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Show Famous Umpire Chooses Model After Looking Over Field. When "Silk'' 0 Xoughlin utters his last stGiitoriaa " Yer out" in th ninth inning of American league games this seasou, he can step peacefully into his Chalmers touring car and Trhisk baek to his hotel iu comfort. This became known through an interview with Elliot C. Taylor, manager of the Taylor Motor Car company, distributors for Chalmers cars. The originator of the now famous ''Strike tub.' is one of a few American eit i zens whose decisions are always right. His word is law on the diamond and his opinion is respected in other lines of endeavor, "bilk'' purchased his latest car from the Chalmers distributor dis-tributor in Hochester, N. Y"., and is convinced con-vinced that it will afford him grateful relief after a strenuous afternoon, listening lis-tening to "Oh, you robber!" Mr. Taylor furthor stated that in a search for efficient motor transportation transporta-tion for her half-million recruits, Canada Cana-da has turned to American cars and is expending thousands of dollars on high-grade high-grade Yankee machines. One of the largest orders given out by the Dominion army officials called for over 100 six-30 touring cars. These have been delivered by the Chalmers Motor company of Canada, Ltd., and are now in active service at Camp Hughes, Ontario. In addition to the standard touring cars, a squad of a dozen doz-en chassis have been purchased for mounting machine guns and like purposes. pur-poses. " Wo have found the lightweight, speedy Chalmers cars to be ideal for army work," said one of the commanding command-ing officers in reviewing; the work of the motor transport, "Quick accelcra-I tion or gateway is absolutely necessary in warfare and we have discovered that the Chalmers possess this to a degree approached ap-proached by no other car with which we have experimented. It has ample power, too, for hills and rough going and has ; more than met our demands on all oc-! casions." j It is understood that many of the Chalmers cars now in service in Canada 1 wili be shipped abroad for use in the campaign now under way in France. ! |