Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1916, Page 46

L in the Astor cup race yesterday. The . a new car for Tom A team of Chicago expects to get go- _one tlgil year and thal 2—E OMAHA STICKS 10 THE SHORT RACES Will Not Follow Lead of In- dianapolis in Return to Long | Automobile Classic. EXPECT BIG YEAR IN 1017, While the Indianapolis speedway expects to return to the long 500-mile automobile race next year, the Omaha | speedway will stick to the shorter events as it held this year, For six years Indianapolis held 500- | mile races. is year when Omaha | and New York led the move to cut the distance Indianapolis reduced its event to 300 miles. But Indianapolis is a race mad town and it was found the Hoosiers liked the longer race the better. So the 500-mile classic will come back next Decoration day. But the Omaha speedway experi- enced the reyerse. It discovered Omahans and (Nebraskans liked the short race much better. No better race was held pny place in the coun- try than on the local oval July 15, Ev- erybody who attended went home en- tirely satisfied. So the same program will be followed out next year, a 150-mile championship, a fifty-mile free-for-all and possihg' an additional ten or twenty-mile sprint as a kind | of consolation event for the drivers | who fail to win anything in the big- | ger ones. I A feeling that 1917 will fe the hig-; gest year in the history of automobile | racing prevails among the speedway | men and speed enthusiasts, Only one American firm put a new team in the field this year, the Crawford people, for whom Billy Chandler drove. . With the exception of Ed- die Rickenbacher's two victories at New York and Tacoma, no American made machines returned winners this rear. Rick drove his Maxwell into irst Elace in two events, but the French or German cars captured all the rest. Mercers Come Back. But rext year it will be a different story. The Mercer people have come back, they had three brand new cars Mercer was, in the halcyon days of old, a powerful factor in the racing game. It was the Mercer that brought out the driving qualities of the late Spencer Wishart, Ralph De Palma, die Pullen and many others. The Mercer drivers now are Eddie Pul- len, Guy Ruckstell and Joe Thomas, @ trio of beauties, and they will be ‘heard from when the 1917 season rolls around. STATE AUTO CLUB WANTS 10000 HEN LOOKING AT LEGISLATURE Moon Six-43 May Com> to Omaha first time today. meeting were: sch, re-elected. City, both reselected. Secretary—P. A An active campaign is to be started | Omaha. Out in Los Angeles a squadron of ' at once to build the Nebraska State Milac cars, a new make, are being | Automobile association into a large| Omaha. made. It is expected they will be| influential organization. Six years| J. A. Langford, Omaha, has been [ e In the west, he sald: *New York City | * ready for the Santa Monica races in | ago the association was made u - November and will then be sent| forty local clubs and several t around the speedway circuit next|gand members. year. Harry Miller l:l e;":flg“‘":i:g were n'tl),tl more‘t}:mn a fifth I:lbm"l:y : automobiles as there are in Nebraska motor for Barney Oldfield. Duesen- today. But active work was not kept up, so that its membership and its in- flue‘?ce gradually dwindled away. it| berg plans to build some new mounts this winter and the Benhur racing ing in the spring. ‘th these excellent prospects in w, the Omaha speedway believes | its 1917 event will surpass even the ing some. ¥~ foes gasoline drop in price jnst as; Assem Tvening Ledger. braska, it is believed that at least 10,000 should be in the state associa- tion, Efforts will be made to get at least 5,000 before the coming session of the state legislature. Delegates from a number of cities d maha quite recent|mobile thefts. ‘mill 4 bread show signs of going up?|to consider the matter and decided Noboa, loves & poor man—Philadeiphia | that the time was ripe to take up ac- tive work. Until plans were laid it Power in spurts? That force serves motorists best which comes nearest being absolutely constant Puff! Ping! Spasmodic, » jarring explosions of gas are apt to be about as waste- ful of good power as are intermittent geysers. Tosmooth the pulsations of the automobile motor down to uniform, contin- uous, drive-shead force— that has been a great prob- lem in motor engineering. Solved—by Packard en- gineers, Proved—by more than 8000 Twin-six owners. pany, Farnam and F With the positiveness of the dependable cataract, the twelve sprightly cylin- ders of the new model Twin-stfdeliver a _{Ilomw stream qf force—with spurt and waste eliminated. More power at less cost! That’s the reason for the unprecedented sale of the super-luxurious Twin-six— a success that permits the price of $2,865 and $3,265 —f, 0. b, Detroit. Ask the man who owns one Telephone for a demonstration or see the new ‘Twin-six models at the Orr Motor Sales Cora- ortieth Streets, Omaha was decided to withhold the an-| propriation, and with other favorable nouncement, which is made for the | and unfavorable legiglation certain to Officers of Association. 1 The officers of the association in-| Of such importance to the Nebraska clude several of those who have been | motorist. The great number of au- active in the organization since the [ tomobile thefts makes that also a Nebraska Association Bewails|cginning. Those elected at the| vital question. A strong state asso- Its Lost Power and is After ident—Jay C. Moore, Tecum-| these liges. New Members. President—Jay , Tec Vice Presidents—James . Brooks, Stanton, and \Guy C.”Walling, David| A Denver man tells of ons westerner's Treasurer—Dr. A, P. Overgnrd, A week or two longer than he had expected E of | appointed field secretary. Mr. Lang- ou- | ford will start out over the state Oc- At that time there| tober 8 and devote his time to organ- | === S izing local clubs, which will be affili- ated with the state, and through it with the national association. For the Nebraska State Automo- bile association is affiliated with the 00,000 automobiles in Ne-| American Automobile association, which has accomplished great things for the motorists of the country. The state association plans to de- vote its energies to three lines of work—good roads, legislation and] the cutting down the number of auto- With the opportunity of getting federal aid for road work, provided the state arranges for 'an equal ap- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 1, 1916, The New Series FRANKLIN CAR HERL 1s a tire carrier on the New Series Franklin, put there for new owners who can understand only through using the car how superfluous it really is. One pound eliminated below the springs reduces the wear ten times as much as one pound elimi- nated above the springs. The New Series Frank- lin cuts the Franklin own- er’s tire bill 17 per cent— in face of the world’s rec- ord in tire economy al- Over a six-year period, Franklin owners have averaged 8630 miles per set of tires. Punctures are rare, and blowouts al- most unheard of. Why? Because the light weight of the Frank- lin Car—Especially light unsprung we i g h t—pro- tects the tires from up- ready established by necessary pounding. Franklin cars. Franklin Motor Car Co., Omaha R-U-2-B-1 of 60? Phon BTz Phone D. 1712, come up at this session of the legis- lature, there has never been a session ciation can accomplish much along Regreots. opinfon of the east. It appears that this Dearmont,| man had occasion to visit New York, u city he had never seen. He remained for and, in writing of his experience to his Is & great city, but I do wish I had come here before I was converted.” L. V. NICHOLAS, President | J 4 UCCESS in any line of business breeds confl- dence, but not necessarily egotism. Our success in Omabha is directly attributable to the patronage of Omaha people who appre- ciate our goods, our service and what we are trying to accomplish. 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