New-York tribune., 1912-06-11
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY.
Eleven Entries Have Been Made
in Tacoma Free-f0r.AII Race.
KNIGHT WINS IN GERMANY
Double Sleeve Patent Litigation
Results in Making Inventors
Claims Stronger.

No doubt is entertained about the success
Of the road races arranged at Tacoma,
Wash. for next month. Up to yesterday
eleven cars had been named in the free
for-all race, and several other entries are
in sight The contests are expected to
boom the market for motor cars in the
Northwest.
With $4,000 In actual gold coin raised to
guarantee expenses. $4,000 for purses and
prizes and five-mile road course pre-
pared on the prairie just outside the south
ern city limits, the Tacoma Carnival Asso-
citation and the Tacoma Automobile Club
have completed arrangements for the au-
tomoblle speed contests.
The races will be held on July and al
a part OF Tacoma's big summer festival.
the Montamara Festo, under American Au-
tomobile Association sanction. On July 3
there will be three road races. Of 100. no
and 200 miles, respectively. combining IN
each event light cars, Of go cubic inches
piston displacement and under; medium
cars OF 300 cubic inches piston displacement
and under, and heavy cars. under $50 and
more than 300 cubic inches displacement.
The big race Of the meeting Will OCCUR
on July 8. This will be 250-mile free-for"
all contest in which the circuit Of tho
track will be made fifty times. In this con-
test the prizes total $500. divided on a
basis of 70 per cent to the winner, 20 per
cent to the second and 10 per cent to tn"
third. APPLYING in all events. The heavy
car event Of July takes $500. medium car
contest $500 and the light car race $1,000
County roads over naturally haro,
gravelly prairie form the course. Turns Of
reasonable length and angle are being con-
structed The surface will be oiled to lay
the dust, and the plans call for one OF the
finest speedways In the country. This
prairie Is quite level, but where ~ Is In"
clined to be rolling the roads will be cut
down to avoid grades.
Charles Y. knight, inventor OF the silent
sleeve valve engine. has just cabled his
American representative from his home In
Coventry, England, Of a legal victory In the
courts Of Germany in litigation which has
been pending for some time. The follow
Ing is the cable which tells Of the Aineri-
can inventors triumph over claims made b.
manufacturers abroad:
Action brought by Benz for revocation
double sleeve patent argued here to-day
before five judges OF nullity court, and I'M
mediate decision rendered allowing new
and stronger second claim fully covering
construction of double sleeve engine. First
claims unaltered."
This decision, according to attorneys I'm
this country, is one OF the most sweeping
ever made by European courts and will
be of much interest to the users OF knight
engines, as well as the makers throughout
this country and abroad.
A remarkable money refund" guarantee
is given with the Dahl punctureless tire
recently placed on the local market Any
nerson using these tire cores and who Is
not satisfied can return them within thirty
days and receive a complete refund Of the
money paid out. The novel guarantee Is
ba sed on the conviction that the tires arc
certain to give satisfaction. The Dahl
core. while new to the East, has met with
strong popularity In the West