Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-23 | Page 50 | Western Cadillac Man of Motor Trip

WESTERN CADILLAC MAN ON MOTOR TRIP Will Drive Car Making Jannt From Detroit to Zion to Ogden Today. Thomas Evans, western representative of the Cadillac Automobile company, who Is a business visitor In Salt Lake, will motor to Ogden and back today, carrying carry-ing a parly with him. The Journey will Include a trip to ijio Hermitage and will bo mado In tho Cadillac car driven from Detroit to Salt Lako City. Mr- Evans reports that tho sales for March totaled 1341 cars, which Is a new record, tho best the factory ever has had. ' Driving an Italian Fiat of GO-horso-power. Valentino Hust and Frank Vor-beck Vor-beck won the twonty-four-hbur raco over tho Playa del Rey motordrome "at Los Anrolos. April 0. piling up tho l-emark-able score of 1491 miles, an avorago of C2j miles an hour, breaking the American Ameri-can record of 1258 miles mado by Poolo and Paschko with a Stearns car at BrlKhton Beach. August 20. last. An American Cadlllnn of 30-horsepower. driven by Adair and Baudotfc. was bcc-ond bcc-ond with a score of 144S miles, an average aver-age of more than sixty mllos nn hour. I Ton oars started the lonr Krlnd at 4 o clock Saturday afternoon and seven finished. Tho Tace was remarkable on account of tho freedom from tire trouble d accl-donts: accl-donts: and because of the great mlleago of tho ilrst and second cara. Tho raco wan tho Ilrst of tho kind to bo run on a specially constructed speedway speed-way In America. Tho Brighton Beach courso. on which the previous record was made, is a. onc-mllo . track, used for orao racing, whllo the motordrome here Is a ono-mlle board courso. with ateop banking. Tho greatest ccorc evor made for twen-tv-four hours driving was mado by F. lSdgo. wlih a Napier car ovor tho Brooks-land. Brooks-land. EnKlnnd. speedway Jn 1307. 1 JMlge covered 1560 miles, but It was a. record trial end not a competition event- Tho Colo mado a good Bhowlng In the early hours of tho race, but broke two pairs of cylinders, and was off tho tra:k for two hours. During the socond hour tho Cadillac got InHlde the Brlehton Bench record and broko the marks up to tho end of tho llfth hour, when tho Flat took tho lend, and shattered every hour mark to tho flnlBh. Following wa3 the standing of tho cars at tho finish: Flat, first. 1491 miles; Cadillac, Ca-dillac, second. 1148; Cole, third. 1219; Cutting, Cut-ting, fourth. llSfi; Warrcn-Dotrolt, fifth. 1167; Croxton, sixth, 1153; Schacht, sov-enth. sov-enth. 1013 mllea.