Show I CANNON CANNONBALL ALL BAKER 1 VISITS SALT LAKE CITY ON LONG TEST TRIP Looking anything ng but the prototype of the war mIssile from which his nickname I is taken Cannonball Baker passed I through Salt Lake Monday Cannonball who holds more transcontinental automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile and motorcycle records than any i iother other man living visited with local officials clais of the United States Tire company I for a few minutes before hastening on onto onto onto to Boise Bohse He Is making a test trip in a anew anew anew new automobile the latest product of or American automotive genius from the plant of or the Revere Motor Car company of Logansport Ind When Treasurer Pap Lewis of the U. U S. S branch office called me up and said Cannonball Baker was in town and had hada a good story I hurried over expecting to see a small nervous restlessly moving person So when I did see Baker I had hado to o be introduced introduced- although he was the only stranger at the office when I ar arrived ar ar- rived Cannonball Is a big six-footer six broad shouldered and clear eyed He gives the impression of ot solidity and strength rather than one of speed He is built more on the order of ot a marathon runner than on that of a sprinter And indeed he is to the auto racing world what the marathon runner is to His Ills transcontinental record by automobile automo- automo bile is miles mlle in seven days eleven hours and two fifty-two minutes tes He made the trip from Chicago to In Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In by auto in three hours and two forty minutes u the e distance traversed ra bO being it 2 1961 6 T miles ite 1 His ani auto t record from Detroit to Indianapolis miles was seven hours and ten minutes Besides these automobile records he holds olds h scores of or others made in every section of or the United States He h holds the worlds world's twenty four hour motorcycle record of or 1534 4 3 miles and all Australian records for motorcycles from miles to twenty twenty four four hours Cannonball Baker Is a quiet unassumIng unassuming unassuming ing sort of a fellow who wears his many laurels with a modesty that is as rare as It is pleasing In these days of self exploitation exploitation ex ex- ex- ex and advertising On the present trip he heis hels is piloting a Revere Revere Re Re- vere motor car on a journey into every state of the union He is visiting the capital of each state He Ile started froth from Indianapolis June 27 and Salt Lake was the thirteenth capital touched Leaving Indianapolis Cannonball passed through in succession Springfield Ill III J Jefferson etterson City Mo Des Moines Ia la Lincoln Neb Topeka Kan City Okla Austin Tex Phoenix Ariz Ar Santa Fe N N. 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Denver Colo Cheyenne Wyo and Salt Lake Late He expected to reach Boise Ida yesterday and from there he will journey to California up the coast back across the United States via the northern route through New England and down the Atlantic seaboard to Baton Rouge before heading back to Indiana I believe the the- new Revere automobile will prove the best ever made The reason reason reason rea rea- son I am of that opinion is that Baker did not praise a it extravagantly tr He informed r me f in reply l to numerous questions just what he has learned so far on the trip about the car He has discovered some very trivial deficiencies in the machine and reported them to the factory That ThatIs Is what he is making the trip for for to to discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis them them- them remedied cover defects and have The Revere Is equipped with a Duesenberg Duesenberg Duesenberg Duesen- Duesen berg racing motor of horsepower ItIs It ItIs Itis Is to make five eighty-five miles an hour or money refunded Baker says the car he Is driving has made and held that pace for miles on stretches of good goodroad goodroad goodroad road encountered On the entire trip he ho hohas has found It necessary to use low gear gearon on only one piece of rO road Jd a bad cobble- cobble stoned stretch of nine miles in Arizona It took him two hours and twenty five minutes to negotiate this Tires were changed at Denver The car carIs caris caris is equipped with United States Royal cords fore and aft art The two front tires changed at Denver had each gone miles and the two rear ones miles Only three punctures have been recorded thus far Baker says ays the only reason he changed tires at Denver was that he feared he would be unable to get any tires farther west on account of or the present shortage He says the new set of tires will easily last the rest of or the thelong thelong long trip I We Ve have had practically no trouble on the trip thus far said Mr Baker Daker The Revere Is a four cylinder horse- horse powered automobile It is equipped with witha a Duesenberg racing motor Gray and Davis lighting and starting system Remy magneto Prest o battery spark plugs carburetor Fedders radiator r Revere r fan n and belt Warner mrs X clutch M Muncie cl gear e ta transmission n. n American Ameri Ameri- ri can ball differential Bock bearings Mogul bronze motor bearings Leavitt aluminum pistons Ever piston rings Houk wire wheels U. U S. S Royal cord tires Gemmer steering gear Inch 18 wheel Racine sev sev- passenger en-passenger boydy Stewart vacuum system Warner Varner speedometer Klaxon horn Warner Varner lens Hartford shock absorbers absorbers absorbers' ab ab- Garden Ci City ty Boyce mo- mo and E. E Z Z O. O lubrication system Altitudes of feet have been traversed traversed traversed trav trav- and temperatures ranging from 6 62 degrees to US have been encountered without any carburetor a adjustment having having hav hav- ing been found necessary i iThe The Revere Motor Car company was wal or organized organized organized or- or by GU Anderson Andersons and Tom Rooney the famous famous old Stutz racing racing team The factory Is situated at Logans port Ind and twenty seven cars have been made thus far la le planning a quantity production for the coming year Des PC MoInes Ia la Ia dealers and repair men are preparing to meet to the fullest extent the request for conservation conservation conser conser- of time and labor All houE houses s will be closed at 6 o'clock not trot opened Sundays except for stor stor- age All minor repair work which can canti ti 10 done by owners will be refused The body lines JInes of the new Scripps Scripps- Booth automobile bear a striking re resemblance resemblance resemblance re- re semblance to those of the Packard car Since the Scripps-Booth Scripps factory came under control of th the General Motors com- com n nv many radical changes have bave been made In the construction of the machine Perhaps the chief one of these is the Installation of the celebrated Northway o 0 or This a six cylinder with cylinders cylinders ders i cast en bloc is admittedly one of the best if not the best made With its removable crank case pistons of die I I cast aluminum new union intake and exhaust manifolds develops more than I 40 The passenger five touring to car shown In the picture was sold recently by the Supreme Motor company local Booth distributors to the pioneer business business business busi busi- ness house of McCreary Griffith of Logan Manager Griffith is seen standIng standing standing stand stand- ing by the car Before the firm chose the Scripps Scripps- Booth Mr Griffith tried a a 80 number of ot automobiles automobiles au au- au- au some lome higher priced but th the power Scripps Booth s smooth g rh i riding with gl its qualities great reserve and quick Ig of getaway easily won the decision Connoisseurs say the the Booth Scripps y yields to no other car in the matter of or beautiful lines |