Show DEATH CHEATED IN MOTOR RAGE RACE Five Machines Finish When Contest is Officially Called Off OLDFIELD HAS CLOSE CALL l Italians Take First Place With Americans Dividing Honors HOllors I New ew York April 24 24 two Twenty two automobiles called l by hy courtesy stock stoel stockcars cars but In reality pow powerful racing machines started toda today in tho BriarCliff Briar BriarCliff Cliff trophy race ace over the tho most hazardous hazardous haz haz- course ever el selected as a racing ground Only five had IrIl finished when the race was officially called oft off Lewis Strang an American driving J. J H. H Tysons Tyson's ons on's horsepower 50 an Italian car won the race b by a a. i fair margin Emanuel an nn ItalIan Italian Ital Ital- ian wheelman of or E. E R. R Hollanders Hollander's GO horsepower Fiat Flat an Italian car finished second and ancl Guy Vaughn an American driving A. A W W. Y Churchs Church's 36 horsepower Stearns an American car I Iwas was third at the finish In the honors were vere therefore divided between Itai Italy and arid the United States The Iho ho winning car averaged a speed of or miles and hour for Cor the course a n. remarkable performance in view of or orall all the conditions Herman Lytte with an American Apperson car was fourth and Paul Sartori with an Italian BlanchI Bianchi car HUh fifth a again ln evening evenin up matters between between be- be tween the countries among tho the cars cats which finished the race I Two hundred thousand sp spectators looked on at tho the race The They were distributed on both sides of or the tho course for or almost Its entire length and the drivers were urged on to greater speed on their rounds through the lanes formed by tho banks of men and women of both sides of or the course cours by tho the almost continuous cheering of or orthe r I he tho crowds More lore than automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles were parked along alon- the course couise The tortuous course and the tho speed sure to be developed by tho the contest lol ed to all like an open invitation for tor death to join the tho race raco On the tho first fust round o of the race the tho Simplex car No 22 starting stalling last among tho the contestants running at a speed of 50 miles an hour skidded and jumped into the air It turned over in its flight and threw thre Its driver Watson and his to one side o of the roa road Tho The heavy car fell tell with a crash within a few Inches of the tho Dro bo bodies les of ot the men n Barney rne Oldfield driving his at tho the high st speed had the the fractional part of f a a. second a Second to decide A train was rapidly nearing a grade crossing for which ho he was racing at a a. speed that knew no sudden checking lIe He steered a straight course and the rl wheels of or his machine crossed tho the point of the cowcatcher of tho the en engine ine The car hung In an abrupt angle for tor tora fora a moment and again settled itself and again Death had been cheated Dan Murphy Murph In the tho Maya 1 crushed a beneath him h by the tho force thrown upon It when he took an abrupt abrupt abrupt ab ab- ab- ab rupt curve cune at full speed The car clr plowed up the tho road and Its its occupants were thrown out ahead The They abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- I the race Poole In the No 11 Isotta car broke down at Valhalla cro crossing In the sixth lap In the fifth firth round Ralph De Do Pama in his Allen Kingston ston car bent an axle retiring tho the car About tho the same time Mulford Inthe Inthe in inthe the Lozier car cal was thrown out and his right leg was badly adl Injured Robertson of the French team Inthe in inthe the dropped out In Valhalla I II I his car having h been disabled A A. Smith Hopkins superintendent of or the East st View almshouse dropped I dead deal of or heart failure Just before the therace therace therace race having overtaxed himself durIn during during dur dur- In ing the tho preparations A spectator named Hem Henry Wilson was run down near the thc grandstand and his rl right ht leg was brol broken en At the dangerous curves twists and ad kinks of or the course reckless spectators spectators spectators tors presented themselves as marks for tor death The skidding cars brushed them covered ered them with dust and oil hut but always alwa's lacked the jle hairs hair's breadth space that lies between a a. lucky es escape escape escape es- es cape and a tra tragedy ed |