This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways.
Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand...
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