OCR Text |
Show rtiilf, f-ominp into the homestretch, when fl.im.-s h-rtan to burst beneath his car. T r i plucky driver nent his car past tho stands to the end of the pits near the 1 first turn, whre he and his mechanician, K'L-nnf-tli (lood.on, jumped from the car ! and .stood by wliii.3 the fire was beii. extinguished. ex-tinguished. Both men suffered slight ! burns. Louis had ben running within a fer yards of his brother. Gait on, up to the moment his car went on fire, both cf them bf irifr a little more than two laps ahead of the fiHd. Gaston continued at a terrific pace to the finish, and was be-ir.K be-ir.K conirni tulaf-d on his record-breaking victory wh-n th. second and third cars compieted the full distance. Lieiitt-nant Art Klein was fourth, To-Iruid To-Iruid Xi' holson fifth. Denny HioUey sixth, F;a!ph Mulford seventh and William Ve-tere Ve-tere eighth. The other starters did not complete the race. CHEVROLET WHS 1 50-MILE GRlfJD Leads Field Nearly All the Way; Mulford Narrowly Escapes Injury. XEW YORK, Sept. CO. Gaston Chevrolet Chevro-let won the 1 50-mile automobile race at Sheepshead Hay today. He had Jed nearly all the way with his brother, Ixmis, run-ninfir run-ninfir second, unrtl ine 1 loth mile, wh: n an accident put loom's out of the contest The lime for tho distance. 1 hour 2-minutes 2-minutes 34 l-.S seconds, is a new American Ameri-can record. The former record of 1 hour 2f minutes -t.&l sr-eonds, was made hv Kiilph Mulford at Ghicaco June Ifi, 1917. Joe Boyer finished second in 1 hour '2 minutes 4:; seconds, while Ira YaM was third with time of 1 hour 4 minutes 4'" pccoiiiis. Lmi:s Chevrolet won the ten-mile race prior to the start of the main event. It v,?tf decided in thr-e h-tts. finished first twiee and ecor.fl once, for 4 points. (i:isto!: was f-ceond .th pi ointis, with Hover and .Mulford tied for third with 7 1 i-ach. In the final lap of the third heat Mulford Mul-ford ar.d his meehanician, James Lfe, had a narrow escape from serious injury when their car shot up the embankment after a tie-rod had broken. Thiru en cars started in the 150-mile ! event, I ave Ivcwis. after leadinp from the second mile, dropped out at the twelfth with a cracked r-ylmct-r. At th.- twentieth mile Gaston and Louis Chevrolet led. as na uteri, with Vail ( nird. At this point Ralph IV- I 'alma was in last place, two miies behind. The Chevrolet broth: rs and Vail showed the way at fh"y miles, the time; for which was liT minutes 2 1-5 seconds, nearly a minute behind the track record. For the next ten mi'.e.s the tnree leaders retained re-tained their place, with Gaston first about five yards in front of his brother. The time was 32:59 1-5. Mulford sot into third place and Art Klein fourth at 100 miles, but were four miles behind the two leaders. The time. 55 :06 4-5, was fifty-nine seconds slower than Gaston's track record, made July 4 last. I.ouis Chevrolet was put out at tho 110th |