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Show DEATH TOLL OF AUTO RACE Four Killed and Nineteen Injured at Result of Sixth Vanderbllt Cup Race In New York. Long Islnnd Motor Parkway. Four dead and nineteen seriously injured threo probably fatally was tho price In human flesh paid on Saturday for tho sixth running of tho Vanderbllt cup race, won by Harry Grant, driving driv-ing a 120 horsepower Alco. Grant, who distinguished himself last year by finishing first in tho fifth Vanderbllt, won Saturday's event from John Dawson, Daw-son, driver of a Marmon by tho narrow nar-row margin of 25 seconds. John Alt-kin Alt-kin In tho National was only a mln-uto mln-uto nnd six seconds behind Dawson. Notwlthstnndlng the nppnlllng loss of llfo it was announced that tho grand prize race over the samo course would bo held October 15. Fifteen cars havo alroady been entered for tho event. W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr., donor of tho Vanderbllt cup, could not be seen Saturday Sat-urday night, but A. E. Pardlngton, president and general manager of tho motor parkway, spoke of the raco only as n success. Ho regrotted, of courso, tho deaths and accidents, but was In-cllnod In-cllnod to attribute them mainly to carelessness. Two of thoso who mot death were participants of tho race, Mathow R. Bacon and Charles Miller. Tho third and fourth victims woro Ferdinand D'Zubln and Edward Lynch, speo tators. |