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Show DRIVES CAR INTOJENCE Driver and Mechanician Seriously Hurt In Elgin Races Elgin, Aug. 31. Erwin Bergdoll, the young Philadelphia milllonarle driver, raclug a 90-horso-power Bens', car, led at the end of the first lfiO miles of ihc 305-tnile free-for-all event at iho annual Elgin automobile automo-bile meet today. Kalph DePalmn, driving a Mercedes, was less than five minutes behind Betgdoll. DePalma led the field in the Elgin National trophy race at the end of the first 130 miles. George Clark of Dallas. Texas, driving driv-ing a Mercedes, and his mechanician, Malonc. narrowly escaped death In the Elgin National trophy race, when Cark attempting to drive a turn t high speed, and through the fence Clark and Malone an both said to he seriously injured. Hughle Hughes was forced to tiuit( the race in the iSth lap when a connecting con-necting rotl bearing on his car was burned out. At the end of 2011 miles the two races apparentlx had resolved into a three-cornered fight between Berg-doll. Berg-doll. DePalma and Ralph Mulford, in a Knox Si.v Bergdoll was leading at an average speed of 70 5-10 miles per hour. ANer Clark, driver of the Mercedes, which ran into the fence, and his mechanician, Malone, had been taken fiom the course to a hospital. It was reported that a sursical examination showed both to be seriously Injured. Clark suftcred a possible fracture of the skull and surgeons were uncertain regarding Malone's condition, who was possibly injured internally. |