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Show v . - ' Frank Botierill Encounters Hard Going Between Denver and Salt Lake v . ' . " - 1 W 3 ' a - ''- vw s Views along the Deuver-Salt Lak e road, negotiated last week by Frank Botterill and Harry Shipler in Frank Botterili's Super-Six'. There arc lots of fancy tests for au- tomobiles, but if a motorist realJy wants to find out what kind of a car he has he should attempt the" trip from Denver Den-ver to Salt Lake through southern Wyoming Wyo-ming at this particular time of the year, according to .Prank Botterill of the Botterill Automobile company, who has just returned from the Colorado capital in his Hudson Super-Six. "Before I started," declared Mr. Botterill, "someone tried to tell me how really rough the Medicine Bow and Rock Springs road is at present and I wouldn't believe him, but say, he didn't paint it half stroug enough. There is a stretch of about 215 miles that absolutely shook the presidential poBsibiJitv out of us. "Traffic evidently was heavy along this road early in the spring before it had a chance to dry. Now it is so badly cut up that it is almost preferable' prefer-able' to take to the sagebrush. The road is not dusty, .but is full of chuck holes and uglv ridges. "We left Denver Sunday morning m mv Super-Six roadster and drove to l'ort Collins, where we stayed until 12:30. We arrived in Salt Lake Mon-dav Mon-dav evening, having covered a distance of"5S5 miles. It was useless to try to make fast time over that stretch of 200 miles. "In spite of the rough going my Hudson Super-Six was in splendid condition con-dition when we arrived. Oiling and cleaning was all it needed to make it readv for another such trip. "The performance of the car is amazing amaz-ing me. It had already run over 18,000 miles before we started from Denver to Salt Lake, and yet its action is as free and powerful as if it had just come from the factory after a good warming up." . Mr. Botterill was accompanied by Harry Shipler of Salt Lake and both declared thev enioyed the run immensely, immense-ly, in spite 'of the 200 miles of nnser- ablv rough roads. - Mr. Botterill reports business condi-V condi-V tions in Denver as splendid. The auto- mobile business is especially good and the citv is full of tourists, a great many of whom are traveling in motor cars. The business men of Denver have provided an excellent parking place for transcontinental motorists. It is equipped with camping facilities, including in-cluding stoves, running water nnd other conveniences. Mr. Botterill declares that such an arrangement would be an excellent thing for Salt Lake. no returned home to find word had preceded him of the many Tludson victories on Julv 4th. Ralph Mulford, in the Super-Six special which broke the American Speedwav records for 150 and 200 miles at Chicago, won with case at Orrnha, averaging 101.28 miles an hour. Billy Taylor, in another Su-peT-Six special', finished fifth. A. H. Vsttorson, in a Super-Six special, spe-cial, took first place at Tacoma. Two other Super-Six specials finished third and fourth in this race. They were owned and driven bv Rhodes and Mai- colm, who converted two Super-Six stock cars into racing specials. At Uniontown, Ira Vail, in a Hudson Hud-son Super-Six special, took second place. He was beaten by a Frontenac, a spcfially built racing car that is not even manufactured for the motor market, mar-ket, and which weighed 800 pounds less than the Hudson. The Uniontown race was divided into three laps, the first, ten laps, whicn was won by the Frontenac; Fron-tenac; the second, twenty laps, which was won. by the Hudson special, and the third, fifty laps, which was won .by the Frontenac'. In the third heat Vail 's Super-Six special made up a lap and a quarter after losing position by a tire change and took second laee, 'two seconds bihind the Frontenac. In the non-nrofessional race of l"1 miles, at Uniontown, two Hudson Super-Six specials, driven by Hickey and Conway, took second aud third places, respectively. In the "fifty-mile race at Omaha, which preceded the 150-mile classic, Ralph Mulford, who won the main event in his Hudson Super-Six special, took second place, and Billy Taylor and another Super-Six special finished fifth. |