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Show VICTORY SCORED BY GOODRICH CORD IIS "Silvertowns" on Each of First Seven Cars in Great Non-stop Race. Another ck-an-cut victory was scored by Ooodrieh Silvertown cord tii;es at the 100-mile 100-mile Harvest Auto classic at Indianapolis, when the iirsl seven cars which finished all made ncn-stop records. All seven were equipped with Silvertowns. This information was contained in a telegram jusL received .by C. R. Cook, coast manager of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Rub-ber company, 401 Mission street, San Francisco, and reading as follows: One-hundred-mile Harvest Auto classic, won hy John Aitken, Pengent; second. Hughie Hughes-. Hoskins special; spe-cial; third, Wilbur Paiene, Huscn-berg; Huscn-berg; fourth, George Ruzzane, Duspn-berg; Duspn-berg; fii'lii. Davis Iewis, Piemiei-: sixth. Omar Tol't. Omar special; seventh, Pete Hen1en?uii. Maxwell. All non-stops and every car on Sil- vert own". Time, 1 hour, 7 minutes and seconds. John Ai'.licn also won the fifty-mile fifty-mile race; lime. ''1 minuics. 28 seconds; sec-onds; ,i nd also the twenty-mile race; time, liT seconds. These viorf also non-stops on Sll-vertown Sll-vertown cord tires. The performance of John AitUen in his Peti.eot is of unusual intpresl. in view of the fact that in the Labor day ra'.es in Cincinnati he used tires of another make, but in Saturday's races he rem rued to "safet y firtst,"' for he has been using Silvei'town cord tires all ihe season in ail of his important races. |