The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1908, Page 1

__ PRICE ROBERTSON WINS GREAT AUTO RAGE IN RECORD TIME + Drives Locomobile Over Vanderbilt Course 64 1-3 Miles an Hour, and | Finishes 1 Minute 48 1-5 Sec- onds Ahead of Lytle. VANDERBILT'S MERCEDES IS GIVEN THIRD PLACE. ONE CEN Racing Cars Run Into Crowds as They Swarm) Over Course and Prevent Finish—Few Accidents Mark the Excit- ing Contest. ! nuld not settled vallico 2 en ad 5 to stop gain ball contest between the Naval Academy | Prades oot) ‘openings’ made in and Harvard football teams the pig | Deitrick \ a ally on a 4- % ore who zig-zagged game local of the seuson, started R thre Penn. team that t | shortly before 3 this afternoon. * The Rn plalfback cross | game was of special interest, as. both 1 Pe eta) teams have been consilered ausuaily Beas is angktnaia ‘score | strong this y The Navy teain pre- | yronenback (Capt). > : 3 pn braced up and it was ented the strormgest line-up of the sea-| The officials are liye held en fight to the end of the gon. The addition of Dalton Yale; umpire, Langford: LL er owe {with the ball, however, mo |pan! Do put thee | VAN. Okeson, Lehigh; Hnesman, Venn than in Indian territory.’ ‘The good punters i the backfie th Jones and)" 8Sivarthmore, ; dans ‘tried twice for tte la goals |Lange being the others, wiille Lange and ) bid ailures. Mark “ FOP, LD, Philadelphia \ ling on a kick standing: The Var won by Robertson, driving ard place ven by Luttgen. iwo cuts finished because of the crowds swarming on the After the d lap only seven cars stood any shov of f oniy four of these appeared to be in position to fight it out for the honors. ‘ Hau ap in Chadwick car No. 4, led at the sixth lap, with Robertson | gaining on him all the time. On the seventh round a transmission chain on Haupt's car snapped jessly out of the race. t Cup race over the Long Island course to-day was |% a Locomobile. Lytle, driving otta car No. | was given to W. K. Vande It’s Mercedes | The race was declared ¢ after the first e 6, was second. 7 This is the tirst time that the Vanderbilt Cup has been won by an \the goal rican driver in an American car, Robertson's time for thi .06 miles was 4 hours, 48 1-5 seconds, an average of 64.29 miles an hour for the entire race. Many of his | rounds were made at the rate of from 67 to 68 miles an hour, Lytle negotiated the distance in 4 hours, 2 minutes and 362-5 sec- onds. Robertson won from him by 4 minute and 48 1-5 second The time made by Robertson broke American records. The best previous time was made by Hemery, in 195, He covered 283 miles in 4.36:08 over the old Vanderbilt course, an average of 61.51 miles an hour, The Time Phenomenal, ‘To-day's time is phenomenal for two reasons. The track, outside of the con- DE UND CAPTURES FRST AT IML three laps the contestants were forced | Six Thousand Enthusiasts and h hh of people just wide fo Fun ATONE Na nee ee Peage oe aneir| 43 Bookmakers See Some Real Racing, Al cars. The course was inadequately po- Mced, the crowds swarmed on the track hing, and | Rei Slingluff " Wright .. Leighton ana place Before the damage was repaired he was hope- jon two. well~ i al, merece, of Brooklyn, b Manhat 1, 8 to 5 and 4 to 5, second; Aralia, 108 ir elected (McCarthy), 8 to 1, $-to 1 and 6 to 3,| Carlisle won the toss and selected to) The Line-u third, Time—L08, Ragman, Great Jubit|gerend the east goal, giving Pennsyl-| ne-Up, lee, Beaumont, Pearl Point, Golden Cas: | 24" ff, The Quakers kicked | Princeton Position tle, Settonia, Hawkwing and Listia also | Yanl# te | #, falling to| POW verses de B, Ue Jor at 2.85 and the Indians, falling 10 | Sloging rl rd line, The |Wa FOURTH RAC chase; four-| gain, kicked to Penn's 25-yard In ey pth Cordis year-olds and upward: selling; $500 wld: | pail was lost to each side several times, | ago} fentr Harian wenrecide od Upward | Bellne! ie Alar Pennsylvania got the leather RT ice aust | hand J to nz Rufus, [9nd Anally Penney ee AP ne, Mill + Ge Here Afrene 15 10 1, and 3 to 1,|on the Indians’ a2-y 3 r ah y, 137 (W. Jackson), 15|¢umbled a forward pass, however, and) Read 3 third. Time, 4.10. | i46 Indians recovered the ball and | (08 1 George Leiner, Bell the Cat the Taltne ee Oetlek jand Bessie'} Sa Jones Richardson, ‘ oon (Special to The Evening World.) SAPOLIS, Md., Oct. THE LINE-UP. line. tan, snider Makes First aa PENNSYLVANIA down for Cadets on a Forward P. Kicking respe The ¢ as + pita © he most important | Penn made many subs: a |pebercayanaaitcelcnth warm for} Oot, 24.—In one of the most tmy |necond hate aamieny, Aubatitutions in. the football, and the crowe of the larg. | rear played thls season, [our Range apd, the Quaker. team with Jest that has ever witnesse: games thus fa Fat aeuety, lenimreat: mack, did Annapolis, It included. m Ipenn's football team this afternoon ume Min tahpemnths, AREresstve A Vashing! @ Carlisle Redskins. | Missed. ‘The Indians also made thee jit! Aes Washingtoa, jimed up against enelaas in ee igh | tations tn ina ade five sub ‘other points 3 were keyed up to | Both teams 7 p first half ended pitch of expectancy, but the Indian | Lis aa Be ala cae Pitch or prised many substitutes. 4 but t nidsiipmen | great crowd saw the contest ae Figeiners. The Red and Blue players arrived at | hs | ard’s of orning Aining quarters this morni opea play up inthe |their training quarters t orning| thot th ade | fresh from the balmy Jersey pin a is i ope nl slo" J ction, while the up-State Reifenider made the touchdown for | Winslow Jun 1 last night. Both ‘Navy on a forward pass, iving the} team arrived in tow Beth | ball from’ Lan, just as he er 1! levens staked their success of the § | BROOKLYN SCHOOLBOYS oon about Hi) strong. WIN FROM MANHATTAN, rhe. weather cleared of during, the : morning, Pp. M., the Dour 1 game to begin, the Dis lie Rober) ave niayed. tgexiet| Neue w rae football. A] -~ k |games in Brooklyn to-day, The Boys’) COnMN ve che East blew straignt | Capt, Dillon Goes to Raves: High School, of Brooklyn, beat Ww est down the field. There were more than} t Aa R s ; meree, of Brookien, ne a. Com. gown the Held Tae great iejosure| fOn’S Rescue When the 17 to 0. swer also r NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, “PENN. AND INDIANS T IE IN FOOTBALL STRUGGL se HARVARD-NAVY | GRIDIRON BATTLE ENDS IN ATE Bag | Quakers Cross Goal Line in First) Half, but the Redskins Smash Through the Line in the Second | FOO IBALL SCORES, CARLISLE SYRACUSE HARVARD COLGATE W. and J MASS. AGRICULTURAL. VERMONT |PRINCETON ...-----.-- ; _ 6 WEST POINT ...------- 6 IWAUE sec ccccutsecnees 08 SIWAFAVIENME 1-22 eecel 8 * WILLIAMS ee t40 CORNELL ..-..-------- 9 6 0 6 0 0! 6 0 0 “Gegmiey | | pletely off their tee: ten minutes, The ay After THE LINE-UP. “the first flye or redskins got off one another so fast that 4— The foot- | Sinnaylvania. uve | FRANKLIN. FIE V the seve Ine, Northcroft kicked con on to-day’s contest, Accompanied Juy the Carlisle Band, the Indian stu | aents came to this city in a spectal train ——_—__ AND SYRACUSE: esant, OF) nen the teams came on the gridiron, ——| The line-up: First Half. Outlook Was Blue. Pennsylvania kicked back and the In-/s/vana | Tileing 2, Gretna Green 3. SPOONER WINS FROM BESOM AT EMPIRE TRACK Day at Attracts Crowd of Regulars. | Getaway Yonkers Course Good | EMPIRE RESULTS. FIRST RACE—Spellbound 1, Erbet 2, Jeannette 3. ‘ SECOND RACE—Golconda 1, Imi- tator 2, Dolly Spanker 3, | | THIRD RACE—Did not fill, FOURTH RACE—Spooner 1, som 2, The Squire 3. Be: | FIFTH RACE—Questlon Mark 1, SIXTH RACE—Biskra 1, esca 2, Esoteric 3, BY VINC. ENT TREAN DE | EMPIRE TRACK, YONKE! Oct. &4.—Spooner won the Arrow Stakes, | the feature of the Saracin- finia day's racing | here this afternoon. He practically left. and after making up ten lengths in the run to the stretch turn was car- | ried wide, He, however, came on in a game fashion and at the end won very easily, Tt was close between Besom and The Squire and they went pi the judges on almo} n terms. The off clals gave the pi » Besom, Litue H. Smith, who was nearly killed during the recent Jamaica meeting and lay be- tween Mfe and death for a couple of weeks afterward, had his first mount since the accident on Arasee in this race. He was generously cheered as he wnt to the post Spellbound a Winner. Jack McGinnis picked up the open | purse with Spellbound, After Font tired | at the head of the streteh Mecinnis | gelding took the ad and iteratly | “walked in.” fter being | oft early and often, closed with a win- ning rush that was badly timed and he | Just failed to get up. Jean: was | in close quarters in the early ort and | at the end the best she could get was | third, Golconda Got a Race. There were tips on Earl G. and Fancy tn the gece The pair went out only the show money Start of Fifth Poor, The start of the fifth was far he low the Cassidy standard. The field was off straggling, and ‘Gowan and Arondack, the most favored ones, got much the worst of it. Tileing went out in the lead, followed by Gretna Green They raced that Way until well into the stretch, where Question Mark came from behind with a rush and just got up in (me to beat out Tileing 1 Gretna 1 long enough to save the Green he show mon ———— MAN DIES AND THOUSANDS | OF SHEEP LOST IN BLIZZARD. WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. % Martin, of Martin Brothers’ sheep ran n this district of Maple Creek, Sask., with a flock of s in the n of this week, lost way from exposure, fifteen miles town, Many thousa of sh ished in the storm. Ivy Wilson, ly ng north of Mapl k, lost twenty five hundred animals. The storm drove them into the I his ranch, Tho: ma err lost flv nired, Martin Brothers lost several hundr — CHANLER GETS A REST. BUPFALO, N. ¥., Oct. &—Lteut at scores of places and that the casual: | bs diane started In to rip up the Quaker / Jude ties were not as heavy as those of a , | TORONTO RESULTS. [Giant Ae ele pans with # convvard| battle is considered miraculous 3 | PIMLTCO Lote Biening Word.) | — | pass and several line plays gave them | is ) The Evening World.) cond plac hi ML RACK res a . pris t RING > feyravt ie Worry Lytle, who got second place, finished | ate Bia K, Oct. 4—A | rORONTO, Oct. 4.—The racer to-day | the ball! in midfield, where they lost | PRI N. J, Oct. %4.—Uncer- frat, but as he started ten minutes be- | eal race track, with all that means to |, LQRONTO, Ort. & sh a trick outside Kick. Several line|tain we id not prevent a large gfore Robertson, the elapsed time was an | those who remember the sport in the old | FIRST RACK—$200 added r all \ isa failed to gain for Pennsylyania| crowd from witnessing the battle royal advantage to the driver of the Loco- | days before the Perey-Gray law in New ages; six furlongs.—Hasty, 106 (Goines), | and an onside kick rolled to the In-) betw Syracuse and Princeton, The mobile, As soon as Robertson crossed | York, 1s what famous old Pimlico was |3 to 2.1 te 2 and out, won by a length | diane tive-yard line, where didn k! strength of the Syracuse eleven was a the finish line the crowd at the grand | here to-day, It was the opening of the | 44 & half; Rusatone, 16 (Murray), § to | fell gn it.) Rwo plays pi the talon) sunsect of much comment, and many . 4,1 to 2 and out, second; Fantasia, 106 | over the Indian xoal, Manier carrying aon brake through all restraint: and inripen Any! tal. meeting, ana despite a | (Curnmings), Bto5 and Put, third Time | the ball , riot kicked the goal, | w the doubts expressed as to the Tig- jooded the trac! | bit o n Baltimore awoke to the oc- | 1204-5. Istrouma, Wicklow Girl and | pnsyivania, 6; Indians, jers' supremacy. Contrary to general en. Automobiles broke out of parking | casion and sent out at least 6,00) of her | 5ee also ran | Aft horpe had iniled on p try ‘| pectation, it was decided at the 1 places along the course, and within @ best citizens to do honor tthe ‘y JBECOND HACE Purse $200; selling: [a Held goa) thom the Moevard tne scien) mano Dee form Roe ‘ y would Pown in the betting ring ‘orty-three {three-year-olds and upward: mile and a | the Kick-off, the ball freq arte ene Cas nis apni Mer Vandartllt apy there sud | bookumalcers had up ‘thelr nat The [sixteenth Polar Star, 10: (Rael, § to 3! bands, Spectacaiay, ¢ ‘1 gave Byraouae Stoo 8 litt | no "9 q | old-fashioned style and handed out |and out, won by two lengths; True Boy, | ant tac by be », but fail cars to finish. ‘The vacers, cluttered up | tickets to every man who bet with thoes ios. Whihiains). even and 1 to. 2 | tures wide , mie | mf nants fommwodtt aan! In mobs of people and swarms of autor | FIRST RACK—Purse $400; all agen: six /Recont) Coamepolltan, 198 (Goines), ona to be reagrted’ 10. pack and for mobiles, were eympelled to sow down /furloniky—De Mund, 115 1D, MeCarthy) | {ve newan, Potente and tnspertey | Halinnbac Keyrrerrny ory " and nose thelr Way along, aed 8 to cand Out, Grat by » length | Bitrety. ipo ran wide sprang trick Coton made ® sand and peice Inasmuch as no third car finished the | out, laiile, 112 (iptente | ‘third 1 on ein on bath teama we san0d Ue third place was awarded to the car to 1, Time~i1 | URTH RACE —Purse $200; all ages: | alert. The 8° principal play p alt ended with no score. Stein the finish’ of the tenth lap next to the bree-yeur-olds and}? to}. even and 1 to 2, won by. two | the er Wir RS BALL on hbo | Maman Player GuArien for Usingoup, e "upward, $500 added, one. mile len Dorothy Webb, 108 (Goines), | then to shoot a forward vs , Princeton's Tine two leaders, This was W- %, Vander emy yards, 1 a de Seca fa> | lenathy or aa Phi hie Tndlan’s running with the n tackle Bs racuie ‘kept th Mercedes No. 5, driven by |? to i, 7 t 2 even a ia 4 tod 2 and 1 to 2 Waa su lor to the own territory for th, eA\iten laps dp 4 hy iB a8 dota Lor ars, Trappe, | hennayivasia. After the Venneyivania | frat ten ininutes of the second. halt hours, § minutes and % seconds, ta tot een: |e and aac ceyia dangers ckeope when “Thorpe | slags, Capt. Hor. of Syincuse, oat Finish Was Clo 1b to 4 y eairas ao, 1] FIFTH RACK—Phree-year-olds and | {ied a ficld goal, The first half ended | played from behind the line, and 1.45 1-6. 0 of the Hills, Pins gag | Upward: lng; gentlemen riders; 340 | with the 1 on Pennsylvania's S-yard | ton's ight ends and backs wer The Anish was the closest ever Wit- | Veudics Duke of Roanoke. hf to added; six furloi Niblick, U4 (T./ line in the India possession, Score:]io stop him. Syracuse did not get nea essed in a big automobile race aul the | ford and Racine 2d also ran. ‘e Wright), 4 te, ey a § and Out, won; | Pennsylvania, 6; Carlisle, °. er than the fifteen-yard line, however $50,000 spectators lining the course were RD RACE — Two-year-olday 400 | Panes ae a ne RR | SECOND HALF. when Princeton held for dewr Waentic With excitement as the jeading see ae i five iis ws furlor . (Mr. Black), 16 to 1,6 to 1 and 8 to 1, ns startea] CAP! Eddie Dillon w pi in to the bert, on . tone third. Tir e=1. iy x Emblem, Carts] out like a different team, at Penn, sateenate wn ikanlibued 92 Hocong Page.) Wen; Tavoo, tis Pre 0 whepi Bird also tan, furiously and playing the Quakers oom (Continued on Page Seven.) Gov. Chanler, after @ good morning's est, left here on the Empire State Ex- ress this afternoon for Rome and Utica, where he will speak this evening. ot Bot | RESULTS EDITION 1908, PRICE ONE CENT. 300 MEN BURIED IN BURNING MINE AFTER EXPLOSION + Trapped by Flames in Colliery in Penn- sylvania and Force of Rescuers Balked in Efforts to Aid by Great Volumes of Smoke. 900 OTHERS ESCAPE DEATH BY. REACHING DISTANT EXITS. ‘Relief Train Rushed From Pittsburg to the Pitts~ burg-Buffalo Company Mine at Cannoaburg Scene of Disaster—Frantic Relatives Crowd Abou: Pits, (Special to’ The Evening World.) » Oct. 24.—Three hundred miners are entombed in of the Pittsburg-Buffalo C company PITTSBURG, P: Hazel Mine No. 2, An expl » at Cannonsburg, ion occurred this afternoon while 800 were at work and fire immediately folowing, those who were unable to escape were pinned in the blazing colliery. Five hundred men working at poi ¥ of these were in a semi-fre crash made their their w: vay to | the surface but others who held th No FIGHTS TO-NIGHT 2-22 distant from the scene of the et ° 8 terrific, ablaze in nd that the working ndncrebibly short time The entombed men, \p boy | Despite this discouraging news, a rese force was immediately formed, but | the work of entering the mine was slow, ‘or volumes of smoke were pouring froin the shafts. Later it was realized that the fire was fast we they say ly cut off, ice of getting out alive were ap- and have little , and fear that the three hund n would perish became al- New es eters “Put Up to’! News of the disaster way Hlashed to this city and a rel the Inspectors by Head of |, ef train was hurriedly le up on which officta's of th com- and raced thelr heads off to the a! An [ean pany with do and n mmedle And then Goltonda came. out ay Police Force. ately lett the money. Imi vy, shut off in Relatives of the yietims ata 2 how stretch after running p. uminently Mt! to-day w Victimy:Ar slate hour that point, me again A ‘ @ crowding aoc the pits (a ning Very strong at the Police Commissioner Bingham issued |a frenay of grief imploring the place money In front ae Bones an order to all his inspectors in the |iiners to save their loved ones was running very af and looked !Greater City to-day to prevent any prize- ed were Dung ec willin, o risk like the winner, but b a weak fin ce ojerted le q | er Nves in the effort bur the chances ishing ride and the result was } fights that w projetted in the five} ened all against. the entombed me was the most roughs. ‘To-day's ord of the kind that has so far be drastic issued, and if carried out in strict ac- | stop to six-round bouts, of the sort that cordance with the letter of it, should put |have been a nightly occurrence for the an end to prizefighting In this city. past six months ne order does not relate only to to-| The recent combat between Leach night's programme of the various ath-|Cross and Pack McFarland, which was letic clubs, but deciares that from now |attended by more than 3,000 spectators on prizefighting is under the ban, and/and widely advertised in the newspa- that those who attempt to give @ per- f 1s said to have Influenced the formance of the kind shall be immedi- | Commissioner in taking drastic steps to ately arrested prevent any future exhibitions of the Inspectors Are Responsible, kind Many Bouts Scheduled. In this borough bouts are advertised When Gen. Bingham reached his deel sion in the matter he had his secretary niel Slattery, telephone to all of his for to-night at the Shaykey Athletic i lors that he would hold them re-| Club, the Dry Dock Athletic Club, the ponsible for not preventing prizetights. | Long Acre Athletic Club and the Cline ecretary Slattery impressed It upon |ton Athletic Club. In Brooklyn bouts the inspectors that they should follow | are scheduled (or the vergreen Athletto a new procedure by not permitting spec- | Club, the Terni nal Athletic Club and {ators to congregate in the athletic the National Athletic Club. clubs where the bouts were advertised. | Inspectors in whose districts these Volicemen will be posted #' the doors to | cluvs are situated have been ordered to prevent would pectators from en- | jya forces of policemen on hand tering, and the first overt act of the tied * lore the time sep managers to put on @ bout will be the signal for arrest Although Commissioner Bingham «id not issue any explanation of his order, i¢ was said at Police Headquarters that he has been consulling with the Cor- poration Counsel for several days, and | “i Commissionor’s order 1 that he {s now confident that @ recent cominand that the boxing shal decision will support him in putting @ stopped. would would 1s inspectors frous