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Vanderbilt Cup Tragedy Closes Sixth Race Day
The New York event ends in four deaths and many injuries as Har ry Grant wins with an Alco car after two crashes. Mechanic Matthew Unwon and Charles Miller die on the course, Ferdinand D Zubia killed en route, and Edward Lynch dies later in hospital. The Massapequa trophy and Wheatley Hills events also run amid the wrecks and public sorrow.
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New York
Matthew R. Unwon
Herold Stone
Columbia
Westbury Road
Charles Miller
Louis Chevelet
Chevlet
Ferdinand D'Zubia
Pope-Hartford —Company
Edward Lynch
Long Island Motor Parkway
Harry Grant
Alco
Grant
Vanderbilt
Joe Dawson
John Aitken
Dawson
A. R. Pardington
Motor Walkway
Hicktins
Board of Supervisors
Nassau County
Harold Stone
Mathew Bacon
Stone
J. P. Galnan
Aeree