Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Automobile Nerve. [ARTICLE]

Automobile Nerve.

One of the nerviest spectacles ever seen on an auto raceway occurred in. the Long Island stock car derby at Riverhead last September. Herbert Bailey, mechanician for Louis Disbrow and his No. 1, literally shook hands with death. When the car had passed the stand on its fourth lap and was two miles from the repair pits the pin fell out of the reach rod, disabling the steering gear. The machine' threatened to become unamanageable. What did Bailey do but climb out over the hod, lower himself down on the little cranking rod, and sit facing the radiator with his feet propped against the front axle! With one hand he prevented himself from being dashed under the wheels by holding on to the little water cap on the top of the hood. The other hand held the disabled steering gear together. Bailey rode 20 miles in that manner, with the car going full speed, until the circuit was completed and the repair pits were made. —Hampton’s Magazine.