Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 42 | Heavyweight Champ Enters Kissel List

HEWHI CHIP ENTERS KISSEL LIST Jess Willard Now Pilots a Nifty, Brand New All-Year All-Year Model. Jess Willard, champion heavyweight pugilist, is the latest recruit to the ranks of KisselKar owners, having just purchased one of the latest models of the all-year car, according to Manager W. W. White of the Inter-Mountain Motor Mo-tor Car company, local distributors of KisselKar. : White says: "Since winning the world's championship, Jess has been successful suc-cessful in avoiding the cliuchiug argu-1 argu-1 ments of automobile salesmen in cities ! where the Willard-Buffalo Bill Wild ' West circus has appeared. : "The champion was very decided on ' the kind of a car he would fall for. ; for one thing, he wanted a power plant i with sufficient punch to level any grade he tackled. Again, he wanted comfort that would prove a knockout to any weather and every season of the year. Outside of that he wanted transmission, brakes, axles, frapies, etc., that would at all times sidestep repair shops. "Jess' prowess in blocking all efforts to sell him a car traveled far ahead of even the sensational press notice ot his show. In a certain cit" in .Louisiana the local Kissel dealer, besides having a secret admiration of being seen riding around town with the world's champion, harbored an ambition to 'get Jess' and so 'put one across' on his sales record. ".When the ' greatest ever' arrived, and the excitement over the champ's appearance had died down, he immediately immedi-ately opened preliminaries by inviting Jess for a spin about the country. It is needless to sa' that during the next two hours the dea'er scored more 'knockouts' against the local hills and grades than Jess had ever had duiing his entire ring career. "On returning to the show, grounds Jess walked about the car once or twice and said: 'I have never been up against a better car before. .The motor certainly cer-tainly has a championship punch. There! is only one thing, however, against adding add-ing it to .my training staff and that is that while 'I could use this car in the south, a closed one is what T want, as I expect to be in the north during the coming winter.' "With the deftness of a telling body blow the' dealer whipped a photograph of a closed car our of his pocket aud said: 'When you get north, isn't this the kind of a ear yon will need?' At which Willard said': 'Yes, it is, but 1 cannot be bothered with two cars,' to whidi the dealer rep!:-'! with the effectiveness ef-fectiveness of a knotkout: 'This picture, pic-ture, is a photograph of this very car here with the all-vear top on.' 'With that Willard opened his eyes, walked around the car and said: 'I throw up the sponge. You win. What's the tax?' "There is no doubt that if automobiles automo-biles could talk, Willard 's Kissel would be the most envied in the country. Not only has it the unusual pleasure of being be-ing driven by one of the few champions who have never known a knockout, but it also has tho unusual daily, or rather nightly, experience of traveling in company with the original automobiles of MSI, which w?re. the obj-vt, of Indian arrows and bullets when crossing tho plains under care of the express rrd government officers. "If you should nsk Jess why the coaches' of '4S) are not as good for him as they were for Jiis forefathers, he would 'undoubtedly reply that while stage coaches were, till right in their day, a champion has to be careful of his mitts and cannot afford to risk a knockout knock-out from a more Indian, who, seeing him riding about ihe city in rnc eld stage coach, and Thinking he ttaa late for his part of the performance, might let out a warhoop aud take a pot shot at him."