s THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MAT 31, 1914. FAMOUS RACERS WHO HAVE MANY TIMES WON PRIZES OF ALL KINDS TAKE PART IN INDIANAPOLIS' GIGANTIC EVENTS ' YOU FIGURE IT American-Mad- e Are-I'arvT- oo DIAMOND SQUEEGEE Foreigners Think Cars Slow for International Tracks, Though They Have Eeason toFear Some of Them and the Men Behind the Wheels Eecords Made hy TREADS ARE CHEAPER Drivers, Narrow Escapes. They Have Had, Features of Some Contests Entered and Home Tracks Are AH parts Kacing History. Tread. Trad. of Sli. PricM. 81m. Prior. NON-SKI- D S0x3 12.65 E4X4 H 35.00 v. NONE 30x3 H 17.00 SSx4i 86.05 .vS2x3 18.10 S6x4W 87.10 BETTER 3x :5.!5 17x5 44 45 . 84x4 28.05 SSX3H 37.30 ARCHER AND OAK STREET. CORNERWIGGINSSIXTH.

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ation. The motor is the same that car- ski ,i or Xijinski In their, respective ried Goux to victory last year. fields. He is not a brute driver who Exploits of the foreign drivers, their hurls his car over the winning line by achievements and records: sheer strength and determination, but Georgres T. Bqillot () No- studies every problem connected with body contest the title his machine and every inch of the road of the world' champion driver. There before he starts. He knows how every are too many facts for any possible ar- bnd should be taken and every hill gument. First he won the French tackled, and never varies In his meth- Grand Prix of 1912. after a heroin ods from the beginning to the end of a struggle with the late David Bruce-Brow- n, race. the greatest driver America Unlike most race drivers, Bolllof" is ever sent across the Atlantic and then responsible for the design of the ma- repeated the following year, on the chine he pilots. As head of the Peu- course, after a fine fight with geot racing department he supervises Delage and Sunbeam. In 1913 Boillot the work of the draftsmen, and of the captured every race in which he was machine and assembly shops, without entered. Hejs now at the sunrmlt of overlooking a single one of the thou- his career. sand details which go toward the pro- There are reasons for. Bolllot's suc- duction of a successful racing car. The cess. Eight or nine years ago he was 1914 500-mi- le race marks not only his sitting behind single-cylind- er motors first appearance in America, but also which every year grew higher and his first Important contest ; on any higher, as their stroke was lengthened, track. j. until it becsrnTe a difficult matter for Peugeotl, winner of the him to see over the top of the bonnet. 1913 speedway race, though not born The sporting world in general did not in the Peugeot factoryT was brought pay much attention "to these aljuost up in it. schooled in It, and met his freak cars. But Boillot was learning first success there. Goux has a kind lessons. He was studying race driving of family interest in Peugeot. His as a fine art, and after a gradual rise father, his uncles, his cousins and his from singles to twins, and from twins cousines are all connected in some way to small four-cylind- er motors, he made or other with the famous establish his debut In the two-da- y big-ca- r Grand ment. To begin with they gave Jules Prix in 1912. He won, and his repu- small cars to race with the tation was made. as they called them at that Boillot is an antist just as much an time. Forming a team with Boillot artist in his specialty as are Paderew- - (Coiifluried on Page 8.)

By WALTER G1FPARD. 4. Gray Fox. WIK-ox- America 4 and perhaps the most unusual practice, staying qualities are four-cylind- er 100 by 3. B. Keene. 4 feature but its monbloc motor of Is to give a of what BuHl American ISO . futile forecast n". Peujteot. Ooux. French, 4 is the entire absence of fly wheel. The unknown. The Duesenbergs and Mason millimeters, bore and stroke (3.9 already has taken place, besides be- T. Peugeot. Boillot French. 4 total weight t the car-i- 2100 pounds. are fne workmanship of Fred Duesenb- by 7.1 inches), having a piston dis By . right of conquest the Forcl IT 8. 4 erg1, suc- 345.08 ing somewhat of an anachronism, Maxwell. v Tetzlaff. American They carry 32 gallons of gasoline and reckoned as one of .the most placement of cubic Inches. It 3. Exceleior. Chrietlaeng. Belgian. . . - we fully expect "6 13 gallons of oil. cessful of our engineers; y has the same general design as .the is cars. . where so that beyond saying 10. Delage. Ouyot. French. 4 cars, king of it matter big . mile race 12. Sunbeam. Chafcgaffne. English 0 V. Burmans Have Special Features). Marmon Good as Ever. stanaara xJugatti with 12 over that the 13. Mason. Mason, French. 4 head valves, operated by an inclosed you go you'll year gone again to the other 14. ' ' Bob Burman constructed his own Joe Dawson's Marmon was built for find the Ford the this has Peugeot. Duray. American 4 1911 race.- valve gear. By the use of exceedingly pond, we will content our- 13. Kinff. Klein. French. ... 4 cars 'in the workshop- of liis backer at the In it Dawson took fifth tough well-earne- d, side of the 1)5. Bur-man'- fine and materials the weight of ruling favorite. has a some of inner Delage. ThumaA American 4 Battle Creek. Mich. Like all of place in the race of hat year. It has exceed- It selves with giving the 17. Burman. Birrman. German creations, they are remarkably been campaigned extensively since, be- the car has been reduced to cars and their drivers. 15. Mercedes. D Palma. American 4 being1 ingly low limits. world-wid- e reputation history of the 10. Mercer. "Wlshart. American 4 fast. Their staying powers alone are sides a pleasure car". Burman By the time these lines are read, the 21. Mercer. Brags. - American 4 questioned. "Burman Is to drive one of handled it at Santa Monica and in the Belgian Car Is J.lent. - er race will have been won and . lost, of 24. &tutz. Anderson. American 4 them, and he expects much from any Vanderbilt. At Elgin last year Dawson The Excelsior which had for dependable and economical course, but that does not detract in the 2.1. Maxwell. Carlson. American 4 car. They have a piston displacement was unable to finish with it. This year, Its baptism in the the details; it 1'6. Marmon. Dawson. American 4 Amiens year, where finished service. the Universal Car. slightest from some of -- 7. Sunbeam. Grant English of 449.9 cubic inches, which is press- however, the car has been reconstruct- at last it 'It's rather enhances them. 31. Keeton. Knipper. American 4 ing the limit closely. The valves are ed and looks as good as new, eighth, is one of the lightest cars in There is one great difference between 33. Mulford. Italian 4 in head of the cylinders and are A number of changes have been made the race, weighing only 1980 pounds. It the natives. Ixn? Husattl. Friedrich. American 4 the has a bore and stroke of 3.8 by 6.2. The Five hundred dollars is the price of the Pord he foreigners and S&.i. Ger.-Fren- 4 operated by an overhead cam Bhaft. in the bqdy and motor. New parts have cars Braender. Chandler. - 446.6 before the race alt the European 42. Dueuenberff. Klchenbacher American 4 According to Burman the engine been fitted, and, according to Dawson, piston displacement is cubio runabout; the touring car is five fifty; the were ready to start except for a few 43. Duesenberg. Haupt American 4 shows ISO horsepower at 2400 revolu- the car is in as good shape as it was inches. The. car Itself presents rather town car 6even fifty f. o. b. Detroit, com- mall trilling adjustments. No Ameri- 48. Ray. Brock. American 4 tions a minute, which will give car when it started in 1911. It has four of a ramshackle appearance with its was ready at all three date I.ot,t Out in Trials.. the cylinders - a of rounded radiator and abbreviated cowl plete with equipment. Get catalog' and par- can car adjust- the a speed of 120 miles an hour on the .with bore and stroke before the race, each having 2?. Mercer. Puilen. American 4 speedway. 1600 per min- 4.5x7. The piston displacement is 44? dash, offering no protection to the ticulars from Ford Motor Company, Elev- which are to be classi- 25. Stafford. Callahan. American 4 At revolutions cubio inches. driver. enth, Division ments to make 2!). Metropol. Horan. American 4 ute the cars will travel 102 miles an and Sts., Portland. fied as of the major variety. That, nat- S'J. Kngltsh Sunbeams Speedy. " on Maxwell. American 4 hour, which engine speed Burman ex- Delaare Europe's Road Champion. , Phones: Sellwood 2323, A 2341 urally, has some psychological effect Hit. Texas. Clarlt. American 4 pects to year. They car- The two English Sunbeams are as v 35. Gt. Western. Jenkins. American 4 maintain this The Delage cars hold the European many respects as the drivers. 35. ry a graceful stream line, body, upon lo'ng-distan- different in night and When you stand by the rails and Gt. Western. Price. American, 4 records for road racing. day. Both have the stream line car- Frenchmen run ST. Gt. Western. Radlna. American 4 which the colors of the Chicago Auto- They set a mark of 76.8 miles an hour watch one of the 39. Pope Bullet. Robert. American 4 mobile Club 'hava been painted, Au- ried out to the limit, and both, have the your for 41. 'Washington. Stringer. 4 in the Grand Prix de last round and beat best record mericaq - -- same purring sound when running that by seconds, his lirst time Tatter. Maszucco. American 4 y Sratz Cars Strea Contenders. gust. The length of the race was 360 distinguished Guyot's mount year. the track six 4tt. Raytield. Hughes. American 0 miles. Delage cars finished first, sec- last off the bat with a laconic remark that 47. Titze. ' Melaun. American 4 If Harry Stutz had 'not surrounded lap average Chassagne's car was built especially for he can do still better, and when you 49. Isotta. Gt:hooley. American 4 his cars,, with the usual mase of mystery ond and fifth. The best the race by Louis Coatlen, the Sunbeam car has been doing such 51. Shambaugh. ' Shambaugh. American 4 as to their engineering feature I should was 82.5 miles an hour. designer. Grant's car is the same ma know that this CarC a rate all along and needs no adjust- Pour Teama From States not have believed he designed them. Peugeot Cract . Track . chine that Marquis wrecked at Santa ment, it's bound to make you entertain About all that the layman knows about Two of the Peug-eot- s were driven in Monica this Spring. Chassagne's car has self-respe- Four teams will represent the United an enormous feeling of ct for States, Other domestic champions are the 'Stutz cars this year is that they the French Grand Prix last July'. Boil, a wheel base of only 83 inches, which - ' x these drivers which almost amounts to representatives of individual owners. are painted white, and that Oil Ander- lot finished first in one and Goux sec- is exceedingly short. The motor Is the of being son, Barney Oldneld and Earl Cooper ond. - - : one which present the feeling a boxer has 1eaten Tha teams are the Mercers, Stuts, Bur-ma- ns with the driver set before he has climbed Into the ring. will drive them. Of course they will No important mechanical changes the ur record at Brooklands of and Maxwells. The Mercers have "Wisconsin motors in All the foreigners are confident, with a piston displacement of 445 have them special have been made in them for this race. 89.85 miles per hour. The motor has world-wid- e experience cubic Wisconsin motors power -- a behind them, Inches, with a bore and stroke of 4.Sx with all the They have a piston displacement .of a bore and stroke of 3.14 by 5.90. The and what Is more, they do not consider S.2. new, and zip to them to make the cars 338 cubic inches. They are remark- piston displacement is 245 cubic inches. many in Tha cars are not but have among most feared aa In former ably In any piston displacement of the American cars the least been modified In design by E. H. Dell-ln- g. the fast faster. fact, than car Grant's car has a degree an awful blow to years. The Stutz cars resemble bull- previously out by company, of 273 cubic inches. v fast! That's the engineer who succeeded Find-le- y square turned the ' American hopes and beliefs, and of R. as designer dogs with their blunt radiators, notwithstanding they are smaller than Ralph's Mercedes la Six. course It is the ardent desire of every Porter for the Tren, short wheel bases, and stocks'- - under-slun- g those which Goux and Zucarrelli drove they ton N. J.) factory. Delling, It will be appearance year. No introduction of De Palma'a Mer- man racing to show them that are remembered, designed the' Delta! car. here last .They have a wheel cedes is necessary, excepting the an- horribly mistaken, but it nevertheless which, by America has three great challengers base 106 inches in length, which is is a fact that, outside of the BtuU, lha driven Joe Dawson, gave In these cars. Always in the running thought to be nearly perfect for the nouncement that it is a car Ralph De Palma such a fight for firsi manned by of the driv- Indianapolis speedway. Instead of a four. The bore and stroke old Marmon, and possibly oire or two position- - trophy and three best by In the Cobe race at El- . is 4.1 5.5. The piston displacement cars, they think the American cars far ers in America, one a road racing cham- Both cars have been campaigned a 445 - , gin lrot summer. Is cubic Inches. The car harall BUY FORD TODAY pion, another a dirt track and good deal, have been in four-cylind- A too slow! star but maintained er king, the sterling attributes of the old v These Frenchmen, during the trials, Maxwells eat la Appearance. former speedway and the third a perfect condition. The French practice car belonging to two expressions cZiasify-in- g Ray consistent pounder who has a renewing wearing parts every E. J. had just for Harrcuri's Maxwells art the han of after Schroeder- - with which Do Palma has the cars of their American rivals. most sightly cars entered in the rac. fought, Elgin road race trophy to his contest prevents the cars gettlngln cup . $300 Down One was "bein." Vhe other was, "pas Built the best foreign credit, they wlll be feared until the bad shape like the Fiats, which Hew- twice captured the Vanderbilt race. after practico, It has been campaigned in Europe, but - blen. which, being translated, mean they present an artistic appearance in end. Th Frenchman, Goux, last year lett has campaigned to death on the the amount of service has seen Balance Six Monthly Payments 17a Interest 'good" and "no pood," and it is a body design that one has been wont said during a phtlippia directed againBt Paclfio coast. it has by American cars in been comparatively little. on Deferred Payments Ford Motor- - have to admit all the other entered Du ray's car is one of ot shame to that far the to associate with creations of the Sun- the babies of The Mercedes-Peuge- Is a Franco-Germa- n larger number of the cars theydis-cusse- d the 1913 race that the Stutz was the the race. The motor develops v92 beam. Vauxhall and Talbot factories of only combination made necessary Co.'s Guarantee With Each Car. came under the latter, and not England. They are fast, remarkably car he feared. Both Boillot and horsepower at 2800 revolutions per by entry cf three 104-In- have held opinion. the in the the former, classification! y so. They are built on a wheel Goux to this mjnute. The piston displacement is 183 race before Mr. Schroeder could enter Of the information which follows base, which Is the same as the stock Oldtlsaera In. cubic inches. The is extremely . Our Service Work Is the Best been gleaned Im light. has a low gasoline consump- the Peugeot. Mulford, the driver, much has from various "2a" of the Maxwell factory. They Howard "Wilcox's Gray Fox and Knip-per-'s It thought of the plan of shifting the sources; for some interesting items we have a bore and stroke of 4.2x8. The Keeton have been through one tion, and it Is believed it will stand Peugeot motor into the Mercedes to 500-mi- wear the jLwo are indebted Reed I Parker, the piston displacement is 445 cubic inches. le race, both having been driven tire better than larger chassis. This plan has been carried out, automobile expert on the Chicago Tri- The motor produces' 140 horsepower the route in 1913. No changes have machines of the same ma'.ye. remains be seen BEN E. & CO. - and it to with what J. BOONE bune, who has been perched on the at 2400 revolutions per minute. The been mad a in their design. Both have Buffattl ew in America. results. According to Ralph De Palma, ' - FORD AGENTS rails all through the trials. motor is easily the feature of the cars. big motors near the limit In piston dis- The is the creation of Ettore who knows the car like a book, the The Thirty Qualified Entrants. although the remarkable refinement of placement- The Beaver Bullet Is a spe- Bugatti, said to be one of the most Mercedes is a better chassis than the detail and careful to every creation "with having engineers Eu- 514 Alder Street Portland, Oregon Ko. Car, Driver. - Nation. Cyl attention cial front wheels clever automobile of Peugeot for the Indianapolis track. He Burman. Dlsbrow, AmefNcsa 4 constructional ieature is noticeable a wider tread than the rear. rope. The machine that was sent from believes the scheme will work out Cooper. American With clutch and accessories, the com Ralph Mulford built the Braender the factory at Monheim in Aleace Ixr-rain- well and that hta old foe will be a Stut. OlJueid. American plete motor weighs about 6o0 pounds Bulldog. It has been showing speed In for the Indianapolis race has a worthy contender in his hybrid ere- -