Show lOUISIANA MAN GETS GETSI l TOURING CAR FOR 11 SALESMANSHIP II I I E. E J. J Thurber Cops Fat Prize in Nation Wide Annual Contest P PIn In the recent sales contest conducted for dealers and salesmen of or the Chalmers Chalmers Chalmers Chal Chal- mers Motor company E. E J J. Thurber of ot the W. W P P. Automobile company company compan com com- pany pan of New Orleans won the Chalmers Chalmers Chalmers Chal Chal- mers 30 Six touring car offered as first prize Each year the sales contest Is the most eagerly a awaited ltee event rs on n ww the j calendar d and d the enthusiasm t with I which salesmen and distributors took up the friendly trade rival rivalry eclipsed that of an any other season In the contest each salesman was as assigned assigned assigned as- as signed a secret quota determined by bythe bythe bythe the size and population of his respective respective respective tive territory The man living in a small country town was given as all fair faira a chance in the contest as one living in the bigger centers of population Thurber's percentage of was giving him the motor car by bya a big margin Besides the Chalmers Six offered as first prize in the contest a a. total of at in cash and a large number of gold watches trunks and traveling bags were awarded to the salesmen finish finishing ng next In order A. A E. E Hamilton of the Chalmers Northwest company compan Minneapolis won In cash as sE second s ond prize Earl N. N Manbeck of the Iowa Auto and Supply company Des Moines finished third and won Joseph F F. F Janin Zell Motor 1 Car company Baltimore fourth place Roy Alley Kesterson Alley-Kesterson Auto company Lincoln Neb fifth place All of these men made over per cent of quota in the con con- test In the distributors distributors' contest which was carried on simultaneously P. P W W- Maloney of Commerce Tex captured first prize 1250 in cash with per cent of quota Second and third prizes of and respectively were won by E. E S S. S Lingo Norwich la Ia I and the Brown Sales company Brown Tex In the division for dealers securing the greatest number of subagents the theW W Wyckoff Motor company of Pittsburg were awarded first prize of Fifteen Fifteen Fifteen teen new dealers were signed up bythe bythe bYthe by the wholesale men of the Wyckoff company during the six weeks of at the contest The Arnold Automobile company company company com com- pany of Wichita finished second with the Chalmers Northwest company third The contest was as the most successful ever held among Chalmers salesmen Over 1200 salesmen and Chalmers distributors entered and although II carried on durin during the so called slack season of the year ear the continued steady demand for Chalmers cars resulted rt- rt i in the establishment of or many remarkable le sales ales records by the e es cs s n arid and ld s salesmen entered h m the hr-the the con coo test lest |