MOTOR RACING.
New York, October 7.
Two hundred thousand spectators p 4vitne«scd the Valid' rbilt Cup Motor e xace at Long'lsland. 0 M. Wagner, France, in a hundred f horse-power Darracq car, won. cover- 0 injr 297 mil/* in four hours 50 seconds. Tho spectators surged over the c»urs«, and two were killed. 1 Weilschott, a competitor. W*t con- , Itel of his car, which plunged over an embankment through 1 fence. Wels■Bcho.t and twenty spectators were n- v jured. j Received rjth, 12.44 a - m - New York, October S. . Spectators at the motor race cut the wire netting protecting the course and recklessly refused to move until 1 the cars were almost upon them. ' The race cost altogether two hun- ' died and forty thousand pounds. The I seventeen cars engaged cost eighty- ' five thousand. The American cars were outclassed. I
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81860, 9 October 1906, Page 3
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140MOTOR RACING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81860, 9 October 1906, Page 3
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