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NEWARK1TES WITNESS THE AUTO RACES* iSCORES JOURNEYING TO DRIVING PARK AT COLOURS SEE EXCITING FINISHES.Three Accidents Occur But ThereWere no Fatalities—Rig Crowd of 19,000 Present.i ---—Scores of Newarkites journeyed to Columbus Sunday to witness the Speed program of the Columbus Automobile club at the Driving Parle, where some of the most noted autoraceiw in the country had congregated. They were well repaid for their trouble and witnessed a most sensational finish in the 100-mile race when “Wild Bill” Endicott in a Maxwell car won the race in 1 hour, 38 minutes and 28 2-5 seconds, Eddie Hearne in his Case car finishing 10 seconds behind him. The race was witnessed by 19,000 persons.There were three accidents, ali happening within 50 feet of each other on the three-quarter mile turn. Louis Disbrow, driving the big Simplex Zip/* with which he has held the one-mile dirt track record for two years, was trying to beat the Driving Park one-mile record when the front spindle broke. He was driving ninety miles an hour when the accident occurred.His car crashed head first through one fence. He then ducked his head below the hood as the car switched around and went backwards through another fence. Making another halfturn, the car finally stopped when it broke broadside through a third fence. Ambulances rushed to the scene, only to find the driver hack on his feet and with no injuries other than barbed-wire scratch on the •left shoulder.The machine was demolished. One wheel was broken off completely and a board thrust through the radiator. The fences all were outside the track.The other two accidents happened in the 100-raile race. Eddie Ricken-bacher, in his Maxwell, was leading in the race until in the seventeenth mile, when hia right front tire blew. His view obscured by dust, he crashed through the outside fence. Both be and his mechanician, Eric Schroeder, of Columbus, escaped without hurts. Except for a hoard piercing the radiator, the machine was damaged only little.Ben Ootof of Chicago driving a National car, broke through the inside fence when both front tires of bis machine blew out. Neither he nor bis mechanician, Stanley Earnest, of Columbus, was injured. This .was in Gotofj^^uM^elghth mile, aL• f.V*., ■board also was thrust through the radiator of his car. ||With Rickenbacher eliminated from the 100-unle race because ot the accident, Hearne gained the lead alter the seventeenth mile and maintained this until He was compelled to stop in the eightieth mile on account of a slipping clutch. He stopped only long enough for the mechanician to throw a little powder into the clutch, but the halt enabled Endilt; ott to speed ahead of him Endicott then maintained the lead until the end of the race.Endicott and Hearne raced ctose-1% throughout the last 50 nnles. In the fifty-four mile Endicott'b mechanician signaled for a new tite. Both outside tires were ^o badly worn that they threw dirt high into the air the last 2.) miles. Although a blowout was expected momentarily throughout the latter third of the race, Endieott finished the J00 miles without a stop.Harvey Kennedy of San Francisco, in an Edwards Special, won third ! place by making ;0 miles, and Geo. , Clarke, in his Tornado, was touuh. making ST miles. Eleven machines started and eight finished. Disbrow, driving a Case, dropped out in the fortv-filth nnle on account of a bioken valve.The $2,000 purse was distributed a« follows: Endicott, $l,00it. Hearne, .$500; Kennedy, $20lt;, and Clarl-e, ?200.The first event of the afternoon was a one-mile exhibition trial (flying start), by Disbrow, in his iJ00-horse power Jay-Eye-See. He covered the mile in ‘2 3-5 seconds.ftirkenbacher followed in a special one-mile exhibition trial with his 300-horse power Rlitzen Benz. His time was 51 2,-5 seconds, as against 52 seconds flat on Saturday.In the team match race (fi \ e miles) between two Case cars, driven by John Raimey and Eddie Hearne, and two Maxwells, driven hy lindi-cott .ind Rickenbacher. tho former won ami were awarded a gold medal The time for the drivers was: Hearne, 4 minutes and 55 2-5 seconds; Raimey. 4 minutes and 55 -1-5 seconds, and Endieott, 4 minutes and 50 seconds. Rickenbacher dropped out in the third mile because of engine trouble.In the fu'e-mile “consolation race” the winners were: Raimey, Case Comlt;Hr 5 minutes and 11 ;-5 seconds; Clarke. Tnrnado, 5 minutes and 12 2-5 seconds, and Hearne, Case 5 minutes and 12, seconds. The purses were: Raimey, $100; Clarke, $75, and Hearne, $50.K.1KK I ST CRN EDRACK TO DI TIIOITRV 'FltlNTO CM’B{associated press telegram)San Francisco, May 17,—Pitcher Benny Karr, who slarfed out by pitching a one-hit game for the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league has been turned back to the Detroit Americans, it was announced here today.Five cent fare or six tickets for a quarler to “Evanstown.”
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Mon, May 17, 1915
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