The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26
SHEEPSHEAD BAY
SPEEDERS EASILY
HIT CENTURY MARK
Seven Drivers Qualify Cars for
the Astor Cup Races Next
Saturday.
MANY NAILS PICKED
Up on NEW TRACK

Seven race drivers qualified :helr ears
yesterday AZ the Sheepshead Bay Motor
Speedway FOR the $50 mile contest for
the Vincent Aston cup 20 be held there
next Saturday. Many more h that
number we're out on the course tuning
up. but because Of the high wine they
decided not TO US" up one Of the three
trials allotted to them 20 sho 50 miles
IN hour for a single circuit of the
speedway, which Is two miles.
The starting position depends upon
the speed attained and the careful
drivers want 10 make the best possible
showing any time they start. There are
three more trial days, tomorrow, Tues
day and Wednesday. However, a driver
who defers his effort until Tuesday viii
get only two trials. and those who wait
until Wednesday will have only one.
Dario Resta with his fast Peugeot
was the first driver to make a circuit or
the track TO qualify and he made the
distance in | minute $40 seconds, at the
rate OF l06 miles an hour. Barney
O.dhcld in "A Delage was the second fast
est. He drove the two miles in ! MINI
ute 1927 seconds, which is about lO2N y
miles an hour. Right close up 10 MIN
wee Bob Burman. peuErOt, and Gil An
d'rson, Stutz. They made ! minute
l0sj seconds and ! minute 1884 seconds
respectively, Anderson being one one
hurtredth Of a second faster. Their
sped WAS about 102 miles an hour.
Tom Rooney. driving another Stutz'
made me distance in / minute ll.NO sec
orls Wa "a is a lOi mile an hour clip.
Harry Gran, put his Maxwell through
in l:l3, Which IS 9Sla miles an hour.
Ora Haibe. driving the Scoring, qualified
in | minute 1929 seconds, when IS
reckOned about 81 miles an hour.
Resta's time, although fast, was not so
rood az he las made on other occasions
In me practice 1T Shecpshead. lie has
made Jos miles an hour twice before,
Earl Cooper, after driving a great
lumber Of miles steadily al dOoui lOl
niles an hour. was preparing TO make
his e,mirtt.On trial when something
Wcl' Nrl'g With the O..E's system ana
Ms maguctp was so spldshcd with lubrl-
cant shat the car could not ne g gong
E1d., Ri~cAcuhackcr, MlNwcll went out
Tor a trial. but did not make his signal
mat uc was going when he passed
Starter Wagner. 1t was ds well he did
not, =: mis- motor began 20 run poorly a
Few seconds afterward and Uc gave M
fog tie day. j hnuy Althrn and Howard
WILCOX, who drive P,ugoo,s, went ont
To- t number OF laps at 4 l02 mile
reei, hut soon afterWari quit for the
Ca leaving their trials over unit! to-
mo.rYw.
No. best thrill OF the day was fur
fS.DI Iu a wait between elimination
tt'~ hy 4 duel between Burman ana
O'd.o.l They went around SIX niles
re.e NLd neck. and finished about even
o. 'Hr.g brush. They were turning the
zap. about seventy seconds each, the
talgi Zap being $3.50 seconds, about
l0i miles an hour. The crowd, nearly
lt."en PERSONS, 0haercd this exhibition
o. sh.ll and pace.
Joe MpOrc's Sunbeam car, which was
raced Al the Rhode Island meet
vii PROBABLY not be a starter, as the
t'.tat has about decided not 10 Jet
u car 20. This may be changed later,
Tho Me~cors were not on the rack
hrTe being some mechanical adjust
me0's necessary. II possible they viii
r. cat tomorrow. RALPH de Palma
vs. racing Yesterday AT Allentown, IA.
b. MS Mercedes was absent.
NE drivers have been having q N'tl'
trouble on account Of picking up nails
fnr Instance, Resta. on his FIRST warm
Ns ~ spin. ran u nail into brand
NOV rear shoes. and had 10 make a
ohnnge, Starter Wagner explained that