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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1917)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 13, 1917. ? "BILL" RODGERS SIGNED UP BY H. M. COVEY AS CAR SALESMAN Beaver Captain Is No Novice at Selling Machines and Always Has Scores of Friends Looking for Advice on Autos. 1 SS 'r , , , r S s S -, 1 U 1 I ' - fP ' 'f V. t 3 A Captain Bill Rodgrrn, of Portland Baarball Club, Wno Haa Slimed to Sell IJodge Motor Car Unrlna; Hla Idle Moments In Portland, and "Bill, the Second," AVho la a "Chip tilt the Old Block." i NO wonder the. off Iciala of the Covey Motor Car Company are challeng ing other Portland motor-car es tablishments to a game of baseball for "fun, money or marbleB.' "Bill" Rodgers, the popular and pow erful captain of the Portland Coast League baseball club, has not yet Sumpeft from the McCredie camp, buj he has, nevertheless, signed with How ard M. Covey, head of the Covey Motor Car Company, as a retail dispenser of Dodge Bros.' motor cars, if you please. It happens that Rodgers has been an enthusiastic motorist for some years and that he is not entirely uninitiated In the gentle art of selling automobiles. During a brief period of time he got away with eight Dodge cars while do ing temporary retail duty for the Dodge dealer at Cincinnati last Winter. Rodgers is one of those chaps who al ways has a host of friends hovering about for advice of one kind, or another and he finds it no trick at all to main tain a high batting average on his list of prospects. .Within 15 minutes after Mr. Covey gave Rodgers the proper "go-ahead' signal last week, the gingery ball cap tain was talking shop to a few of his colleagues on the Portland team who draw down more money than they can spend between games. Don't be sur prised if you notice a band of ballplay ers breaking out in the box scores of automobile registration right soon with the -word "Dodge" printed after their names in the lineup. The youngsters of the Rodgers f am ily. particularly Bill the Second, the 3-year-old, will, of course, pull strong for their daddy in the automobile game just as they do on the diamond. The younger Bill Is planning to call on his little boy and girl friends in the home neighborhood out Vaughn-street way anl urge them in turn to "put a bug" in their respective fathers' ears about the peculiar merits of the Dodge Bros motor car. Young Bill promises a bag of popcorn and striped candy for each uoage car sold tnts season within a radius of 12 blocks of the Rodgers home. 3 CHAMP ONS WON Gibbons Boys and Miller Laud Columbia Highway. 36-MILE TRIP IS TAKEN Eddie Kane and Two Portlanders Accompany Party on Trip Over Fine Scenic Route More Con verted to Ardent Boosters. They came, they saw, they conquered. Last Tuesday three world's cham pions in the athletic world, Mike Gib bons, middleweight boxing chaanpion; Tommy Gibbons, light heavyweight boxing champion; Walter Miller, mid dleweight wrestling king, accompanied Vy Eddie Kane, manager of the Gib bens boys; Ralph H- Mitchell and Harry Grayson motored along the Columbia Highway to Multnomah Kails. The Oregon Motor Car Company trotted out one of Its Studebaker sixes to convey the four celebrities and the two Portlanders over Oregon's prize highway. Willis A. Van Atta. of the Oregon Motor Car Company, drove the big blue car, and together with the other two Oregonians explained the points of interest. Columbia Highway Praised. What the four visitors saw on their 26-mlle trip to Multnomah Falls com pletely captured them and they de clared that they had been all over the United States and had never enjoyed a trip as well as the one they took Tues day. "After such a trip as we have just en Joyed we are quite naturally in the frame of mind to make comparisons on scenery, and I want to tell you right now that there is nothing to be com pared in the same breath with your magnificent Columbia River High way," said Middleweight Champion Mike Gibbons, as he returned to the Multnomah Hotel after four hours on the highway. The three champions and Manager Eddie Kane got the full effect of the highway and did not have to draw on their imaginations to appreciate the wonderful scenic road adequately. "Your highway is a splendid testi monial to the get up and go of the people of this community and will for ever stand as a monument to your citizenship," said Light Heavyweight xommy uiDDons. Pictures Taken Alone W ay. Tommy Gibbons and Walter Miller fetched along their cameras and snapped pictures at every extraordinary point. Tfte visitors said that the home of the Oregon State Motor Association was similar to that of the Rt. Paul Au tomobile Club, of Vhich the Gibbons boys are members. At Multnomah Falls the party clambered up to the bridge and gasped at the wonderful sight of tons of water dashing on the rocks below. Mike Glbbans and Eddie Kane stood on the bridge with their hands lifted In the air while Tommy snapped a pic ture of them. "This picture will be published In Eastern papers," said Man ager Kane. The visitors had heard about the pro posal of Eddie Rlckenbacker, the auto racer, that the Columbia aighway would make an ideal race course and a meet along it would attract attention all over the country. "It's a bit too dangerous," was Walter Miller's view point. "Gee, how could they round those figure elghtsT' Rlckenbacker said when here a year or so ago that the Columbia Highway would be an ideal racs course. Four Boosters Are Won. . To make a long story shor Oregon's famed Columbia River Highway won four more ardent boosters. They said upon the conclusion of their trip that they had never before enjoyed a trip, so thoroughly. The beauty and grace of the highway was one thing that pleased them. The three champions had to get back by S o'clock today to go through their Some. Climb!- Some Car! Some Challenge! COL t:X: V.?vVi -:.f wtf--'r ----- - -air r--YrsJ-4--vttv---vn t - r'-i" ' " V'-'irr ix ;;-yr-r-'- ini' "itr -tac ' rikri" iTTinYflifiwniii ii'i 7: j'.fftii'i -ill ai'Jfcafd c z'alidji and Public Attention The Cole 8 Topping the "Hairpin Curve" of Hall-Street Hill on High Gear. Last week a Cole 8 went to the top of Hall-street hill on high gear and . traveled along- better than fifty miles an hour on the level. While this is merely an incidental performance of the Standardized car, it is considered extraordi nary or out of the question for other cars. In order to bring this matter of claims down to a brass-tack proposition, we will give $25 cash each to the National Honor Guard Girls Y. M. C. A. War Fund Boy Scouts of America Red Cross Fund Junior Militia Road Bonding Fund ' if any gas car sold in Portland excels the COLE 8 in climbing Hall-street hill on high and outspeeds it on the level and can throttle down on high while climbing and running on the level to the slowness of the COLE 8, providing the owners of the contending cars agree to give these amounts if they try to excel the COLE 8 and fail. KM 3 pi A similar offer was made last week, but brought no response excepting from buyers who investi gated the real merits back of this car rather than accept something sold on glittering generalities. Noirlilhiwe . Perhaps this extended offer today will interest friends, of these worthy organizations who will endeavor to bring about the test that so far has been ignored and avoided. sit Am Broadway at Couch Street F. W. Vogler, President Factory Distributors ft Co, Portland, Oregon C. M. Menzies, Sales Manager nimmMiiummMina mutMiintitiniiiiinimHiiitmmttiiNiit iiiiinnimiiiiiumiiuiiiitiiiiiiiHiniiittiimniitiiiiT dally workouts and regretted the fact that they could -not go. as far as Hood River. Mr. Van Atta Invited them to do so. The Vista House was Inspected and pronounced wonderful by the visitors. "It will certainly be a p-reat resting spot when completed," they all de clared. Not content with seeing the highway, the party departed from the car at Chanticleer and hiked down to Rooster Rock and back. Shepherd's Dell and Latourell Falls were two other places which attracted more than the usual amount of attention. ROAD BOND VOTE IS ADVISED Both Owners and Non-Owners of Autos AVIJ1 BeneHt. ' Every automobile owner should vote for the $6,000,000 road bond bill. The license on all motor vehicles has been doubled by a law passed at the last Legislature and will have to be paid, anyway. If the road bond bill carries at the June election, the money raised from automobile licenses will be ex- Dended In building good roads. If the bond bill is defeated, the money raised from automobile licenses may be ex pended for other purposes. For the very same reason those who do not own an automobile should vote for the road bond bill. In doing so they will Insure the expenditure of the au tomobile license money In road building without adding one cent to their taxes. Dealers to Carry Tarts. Greater service to the users of motor trucks is provided In the inauguration by the Federal Truck Company of new policy which requires dealers to stock repair parts. Hereafter, with a view to giving the utmost in service to owners of Federal trucks, it will be a stipulation in Federal dealers' contracts that a complete assortment of service parts must be carried in stock. TOUR NATIONAL FIGURES IN ATHLETIC WORLD WHO MOTORED OVER COLUMBIA RIVER HIGH WAY LAST WEEK. Si fffrim.nn saS - rii,ni,,-timnr..-.-ii.Tn,-nirTriiii.,ii WM(JtBiiaflg&. ""mmmZar ' ' If x 3 xu- -z - ru Jx ,v V r t : a':. .v .. ywt - "-v?,' Left to R Iir lit Mike Gibbons. World's Midaieweiffht BoxIdk Champion; Willis A. Van Attn, of Oregon Motor Car Company; Waltrr Miller. World's Middleweight Wrestllaa; Champtonf Kddle Kane. Manaa;er of the Gibbons Boyat Tommy Gibbons Lls;ht Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Tommy Had Occasion to - Sneese Just as the PR-tore Was Taken. AUTOISTS'AID URGED Motor Owners Asked to Work for Road Bond Issue. LICENSE LAW IN EFFECT Money Raised From Increased Auto Tax to Be Used In Building Srrv Iceable, Hard-Surfaced ' Roads In All Parts of the State. Many automobile owners are of the opinion that the law Increasing the license on motor vehicles is included and made a part of the $8,000,000 road bond bill. In this they are wrong. The automobile license was doubled In the motor vehicle law which was enacted by the last Legislature. It is now a law. The increased automobile license will be In effect and will be collected regardless of whether or not the road bond bill Is approved by the voters at the June election. Furthermore, the motor-vehicle law contains a provision that the money raised from automobile licenses shall be available for road construction under the plan outlined In the 16,000, 00 road bond bill if the bond bill carries. In other words, if the road bond bill Is defeated, the automobile license money may be used for other pur poses. If the road bonds are approved, the automobile owner has the positive assurance that the money derived from the Increased automobile licenses will be expended In building good roads. Remember this: The automobile owner will have to pay the increased license any way, regardless of the fate of the 16,000,000 road bond bllL A vote for the road bond bill by the automobile owner Is a vote for the expenditure of the automobile license money, which has to be paid anyway, In building a system of state wide permanent highways as outlined in the road bond bill. In voting for the road bond bill. the automobile owner will simply pave the way for the expenditure of license money that he will be required to pay, in building serviceable hard-surfaced roads In all sections of the state. Every automobile owner is directly and personally Interested In the road bond bllL In voting for that measure he will merely be asking that the money he will be required to pay any way shall be spent in building roads. The automobile owner haa everything to gain and nothing to lose by voting for the road bonds. Siskiyou Pais Being Improved. . ABHLA.NT, Or., May 13 (Special.) A crew of 10 men is at work dragglng and using; scrapers on the Pacific Highway over the Siskiyou Mountains south of here. The Siskiyou arade is now passable and dozens of cars come over daily, but the road Is rough in spots and has a few bad mudholes as a result of the winter storms. An other week will see the road as far south as the California line in good condition. ,gir 'ill i l i l rw i mi I n l r 1 i 1 1 ni i m i n iiiiii awip ibi i n i. i,r'- - -- -r - - - - - -- - - --- -. I,,, , , , ,, , i -A1 j - Satisfactory service to the owner ilss ! V "nMltfi ' I i the first consideration of ; H AtiuM Lj good m?tor car cn,tructkn ini : lllll . iiHl J N btter proof of the good felll Wrar'iK TZJZZLS service of Hyatt Bearing. . v1 r v v could be offered than their ' IWB R H T inlfril")llil lal' continued use by these manu- llMla WBBBBlMpyB)l imfgl facturers who make ninety . i : 8" per cent of all motor cars built. 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