MOTOR RACING.
AN ENGLISHMAN, INJURED
Press Association-By leleeraph-Copyright PARIS, July 7."
The Grand Prix, run at Dieppe, was chiefly interesting to Continental competitors. The winner, M. Guyot.: covered 288 miles in . a,, Delage-Voitere car. averaging nearly 50 miles an hour.
The. competition for the Grand Prix of France came'off to-day. 'lhe winner was M. Lanten Schlogci', in a Meroedes car. The ground Nvas uneven, and harrison, an English competitor, in a Weigliel car, overturned into a ditch and was taken to the hospital. ~ •
DEATHS FROM COLLISION.
Received 10 p.m., July. Bth. PARIS, July 8
The course for the Grand Prix was 478 tfriks, and the tinlc -of Lanttersclilayer, the driver of,the winning car (Mercedes), was 6 hours. 45 -.minutes 43 seconds. ::
Cissac, who * was driving a PanhardLevassor car,. ,and .his meclianican, were killed.. " A ityre bui-st wlicn the _car was going 80 miles {in- houi;.' and the cyr. ran into some trees. /
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13642, 9 July 1908, Page 5
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