Show MYles in a Sea of Mud With Death Squatting Sq atting on the Chassis issis That's How Resta Won Grand Graid Prix Auto Trophy for England By JACK JUNGMEYER Staff Stat Special SA SAN FRANCISCO CaL March 7 Coffee before congratulations congratulation If Ir you dont don't mind Thanks Another cup Clip please Ah Alt A little Italian wearing a a. Pica Pica- dilly lIlIly cap for Cor tho rho land of his hiM adoption who had Just driven tho last miles of oC a mile mlle automobile race raco with rain driving like steel into his naked eyes thun thundered tere around tho the course courso on his final left lap and slithered up to the pits to the roaring ovation o of or the grandstands It was Darlo Dario Resta Hesta winner of at the tho sixth annual International Grand Prix race run over tho the exposition courso course hero February 7 27 b by thirty of at tho the worlds world's most famous speed pec l kings under severe severo weather h handicap handi handi- 11 cap His 1118 time was 7 hours 7 minutes 59 69 seconds lie He drove o a n. Peu Peugeot Im I m too tired to feel exultant Just now he said aa as ho he climbed out of oC his seat scat flinging tho caked mud from his bloodshot eyes COS A 0 man cant can't like a hero when he's hes got sot a n. bloom blooming Ins headache And And m my head is buzzing so no I can con hardly hear or see tee It was tho the rain rapt that did it I drove the last miles without goggles had to lo do it to see the tho track A race trace like this is Just hard hard work So exhausting that you forget forSet all about the tho glory Your nervous system toward the last focus focuses s only onh on the engine engine to to keep leep it singing true tr with the throttle t wide Ide letting the speed take tako taro euro of ot Hs itself M An And when Its It's all over a man wants traits only to 1 reassure his wife gulp a n. cup of ot coffee corteo an and climb into a hot bath And with that Resta summed up tJ tie Jo c mile mlle speed sliced battle the part of or which had been run through a blinding storm over a n. slippery track that taxed the last ounce of oC carve and ability and staying quality quaI- quaI quaIl l ity of oC tho the contending pilots It II was the slowest and hardest of oC tho the Grand Prix races At Its con con- can can- elusion Eddie Pullen 1914 holder of or orthe the cup turned over tho prized trophy to tho the Italian who was le reared within sound of or Bow Dow Bells Dell London and who will carr carry It back to En Eng Ene- land with him Sixteenth to leap across the startIng start- start In Ing j ag line lino Resta Rests hurtled up through the pack flaunting tho the exhaust of ot his stub-nosed stub Peugeot into tho the faces of one ono after another of ot his rivals It was fair weather to begin beg with end and tho the going gainS was prime Then came camp the rain catching many unprepared increasing the thc perils of ot the course man many fold spinning the Juggernauts crazily across tho the course into the cables across the J path ath of other hurtling racers who time and again n averted catastrophe by hairbreadth turns and amazing luck Then trouble began The cars began be beban began be- be gan ban to o often otten to the repair pits Ono no after another tho track kings fell feB out lIt and squatted on tho the mourners mourners mourn ers er's r De bench bench De Palma Eddie Pullen holder of tho trio cup Cal Caleb Bragg 01 Oldfield Oldfield Old Old- field Tom Alle Alley Earl Cooper Ruck- Ruck stell and toward the tho last Harry Grant blinded b by the spume The little Italian Hallan looked back forr for r r- fleeting glance grinning Over In London they were expecting him to do dl 11 big things It was his first racen race racen n n America Darlo DarIa Resta who once drove drovet t- t for tor r twelve hours at an nn C a average rahe of ninety miles an hour and who had twice gone sone into the ditch at an mile eighty clip without losing hIs liis ncr u I know knew It was a n long long IonS Wll way to Tipperary explained Resta testa and I 1 was driving car crull carefully Reckless running had lrea L already y put ut several Bc t strong rong contenders out of the race I wasn't going to lose my head Even en so EO KO I had several very narrow sha shaves es when we skidded on the turns Wilcox with his Stutz was hanging on on close So were WCO Hushie Hugher traveling with tho the most sensational j speed pee burst of the day doy In his hits Ono Louis 1 DIsbrow driving a no Simplex Carlson rl on with a n. Maxwell axwell in u u. M Mercer Gil Anderson with a q and a few tew oth others ts Tho The tune time of ot Resta's Besta Peugeot never changed c The Tho wives of oe other racers were in the tho grandstand encouraging their saga men Resins Resin's wife in in inan an n agony ony of ot fear ear watch watched l the rain from her over u In tho the city She Sho dont don't approve of ot this peed peed- l ing ag said Raid tho trio new cup hol holder l r. r and tho rho ho never watches me race But Dut dont don't gay ay much about that pl please nse he added solicitously Im I going to telephone the little woman right now to tu let her know Im I'm all nil tight right t. t I gods Demigods on the tha course count these speed kings but Just plain tired humans humans hu hu- 4 mans and husbands when whon tho the Ir lIs done done reassuring reassuring thir wives ask ask- race k J ing In- tor for coffee a t bath hath and a a. I pair of ot house e slippers clippers nests Resta pulled hl his his muddy dUly cap down over his eyes I 1 guess old England will be Pleased leased to get set this blooming I tight enough and if It I dl didn't nt have havo cup such a blasted headache Ill Id bo bl a n. bit more excited about J paid ul it myself meIC ho I |