Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — BROWN FINISHES FIRST [ARTICLE]

BROWN FINISHES FIRST

Wins Grand Prize Race on Savannah Course. Millionaire Driver Hangs Up New Redord for Road Racing the World Over. Savannah, Ga., Dec. I.—Racing over a track hardened by a cold wave. Brace Brown, the millionaire automobile driver, captured the grand prize race bn the Savannah automobile course. This was the second time this honor had come to him, be having won the eveht last year. His record this year was much faster than that of 1910, his average speed for 411 miles being 74.45 miles an hour, a new record for road racing the world over. Eddie Hearne, another young millionaire driver from New York, seated in a Benz car, was second in this race, finishing less than a minute behind Brown. Hearne was driving the car that Bruce Brown won the grand prize with last year. Ralph De Palma finished third in his Mercedes. The whole race was a thrilling event There was not a moment during the time it lasted that interest was not at white heat.