The San Francisco call., 1909-09-25
Mitchell Ranger
to BE on Track

tllic, w lS., WHO Is
Mitchell Ranger at the st. Francis
! to he ON Track hotel, on his way
| to attend the Seat
tie exposition, ac-
cepted yesterday the Invitation of the
Sonoma county automobile club to have
the Mitchell ranger driven five miles
against time in an exhibition race at
the santa Rosa automobile meet to-
morrow.
The Mitchell ranger, which completed
us mtLanscontlnental IRA run of $500 miles
driven by Frank X. Zirbies. who piloted
the war car from New York
The ranger will be taken out of Osen
d. hunters salesrooms this afternoon
rived and driven to the track. as fur
ther evidence of its dura biIity after
withstandfng the strenuous run across
the prairies. deserts and mountains of
the middle and far west
]. W. ellison. assistant secretary and
sales agent of the Mitchell motor car
------------- company OF Ra-
ellison NSm Director W Sne BATE. W5s fsesory ses !
manager and de-
signer, have been
| elected directors Of the company under
the amendment to the articles of in
corporation increasing the number of
directors from five TO seven The
capital stock was recently increased
from S1,000.000 to So, 600, 900 mainly 10
carry the 1910 output of 6. 600 cars and
the additions to the plant.
1t is rumored that the Chicago mo-
tor club will have an entry bearing the
ivan, ~. Number nj iaa,eq IL hpoaGe IN i3s
Hoodoo Number coming 1000 mile
@ reliability rq n,
been skipped in several contests. but
the III. H. Franklin manufacturing 2
COMPANY, which has won numerous con-
tests with . cars bearing this number.
make the aliotting of number 13 to
| them condition of their entry.
Manager Fl. L. Pope and Superintendent
E. G. Beckwith. formerly of the Pope
- motor car COM
land Company Of the Overland
.:--------- automobile COM
their respective positions this week.
This is the final windup of the Pope
administration of the Toledo plant.
which is now owned by the Overland
concern; Harold Pope has gone east
where he will probably locate and
President J. n. Willys of the Overland
company will probably manage and
dlrect the affairs of the Toledo plant.
Harry Sheppler of Toledo, who has been
assistant superintendent under Beck
with, will be made superintendent.
the overland company this week added
two more acres of ground to its pres-
ent site. giving it practically Is acres.
Manager Austin Kanzee of the Phoe-
nix rubber company reports that one
of the hardest
Republic Tires trial tests that he
on Long Run. that has hsire siYen OF : was sas
of Republic Stag
gard tread tires by J. c. Clayton. who
left Los Angeles. toured to Yellowstone
park, back to San Francisco and lett
yesterday for Los Angeles. The entire
journey was made on the original set
OF tires. with only one puncture. The
value. of Republic tires to the consumer
was demonstrated by 21,e00 miles, and
the tires are still good for more service.
A stock chassis race for the classic
American speed trophy-the Vanderbilt
cup-1s now cer-
Gun Race October 80, is the
.---- date selected and
the course will be
a combination OF Long Island motor
speedway and Nassau county. N. Y.
will be q shorter circuit and a shorter
race as we'll
The race this year will be similar to
the Motor parkway sweepstake held on
Long Island October 10. 1908. Four
classes of cars will compete stimuli
taneous1y, the smaller cars being
stopped at different shorter distances.
leaving the larger ones competing for
the Vanderbilt trophy to hold the stage
for the final round of the course.