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Show Jf ' : NsEear view of Overland Country Club model, showing to fine advantage the unusual and distinctive line of this It car; also note convenient location of gasoline tank under rear deck. ' j 115 IMPORTANT 10 SPERMS Cords Used With Great Success in Last Racing Season. At the meeting last week under Amer-: Kan association auspices, at the Chicago Automobile club, to award the 1916 trophies tro-phies to the winning drivers, it was brought out that the automobile racing season of 1916 had progressed as far as August 5 before any persons out-! out-! side oi a few engineers and officials : and a few prominent racing drivers knew that racing cars were being : equipped with Goodyear Cord Tires. And even when they made their debut 1 into racing society many looked upon them as rank pretenders. Nobody then believed that their first year in racing would be marked by any notable success. suc-cess. But that was several months ago. The year is over; championships have been lost and won; records have been shattered; shat-tered; time and again the best pilots in the country have staked their fortune on them, and race after race has been won on these tires which six months ago were unknown in the racing world. No other tire ever sprung into prominence promi-nence so swiftly. Examining the year's records in detail only emphasizes the quality of the accomplishment. ac-complishment. The high class of drivers driv-ers who chose these tires, the importance impor-tance of the races they won, and the ter- rific speeds sustained, are all indications that these tires had '"everything," and were ready to meet all comers, with no quarter asked. Men like Aitken, Bickenbaeher, De Palma, Wilcox, Henderson, Lewis, Cooper, Pullen, Galvin and Patterson drove and won thousands of dollars of prize money on them. The Astor cup, the Harkness trophy, the grand prize these classic prizes and others of scarcely less renown were captured on them. The early races in California, the Sheepshoad Bay meet on May 13, the Decoration day race in Indianapolis had all passed into history before they were heard from. Johnny Aitken had only one short race to his credit. The company then concluded that the time was ripe "for entrance into tne racing rac-ing arena. The big 300-mile race at Tacoma on August 5 marked their inaugural in-augural on the race track. The winning of first, third, fourth and fifth places with only five entrants, caused the racing rac-ing world to take notice. It was a big victory, as Kickenbacher had won at a speed of 89.3 miles an hour, but it was still to be demonstrated that they were equal to the greater speeds developed at Sheepshead Bay, Chicago and other-tracks. other-tracks. The necessary proof was furnished by Aitken in his great victory at the new Cincinnati speedway on Labor day. He motored the 300 miles at the rate of 97.06 miles an hour. Close on the heels of this performance perform-ance Aitken repeated by winning the Astor cup at Sheepshead Bay on September Sep-tember 30, covering the 250 miles at the rate of 104.83 miles per hour and breaking the world's record by ten minutes. min-utes. Bickenbaeher in a Maxwell finished fin-ished second. Both men drove non-stop runs. At Chicago two weeks later a broken throttle cost Aitken his lead at the very end of the 250-mile race, forcing him into second place 6ir seconds behind the winner. Goodyear tires won five of the first six places out of seven cars starting on them. The big Harkness Yace, on October 28, brought the most spectacular victory or the season with the winning of the first five places.. Aitken set a new American record here for 100 miles in 56:37, an average of 105.86 miles per hour. On November 18 it was conclusively proves that these tires were as well adapted to road racing as to speedway racing, when the first three cars came home on them, Aitken winning. In the Ascot race at Los Angeles on Thanksgiving day three users of these cords were among the first four winners. win-ners. In the race which opened the new Uniontown, Pa., speedway on December 2, Lewis and De Palma finished second sec-ond and third, respectively. In all, these tires competed and finished fin-ished in nine races, and in these races won twenty-six of the highest thirty places, including six firsts, six seconds, six thirds, four fourths, three fifths and one sixth. Five non-stop runs were made, as follows: Henderson at Tacoma, 2S8V4 miles: Aitken at Sheepshead (Astor (As-tor cup), 250 miles; Bickenbaeher at Sheepshead (Astor cup), 250 miles; Galvin Gal-vin at Sheepshead (Harkness). 100 miles; Patterson at Santa Monica (Grand prize), 403 miles. |