Arizona republican., 1917-08-19
CHALMERS BREAKS
 FOUR AUTOMOBILE
 ENDURANCE TESTS

The Chalmers now holds the name for endurance, says Manager ONeill of the O'Neill Auto company, local Chalmers dealers
 A stock Chalmers chassis was driven over the Sheepshead Bay speedway 1898 miles in 24 hours at an average actual running speed of S1.09 miles per hour. This dazzling run is the highest performance ever made under the observation of the American Automobile association.
 The Chalmers thus shattered the best previous record of 1919 miles in 24 hours which was made by the Hud- son in May, 1916. The start of this record-making run was made We'd nesday afternoon, August l.
 The Chalmers was driven by Joe Dawson all but five hours when Joe Gardham, another member of the Chalmers factory experimental staff, took the wheel in relief.
 The feat of the Chalmers is the most remarkable performance to the credit of any motor ear. The Hud- son. which created worldwide sen sation when it travelled 1919 miles in A hours, has a motor with a piston displacement of 2SS cubic inches, whereas the Chalmers stock motor which travelled 1898 miles in the same time over the same course has only PA cubic inches displacement.
 The canvas covering over No. pit at the Sheepshead Bay speedway Tapped vigorously in the wind. The sky was overcast. Alongside the pit stood a little car, as 1.-the as a gray hound, as sturdy as an oak. There was crash of thunder, vivid flashes of lightning, and then the rain de- scended. The men in the judges stand crowded closer to the center of the stand in an attempt to escape the downpour. The attendants at the pit sought dry spots. The starter who had been waiting patiently at the startins tape while the electrical timing device was tried out, ran for shelter. Only the little black and white car stood in the rain, seeming to set at defiance the clements Soon the rain had spent it's force, though it continued to fall. A white-clad driver climbed into the left-hand seat of the little car. There was a whirr of the self starter and then a savage bark that told that the gasoline had taken hold A strong left hand gripped the steering wheel; the right hand gripped the shifting lever and, as the left foot threw out the clutch, the car was thrown into gear; automatically the hand then moved to the right and released the emergency brake; the clutch was eased in; there was a series of louder explosions, slowly quickeuing turning of the rear wheels on the wet track, a gear shift to second, then into highland Joe Dawson. no longer smiling Joe Daw- son, but Grim Joe Dawson, was on his way to prove that the Chalmers with its 224-inch motor was speedy enough and sturdy enough to do what no oth- CT car had dared try for a year break the existing twentyfour hour stock chassis speedway record. Three times the car flashed past the judges stand and then the starter waved it down, when it was seen that it would take several minutes to fix the tape that was to record the miles. The track was so slippery that Dawson warned the starter not to permit any one to- even cross the track while he was in motion. becadlse it would have been impossible for him to stop sud- denly
 Again the little car flashed around the course and Fred J. Wagner, the starter of all of Americas important auto events, waved it on it's way. The attempt at the record began at 5:25 D. m. Around the two-mile saucer sped the ear and the tape clicked as 1t crossed the line. Down the slip pery track and into the turn it flew, it's motor murmuring as contentedly as a brook on it's way to the sea.
 One hour passed. Eighty-three miles was recorded, against IT for the first hour of the former record. Round and round came the car. Soon