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Show SANTA MONICA'S ! ANNUAL AUTO RACE l Santa Monica. Cal. Aug. ''Plunging ''Plung-ing through a murk of combined sea fog and motor smoke, fourteen cars I sped away prompt!) at 9 o'clock this ' morning on the fifth annual Santa I Monica road race. Siefert, in National No. 1, led at the 50-mlle mark Time 37:20 3-5 ' Copper, in Stutz No. 8, was second. land Barney Oldfield in Mercer No 3, third Frank Verbeck. who won the Panama-Pacific road race from lx3 Angeles An-geles to S:crament July 4, mu B nasi minUte entr, bringing the total number of racers to fourteen. The ' numerals 13 were barred on account I of their supposed ill omen, but had luck started on the flis' lap. whin i Stutz car No 7, Lewis driving, went out w 1th engine trouble. ) At the end of the fortieth lap. a ! distance of 386 miles. Cooper still I lead time 4:32:34 2-5, with Oldfield second, time 4 3 ."..30 Goodc, third, time 1 :,.7:04 for 39 laps. A mishap to his car caused Tte-I Tte-I laff to drop out of the race on the twenty-third lap. Despite his injuries. Seifert re-entered the race after bis National had been repaired and go away with a loss of IS laps. Thousands Witness Race. Santa Monica, Cal., Aug. 9. Thousands Thou-sands of spectators lined the 445.2-i 445.2-i mile course today to witness the fifth annual Santa onlca road race. With q fast track and favorable weather conditions. the pilots expected to : break various records It was pre-dieted pre-dieted an aver3ge speed of not less i than 75 miles an hour would be main I tained. Hotel accommodations at Santa j Monica were overtaxed last nislu and ! hundreds slept on the strand await ! ing the starting gun. Officials expected to send the racer- away in the following order at in tersals of ten seconds: Mercer, Gaston Morris, drher; Ap person. Harris Hanshue. Mercer 1 Barney Oldfield Fiat. Tedd Tetz-i Tetz-i laff. Mercer. Ixmls Nikrent; Speed-! Speed-! well E P. McConners; Stutz, David I E. Lewis; Stutz. Karl P. Cooper; Quick, John Opsahl; Cadillac, Charlie Soules Apperson, Frank B. Goodc. j Cadillac. T J Baudette; National. I Frank Slefert; Fiat. Frank Verbeck |