Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-14 | Page 48 | Race Winners use Goodyears

HAGt WlrJnERS Labor Day Events in Various Vari-ous Cities Show Supremacy Suprem-acy of Tires. Champions With Motorcycles Motorcy-cles as Well as Autos Bank on This Brand. Labor day saw the last big automo-! automo-! bile raco of the season at Uniontown, ! Pa. Tho season lias been a remarkably j successful one from tlio racing stand-' stand-' point, and much interest was shown in all tho events, thousands of people ! turning out at every course, said T. Ii. ; Trent, local manager of tho Goodyear I Tiro & Kubber company. I Tho close of tho season at Uniontown was no exception, and the big crowd was given many thrills a.3 the speedsters tore around tho track for over two j hours. Joe Boyer, driving a Frontenac, had tho honor of winning this last race J of tho 1919 season, and it is tho first time during the year that he had won ; brackets. Koscoe Sarles, in a Philbrin, was second, ivhile Louis Chevrolet, driv-ing driv-ing a Frontenac, took third money. All three of the winners were on Goodyear t cords, and tho time was two hours, 24 minutes, 19.68 seconds a pace of mnety-threo and a half miles per hour. There was very little tiro trouble among tho winners, Sarles making a nonstop run. Tommie Milton, the hero of the other two Uniontown events earlier in the season, had bad luck in the Labor day race. His car caught fire near the end of the contest aud burned up. Both Milton and his mechanic me-chanic were badly burned, but their injuries in-juries aro not dangerous. Laurels for Goodyear. : Looking back over the season's rac- ! : mg events, it is interesting to note that : every winner m the main events has been on Goodyear cord tires. Cliff : Durant won the first big race at Santa Monica, driving his Chevrolet Special, on March 15, beating Eddie Hearue, : LeCocci and Pullon. lioscoe Sarles won : first money at Los Angeles on March . I driving a Eoamer. Tommie Milton , won the Uniontown event on May 19 in a Buesenberg. The great race of the year, the 500-mile race at Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, on the day after Decoration day, was won bv Howard Wilcox, in a Pougeot, beating all the stars of the track, including lialph De Palma. the tavonte. This race was remarkable from the fact that, while it was run - over a brick track, the tire performance was unusual. Jules Guvot and Danny ilickev both went the entire distance on Goodvear cords without a tire chanc-VSilcox, chanc-VSilcox, the winner, had two Goodvears to stanfl the pace for the whole race, as did Eddie Hearne, who ran second. Additional Triumphs. At Shecpshcad bay, on June 14, Balph De Palma came into his own, when he won the big fifty-mile race that day in his Packard, point; at tho rate of 113.7 miles per hour, without a tire change. Guston Chevrolet in a Frontenac, go-ing go-ing at an average speed of 110.52 miles per hour, won the 100-mile event at Shecpshcad Bay track on the Fourth of July, and Tommie Jlilton again won at Uniontown on July 19, in a Duesen-bcrg. Duesen-bcrg. All of these races were won with Goodyear cord tires, and the performance per-formance of the "shoes" has been one of the outstanding points of the entire racing season, now at a close. Four Firsts at Marion.' In the 200-mile international motorcycle motor-cycle road race, at Marion, Ind., on Labor day, Goodyear took tho first four places in a field of seventeen entries. The race was significant in the fact that the 206.0-mile course, over a five-mile five-mile circuit, was run with no Goodyear tire changes. The race was won by Leslie Park-hurst, Park-hurst, the favorite of the day, who made an average of (16. 6 miles per hour in 3 hours. 6 minutes, 33 seconds, lxalph Hapburn took second place, also on Goodvears, in 3 hours, 11 minutes, 3 4-5 seconds. Third and fourth places were taken b Otto Walker and Teddy Carroll, also Goodyear shod. Until the Inst twenty-five ' miles of the race, Walker was leading the field by two laps, when mechanical trouble forced him into the pits. Spectators were thrilled by his daredevil riding in overcoming part of his handicap and winning third place. Ten thousand people Witnessed the race, which was the most spectacular of the year. No accident of any sort marred the success of the day. Motorcycle Mo-torcycle clubs from north, east, south and "west organized tours to attend. All Harley-Davidson and Indian riders finishing were Goodyear hod.