Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — ITALY IS THE VICTOR [ARTICLE]

ITALY IS THE VICTOR

She Captures Both the Principal Events at the Auto Races at Savannah. HER CAB WINS THE GRAND PRIZE Same Nation Abo Had Triumphed in the Light Car Race. Frenchman Drives in the Last Win andNaxarro Is DisappointedOnly One Serious Mishap Mars the Event. . Savannah, Ga., Nov. 27.—The Italian Fiat car, 120-horsepower, won the automobile race for touring cars on the track here, going 402 miles in 6 hours, 10 minutes and 31 seconds. Wagner, a Frenchman, was the driver. The other cars whose time wws taken were the following, including their drivers, name of car being given first, driver second and time last: ' Benz, Hemery, 6:11:27; Fiat; Nazar ro, 6:18:47; Benz, Hanriot, 6:26:12; Clement-Bay rd, Nautvast, 6:34:06; Re nault, Strang, 6:43:37; Clement-Bay ard, Higal, 6:45:49; Itala, Fournier. 6:46:32; Fiat, De Palma, 6:51:34. The

cars of borne manufacture were noin the race. There were six of thenand none carried more than sixty horsepower, while those of foreign manufacture ruled it from 110 to 123 horsepower. Was a Close Race for Three. The three drivers who clung together from the very start were shuffled about like so many cards as the flying laps were reeled away. During the race the Benz No. 19 was sent pitching from the road. Out of the mass of wreckage Fritz Erie, who had been driving, was taken with a broken nose and a broken jaw. Naaarro, the ■wonderful Italian driver, holder of world’s records and winner of countless contests, who had clung tenaciously to a narraw margin of lead for more than a hundred miles, hesitated long enough at th£ supply pits to change a weakening tire and lost. Nazarro Badly Disappointed.

The fact that a car of bls own team ■won the race was little comfort to Nazarro. An Italian himself he want ed to win in an Italian car. Wagner was in trouble once. He stopped and his mechanician was under the machine as soon as the wheels stopped turning. He soon corrected the trouble and springing to Lis seat the machine shot ahead agadn. As It started two bottles of champagne were handed aboard and the men drained them as they flew along. The race set a new record for long distance going, the highest average speed previously being made last month in the Vanderbilt cup race, 64.3 miles an hour. Wagner's time was 65.5 miles. Only One Serious Mishap.

The accident to the Benz car, No. 19, runqing in fourth position at the end of the tenth lap, was the only serious mishap of the day. The stee’. studded tread of the nin-skid tire on the right rear wheel broke Just as he was attaining maximum speed. One of the loose ends of the flying tread struck Erie in the back of the head, and for the fraction of a second his hand on the steering wheel faltered. A moment later the racer had torn from the road, struck a stone and turned turtle. Erie went flying in one direction and his mechanician In an other. The latter picked himself up unhurt, but Erie suffered a broken nose and jaw. Italy’s Second Winning.

This winning is the second for Italy, the car representing that nation winning the other headline event of the meet, the light car race.