Show HALF Of PHOENIX RACE CARS ARE DISABlED Buick Leads at the End of the First leg by a Good Margin Over Others Ariz Ails Nov 7 Five of at the theten theten theten ten cars which left Los Angeles last night nighton on the race across the desert to Phoenix checked In here between noon and 3 today All the others are scattered along the route disabled or ditched Isotta the Italian car which left Los Angeles first at 10 last night was the first to reach here at 1047 a m in It thus covered the miles mUes of the first leg of the Journey In twelve hours and minutes But the Buick Bulck which was the ninth to start gained two hours and forty minutes and now stands first by forty minutes in lapsed time The Buick Bulck arrived at 1207 The Pennsylvania which left Los An Angeles Angeles geles third at 1030 1039 arrived here third with an elapsed time of 1419 14 19 The Co Columbia Columbia Columbia lumbia eighth to t leave checked In fourth at p m time 1502 The Tha Studebaker arrived fifth firth at p m time 1551 These cars will start tomorrow morning on the stretch to Phoenix In the order of their arrival The Elmore stripped its transmission gears eight miles west of and is out of the race The Dorris Is ditched at Palm Springs and the Frank Franklin Fr lin un was passed at Mecca with Its rear axle housing gone The Ford lost a wheel at Whitewater and the was halted ten miles east of Mecca with a steering knuckle broken |