Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-22
Review of Important
Racing Events of Season

a review of the important automo-
pile races during 1916 to date shows
lightning speeds to have become the
fashion.
on March 5th at the Ascot speed
way in Los Angeles, Pullen in a Mer-
Ger took the 100 mile honors at over
6S miles an hour over a loose screen
surfaced macadam track which was
unusually hard on tires.
i ODonnell in a Duesenberg, two
weeks later on the same track won a
90 miles race at over 90 miles an
hour.
on April Sth at Corona. Cal. O'Don-
nell again plucked the highest honors
in sol mile race at S6Ia miles an
hour without single stop for tires.
The record for this course of SIS
miles per hour was made in 1914 by
Pullen in a Silvertown-tired Mercer.
Prior to the last race, however, six
cars G'd better than 102 miles per
hour in tlyouts
April 10th, ODonnell took the 15O-
mile thriller at G5.6 miles per hour.
. Hughes in his Omar Special at
/ Bakersfield, Cal, on May 7th. trav-
eled the century over a dirt track to
the tune of 61-6 miles per hour with
out a tire stop.
/ At Sheepshead Bay. New York. on
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miles at over LOG miles an hour. with
three other drivers behind him each
doing better than 104 miles. In the
50-mile, Mulford in a Peugeot made
nearly los miles an hour without tire
trouble, while Rickenbacher in his
Maxwell did the 150-mile event at
over SO miles per hour without stop
ping.
! Indianapolis, on Decoration Day,
miles on a brick track al over SO
miles an hour, while D'Alene in a
|Duesenberg and Mulford in a Peugeot
followed hot at his heels.
Resta again, on June 11th at Chi
cago, took the 300-mile event over a
2-mile board track, at close TO SO miles
per hour with but one stop. The next
eight drivers in this classic, none OF
whom did under go miles an hour, al
rode Silvertowns.
At Des Moines on June 24th-DC
Palma in his Mercedes travelled 8
one-mile board track $50 times a
nearly SO miles an hour, while Rick
enbacher in Maxwell took the 81
mile race at over 81 miles per
| De Palma at Minneapolis drove hi
| Mercedes home, the winner in tn,
l50-mile brush at 81 miles per hour
The latest races have been thos,
at Sioux City, Ia, on July Sth. WHERE
| D'Alene in a Duesenberg garnered tn,
money in the 10-mile race in min
utes, 81 seconds, while Wilcox rod,
a Premier to victory in 15 minutes
/ 5 seconds for 20 miles. and also ne
/ gotiated the half century in the spac,
of IL minutes lacking one second. anC
/ at Omaha, July 9Th, where five new
/ worlds records went on record on I'll,
/ mile and a quarter track.
| Resta driving a Peugeot, hung. vi
10 miles an hour for miles as tn,
! mark for Others TO aim at, while Rick
! enbacher maue the Maxwell hun
I around the oval at a speed that shat
| tered all previous 10, 15, 90 and 2
mile records, his average for the lat
| ter being 103 miles per hour Silver
/ towns were the only tires used by an,
/ of the drivers.
\ 1t is interesting to observe that tn
/ winners each time have been thos
I whose tires were Silvertown Cord
\ which has indeed been the case sine
/ 1914.
Il AS all racers are required 10 pa,
/ cash for Silvertowns, the obvious de
/ duction is that no other tires posses
the same staying qualities. or the
would be used. especially as they ma
often be had free by racers.