A MOTOR RACE.
Received Ootober~B, 7.41 a.m. NEW YORK, Ootober 7. Two hundred thousand spectators witnessed the motor race for the Vanderbilt Cup, at Long Island. M. Wagner, a French competitor, in a hundred horse-powar Darraoq car, won, covering 297 miles in four hours and fifty seoouds. The spectators surged over the course and two were killed. Weilsohott, another competitor, lost control of his car, which plunged over an embankment, and through a fence. Weilschott and twenty spectators were injured. Received October) 9, 12.44 a.m. NEW YORK, October 8. Spectators at the motor-oar race cut the wire-nelting protecting the course, and recklessly refused to move until the oars were almost upou them. The race cost altogether £240,000. The seventeen cars engaged cost £85,000. The American cars were outclassed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8256, 9 October 1906, Page 5
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