| Show LOUIS WINS RACE Atlanta Ga No Nov Cheno Chevrolet let the sturdy Sw Swiss ss pilot of Buick who lin hn leaped Into racing prom within tho last year annexed II It victory here to today day when ht n ho he captured the st stock cl race about 73 72 miles nn an hour Chevrolets victory Ictor came as aR a climax In a contest In which s new speedway was opened Two of Barney records ero lowered onO one of them b by Louis Strang Who ho reduced Old leI ds one mile mart mark or of 13 01 b by more than five fhe seconds To do It Strang used tIme the big Flat Fiat whIch made a worlds record of seconds secondi over ocr time the 3 12 mile track at s England last laRl Bummer took toole tIme limIt out of his hi huh erto unbeatable Benso Bense and near I 13 three seconds off his own previous record Strong Strang has the fastest car In tho I at al present declared after the race Two cars of oC greater grealer power than are said to be In course or of abroad ono one lu in Hal Italy the theother other In Germany German The Tho second of records to vanish was wa beaten In the tho tenmile handicap when John lohn In aNn a Na Sixty starting from scratch forged ahead to third position In the field of eight cars In OS 08 02 no ii Old held who made time tho distance In Indian in OS 15 5 09 00 also started from Crom scratch In this contest but broke a steering knuckle In the tho first lap and aud was isas compelled to withdraw George Robertson who was wa to have appeared In two events with willI his Plat Fiat Sixty broke broko an oil pipe before coming to the tho mark and was out all day In practice before beCore the races ho be made the tho twomile lap In 1 32 a showing that would have made him him a tor In the races race winning of tile the race In S was a brilliant ox ex lowering record or of 3 21 13 made In a Buick at In The Tho big pilot stopped but buton on once co In the laps and then only when his machine caught fire Chevrolet assumed the load lead In the first lap and Increased It but steadily for 72 2 miles Two Chalmers Detroit cars for a time took hIs ex cx exhaust haust at distances that seemed to In Increase increase crease only b by Inches but bitt In timo tho first ten laps these inches had multiplied Into almost a mile As the sturdy Swiss Clashed past tho trained ee or of lr time the Ap driver who was In the box detected what escaped the tho lay observer Ignoring tIme the thunder or of cheers which all other sounds cried In his excite excitement ment Youre on the fIro youre on fire Louis is Chevrolet apparently Ignorant of tho fact but en he bath gone gona about a mile the smoke belched into his face Cace Then I im experienced his onh only delay The f fe minutes It re required to extinguish the blaze Ding Dingley Icy ley regained the HiM laps a auth Ill took the tho lead heath about thirty yards His triumph was for Chevrolet overtook him in tho next lap lall Ho He was never neer again agnin In No serious accident marred the theda da days s sport The nearest to such nn an accident occurred In the lie lap Harry whore Marmon had not experienced n a single dela delay ran Into the tho inner gut guttor tel tor of the track Neither he nor his were hurt hc beyond a fe few bruises Three wheels no off ocr tIme the car on one of them rolling two hundred yards At this time lime seemed certain to boat beat out the drivers for or second honors having worked to the fore o of the machInes while ono was replacing a tire and the other was renewIng Its fuel Stillmans withdrawal left lert the two to fight It Il out for second place Charles Das Basils ls Renault stayed hope hopelessly lessly to the finish several severa miles be behind behind hind but bul the other cars had grad rn been eliminated |
