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Show MANY LIVES SACRIFICED SI THE WILD DASH OF II RACING AMHLfS l Heads Cracked, Legs and Arms Broken and Other Injuries Inflicted, and, Worst of All, Drivers, Mechanicians and Spectators . Are KiIled'VanderbiIt Cup Is Won by Harry F. Grant. Motor Parkway. Oct. 1. No. 2'." Marquettc-Biilck-, driven by Louis Chevrolet, left the course and smashed smash-ed into a touring mr. Chevrolet's mechanician. Charles Miller, was killed. kill-ed. Chevrolet and the occupants of the touring car escaped. The Abbott-Detroit. No. 50, struck a telegraph pole, throwing out Driver Driv-er V Padula and Mechanician John Barry. Both were injured. Padula's injuries are thought to be fa til Car No. -17, a Mercer, ran into a telegraph pole at Meadowhrook bridze and injured the mechanician, possibly pos-sibly fatally. Car No. 17, around the turn at W est bury, struck a spectator, Thomas Sillier, of College Point, L. I. Miller was seriously Injured. The car swept on without stopping. Car No. 54, the Lancia, driven by William Knlpper, turned over at tho Massepoqua lodge and Knlpper's left leg was broken. His mechanician was u ninjured. Harold Stone, driving No. 12. a Columbia, Col-umbia, was terribly Injured and his mechanician Bacon, was picked up unconscious when the car turned turtle tur-tle near Hlcksvllle. New York. Oct. 1. Ferdinand D. Ziuba. New York manager for the Pope-Hartford Automobile company, was killed on his way to the Van- i derbilt cup races and five other persons per-sons who were u the car with him were injored, Mrs. D. Ziuba, wife of the dead man, seriously. The ear struck a telegraph pole. Grant Wins Vanderbilt Cup. Motor Parkway, l. I.. Oct. 1. Harry Har-ry Y. Grant, driving an Alco icar. No. "18, won iho Vanderbilt cup raco today. to-day. Joseph Dawson, driving car No. 23, a Marmon. finished second. John Aitken, driving car No. 10, a National, was third. Grant's time was 4 hours, 13 min utes. 53 30 1-100 seconds. Altken's time for third was 4 hours, 17 minutes. 27 72-r0 seconds. The Wheatley sweepstakes, run over fifteen laps, or lS9.fi miles of the course, was won by No 4fi, Fal. driven by J F. Galnaw. in 3 hours. 1." minutes and 6 1-3 seconds. No. ll, Fal, driven by W. II. Pearce, was second. The Massepnquoa trophy, run over I ten laps of the course, 126.40 miles, I was won by car No. 51, Cole, driven by William End cott. Time. 2 hours, IS minutes and 43 1-3 seconds. Grants average for the race was fI5.4 miles per hour. The previous record was J1." miles an hour, madc-by madc-by George Kobertson in 100.'.;. |