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1 i. THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 21, 1915. iHHt CRACK DRIVERS WILL RACE TOMORROW THE VANDERBILT CUP Contest -May Be Last as De ..Palma, Twice Winning, Is Entered Again, COURSE WILL BE NOVEL Dirt and Macadam Havi Been Used Bat This I First Tim Over Asphalt. Speed Carnival In a ZTatsbell. 4) First road racr ever held on e exposition grounds. . First road race course entire- iy enclosed. Circuit 0.9053 miles. 4 Varidtrbilt cup race. 78 laps, f ' 294.1028 miles, February 22. Oratd PrU. 10! laps, 402.2463 miles, February 27. Kntriea In. each race, 25 cars. e Contestants represent five countries. jfi.000 in prize money. $10,000 in cups. Main stand Keats 25.000. Three-fourths mile of each 4 lap on banked track. Three and a fourth miles SKphalt pavement. . Olivers must use braksa twice on each lap. Estimated speed Vanderbilt' 4 race, 80 miles per hour. Estimated speed Grand Prix, 78 miles per hour. . Estimated attendance, 150.000. ' - With the European war positively limiting all 1915 automobile radii to the roads and tracks of America, un usual attention lias attached Itself to the sensational, speed carnival thit will-be staged tomorrow and February .2" on the grounds of the Fanama-Pa-.clfic exposition in San Fianci3co. Within the Kates Gf the world's greatest exposition, the rrreatest road classics of the country and the world this year are to be raced for the Van i derbilt cup tomorrow and the grand prix five days later. Almost to a man, the crack drivers of the country are entered in both races. Despite fears to the contrary, both road classics will surely brlngr out the most spirited sort of international com petldon. Duray, Bolllot, Thomas and (tfoux are still on or close to the fir ing line, acting as chauffeurs, but their fastest cars remain in tre United ' Htates and have been entered in the exposition events. Americans ExceU Foreign Drivers. In the races in which these cars have already taken part this season, they have had American drivers up, hut the Americans have been able to . eet fully as much speed out of their respective cars, as did the foreign pilots. In at least two cases, Ameri cans have imparted to these cars nota ble improvements in wind-splitting cel erity, by their own daring driving and by their mechanical ability and en gineering gifts. - A year ago such cars as these would have been able to niake short work of the American racing contingent; they demonstrated this at Indianapolis, but euoh is not the case this year. In both the big road races held in California this winter American cars were able to look the foreign speed wonders in the eye at 100 miles an hour and better. At both Corona and San Diego racing representatives of such firms as Stutz. Mercer, Maxwell and Deusenberg not only exchanged speed for speed with the Peugeot and Funboatn teams, but outlasted them and wore them down. In both these races the Americans also showed ability to make speed for longer bursts, using less gasoline and oil, and stopping less frequently for - changes of tires. At both the Call- - fornla meetings mentioned one of the American cars each time a Maxwell went through the race without a stop In the entire flight of more than 300 miles. This performance was also ap proached by Cooper, the star driver of the Stutz team, and by Pullen, the Mercer's "Number 1" pilot. None of these foreign cars in the race snowed anything like the consistency and economy marks of the American cars. Se palma in Sew Car. Tn the San Francisco races the ' 'Americans will face for the first time an unknown element in the new Mer cedes car which Ralph De Pal.na pur chased abroad last fall and in which he will endeavor to retain his pres ent title of road champion. This car was a money winner in the" grand prix of France last year and has a wonder- ful high-speed motor, small enough . to be eligible to the Indianapolis speed way class, which this year limited to cars of 300 cubic inches piston dis placement. Though the grand prix is a free-for-all race, eligible to anything on four wheels corresponding to the -official definition of automobile, and though De Palma will be racing, in both events, against several cars of at least twice this motor size, hii ability to keep a car going from start to finish at a winning clip, I:; well known, and he will probably a'r.rt as. a favorite in the first event. Another feature which will attract special attention to De Palma in the Vanderbilt cup race is the fact that, by virtue of his twice winning of the event, he will attain permanent pos- GASOLINE GALLON!! Every wet and greasy pavement knows that Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup Tires are the best. Ask Your Friends That Are Using Them A. J. WINTERS CO, 67 SIXTH STREET SPEED DEMONS AWAIT CRACK OF STARTER'S GUN AT j ' ' ' ' ?Tiv ' J. , A , r ' " firi S$&t& Vd&A 'l'n. , L - 1w4Ml n " Top Paul R. Braske and Billy Carlson, famous automobile driver, making tryout of portion of course over which Vanderbilt and Grand Prix automobile races 'will be run. Bottom Stutz, King, National, Delage, Tomasini and Edwards Special cars, all of which are entered In Vanderbilt contest. session of the trophy. If successful in the 1915 renewal. Would Be Catastrophe. Such a victory by the German car and the Italian driver would be es teemed a real catastrophe by his op ponents, as there would no longer be a trophy to race for, and the event itself would he removed f roros the list of road racing classics. It is. of course, , possible that Mr. vanaermu .nigm, i In such a contingency, donate another cup. However, the , traditions of rac ing in America center so cioseiy around the present trophy that there is sure to be a concertea erion among drivers to see to it that who ever may turn out to be winner, it will not be De Palma. The course Itself is unique in sev eral respects. Instead of racing over macadam, as the Vanderbilt contend ers did on Long Island In the early days, and at Elgin more recently, or over a direct course as at Savannah for two years, the cars will contend for mastery at San Francisco on new- lv laid asnhalt. This applies to the four miles of the circuit, aside from about three Quarters of a mile at one end, where the course makes use of a part of the mile track, designed for horse racing, which has been planked. Asphalt Coarse Hew Element. The .asphalt course is a new ele ment in road or track racing, and one presenting conditions with which driv ers are not familiar. It seems gen erally admitted that the asphalt wil be fast, and easy on tires. The only objection is from those who fear that, as the race progresses, the turns and curves may become slippery on ac count of oil which some racing cars throw in snch profusion. The exposi tion authorities promise to remedy such a condition by stationing men at the two-rightangled turns and at other curves of the course, with or ders to scatter sand over the surface wherever signs of danger appear. Seattle and Tacoma Joined by Pavement Seattle and Tacoma are now con nected by one of the best paved roads in the United States, the last link in the highway between these two popu lous cities having been completed and opened to traffic recently. Automo biles and other vehicles may now travel from Seattle to the Pierce county capital, a distance of 42 miles, over a thoroughfare of boulevard smoothness. This, undoubtedly, is the UDOst important trunk highway in the Northwest, for it connects two cities whose population exceeds 400,000. The first hard surfaced road be tween Seattle and Tacoma was laid down in 1906, near The Meadows race track. This type of construction was continued to Orilla, and in 1912 there was completed along this route the first stretch of brick paved highway west of the Rocky Mountains. Addi tional miles of brick road have been added each year, until now King coun ty has a splendid paved thoroughfare connecting with the concrete and asp halt road intao Tacoma. King county's brick paved roads are declared by ex-- . ii lIlllllllIIIDIIIIIIiiliM 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 imiiiiiimiiiiiimiiimmiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimii iiimimmiiiiiii If Geared as Low, Will Equal or Better the Performance of Any Eight Cylinder Car. There has been a tendency to jump to eight-cylinder motors on the part of a number of factories. careful analysis, however, shows the vast majority of those announcing eight-cylinder motors have been small manufacturers with a small output. They have thought the untried eight might stimulate their sales, but the so-called superiority of the eight-cylinder lies in the gear ratio, not the motor. Nearly all the "eights" are geared 5 to 1 and some even lower. A Chalmers Six, if geared as low, gives the same or better performance. Chalmers H. J7us monogram 'sanJfr &r off you can os& jn a fnotorocut SAN FRANCISCO MONDAY perts to be the highest type "of road construction in the United States. Construction on the last link in the chain of brick pavement was begun in June, 1914, and completed on Januarj 29, at a cost to King county of morb than 1121,000, r an average of $25, 000 a mile, including grading. It is 20 feet wide and has a concrete base of five Inches. Sixes Are Quality Cars! L. KEATS AUTO CO. BROADWAY AT BURNSIDE Portland, Oregon. Seattle, Washington. FAIR LIST PRICE PLAN GAINS INDORSEMENT OF MANY TIRE MEN Consumers Also See Fair ness of Method of Putting Buying on One-Price Basis : MANUFACTURERS STAND ITo Price Cutting Involved, hut Idea Is to Oaard Consumer, It Xa Declared. Thousands of tire dealers have In dorsed the "fair list" price plan to sell tires on a price list which Is net, instead of selling by discounts. Consumers everywhere are recogniz ing the value of the "fair price list" which puts tire buying on a one price basis every man knowing he is get ting Just as low a price as his neigh bor. This condition Is Impossible un der the discount plan In which the padded price list has played such a part In the past. . Tht "fair list" plan carries with it a substantial price reduction, and the move which has affeoed the whole tire industry and which means so much to the tire user, still Is the chief topic of discussion among automobile and tire men and motorists. Tis Is no price cutting war Involving tire manufacturers. It is an effort on the part -:of the manufacturers to pro tect the consumer from concerns which slash prices on a list "marked up" for that very purpose, so that the user is puzzled to know whether he is getting the best or the worst of it. The deliberate reduction of prices and establishment of a "fair price list" that is standard for that specific make of tires, it Is believed, will conserve the Interests of the motorist and pro mote better feeling between tire maker and car owner. In discussing this bold move, W. T. Albright local manager of the B. F. Goodrich company, says: "We are fighting for the rights of the legitimate tire dealer as well as for the interests of the tire user. The padded price list must go and with it will go price cutting, 'haggling,' unfair profits due to lists "marked up' to catch the unwary motorist and last but not least, the tire user's fear that he is be ing 'stung that there is always some lower price Just around the corner, that,he ought to seek. "We are 'fair listing our tires everywhere. We have reduced the price somewhat and we have put our price lists on a basis where maker and dealer are satisfied with fair and rea sonable profits that leave enough in the price to consumers to insure quali ties that will translate themselves into long and satisf u;tory mileage. "This bold move is admittedly an at tack on unsatisfactory methods of tire retailing that have pertained in some quarters. Methods unsatisfactory to the dealer, because price cutting off of a padded' price list, took up expensivo time for extra selling effort and left him an average of profit generally I lower than obtained from a fair list. ii J7us monogram 'stands for ail you can ask " yj c? motor car J Methods unsatisfactory to the motor ist because he had to 'haggle' for his tires, shop around and never feel cer tain that he had actually paid the rock bottom fair tire price. "With Goodrich 'Fair-listed' tires he now can .fee sure of Just that he knows he Is paying the fair price that he is buying a standard, high grade article that has one price the country over, whether he buys in Maine or Cali fornia, whether he buys in the city store or the road side shop, in a hurry or, not, he always pays one price a fair one that protects motorist and dealer alike." Tacoma Receives Sanction for Races City of Destiny to B la os Bpeedwsy Events of Coming- Season; Course Is Widened to SO Pee. Tacoma will be on the racing map again in 1915. The sanction for the speedway races has been received from the American Automobile asso ciation and the dates July 4 and S have been decided upon. The course has been widened to a full 50 feet on the straightaways and 60 feet on the curves, and is now ready for surfacing. Secretary George Dunn Is now In Fan Francisco for the two big races, one of which starts tomorrow, and ex pects to sign up a number of the driv ers who appear in the Vanderbilt and Grand Prix to take part in the classic northwest meet at Tacotna. Entry blanks are now in the hands of the printers. The only change from the 1914 cars is the 450 cubic Inch dis placement limit. 138,250 Cars Used ' . To Ship Autos in 13 From Two to Six and Sometimes Even more Contained In Each; increase About 14 Per Cent. At the last meeting of the directors of the National Automobile Chember of Commerce it was reported that the shipment of automobiles from fac tories of this country In the year 1914 reached the tremendous volume of 138,250 carloads, each car usually containing from two to six complete automobiles and In some cases more when the machines were taken apart to a greater extent than Is ordinarily the case. This is about 14 per cent greater than the cars re quired for the shipping of automobiles In the year 1913 and is asily one of the most Important Items of traffic In high grade manufactured articles han dled by the railroads, whose earnings on these shipments are now estimated at upwards of $15,000,000 per year. The Fortified Spans the Way from Trouble. Let It Tell Its Story Let the Goodyear tire tell you what it means to travel on Fortified Tires. Fortified is more than a name. It means a tire with five protections offered by no one else. They have cost us years of effort and millions of dollars. They have won for this tire the top place in Tiredom the highest prestige and the largest sales. In the best way known they combat Rim-Cut Loose Treads Punctures Blowouts Insecurity Skidding Let them prove this to you. Not Trouble-Proof We don't claim the impossible a trouble proof tire. - But Goodyears average best They could never hold the lead and hold it for years unless that were true, as you know. These are super quality tires. Not in materials alone, but in features. We protect you in five exclusive Goodyear Oreeron Motor Car Cc 19th Western Hardware & Auto Supply Co., 56 Broadway Belmont Garage. Nob Hill Garage. 704 Kearney Oregon Sales Co.. 434 Alder St. Oregon Vulcanizing Co.. 550 Washington. St R. E. Blodgett 29 N. 14th St. I Motorcycle & Supply Co- 209 4th St Winton Motor Car Co.. 23d and Washington Sts. Redman Auto Co., 1130 Albina Ave. - MOTOR TRUCK WILL KEEP. WORLD FROM ST Horses Eat Up Crops 'arid Require Acreage to Pro duce Them. MACHINE IS ECONOMICAL Traction Car Vow Ssstg-ned Which Will Go Fraotloally Anywhere Draft Animals Can. By Prank O. RJggs. The motor truck will save the world from famine If the great European war lasts as Ions as Ixr5 Kitchener thinks It will. The reason is not far to seek. In spite of the record harvests In the United States last year, high prices have been the rule on. account of the enormous demand from Europe. Wheat, which in times of peace would have sold at around 60 cants a bushel on account of the enormous supply, has been sold all the way from $1.10 to $1.45 a bushel and prices are "till mounting. Corn is going up In price, and with it will be dragged the cost of beef steaks and other meat foods that are considered necessary to the Ameri can diet. But what has this to do with the motor truck? Only this, that the work of the 29,000,000 horses and mules at present in this country can be better and more economically performed by motor trucks. These animals eat a lot of food that could far better be employed In the fattening of sheep and cattle. 1 It Is an economic shame that 80, 000,000 acres of the best farm land of the United States should bo de voted exclusively to the raising of feed for horses and mules when the number of farm cattle and sheep is diminishing at the rate It is and this fact Is sJiarply reflected In the high cost of living. During the period from 1900 to 1910, the number of food and dairy cattle in the country decreased by no loss than 6,653,184 animals, or nearly 10 per cent. of the total In 1910. During the same period, the population Increased from 75.994,575 to 97,028,497 people. If the number of food and dairy cattle had kept pace with the population, there should have been an JL G OOD RVING ASSERTION 5 YEAR J - AKRON. OHIO Fortified Tires C2 ( RinvCaU br our No-Rim-Cut feature. tlt. , I Blowoote by our "On-Air" cure. rerunee J I, w, TrmmAt by many rubber rhrets. 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At one fell swoop it has v. killed the prejudice of horsemen against machine transportation And , v besides furnishing this valuable and . ; impressive object lesson, the war is fast providing the economic situation v which will accomplish mors- toward the banishment of the horse than 69 years of peace and. peace propaganda.. If the United States has to feed the1 nations of Europe next year while the farmers of that unhappy continent arV that it. will be much too expensive a luxury to feed a horse. It will be' far ; cheaper to keep a motor truck or an automobile, which at least doesn't eat. when it Isn't working, and which Is far more economical to operate If ad-, : vantage can be taken of the distance-', covering possibilities of the machine in . a day's work. Can Go Anywhere, , There are many who will deny that . the horse can be replaced entirely or, even largely by motor trucks. This nn- : uouoieaiy was irue up to a coupie 1, . years ago, but the efforts of Uncle Sam's efficient army officers have swept away this last objection to ma chine transportation. For, at the In stance of - the quartermaster corps -of -the United States army, there has been designed and perfected a motor truck that drives, brakes and steers on all four wheels; and by virtue of these qualities can go practically any-- ,."1 where a four-mule army escort wagon can go. Uncle Sam's-army has al-. ready a fleet of these trucks and, rear- Y , ly every steamer sailing- from New i York carries a consignment to the European fighting armies. . It is Inevitable that one effect of the European war will be the breeding of fewer horses and more cattle, and ' the manufacture and adoption of more . an4 mntA m ntnr trn1ra rtiaa , date, are the. great lessons of the Eu-' ropcan war. $54,000 Purses Hung Up. ".f The Chicago Speedway management has announoed a $50,000 purse for the first 10 placed In the BOO mile raoe which Is to be run on June II. In' addition $1000 will be given to the leaders at 100, 200, 300 and 400 miles, making the total of the purse $S4,000. First prize is $20,000. Tire Trust? It Once ways. And one of them alone adds to our cost $450,000 per year. Tests which can't be disputed prove that these features save tire users millions yearly. Yet Prices Come Down Despite these improvements Goodyear prices have constantly come down, We have made three big reductions in ' two years. Our last made February 1st -makes the two-year total 45 per cent. Our mammoth production the largest in the world lets us give you in Goodyears tho most for your money. And we always shall. One for Every Car Last year we sold 1,479,883 abo'ut one for every car in use. Think what a tire this must" be to dominate like that 1 Fortified Tires mean less tax and less trouble. They mean more safety, more en joyment Those things are waiting for you at any Goodyear Service Station. - Any dealer can supply you Goodyear tires. If the wanted size is not in stock, be will telephone our local branch. 754 E. Morrison St. & Co.. 514 Alder St Northwest Auto Co.. Broadway and Couch St John A. Walters Co.. 335 Ankeny St , :-".. Oxman-Faull Auto' Co., 1100 Union Ave. N. Fred H. Brown. 500 Williams Ave. Rose City Park Garage. 52d and Sandy Blvd. Multnomah Garage & Auto Co., 254 6th St. -. . . (22Z31 it Hi ii III! su Dill