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Show MTKEH WINS ASTDH CUP ST SHEEPSHEAD Incidentally, Also Takes Down Prize of $10,000; 104.3 Miles an Hour. NEW YORK, Sort. .30. Driving 250 miles without a stop, Johnny Altken of Indianapolis won the Astor cup and a cash prize of ?10,000 on the Sheepshe.id Bay speedway this afternoon in 2:23,04.02, a new world's record for the distance. His average speed was 104-a miles an hour. AL the fiftieth mile the Indianapolis driver swims into tho load ahead of, Chevrolet am nevpr roliiKjuislifd that, position, finishing tho race nearly a lap atioad of ftickenburker, who finished sec- , ond. Vail was third. Aitkin's victory places him in the lo:id for the championship of the. American Automobile- association. Today's race was the second big automobile event to be won by Aitken without a stop. He finished first In the oO-rnile contest on , the Cincinnati speedway lust Labor day. I Kioken backer's time was 'Z :2 I : I :i r,, , whil.' Vail's was ?:2.:.S1.S4. The follow-1 ins drivers finished in tho order named:1 Mulford, Milton, Klein, Jxieain and Le- ', vignc Aitken drove t ne entire distance without with-out engine trouble. llickcnhaeker dtoe A plucky race and always managed to he In the first ililii. The same was true j of Vail and Mniford, Chevrolet and Christians had to rot ire early in the race. Anions the oilier prominent drivers forced tn wit iid raw-were raw-were Rest a. Unckstall, Hennins-, .Moore. 1 .ewis, Mcliride and b in, their ca r. havms become disabled through hurned-out hurned-out h.arinss. The only accident wiih-h caused any sensation amom: the spectators Was when i:u.'i;st:iH's car upset after nmnins oft" tlio ' track near the turn into the n,3in stretch. Kuckstall was uninjured, but his meeha-' nician, Quickstall, sulTered a sprained slioulder. |