The Race
CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
which distinguished the day. Jarrott when
doing the second circuit met with a serious casualty at Stradbally.
When turning a sharp corner his car struck the bank, rolled
over, and got smashed. His mechanician[sic]8
was caught under the car. Jarrott pulled him out, and then the
fellow fainted. A special motor car with a doctor was sent out
for them. It is stated that Jarrott's shoulder was dislocated,
and the mechanician's leg was badly injured. Mr. Jarrott, according
to latest accounts, appears to have escaped with a slight injury
to the shoulder. He was promptly removed to Rheban Castle. At
a later stage in the afternoon, Mr. Foxhall Keene retired from
the race, because of the belief that his axle was on the point
of breaking, while Edge was much handicapped by tyre punctures
sustained at various points. The Peerless car of Mr. Mooers
collapsed on the Maryborough-Stradbally road, and no more was
seen of it after the second circuit. On the whole the cars of
the English-speaking nations seemed specially marked out for
ill-luck. At the end of the race Edge was the sole survivor,
and Winton's car was "the last" of the Stars and Stripes.
Though it stuck to its task with dogged resolution, and though
appreciative cheers greeted its persistence, its performance
failed to hold interest because of the hopelessness of its strivings.
At the end of the third circuit the cars in the running were
placed as follows:- Jenatzy was beating Knyff by 4m. 23sec;
Farman by 4min. 31sec., De Caters by 13min. 7secs., Gabriel
by 11min. 4 secs., and Edge by 42min. 22 secs.
The timings in the fourth, fifth and sixth circuit knit the
issue between Jenatzy and De Knyff, with the probabilities strongly
on the side of the German, whose form never flagged from the
moment he came to the front in the second circuit. At 5.35 De
Knyff came home on the finish of his last lap, but second in
order of time to Jenatzy, who completed the seventh circuit
at 5.39.
(Later.)
Ballyshannon, 6 p.m.
It was not possible to obtain precise results
at the close of the race, as the returns had not been received
from the various controls. The following, however, is the order
of the cars on the basis of gross times, and there is reason
to believe that this order will be but very slightly varied
when the net declaration is made. It is certain at any rate
that
