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Show and more powerful cars "were entered against him, Mr. Grant had such confidence confi-dence In tho Maxwell that he challenged every entrant on the tour for hill climbing climb-ing honors. On the Lake Placid road, six miles below be-low Malone, he drove his "Maxwell over Chasm Falls hill in what -was even bettor bet-tor than a perfect score. His Maxwell ttme was 69 4-5 seconds and the official perfect scoro had been previously announced an-nounced as 1 minute and 53 seconds. There wore twenty-four cars In the contest con-test and at least twenty of them cost more and were larger than the Maxwell. It was a dangerous day for a hill climb, with a steady drizzle making the crooked, winding incline sippery and difficult. As a further handicap. Grant misunderstood misunder-stood the official signals and was out after af-ter the recrrd hefore he could be stopped, liy some mistake two automobiles and a surrey wore allowed to start downhill just before he took off at the foot of the hill. Hut. on and on the Maxwell pushed Its nose toward the summit. One by one It twisted around the three vehicles, downward down-ward bound and around the dangerous turns it whirled, with mud and rain splashing everywhere. Finally the peak was in sight arid judges and spectators gapped as ihe Maxwell goat took one last spurt abound the hairpin turn at the top. MAXWELL II CAHADA BEATS COMPETITORS r;. C. Taylor, manager of the Taylor Motor Car company. 127 State street, local lo-cal distributors of t'ne- Maxwell car, ,;iys that in a drizzling rain and driven hy a private owm.T a Maxwoll has just captured cap-tured the rhost coveted prize in Canadian motoring circles. Just three weeks before the cnnual Ottawa Ot-tawa Journal reliability tour. T. F.. (rant. an Insurance agent, purchased a Maxwell touring car. Despite the newness of the car and the fact many expert drivers |