitten Benz lost Its title OF the
fastest car In the world, In another IL
did not. for II emerged from the day with
the fastest Performance. II is like the
ulItTtnCt Sril ikthSh pies NV 'N's''
play, one was 4 race. the other an ex-
hibition trial
Another event, not on the
programme. was a single lap driven by
a Packard twin ax trimmed Gown to
racing form. This car. handled by James
q. Vincent, chief ngineer OF the Pack
ard Motor Car Company, covered the
two miles In 70.52 seconds, at the rate OF
1921. miles an hour. This Is considered
a great performance for IN automobile
understood to he in all respects except
the body "a stock automobile.
SIX start In Feature.
The 100 mile race, which was the big
thing of the day. was a tire race" Had
II not been for no less than four enforced
tire changes Ralph Milford would GER
tainly have made IL hot for Resta, who
was the winner. Resta had the good for
tune, using the very same make OF tires
as milford. to go through the distance
without a change. Every change that
milford made, although rapidly per-
formed. cost him so much ground that
he had 10 drive furiously to catch up.
The result was that he was driving him
self of his tires and eventually put him
self out OF the running through engine
trouble toward the end.
There were six starters In the feature
event. Resta. Milford and Johnny Ait
ken, who drove Peugeot ears all alike (;
Boil Burman, driving a smaller reugeot (:
Ralph de Palma at the wheel OF his Mer-
cedes hat won the 500 mile race at In
d~ianapolis. and Eddie Rickenbacker. who
had the wheel OF a Maxwell that has cam
paigned well this year. Johnny Aitken
got away in the LEAD as the cars broke
e.. n.rFart .Ifpnnoant o1lnyrripD tla
ing up lap. Resta was second, milford
third. De Palma fourth. Burman nth
and Rickenbacker last. De Palma and
milford snapped places the next time
around. but Aitken kept out In front, fol-
lowed by Resta- This order. at a rate
of better than LOG miles an hour, was
kept up for Just ten miles, and then at
! the eleven mile post Athens car faltered
and began to crawl. He dropped out at
the pits and It was that he
had broken a connecting rod
Milford Takes Early Lead.
milford. who was driving hard and
fast, shot into the lead when Aitken
fell out, and each lap made him go
further away. At the end OF sixteen
miles he led De Palma. Resta and Bur-
! man. all punched in that order. by $50
ydrus- FNestd was scCOlu the next time
around. but still the three cars were
punched. Milford was gaining about
fifty yards to the lap and had a car
that was seemingly far faster than any
other In the race. De Palma's car
showed signs OF motor trouble at
twenty miles and fell back to fourth
place. Milford tapped R~ickenbacker
at twenty-four miles and De Palma
stopped that lap for work on his motor.
At twenty-six miles came the frs,
tire trouble. Burman went in and came
out in twenty-four seconds. making a
change on the right rear. Thu next time
around 1t was Mulford's trouble. lie
got a blowout at the top OF the stretch
and came drilling in to the pits jus,
as Resta flashed by in first place. II