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Show ganization, the Hoosier State Auto Association and Indianapolis Indianapo-lis newspaper men. The Maxwell went the entire route without any trouble. A stop of 15 minutes was made at Chicago, where gasoline and oil were taken on. The car was also al-so delayed by a blowout and twice at railroad crossings by freight trains. On both legs of the journey, the Maxwell made better time than the swiftest trains between Indianopolis and Chicago. Mc-Namara's Mc-Namara's time between Indianapolis Indian-apolis and Chicago was four hours and fifteen minutes. On the second leg of the journey, from Chicago to Indianapolis, the time was four hours and forty-five minutes, which is fifteen minutes, faster than the schedule time of the Hoosier Limited, the speediest train running out of Chicago to the Indiana capital. The car carried four passengers. passen-gers. A stock model with no speciai equipment was used. The Chicago-Indianopl.s run was made at the instance of the Cole Rales Company, Maxwell dealers in Indianapolis, who post-ad post-ad a challenge to all cars selling at $1,000 or under. No challengers challen-gers appeared, so that the Maxwell Max-well run was made without competition. com-petition. McNamara, who drove the car the whole route, recently made a similar run in a Maxwell tour-ng tour-ng car across Michigan and back 350 miles, going the distance in nine hours and forty-live min-Jtes. min-Jtes. If Maxwell posts 'a challenge :o manufacturers of anv car seil-ng seil-ng at $1000 or under, will Chev-oletdown? Chev-oletdown? Will Dort Dodge )r come For'd? M.1XWKU !E.TS TRAIN'S IN GKEAV ' INTi.K-rnv IM-H 1 1 Another remarkable inuring re- ' cord was eotablixheil by a slock .Maxwell .Max-well touring car on Friday, Decern- 1 ber 1st. when Ray AIcXu niara piloted pilot-ed a car from Indianapolis to Chi :- ' ago and return. STG miles, in nit.e ' hours lint. The unusual nvtrase ' ' 41.7 miles per hour was maMltaine ' over roads that were not in the bo - I of condit'0,1, (in-' to rccei!'. raitu-. followed by cold weather. The run was made to establish an I official record for the Hoosier i Motor Club and it was officially 1 observed by officers of that or- c |