50 Years After the Race

Race Participants Celebrate Again at the Garden City Hotel
Race Participants Celebrate Again at the Garden City Hotel
Courtesy of The Helck Family Collection

The 50th anniversary of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race was celebrated in 1954 at an appropriate location, the Garden City Hotel. Holding the Vanderbilt Cup were three participants in the race, George Arents Jr. (left), driver of the crashed #5 Mercedes, Joe Tracy (right), driver of the #3 Royal Tourist, and his mechanician Al Poole (center).

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The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.

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