The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-12
SIOUX CITY'S RACES
DRAW STAR PILOTS
300 Mile Auto Sweepstakes Has
Many Fast Cars of
All Sorts.
WILLYS-KNIGHT TO SILVER
Overland Distributor Announces
a New Car in
His Line.
WILLYS-KNIGHT TO SILVER

Inc entry at Sioux City of the Delass
car, which won the 500 mile race y,
indianapolis, brings the field for the
80 mile sweepstakes at the Iowa c,,',
on July IL up In importance TO the hes;
When the entry list closed on Wednes'
day there were twenty-five starters ahou,
the fastest field that has been ratberSt
together at any meet outside of Indian,,'
oils. The purse OF $4,000 has prov,a
attractive to the drivers.
Billy Knipper will be the driver q, N.
Delage car. Other drivers and cars npi
be Barney Oldfeld. Stutz; Gil Andersen
Stutz; Harry Grant, Sunbeam: ,;eorre
Babcock. Sunbeam; Spencer WishaT,
Mercer; Cyrus Ptascke, Marmon: Mi
Stringer. Peugeot tlast years 500 mil.
race winner); Keene, Beaver Bullet.
Wetmore, Chalmers Kelin, King Wnroy
Gray Fox Chandler. Braender Bun Dng'
Koran. Metropo Bennett. Moon. RicI'
enbacker. Duesenberg Callahn, Stafford.
Bower, National; Brouch, Ray, and
Mason, Marmon. Two other Duesen.
bergs and a White have been nominated
but no drivers thus far named
The whole racing enterprise is new at
Sioux City, but the field that has hecn
drawn is worthy of an experienced pro-
motion outfit. The races should be- good
II the course for the event is put into
the promised condition.
Conover T. Silver announced YESTERDAY
That his company has taken over me
Nillys-kniEht car, and thus becomes dis
tributer and preventative of all tina
passenger car lines manufactured by John
n. WHY'S of Toledo. The success at
tained by Silver In handling the Overland
In the Eastern territory is thought 10 he
the compelling reason for giving him the
Willys-knight This car which sells for
s2.15O. fills out Silver's line and makes
II possible for him to satisfy the wants
OF any customer in the motor car line.
The territory In which he VIII handle
the car Is in New Jersey, Sussex, i'a,-
sale Bergen. Essex. Union, Morris, SOM
erset, Hudson, Middlesex and Monmouth
counties. the States OF Maine, New
Hampshire. Massachusetts. Connecticut.
Rhode Island and Vermont that part "
New York south of and including Orange
and Putnam counties In this naturally
are included the boroughs of Manhattan
and The Bronx. as well as Staten Island
and Long Island
Speaking Of the WHY'S knight, silver
says: Although the Knight type of mo-
TOR such as we are using is already fl-
nous as silent engine. I consider this
as only one of its talking points. Com
pared with the poppet valve type of mo.
tor the Willys-knight is silent as H..
Sphinx. and this silence it retains
throughout It's lie
George NJ. Davis. who was advertising
manager for the Pierce Arrow Motor
Car Company and later was connected
with the Packard at Albany. has become
assistant sales manager OF the Knox Mo.
tors Company Of Springfield. which has
taken over the business of the Knox An.
tomobile Company. Charles +. Barrett
has become advertising manager for the
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friends in New York city who hope for
his success In his new job.
This week in the show windows OF the
local Goodyear tire branch, as well as
In the windows of more than 10000 tire
dealers elsewhere throughout the coun-
try, are to he seen displays of Goodyt ar
tires and accessories. pennants. &c II
Is the climax of national window dis
play campaign the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Company has had on for the past
several weeks. The result has been u
revelation. Goodyear advertised It's
window week In national publications
and newspapers in branch cities. iucud-
Ing photographs of the standard Good
year windows. and called on consumers
to watch for the Goodyear windows In
the stores of those who handle the Good
year product.
More than twenty-five carloads OF dis
play material. besides tires and access
series themselves, were shipped to various
parts of the country for the campaign,
weighing about 2l5 tons. and the entr,
event Is regarded as one of the most sig
nificant in the history of tire salesman
ship. Goodyear has employed regularly
a window display man of international
reputation, and window work will be a
regular Goodyear sales institution from
this time forward.