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EVENTS AT ALTAMONT RAGES AS 2-DAY PROGRAM CLIMAXES 46TH ANNUAL FAIRThousands Watch Events Both Days; Guerand Comes Within One Tenth Of A Second Of Equaling Track Record Of 27 Seconds Held By Bailey; Gritzbach Car WreckedPaul Young of Lancaster, Pa., won the feature events at the auto races here Friday, and Henry Geurand, youthful Somerville, N. J., spedster, carried off chief honors Saturday, as the two-day auto race program climaxed the 46th annual Altamont fair.Thousands watched the events both days. In Friday’s race, (xeurand lacked only one tenth of a second of equaling , the track record of 27 seconds held by Frankie Bailey. During Saturday’s races, Henry Gritzbach, Schenectady driver, miraculously escaped death or serious injury in the main event, when, in attempting to pass a competitor on the 10th lap, the right front wheel of the Gritz-Riley special snapped off.---—lt;5 The machine overturned andcrashed through a guard rail on the outside of the track. Gritzbach was thrown clear of the wreckage, but the eloping wheel catapulted over the roof of the horse barns near the oval. Gritzbach’s injuries- were a broken left wrist and body cuts and bruises. He was taken to Bills hospital by the Altamont ambulance.♦Friday's RaceYoung didn't lose a race Frida, winning his heat, taking the 15-miie feature race of the day, then ringing down the curtain with a five-lap vie-tory over Henry Geurand in a match race. Young and Geurand supplieu the racing thrills of the day which was unmarked by any serious spills. First they hooked up in the opening heat, a 10-lap grind. Young starting second, took over the lead on the first lap, and held it strongly to the finish. Next they met in the 30-laps, 15-mile feature. Young drew the pole k this time, and was away to a good lead. Geurand stuck to him grimly, though, -an4-o-4e-seeendCOUNTY GOP PLANS ANNUAL CLAMBAKE ON SEPTEMBER 24Event To Be Held At Picard’s Grove; Chairman Wing Lists CommitteesAnnual clambake of the Albany conuty Republican organization will be held at Picard's Grove, New Salem, Saturday. Sept. 24, County Chairman Charles C. Wing announced this week.Named as a committee in charge are:Chairman, J. Robert Hendrick; Lee F. Barrett, William J. Baxter, Mrs. Ruth__Babcock.___Albert___RinMman*.Daniel E. Benton, Theodore E. Bopp, Fred A. Canevari, Edmund L. Conklin, Marian Crane, Gustave M. Hear^pace-setter. Young ate dusit for .the . next six laps tl*en on the upper turu hie challenged Geurand. He drew up* ' ^ w w V* X W‘I r UJk/Floyd Irons, Richard Inglis, Uussell on even terms and they raced as a Johnson, Mrs. Emma Evans, Samuel team past the grandstand. TheyJ. Kennedy.Thurston J. Kenyon, Golin MacRae, a 1 Ray Mathias, Edmund F. Mildowne,^{^Werner- Rigors, NoTdin J* • Shambrook:*4 /flashed into the famed Suicide Curve, and Young on the inside, $lippe4 oui£ (Contmued on. Page * 5)-■ rv** - zjz'j.
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Altamont Enterprise
Altamont, New York, US
Fri, Sep 02, 1938
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