Arizona republican., 1919-03-02
RALPH DE PALMA
 SMASHES RECORD IN 2O-M|LE DASH
His Car Was Equipped With. Straight Side, or No Hook" Tires, Made By the
 Goodyear Tire Company

By smashing an automobile records from one Co 20 miles in a terrific .iraiehtaway dash on the beach at Naytona. Florida. Ralph pc Palma driving a Packard special twin six. of .U5 cubic inches piston displacement Hps strengthened his position as tho 1co" ot automobile speed dcmonds.
 Under thc official auspices of the NItomohfle Association Of America. Dc Palma thunderc1 off thc epcediest 2o miles Chat have ever been covered iu Fn automobile. and brought back thc worlds speed ronors to an American .Ir. whereas most of Che former rec Drls up To 20 miles had harn held by cars of German make.
 The new speed marks set up by De Palma arc as follows; one milc 2f02 seconds: two miles 49I4 seconds: f.ree miles. ono minute 15.0i seconds; four miles, one minute 3g7I seconds, five miles two minutes LaS seconds: 'N miles. four minutes 9.3 seconds. l5 miles. sIN minutes. 4S.75 seconds. 20 miles. eight minutes J43 seconds.
 His time of 2402 seconds for the one mile is one and Onc-haf seconds fast or than the previous worlds record established on the same beach by tho Into Bob Burm1n. April 23. 1911. who rcolod off % mile in 25.i seCOnds-at the rate Of ti2 miles an hour. Do P4lma's new record Is 150 miles an hour
 He clipped 13i seconds from the tWo-milc record. formerly held by EJrmau. 90 seconds from Hcmery's five milo mark one minute five sec onds from Bruce Browns 10-milc rec ord thrcc minutes. 1t25 seconds from | laneius 15-milc mark. and four min. utes. t7T2 seconds from the former eJ-mile record held buy Eurman.
 Not content with breaking an the flying start speed records from one Co 20 miles, Dc Palma made an attempt against the standing start record for ono mile. establishing a new mark of tSS seconds, and clipping i.73 seconds rom the former mark of 40.53 sec onds made by Barney Oldfield in 1910 The establishment of these new worlds records Is a great victory for Goodyear straight side. or "no hook tires, as well. for De Palma's big racer was equipped on all four wheels with these tires, which despite tho tcrribl, criud they endured iu helping to sot un these new speed marks, hardly showed that they had been used at all
 Few persons except those directly concerned with tire performance real lv appreciate the terrible gruelling a tire must withstand at @ speed of 15c miles an hour. To cover mile ir 2A02 seconds Dc palma's tires were revolving at tho rate of 1500 times a minute, or 2j times every second.
 This is in excess of the rapidity with which the fastest machine guns were operated during the war, the firing Of 800 a minute showering a veritable r storm of bullets on the enemy. That !. tires can bc made to endure such ex- acting service as De Palma required of his, Is a splendid tribute to the quail i1y of materials and workmanship en- toring into their production.
 Do Palma was the first Of the biz racing drivers Co try out the claim tiat "no hook tires would stay on th, rim, no matter what the speed or the i3cing conditions. breaking away from the tradition long held in racing cir clcs, that only tires of tho clinchei type would adhere Co the wheels un- der the terrific grinds of the racC track.
 ic used them in an his speed worl of the last two seasons. and now both Che Goodyear claim and De Palma's confidence in tho superiority Of thi. type of tire have been amply vindi- catod in his feat of lowering tho worlds speed records from one to 2( miles.