Show Resta Wins Vanderbilt Cup BIG EVENT Of SEASON A THRILLER Wilcox Close Second in Close Clos Finish of Auto Classic Bob Barman's Burman s Mech Smashes Leg Legand and Ribs in Crash AT COURSE Spectator Hit by Flying T Tire e Is Rendered ed der-ed Unconscious Unconscious us but Not Badly I 1 Hurt rt Casualties Few How They Finished First Resta esta driver ear car time Second Wilcox driver car Stutz time 4 34 Third Pullen driver r car cr Mercer Mercer Mercer Mer Mer- time Fourth De Dc Palms Palma driver car Mercedes time Fifth Carlson Carison driver time Casualties Burman's James Cleary suffered broken leg and mashed smashed ribs when car turned over rounding Machinery Palace hall hail on the forty seventh forty seventh lap Burman unhurt Spectator struck by flying tire thrown by Captain Kennedy's Kennedys Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Special Unconscious but not seriously hurt Attendance More than packed grand stands that surround course Value to Winner cash and famous Vanderbilt cup Winners Winner's Time Resta Reata negotiated miles In 37 Average 67 67 2 mU miles s an anho ho hour ur D By United Press EXPOSITION S STADIUM T TAD A D I U M SAN FRANCISCO March Much 6 TI The Vanderbilt and grand prix c cups ps are both going to E Europe ope Dar Darius us Resta the tile It Italian lian n. n J. J Peugeot French W cal car who captured tho the grand rand prix race from tho the greatest automobile drivers In America a week we lc ago repeated this afternoon when whon he ho Won von the Van an cup race nice from one of or the tho classiest fields ever entered In that classic His time timo was and his average sp speed ed for the mile course was 67 61 miles mlles an hour How Howard lI Wilcox In a n Stutz Stats was secondhand Eddie Pullen Fuhlen In a a- lder- lder third Wilcox's time was waa and Pullens Pullen's 81 DC Palma was fourth time Ume Carlson Carison fifth time Resta who has h-as driven many races ices over English cour courses es has blUJ appeared In only two In this country since ho he came here last fall taU These were the grand prIx and the Vanderbilt and he took them both This victory gives foreigners two more of ot the man many coveted trophies which American sportsmen boasted ted for many years ears at Course More than than persons packed Jacke the tho grand stands that surrounded the course and watched what many called the most thrilling r race ce In the history of ot the Vanderbilt The weather was wan Q Ideal sunshine the course courso practically all day long Continued on page pago 6 7 i t I I VANDERBILT RACE Continued page froin pas 1 1 1 Conditions contrasted sharply with those of last met Saturday when Resta demonstrated his ability to win Inthe in inthe the face of ot any conditions by driving to victory victor the same Mme Peugeot he piloted today despite a torrent of ot ofrain ofrain rain ruin To the Intrepid Italian caine came the famous Ya Vanderbilt cup and a n. cash Sh I prize of t Wilcox's prize prize- e 1 w was s 2000 and land Eddie Pullen gets sets 1500 De Xe Palma and antI Carlson Carison will receive e II 1000 and respectively Seldom Selm Sel- Sel d dom Jm m has a driver cI demonstrated cm d his Superior skill In su such such- h. h marked man man- h Her rier r ns as did Resta today d r lie took the lead In the first five fi laps flaps and lind except for tor ten laps early In fn th the tho race and brief brier periods thereafter he was waa wasn n never er ROll seriously threatened Ho He showed a brilliancy which experts who ho witnessed tho the race this afternoon afternoon after after- noon dt declared him ono one of or orthe the greatest realest drivers In the history of motor racing De Palma 1 Takes ale Lead Lead- Starter Wagner asner sent the tile racers away away ono and minute ahead of at the scheduled time at 1 29 Do Palmas Palma's Mercedes l Durants Durant's Chevrolet and I I II Resta's Resla Peugeot leaped forward at atthe atthe atthe the signal and roared down clown the theco co course course- r e. e Behind them Pullen Bragg and r w were rc lined up ul and ten seconds they too shot forward Grant Marquis and the ethers followed in rapid succession and within three minutes thirty one machines were tearing around the course cours To Do De Palma went the glory of or winning the first t lap but the thet honor was short lived quickly kh quickly r posed paced Med the two-time two winner and then Rests Resta chot chat Into th the lead lend To ro the tho sixth lap De Dc Palma Falma hung onto the rear wheels of or tho the swift Peugeot and mid made a magnificent magnificent magnificent cent effort ot of regain the lead to the tumultuous u cheers heers of ot the stands t But it availed ya led him lm naught Resta smiling grimly r. r maintained n n a d the tlc n ad- ad t. t vantage Out Gut Earl Early Y was the first to go S-O out of at the race engine trouble elimInating eliminating eliminating elim elim- him In the fifth Mth lap Louis Mercer suffered from tho the same sam trouble trouble and and he a withdrew w a tow few moments s I later ter followed q quickly by Jack Lecain Chevrolet and n R. 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C Durant Chevrolet Tom Tom Alley AlIey pushed his Duesenberg Into the lead In In the tenth lap Ip Up to that time the they pace set et b by the thelea lea leaders had h been terrific average one seventy miles an nn hour This waS was considered remarkable In view Jew of bf t t the c short h co course rsc anti and turns U that t abounded Al Alley ey held the place for five J laps ps and then Resta Resto came camo back to his own with a rush Eddie Pullen was close behind with Bob Dob Burman third and Barney Oldfield fourth Oldfield early carly in tho the race tried d t to change his Ills luck b by d discarding his usual cigar but later returned to It lt Shakes Off On Pursuers At this stage came come the finest ex exhibition of driving In the whole race Pullen who had been making a series of or sensational l efforts to catch the flying Resta put on an extra burst of or speed and arid shot into the lead In the tho twenty-third twenty lap as astha tha the leaders leaders were the main stand tand Twice around the course the roaring cars sped never more than feet teet apart and then the thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands burst into wild cheering as tho the Italian n Jt ok the commanding post tion lion Pullen would not be he denied however and Resta was going Into the twenty ninth lap when he finally finally fin fin- ally nUy shook hook off his pursuer and pulled awn away During this period it was estimated tho the leaders were doing better than seventy miles an hour They hurled their cars on two wheels around the purgatory purs bend near the tho presidio and the tho right angle anlo turns into the tho Esplanade and at at Machinery Machinery Ma Ma- chinery palace The twenty fifth thirtieth and thirty-fifth thirty laps found Resta Rests still slIU maintaining his lead and driving coolly and with determination At Atthe Atthe Atthe the end nd of ot the thirty fifth Rick Rick- stell had displaced Burman in second second second sec sec- ond place and Pullen was ha on doggedly Spectator Injured The first accident occurred at this stage Capt Kennedys Kennedy's Edwards Special throw threw a tire Ure which struck a n spectator and rendered him un unconscious unconscious un- un conscious The emergency hospital r reported ported him not seriously Injured Ten more laps whirled b by and tho the Peugeot remained In the lead At Atthe Atthe Atthe the end of tho the forty fifth Recta Resta had averaged ed sixty seven and a n. half halt miles an hour and was more than two minutes ahead of at Wilcox his n nearest ar et opponent who wa was only thirty seconds ahead of ot Burman Bunnan Two laps later Burman's car roundIng roundIng rounding round- round Ing the Machinery palace turn skidded and turned over o The car was Wf wrecked and both Burman and l J James Cleary Clear were thrown out deary's Cleary's leg was broken and several ribs smashed smash d. d but bt Burman Burman Burman Bur Bur- man was not hurt The Tho sensational pace set b by fiesta Resta was beginning to tell on his rivals and from this time forward his su supremacy supremacy su- su was never seriously questioned questioned ques ques- Pullen was waa evidently theman theman the tho thoman man he ho most moet t feared red for tor when the Mercer made a 0 atop stop for gas shortly after 3 S o'clock Resta fiesta took advantage advantage tage of ot the opportunity and made his only stop top also He was at the pit anI only thirty seconds Tom Alley and Edward ODonnel driving went out of ot the tho race within five minutes of or each other Alley broke broko a piston rod and car turned completely over Neither man was WItS Injured although I machine was completely wrecked Oldfield Seventh e At the sixteenth Resta fiesta was more than six minutes ahead of ot Pullen and Each of ot these shortly short short- ly y af tern ards made a a n final bid for tor forthe forthe the trophy troph Pullen dropped back defeated before tho the seventeenth lap and took up the attempt With only seven more mom laps to go he set sail sensationally for tor tho the Peugeot Peu Peu- s-oot s and drove o so ao recklessly that spectators blanched as he fl flashed around the perilous turns In the tho third seventy lap hip ho he disappeared falling to reappear In front of ot the main stands A moment later came word that his car hud had duplicated the accident to car and at exactly the same place in front of ot tho the Massachusetts building N Neither nor his his' was hurt From that limo forward the result was a foregone conclusion Howard Wilcox in the last lost stages of at the race came from tram behind hind and wrested second place from Pullen n but neither man was near to the winner Barney Barney- Oldfield the tho veteran driver finished seventh sc Only fifteen cars finished all nU of ot tho the other thirty I one original starters having having- been eliminated d by accidents or trouble of some come sort |