THE MOTOR RACE.
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT New York, Oot. 7. Two hundred thousand spectators witnessed the Vanderbilt Cap motor race at Long Island. M. Wagner, France, in a one hundred horse-power Darracq oar, won, oovering 297 miles in four hours fifty seoonds. The spectators surged over the oourse and two were killed. Walsehott, a competitor, lost control of his oar and plunged over an embankment, through a fence. Walsohott and twenty spectators were injured.
RECKLESS SPECTATORS. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 12,44 a,m„ Oct. 9. New York, Oot. 8. Spectators of the motor race out the wire-netting protecting the course, and recklessly refused to move until the cars were almost upon them. The race cost altogether two hundred and forty thonsand pounds. Seventeen oars engaged oost eighty-five thousand pounds. The Amerloan oars were outclassed,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1900, 9 October 1906, Page 2
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