Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-15 | Page 15 | Firestone Stock Tires Win Race

FISTOI STOCK . TIRES 11 IE When the nows was flashed around the country that Jules Goux has -won tho 500-mile race at the Indianapolis spocdway on Firestone stoclc tires, ;i lot of former racing drivers who recalled tho clays when special racing tires had been piled high in the pits and mercilessly merci-lessly attacked to supply the constant drain due to tho destruction of tho rubber cases in the mad struggle- to win, said that tho Frenchman's victory with tho Pougeot car was more than shared by tho Firestone tiro pcoplo. "Why?" nsked one critic "Because "Be-cause tho world knows that tho Firestone Fire-stone company does not build racing tiros. Tho tiros used on this foroign car absolutely, wero stock tires, the kind that any customer gets when ho visits the Firestono dealer. Spencer Wishart, with his Mercer, took second honors, usinjj the 6amo mako of tires. "Those Firestones havo carried Boh Burman, Bay flarroun, Barney Oldfield and many other drivers to victory in speed contests. The fact that no special spe-cial racing tires were given to tho victorious vic-torious drivors for their equipment in itself is worth a fortune to the Firestone Fire-stone tiro people."